May 2013
8 posts
Ambient Light
Ambient Light refers to light that is present all around us. Ambient light can come from the sun, overhead lights, lamps etc and can be re-directed using reflectors.
Image 1 below - Sun camera right, gold reflector camera left F5 1/60 ISO 500. Reflector casted a warm glow on the model.
Image 2 below - Same camera settings but with a white reflector.
Image 3 below - F4 S/S 400...
This was my favourite photo from todays lesson. Both coloured gels were set to F8 but with the red more closer to the subject. The 45 degree angle of the lights somehow managed to create two shadows either side and I love the pose of the model.
Shadows & Coloured Gels
I wanted to use a spill kill to experiment with shadows of the model on the back white wall. This was to large of a light source and did not give me a defined shadow edge. Image 1 to 5 with metering from F8, F13 and F22. Image 6 was changed to a snoot with power of F5.6, which gave great definition of the subjects shadow.
In todays lesson we got to experiment with...
I wanted to experiment with a 2 light set-up and used 2 soft boxes either side of my model, using F22 as I wanted my image in full focus.
Image 1 - Test shot 1 light F22 1/60 camera right
Image 2 - 1 light F22 1/60 camera right
Image 3 - 1 light F22 1/60 camera right
Image 4 - 1 light F22 1/60 camera right
Image 5 - 1 light F22 1 /60 Added 2nd fill...
Jill Greenberg & Gregory Crewdson
Jill Greenberg - This lighting set up is great and I think possibly would involve 4plus lights. Hairlight, backlight for the wall and 2 either side of camera and maybe one over the top? Hopefully during this lighting course I can learn to achieve this!
Gregory Crewdson - After researching Gregory Crewdson I can not guess how many lights he must have to use to create he’s large...
I decided to experiment with a one light set up and picked the snoot for narrow directed light, as I wanted to portray my modal as serious and moody and the snoot allowed me position the light (all kept camera right at various heights) so not all the face was exposed - ooohh scary!!
Image 1 - F8 1/60
Image 2 - F8 1/60
Image 3 - F11 1/60
Image 4 - F11 1/60
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Martin Schoeller
What great portraits! Martin Schoeller has captured a head shot, that with a tight crop, the whole face covers the entire image and exposes all of the celebrities pores & wrinkles. When I look at them I feel its like they are standing in front of me! Lighting Guess - With minimum depth of field and perhaps two lights directly in front of the subject I think its flat lighting that works...
Nadav Kander
Nadav Kander - Jodie Williams Olympian Athlete
I admire the lighting in this photo. There is not much information as shadow dominates the image but I think its a strong image which portrays tension and emotion. My lighting guess is perhaps a four light set-up. Hair light, small softboxes either side of camera to light the shoulder lines and perhaps a small light for the chest area.
