Unit 1 Systems and Processes - Studio Practice 1

Photography Practice.

Wednesday 7th Oct

This is me in the studio. We were looking at different ways of light and changing the lighting equipment to see what would happen.
You can see with this photograph the light was to the left of me and was at the same height as my face.

This is the same shot but it is an example of how the lighting equipment was set up for the shot above.

This shot is a wide shot of the photograph above.

You can see how the lighting has been placed to get the shot above. Again there have been no changes to the camera settings.

This photograph was taken with Nikon d90, ISO of 100 and a F-stop of 5.6. The lighting was

kept the same but the difference was here I am looking up which makes a shadow appear under the lower part of my face.

This shot was with two black foam detractor boards and one light on in front of me and the one behind me off. Because I have two boards either side of me the photograph looks a lot darker and you start to see the features in my face.

Again this shot is the same as the one above, the same camera, ISO, and f-stop. It was with two black foam detractor boards but this time the light behind me was on and the light in front of me was off. Because I have two boards either side of me the photograph looks a lot darker and the light is directing the left of me.

Here is a shot on how the lighting was positioned. You can see how the light on the left is turned off. This means the light towards my face is more direct and shows more shadows beneath my face.

This photograph was taken again with a Nikon d90 and ISO of 100, f-stop of 5.9 I had two black foam boards ether side of me and this time I was holding a reflector under my face.

Here is another picture on how you can change the lighting equipment. You can see the soft box is this time above my head and I have hold of the reflector in my hand which is making the light bounce back up to my face. doing this type of setting means when taking a photograph you will get a much more clear, lighter and detailed shot.

This photograph was taken with out the two side black board reflectors and just with a small reflector. With the reflector I held under my face made my face really bright and made me look sickly. it also shows lots of detail and my hair is a lot lighter. All of the photographs you can see where taken on a nikon d90 and had a ISO of 100 and f-stop of 5.9  the white balance was on auto.

Here is an example of the shot above. here we was looking at natural light and how it can be reflected in different ways. For the natural light we used the skylight. The reflector has two sides to it. One side is white and the other is gold. This means if you turn the reflector to the gold side then I will look really light and shows a lot of detail in the photograph. The white side of the reflector isn't as bright and doesn't give as much detail to my face.







This exercise demonstrates the variety of moods that can be created by changing your light set up.