studio Assignment 1 Portraiture Research

For the couple shoot im doing my nana and pa ! They are my love ! and i would love to use them for this ~ i would like to do something like this but its just not them , and i want this to show who they are as people and as a couple

The kind of lighting i would like to do, is like the below photo , im not sure how it was done , maybe from above right

I have had a look into different ways to light in the studio for the kind of shoot I want to do 

studio Assignment

 Looking in to and how to light my studio business/corporate shot is not that easy I would like to do something a little different   

Some info i found Profoto Magnum as main light

For this hard light portrait we used a Profoto Magnum with a grid as the main light. A Profoto Compact set to the lowest effect placed camera right and a bit above his head aimed towards the center of his face gave hard shadows and enhanced his features. The grid helped as well.

Background light and spill

To make the background completely whiteanother Profoto Compact with a standard reflector was placed low right behind the model and aimed at the white background paper. The distance between the background and the model was about 2 meters, so some of the background light spilled backon his sides, as you can see on his right side of the face.

Hair and rim light

Behind the model, and high up, the last flash head pointed down with a gridded reflector to give some more light to his left side of the head. Without it the portrait would look much flatter, I think. Now it accents his bone structure which makes the head look more three dimensional. And that must be a good thing. The effect of the rim light is more visible on the photos we took not using the background light as strongly, when the background was a darker grey.

Camera and lens

For most portraits in my photo studio I use my Nikon D700 together with a85mm/1.4 lens. It is the best combination of camera and lens I have used so far and it always produces sharp, clean images. Before using a full-frame body the portraits would have to be a bit tighter in my small studio, but now I can at least use it for this kind of half-body shots.

Post production in Lightroom and Photoshop

After my client had picked his favourites I started retouching them, nothing much really apart from the black and white conversion. The background was not completely white at all places, but that was easy to fix. The background light had been placed to have its center right behind the model so the small spots I had to adjust were in the corners.

To get some more contrast I added a layer of Gradient Map using a black to white fill and then changing the blend mode to Soft Light and adjusting the Opacity until the effect was what I wanted. An easy way to give a 

10s Studio Portrait Lighting

Light Source
One of the most important things of a good light source is its size. This determines what type of shadows you are going to have and also affects the type of reflection
Small light sources will produce a hard edged shadow, large light sources will produce a soft edged shadow.
Take as an example the most important light source in our life, the SUN. In a nice bright day with no clouds the sun will act as a small light source. On the other hand when it is a cloudy day the clouds will act as diffuser and the light source will not arrive from a direct single point but will be diffused through the clouds thus becoming a large light source and therefore producing soft edged shadows.Lighting Angles
A person looking at an object sees each point of that object at a slightly different angle. If we sum up all these angles we would have a family of angles. The family of angles is very important thing to master as a photographer because it determines where we can place or where we cannot place our lights.
For this Studio Portrait Assignment, you are going to work with three basic lighting angles: Hatchet/Side Lighting, Rembrandt, and Glamour/Butterfly lighting. Below is an example of a Rembrandt Lighting set-up:Find an example of each in your journal. Explain how the lighting set up is arranged to create this effect.

i would like to do this for my corporate shot 

portrait a little kick.

Studio Assignment

My idea for my product shoot with person is to be a male perfume , I am hoping to shoot the bottle in a tank of soda water to have all the bubbles from the soda cling on to the edges of the bottle for a real great affect and to have it light quite dark with a main light coming from the back to show the bottle spray ,

The lighting of tevita I wanted to active was from back lighting , and it took me some time to find the right spot ,

Small Product Assignment Part 2

My idea for my product shoot is to choice one color in cosmetics and work with lighting each different product with different lighting technics  some things i have found on the net i could only find a few , but not really what i have in mind !   

Small product

My main light was coming from the front a little to the right to wrap around the main detail of the flash!,

Second light was lighting the back to take out the shadow light showing the edge of the table, there was also a light coming from above, but we did not have it set very high ,

shutter 1/200 aperture f11 iso 100

Week Five Camera Tethering

§  What is tethered camera operation? 

Tethered digital camera operation is where the camera is permanently attached to a computer by a cable and so is usually restricted to lab or studio work and you can view the image soon as it has been taken 

§  What tethering software is available for your camera and computer operating system?

Small product photography

I think the most about lighting small product is aiming to have the light even across products. So the main light would be facing the object to light the main information on it, and the second light would be used just to fill background and shadows.  

WORKSHOP 2

Studio class

§  When employing multiple flash exposures to a moving subject (like the Edgerton strobe photos) why is it important to photograph against a black background? §    §  So the effects of the motions stand out more §    §  In a given situation when one flash discharge is used the correct f-number to achieve correct exposure is f8.  How many identical discharges would you need to achieve correct exposure when using f32? §  Five or two ? §  Explain your answer in the last question