Assignment 13 Stop Action

Photograph something in action that you can’t see with the naked eye.  Use a camera and flash combination on manual attached to the hot shoe or the off camera cord.  

Assignment 12 Night Photography

f /10   20 sec iso 800

  

                                                     f /18  10 sec iso 200

Assignment 11 Light Painting

                                                                    Make a photograph using flash as a painting tool

Make a photograph using a continuous light source as a
painting too

Assignment 8 Outdoor Flash

Assignment 8 Outdoor Flash

1. 20/1 sec at f/20  strobe and the background are the same exposure.

2. using 20/1 at f/20  make a portrait where the person’s face is exposed one stop under and the background is normally exposed.  Drop the power of the strobe by one stop keeping the f stop the same.

3. using 40/1 at f/20 make a portrait where the person’s face is normally exposed and the background is one stop under.

4. using 80/1 at f/20  make a portrait where the person’s face is normally exposed and the background is two stops under.

Assignment 7 Strobe and Continuous Light

Strobe light balance

 just the strobe light on the person

                                       just the tungsten light on the background

strobe on the person and tungsten on the 

background combined

                                                                     motion

 Tungsten light balance

 strobe light on the background

tungsten light on the person

                                         strobe on the background and tungsten 
                                                     on the person combined

 motion

                                                               

Assignment 6 Size Matters

Take two portraits of a person one with the 21" Beauty Dish and one with the Octabank and get the same results by using the placement of the subject, the light and the background. 

the top one using 21'' Beaty dish, distance of 9' from the person,  the bottom one using Octabank, distance of 18' from the person

Assignment 5 One Strobe and a Softbox

Photo 1

photo1   Using one strobe with a small softbox, light a person against a white background so that their face has a highlight and shadow side. The background should appear darker on the highlight side and the lighter on the shadow side.

Photo 2

Using one strobe with a small softbox, light a person against a white background so that their face is evenly lit and the background is black.

Assignment 4 Three Light Portrait

Assignment 4

Using classic Rembrandt light (45 to side 45 up) create a portrait with key (650 Arri), fill (300 Arri) and backlight or background light (650 Arri) Use an EV between 1.5 and 3.

own version

Assignment 3

Using the 250watt halogen bulb, the direction of light coming from lower left side,angle of inclination, keep almost two feet distant with model. make angle of inclination, keep the shadow on the eyes, in order to make horrible feeling on her face.


                                                                   horrible stranger

                                                              
                                                                        
the direction of light from left side, make a big show on the background, put the reflection in front of her，
and shake the camera slightly.

Using the 650 watt bulb

Assignment 2 Demonstrate the 3 Laws of Light in One Photograph

In one photograph using one light source clearly demonstrate the 3 laws of light at work. Include the light source in the photograph.

Assignment for 1 Square Law

Assignment for 1 Square Law

1.Using 3 identical 4x5 grey cards set 1 foot apart, overlapping slightly and placed at a 45 degree angle from the camera angle. Make 4 photographs of the cards with the light 2 feet, 4 feet, 8 feet, 16 feet and 32 feet from the middle card. Use an incident meter on the middle card to give the correct exposure. The middle card should have the same value on each photograph.  Use Lightroom to weak the middle card until they all read the same value.

2. Use 3 4x5 cards a black card in front, a grey card in the middle and a white card in the back. Using the same single point source make all 3 cards appear to be the same value. You can move the cards and the light source until it works.