Monday, September 20, 2010
Our JRN 420 class was sent out onto campus to practice on location lighting by photographing people. Kay, Kaitlin and I headed for the area north of Warriner Hall with two flashes, two light stands, an umbrella, a reflector, three self made snoots, three barn doors, tree pocket wizards and our cameras.
Our first volunteer was Emily, a senior at CMU who is studying public health education. We lacked a sync cord so were only able to use one flash at a time while shooting Emily. The first picture is done with an umbrella reflector off to her left.
focal length: 75 mm
ISO 100
aperture: f 5.6
shutter speed: 1/180
The following photograph was done with the same light set up as above but different camera settings.
The following photograph was done with the same light set up as above but different camera settings.
camera: Pentax K10D
focal length: 70 mm
ISO 200
aperture: f4
shutter speed: 1/180
This next picture was done using a snoot over the flash behind her and to her right. It was used to create a side and rim light effect.
focal length: 110 mm
IS0: 400
aperture: f4.5
shutter: 1/180
Next we drafted David, a junior at CMU majoring in German and French. For David's pictures we were able to borrow an sync from a different group and use a combination of a snoot on one flash aimed at a gold reflector with the light bounced back onto him on his right and a flash with the umbrella reflector to his left. Sometimes the snoot over powered the umbrella reversing our main light. Kent arrived to help us figure out the power levels for the flash units we had.
focal length: 70 mm
ISO 100
aperture: f4
shutter speed: 1/180
camera: Pentax K10D
focal length: 70 mm
ISO 200
aperture: f4
shutter speed: 1/180
camera: Pentax K10D
focal length: 70 mm
ISO 400
aperture: f8
shutter speed: 1/180
Our final subjects were cadets from CMU's ROTC program. For these pictures there is a snoot on a flash off to there right and a flash directed at a gold reflector in front of them, which is also the direction that light from the late afternoon sun light is coming from. I am shooting from between and behind the two lights. For the last image I moved the snoot over more front right to them. This made both lights to my right. If that sounds confusing you should have seen me trying to get the right shot around the lights. It looked confusing too. Each of the following was corrected to try to match the lighting at the time the image was taken, except the last one.
camera: Pentax K10D
focal length: 70 mm
ISO 100
aperture: f8
shutter speed: 1/180
camera: Pentax K10D
focal length: 70 mm
ISO 100
aperture: f5.6
shutter speed: 1/180
This next photo was very under exposed and the exposure was adjusted in the RAW adjustment window to make it more true to the lighting.
camera: Pentax K10D
focal length: 75 mm
ISO 100
aperture: f5.6
shutter speed: 1/180
camera: Pentax K10D
focal length: 70 mm
ISO 100
aperture: f5.6
shutter speed: 1/180
The gold tone of the picture is from the reflector. The next picture is the uncorrected but cropped version of the last picture. The previous picture was corrected to look like the lighting at the time. I actually like this picture better because it has a more developed mood. It reminds me of campfire light. The reflector was tilted to light under their hat brims so their eyes wouldn't be in deep shadow.
I know the layout for this is totally a mess. I will have to start over later because I have been working on it for 8 hours straight and I am sick of it right now. A new thing I have learned don't cut and paste in the html editor, it screws up everything.
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