PHOTOGRAPHY 2/13
Memorize this!
Av (aperture size values)
f1.0
f1.4
f2.0
f2.8
f4
f5.6
f8
f11
f16
f22
f32
ISO (speeds)
50
100
200
400
800
1600
3200
6400
12800
25000
Tv (shutter speed values)
2000
1000
500
250
125
60
30
15
8
4
2
1
Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Photography, Sprint 1
PHOTOGRAPHY 2/9
Today... YOU SHOOT!
You’ll do two shoots today, one with one light, then you’ll add a light to get two lights going.
WITH FLASH
ONE LIGHT SHOOT
Set your camera to black and white.
Set up a single light without anything to modify the light (a bare head). This light is your KEY.
Use the pink background. Put a stool in front of it. Have about 5’ of separation between the stool and the backdrop.
Camera is in MANUAL mode, set to 100 ISO, Tv 125, Av 5.6 ~ 8. Adjust the power and distance of the light such that you get what looks like a good exposure in the display.
Shoot the following patterns:
Paramount
Hatchet
Rembrandt (short)
Loop (broad)
As you move the light you might have to correct the distance of the light and/or the power of the pack to get a consistent exposure in the display.
TWO LIGHT SHOOT
Add another flash head. Put the white shoot-through umbrella on it, but spin it around so you’re not shooting through, you’re instead reflecting the light off of it. This will be your FILL. As you shoot keep the KEY light higher than the FILL light (the KEY vertically higher than the FILL).
Keep the camera settings as they were - 100 ISO, Tv 125, Av 5.6 ~ 8. You’ll need to dial up the power on the pack to compensate for the additional flash head.
Adjust the lights so that you get the required pattern - generated by the KEY, but fill in and soften the shadows by using the FILL.
Shoot the following patterns:
Paramount
Hatchet
Rembrandt (short)
Loop (broad)
Save all the pictures to a computer, upload them to the STAC photo website. File them under PHOTO INTENSIVE.
WITH COOL LIGHTS
ONE LIGHT SHOOT
Set your camera to black and white.
Set up a single light with the specular reflector on it (the pie pan). This light is your KEY.
Use the black background. Put a stool in front of it. Have about 5’ of separation between the stool and the backdrop.
Camera is in AV mode, Av to 5.6, adjust the ISO to get a good exposure on the display and a Tv of around 100. AV is an automatic mode - the camera will adjust the shutter speed to keep a consistent value, but if it gets too low you’ll get blurry pictures.
Shoot the following patterns:
Paramount
Hatchet
Rembrandt (short)
Loop (broad)
As you move the light you might have to correct the distance of the light to get a consistent exposure in the display.
TWO LIGHT SHOOT
Add another light head. Put a white shoot-through umbrella on it, but spin it around so you’re not shooting through, you’re instead reflecting the light off of it. This will be your FILL. As you shoot keep the KEY light higher than the FILL light (the KEY vertically higher than the FILL).
Keep the camera settings as they were.
Adjust the lights so that you get the required pattern - generated by the KEY, but fill in and soften the shadows by using the FILL.
Shoot the following patterns:
Paramount
Hatchet
Rembrandt (short)
Loop (broad)
Save all the pictures to a computer, upload them to the STAC photo website. File them into the folder marked PHOTO INTENSIVE.
Today... YOU SHOOT!
You’ll do two shoots today, one with one light, then you’ll add a light to get two lights going.
WITH FLASH
ONE LIGHT SHOOT
Set your camera to black and white.
Set up a single light without anything to modify the light (a bare head). This light is your KEY.
Use the pink background. Put a stool in front of it. Have about 5’ of separation between the stool and the backdrop.
Camera is in MANUAL mode, set to 100 ISO, Tv 125, Av 5.6 ~ 8. Adjust the power and distance of the light such that you get what looks like a good exposure in the display.
Shoot the following patterns:
Paramount
Hatchet
Rembrandt (short)
Loop (broad)
As you move the light you might have to correct the distance of the light and/or the power of the pack to get a consistent exposure in the display.
TWO LIGHT SHOOT
Add another flash head. Put the white shoot-through umbrella on it, but spin it around so you’re not shooting through, you’re instead reflecting the light off of it. This will be your FILL. As you shoot keep the KEY light higher than the FILL light (the KEY vertically higher than the FILL).
Keep the camera settings as they were - 100 ISO, Tv 125, Av 5.6 ~ 8. You’ll need to dial up the power on the pack to compensate for the additional flash head.
Adjust the lights so that you get the required pattern - generated by the KEY, but fill in and soften the shadows by using the FILL.
Shoot the following patterns:
Paramount
Hatchet
Rembrandt (short)
Loop (broad)
Save all the pictures to a computer, upload them to the STAC photo website. File them under PHOTO INTENSIVE.
WITH COOL LIGHTS
ONE LIGHT SHOOT
Set your camera to black and white.
Set up a single light with the specular reflector on it (the pie pan). This light is your KEY.
Use the black background. Put a stool in front of it. Have about 5’ of separation between the stool and the backdrop.
Camera is in AV mode, Av to 5.6, adjust the ISO to get a good exposure on the display and a Tv of around 100. AV is an automatic mode - the camera will adjust the shutter speed to keep a consistent value, but if it gets too low you’ll get blurry pictures.
Shoot the following patterns:
Paramount
Hatchet
Rembrandt (short)
Loop (broad)
As you move the light you might have to correct the distance of the light to get a consistent exposure in the display.
TWO LIGHT SHOOT
Add another light head. Put a white shoot-through umbrella on it, but spin it around so you’re not shooting through, you’re instead reflecting the light off of it. This will be your FILL. As you shoot keep the KEY light higher than the FILL light (the KEY vertically higher than the FILL).
Keep the camera settings as they were.
Adjust the lights so that you get the required pattern - generated by the KEY, but fill in and soften the shadows by using the FILL.
Shoot the following patterns:
Paramount
Hatchet
Rembrandt (short)
Loop (broad)
Save all the pictures to a computer, upload them to the STAC photo website. File them into the folder marked PHOTO INTENSIVE.
Photography, Sprint 1
PHOTOGRAPHY 2/13
First, something technical then something creative:
Lighting the Backdrop
Spend the first bit of the period working out how to get the backdrop both dark and light using a combination of distance and lights. There is a special short stand specifically designed to be placed on the floor behind the subject such that the photographer can throw a blog of light on the backdrop to get a glow on it. Hence, you get a three light shoot that looks something like this:
Note that you need to have the backdrop further back in order to get separation on it from the Key light — otherwise the Key throws light equally on the subject and the backdrop. Generally you need to double the distance to get a 1 stop drop off in the light.
Formal Portraits
I need seven portraits shot of the girls in the arts class. These should all be dramatic, high contrast pictures with plenty of interesting shadows falling on their faces, interesting light on the backgrounds, etc. Now, don’t just shot weird pictures, make the people look good. To do this, you need to find their good side.
The “good” side of a person’s face depends on two things – the curvature of their nose and the relative sharpness of their jawline.
Noses curve.They have a slight bow shape. On some people it can be really extreme. Usually if you set the camera shoot into the curve, the net result will be the nose appears straighter in the photograph. If you shoot across the curve, the nose will look more curved usually.
Jawline - in nearly all people, one side of their face is a little bit fatter than the other. One side has more definition, the other side less so. Generally, people will look a little better if you show that sharper side of the face in some sort of relief and keep the fatter side in the shadows or hidden.
For each girl, shoot a number of pictures such that we get a nice dramatic one that shows their face to advantage. Then, choose the best shot of each girl and either email them to me or give them to me on a flash drive. I need this done by tonight.
First, something technical then something creative:
Lighting the Backdrop
Spend the first bit of the period working out how to get the backdrop both dark and light using a combination of distance and lights. There is a special short stand specifically designed to be placed on the floor behind the subject such that the photographer can throw a blog of light on the backdrop to get a glow on it. Hence, you get a three light shoot that looks something like this:
Note that you need to have the backdrop further back in order to get separation on it from the Key light — otherwise the Key throws light equally on the subject and the backdrop. Generally you need to double the distance to get a 1 stop drop off in the light.
Formal Portraits
I need seven portraits shot of the girls in the arts class. These should all be dramatic, high contrast pictures with plenty of interesting shadows falling on their faces, interesting light on the backgrounds, etc. Now, don’t just shot weird pictures, make the people look good. To do this, you need to find their good side.
The “good” side of a person’s face depends on two things – the curvature of their nose and the relative sharpness of their jawline.
Noses curve.They have a slight bow shape. On some people it can be really extreme. Usually if you set the camera shoot into the curve, the net result will be the nose appears straighter in the photograph. If you shoot across the curve, the nose will look more curved usually.
Jawline - in nearly all people, one side of their face is a little bit fatter than the other. One side has more definition, the other side less so. Generally, people will look a little better if you show that sharper side of the face in some sort of relief and keep the fatter side in the shadows or hidden.
For each girl, shoot a number of pictures such that we get a nice dramatic one that shows their face to advantage. Then, choose the best shot of each girl and either email them to me or give them to me on a flash drive. I need this done by tonight.
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