Week 05 - Lighting

This week we learned about the principles of light:

1. direction - what direction is the light coming from and how does that transform the appearance of your subject
2. intensity - how strong/bright the light is
3. quality - hard light or soft light
4. color - cool, warm, or other

We had an in class demo of the principles of light using a couple continuous light sources and also discussed three point lighting (key, fill, back light)

 Hard Rembrandt light (no color adjustment) note the triangle under camera left eye

Hard Rembrandt light with adjusted white balance (color)

 Hard Rembrandt with bounce card fill

Soft Rembrandt light with diffusion (note softer edges of shadows)

Side/split lighting

Edge/hair light

Overhead light

Up-Lit

Front-lit

Rembrandt with front fill light

Rembrandt with less fill light intensity (lighting ratio)

Two side lights 

Two side lights with front fill bounce card

Remember, with lighting it is all about what you are trying to show or communicate about that subject. Choose the lighting quality, direction, intensity, and color that tells the story you want to tell about that subject.

For your assignment you will be taking several images changing lighting quality and direction.

Start thinking of what kinds of subjects you like to shoot based on what you've learned during our technical assignments and we will talk about starting your personal projects next week. 

Also start thinking of/doing research on your photographer for your oral presentations.