Wednesday, 29 April 2015

Studio Photography 2

I wanted to experiment with portrait photography and different lighting setups, these included coloured gels, coloured lens's, flat light, badger and Rembrandt lighting; these were all used to show different shadows to show different emotions. Shutterspeed 1/60, 100 ISO.
For the first photos I used a high key flat lighting setup, this envolves using two strobes, two light stands, two 20" soft boxes and a white backdrop. The lights are angled towards the subject in hope to illuminate shadows, unfortunately due to the levels of light one of the strobes was lighter than the other causing shadows over the subjects face. 


I then decided to experiment with darker backgrounds and more shadowed lighting, this envolved turning off one of the strobe lights so the light would fall across one side of the subject face and body creating shadows. 







I then decided to experiment with coloured gels in order to experiment with more surreal colour schemes, thus would not work with the the flash of the strobes as they would over power the coloured gels. Instead, the flash was turned off and an ambient light setting was used on the light meter in order to determine what f number to use on the camera. The soft modelling lamps were turned up fully to the brightest setting to illuminate the subject as no flash was used. 
For the right light I used the barn doors rather than a soft box, over this I placed the coloured gel, this was folded over twice making the gel double thickness, this was to intensify the red colour of the gel. 
Camera settings; 200 ISO, f 5.6, Shutterspeed 1/30.



Finally I decided to remove the coloured gel and use the same lighting setup as before (barn doors on right light, soft box on left). Exposures were taken using a flash rather than the ambient lighting.

HEALTH AND SAFETY-
When working in the studio I had to ensure precautions were taken so that myself or my model were not harmed. These included;
🔻 No eating or drinking in the studio.
🔻 All words moved out of the way so there was no tripping hazard.
🔻 Main lights turned on when moving lights, as well as strobes being turned off.
🔻 When strobes were off, must be switched off on both the strobe itself and the wall.

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