Lesson 8 Outdoor Flash

The New Yorker 20 Writers Under 40

The 1st 3 images were shot on a carousel mounted on a truck.  The last image was shot on Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay with out the carousel.  I couldn't get the shutter speed long enough to get any movement.

 

Production Stills from Writers Shoot

 The results of the demonstration.

 Production Stills by Flor-A Gau.

Assignment 8 Outdoor Flash

1. Make a portrait where the person’s face and the background are the same exposure.
2. 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. Make a portrait where the person’s face is normally exposed and the background is one stop under.

4. Make a portrait where the person’s face is normally exposed and the background is two stops under.

All four should be photographed in exactly the same place to make it earier to compare the results.

This is a test for your reference and should be laid out accordingly.

Print your f stop and shutter speeds.

Subject should be 2 or 3 stops darker than background.

Lesson 7 Strobe and Tungsten

Example of my 1980's Work

The background was lit with tungsten and HMI light and the subject was lit with a strobe with and and 40 degree egg crate. The camera set to flash color balance. The 1st step was to figure out an exposure for the strobe set at the fastest sync speed of 1/160. The continuous light on the background is measured to match the f/stop established by the strobe. The use of the shutter speed/f-stop slider helps to visualize the exposure relationships. Care was taken to keep the lights confined to their intended targets and a capture of each light was made separately to confirm its purity

Production Stills by Rita Zambori

Assignment 7 Strobe and Tungsten

Photograph a person with just the strobe light.


Photograph a person with just the tungsten light on.


Photograph a person using strobe on the person and tungsten
on the background. Try some with motion.

Photograph a person with tungsten on the person and strobe
on the background. Try some with motion.

Post each photograph separately.

Lesson 6 Size Matters

The lights we used and students who handled them.

Lining up the lights.

Production stills by Barry Salzman

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. Look at results from class demonstration for ideas.

Lesson 5 Strobe

Harold "Doc" Edgerton

MIT's Edgerton Website

 

Controlling the background tonality with feathering

 



Assignment 5

Photo 1

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