Photo Studio

We are using the photo studio for the next 2 weeks. Guest lecturor Dara McGrath is in teaching us how to use the studio and equipment.

Studio Light Techniques

 

1. Characteristics of light

-Quality of the light

-Direction

-Contrast

-Evenness

-Colour

-Intensity

2. How a flash head works

-parts location

-function of each component

 

3-Lighting Equipment

-Soft box-

-Reflector

-Barn doors

-Snoot

-Honeycomb

-Umbrella

-Synchronising 

4. Sources of Light

-Ambient

-Artificial

-Tungsten

-Daylight

-Flash units

5. Setting up your photograph

-Camera setting

-What type of light to convey meaning

-Main/Key Light

-Fill Light

-Additional Lighting

-Reflection/bouncing light

-Separation of background and subject

- Rules of Composition for portraiture

-dos and don’t

 

6. Types of Lighting

-Rembrandt. Single light source for creating dramatic lighting effects.

-Clam Shell. Created by placing two lights, one overhead and one under your subject

-Rim Lighting or Edge Lighting. Main light source is placed at same height of a subject, perpendicular to the camera at about the "9:00 position"

- Back Lighting. Placed behind the subject for hair highlighting

-Butterfly Lighting. Created when a single light source is placed just above the camera, thus creating a butterfly-shaped shadow under a model's nose.

-Fill Light. Placed behind the camera to light up the shadow area on the side of the face opposite the key light side.

 

Contemporary Case Studies

Diane Arbus

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nan Goldin

Heinrik Kerstens

 

 

 

Doug Du Bois

 

 

 

Helen Van Meene

 

 

 

A link to his website: http://www.daramcgrath.com/