Assignment 8 Outdoor Strobe

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 easier 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.

Each group can share the results of doing the exercise once.

Lesson 8 Outdoor Strobe

Assignment 7 Mixing Strobe and Continuous Light (LED)

Set the camera on Strobe light balance.

Photograph a person with just the strobe with a small softbox and eggcrate against white keeping the light off the background and making it record as black.

Photograph a person with just the LED light on the background

Photograph a person using strobe on the person and tungsten

on the background combined

Try some with motion.

Set the camera on Strobe light balance.

Photograph a person with just the strobe light on the background
Photograph a person with just the LED light on the person keeping the light off the background making the white record as black.
Photograph a person using strobe on the background and LED
on the person combined

Try some with motion.

Post each photograph separately.

Lesson 7 Mixing Strobe and Continuous Light

Assignment 6 Three Light Approach

Using classic Rembrandt light (45 to side 45 up) create a portrait with key , fill 2 stops under exposed and backlight. Check the class blog under Lesson 4 to see how it should be laid out.

Using three lights invent your own formula.
Post one separate finished photograph for this one

Lesson 6 Three Light Approach

Links to some of the photographers who use lights from multiple directions:

Baron de Meyer

George Hurrell

Edward Steichen

Joseph Karsh

Dan Winters

Kehinde Wiley Painter

I also talked about how Irving Penn worked with window light

Inspirational Portraits

Amazing site for Broadway Photographs

Hurrell's Fleetwood Mac Images from 1980

How to use the Sekonic L-358 to calculate EV difference between the key and fill light:

1.  Read the Key light 

2.  Press the Memory Button

3.  Press the ΔEV Button

4.  Read the Fill light while keeping the Measuring Button Pressed

Assignment 5 Simulated Window Light

Using the Simulated Window Light setup in the studio and being inspired by the examples on out class blog, create lighting that you find meaningful.  Spend some time experimenting with positioning the subject in relationship to the window light and point of view of the camera.  Try different sized and surfaced reflectors at varying distances.  Each member should have enough time to come up with several lighting variations.  Post your favorite results.  1-5 images.

Lesson 5 Simulated Window Light