Sunday, 20 February 2011

Assignment 4: Applying lighting techniques, Colour

For this assignment you will draw together the different lighting techniques you have been studying and apply them to one object. The idea is to use your new knowledge of lighting to bring out particular physical properties of the same object. it is also a test of your observation.

Choose any subject that you can move around and take about eight photographs of it, each in a different kind of lighting. You can use any light at all, from daylight to available artificial light, to photographic lighting.


My inspiration for this assignment was taken from a trip to the Yorkshire Sculpture park. I wanted to try and capture the essence of a sculpture but on a lot smaller scale. I had tried to photograph some of the sculptures in a way that could be used for this assignment but the sheer size of some of them and quality of light on my visit made it quite difficult. So on my way back from the park I went shopping for a sculpture that I could photograph while being able to control the light and the subject would remain interesting to shoot.


While shooting the sculpture I used various different light sources. To prepare the sculpture for shooting a prepared a mini studio on a table top made out of several pieces of dark colored card. The object was surrounded on two sides by the card. The camera was tripod mounted and for this exercise I opted for a 70mm f/2.8 Macro lens. For additional light sources, I used an off camera flashgun with the camera in commander mode and the flash in remote mode and also used various gel covers with the flash to vary/enhance the light. I also used a small spot lamp with different coloured filters to vary the colour of light


Equipment
Camera: D300s
Lens:Sigma 70mmf/2.8
Flashgun/Gel covers
Triopd
Spot lamp




Colour: 


Choose a kind of lighting and exposure setting that shows the subject's colour (or colours) as strongly as possible.




Exp time = 1/15
F/Stop = F4.5
Focal length = 70mm
ISO =200




Exp time =5 sec
F/Stop = F22
Focal length = 70mm
ISO =200