02 Lighting

Using the technical guidelines and image examples from the Photographic Lighting Lecture PDFs and Lighting Lecture Video (Password for this Video is Advanced) shoot 50-100 images using some combination of the techniques listed below. You can select just one of these approaches and do a deep dive, or, if you have the time and equipment, try several (or all) of them and select your most successful images for the critique. Individual images may combine techniques.

You will present 6 FINAL, PROCESSED JPEGs to show in the Lighting Critique on 2/10. The images do not need to relate to each other conceptually as a cohesive body of work, but should be technically polished both in-camera and in post-production. Have your raw images offloaded and narrowed down to 25 or fewer for our one-on-one session.

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Lighting Techniques To Try:

1. Using Reflectors (with natural or artificial light sources)
2. Built-in camera flash (or on-camera speedlite), on both TTL and Manual settings
3. Off-camera flash (even manually popping a flash during a long exposure)
4. Open Flash / Balancing Flash and Ambient Light (can be done without purchasing an external flash if your camera has a built-in)
5. Multiple Light Sources, including Mixed Color Temperature (can be continuous light sources rather than flash)
6. Light-painting with a flashlight or other continuous light source

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You’ll have until 2/10 to finalize your images as exported, processed, JPEGs, but please have some images shot, offloaded, and imported into Lightroom for our first one-on-one lab session of the semester.