Thursday, 14 October 2010

Studio Lighting: The Basics

For the morning session created in the studio I had to produce photographs of both a vase and a product, mine being a Wall-E teddy. Throughout these four assignments I have used both a white reflector and black reflector.

Ambient Lighting

The objective for this assignment was to observe the nature of light and how it can be controlled, reflected and captured.
The set up for this type of light was shooting on a table with the lighting on the left of the glassware 90 degrees away from the camera.

Normal
Canon EOS 500D
Aperture: f/4.5
Exposure: 1/3 sec
 

White reflector
Canon EOS 500D
Aperture: f/4.5
Exposure: 1/3 sec


Black Reflector
Canon EOS 500D
Aperture: f/4.5
Exposure: 1/3 sec


Backdrop

The objectives for this shoot is to observe the nature of light and how it can be controlled. Also the effect the type of lighting gives on the product.
For this type of lighting I used shooting on a table with the lighting again at the left of the poduct with the light around a metre away from the table pointing towards the backdrop.

Normal
Canon EOS 500D
Aperture: f/4.5
Exposure: 1/10 sec

Black Reflector
Canon EOS 500D
Aperture: f/4.5
Exposure: 1/10 sec

White Reflector
Canon EOS 500D
Aperture: f/4.5
Exposure: 1/10 sec

Diffused and Reflector

The objective for this style of set up was to observe the nature of light and how it can be controlled.
For this photo shoot I again used the shooting on a table, with the light to the left of the product 90 degrees away from the camera. Infront of the light I used a diffuser. For the two reflector shots I have just used one of either the black reflectors or white reflectors.

 
Normal
Canon EOS 500D
Aperture: f/4.5
Exposure: 1/8 sec

Black Reflector
Canon EOS 500D
Aperture: f/4.5
Exposure: 1/8 sec

White Reflector
Canon EOS 500D
Aperture: f/4.5
Exposure: 1/8 sec


Diffused and Reflector - Glassware

The objective for this style of set up was to observe the nature of light and how it can be controlled.
The setup for this shoot was the same as the above photo shoot. I have included the use of two black reflectors as well within this shoot.
Normal
Canon EOS 500D
Aperture: f/4.5
Exposure: 1/8 sec

Black reflector
Canon EOS 500D
Aperture: f/4.5
Exposure: 1/8 sec

Two Black Reflectors
Canon EOS 500D
Aperture: f/4.5
Exposure: 1/8 sec

White Reflector
Canon EOS 500D
Aperture: f/4.5
Exposure: 1/8 sec



Throughout the afternoon session within the studio, the opportunity arose to experiment with the proffessional studio equipment. I have used the copy stand, portacube, shooting table and shooting on a table.

Copy Stand

This image is just an example of what sort of photography the copy stand is capable of producing. This image had a light set to the left of the copy stand. This is something in which I could use to copy documentation for my sketchbook work.



Portacube

For the portacube the product was placed within the portacube with a light either side of the product outside the portacube. Below are the results I created using a variation on the angling of the lighting.
Both lights on either side of the camera at 90 degrees
Canon EOS 500D
Aperture:  f/ 6.3
Exposure: 1/8 sec

Light on the left at 90 degrees the right light at 45 degrees
Canon EOS 500D
Aperture: f/ 6.3
Exposure: 1/8 sec


Light on the right at 90 degrees
Canon EOS 500D
Aperture: f/6.3
Exposure: 1/8 sec


Shooting on a Table

Within this photo shoot I took four shots, one with just the camera flash on; one with the light on 45 degrees away from the camera; a light on either side 90 degrees away from the camera and light on either side again at 90 degrees away from the camera with one acting as a fill light. 

Camera Flash
Canon EOS 500D
Aperture: f/5.6
Exposure: 1/20 sec



Light on the right of the product 45 degrees from the camera
Canon EOS 500D
Aperture: f/ 5.6
Exposure: 1/25 sec



Light on either side of product 90 degrees from camera
Canon EOS 500D
Aperture: f/ 5.6
Exposure:  1/25 sec



Light on the right at 90 degrees, light on the left moved further back (fill light)
Canon EOS 500D
Aperture: f/ 1/30
Exposure:  5.6 sec


Shooting Table

For this area I explored three possible types of lighting, one from the left, one positioned from behind and one with the lighting underneath the shooting table.


Light from the left of product
Canon EOS 500D
Aperture: f/ 14
Exposure:  1/5 sec



Light positioned behind the shooting table
Canon EOS 500D
Aperture: f/ 7.1
Exposure: 1/3 sec




Light underneath the shooting table
Canon EOS 500D
Aperture: f/ 7.1
Exposure:  1/8 sec


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