Friday, 21 October 2011

Studio lighting portraits

1:0 lighting ratio
1:1 close up lighting
2:1 lighting

These portraits of studio lighting were shot on 3 different days.  The first day consisted of a 1:0 ratio with the studio lights off and one light placed on the left side of the model (Sara) .  Day 2 was a 1:1 lighting ratio with 1 light on either side and close to the model.  Lastly, day 3 was a 2:1 lighting ratio by moving one light with the umbrella close to the bulb closer to the model (Grace), and one light with the umbrella further away from the bulb and the model.  By moving the position of the lights, using diffusers, adjusting the height of the light stands, and changing the distance I was able to create different portrait lighting and different effects.

Monday, 17 October 2011

Words In Nature





     Throughout nature there's many different forms of everything around us.  For this assignment I chose to use nature as astarting point for my assignment. By looking around at trees, parking lots, school corners, doorways, windows, bike racks and symbols on hallways, I was able to find patterns in shapes of letters in order to spell the name of my blog.  The reason I used nature as a starting point was because a variety of patterns can occur naturally outside, if using a proper eye to find them. After draining my resources for patterns outside, I used a variety of places around my school as an inspiration for unique patterns.  From door locks, to poster boards, to handlebars, Oakville Trafalgar has posted a good stage for photography students to decipher patterns created in modern architecture or nature settings.