Studio Session - 12 March

Today I'm going to have a first controlled go at some light painting, though I will be using this on location for my final images I am having my first go within the studio as it will give me a more controlled environment to experiment on different techniques.

I will be using a combination of lighting including torches and also an ipad.

Using an ipad in Light Painting

because the ipad is almost entirely made up a hi-res screen it is very useful in lighting painting. because it allows for the creation of an almost infinite number of combinations of lights and shape to create very impressive light painting on the final frame.

This is one of the most successful images from my first session using an ipad for light drawing. the image displaying on the ipad was a static white circle on a black background. moving the ipad through the fame produced the cylinder effect.

Making Future Magic: iPad light painting

Light Warfare

Hennessy Campaign shot only with Light Painting (Long Version).

Units

Unit 205
Photo imaging equipment and materials.

Unit 310
Photo image output

Unit 212
Working to a photo imaging project brief

Unit 307
Location photography

Statement of Intent

Theme 1


Editorial Female Portraiture put together to form a small magazine spread to be used for advertising or a feature article

The work of Jason Christopher, which I will analyse in more detail in further blogs, is a good example of the type of photographs I wish to produce. I am also inspired by the "tradition" for most magazines to have a feature in their magazines usually a few pages and often featuring full or very large frame pictures following a theme and I would like to create something similar.

I will be using a Canon DSLR for all of the image capture and a combination of portable studio lighting and Canon Speedlights to provide a wide range of available lighting solutions. The photos will all be produced on location so I will also be working with ambient light which I want to use to my advantage to provide a more subtle lighting solution.

These are some of the best images from my weekend photoshoot in derby:

For this photo I used a Speedlight mounted on my camera and a secondary Speedlight at camara left to give a contrasting light to the side of the models face. The red highlights on the righthand side are from a old side street light giving out a very warm glow, to take advantage of that I used a fairly long exposure to give time for the ambient light to fill the photo.