Night Photography

Charles Sainty
Lighting Class with Chris Callis
Night Photography

3.2 s @ 5.6

1/2 s @ 5.6

1/3s @ 5.6

1/3 s @ 5.6

1/3s @ 5.6

Final - Replicating Pepper #30

Lighting Class Final
Replicating Edward Weston's "Pepper no. 30"

The Edward Weston original

Attempted replication using off-camera speed light with white bounce card and foil reflector, subject placed inside metal cylinder.  Light about six inches from subject.

More dramatic contrast with harsher light and over-exposure, darkened with curves adjustment layer in Photoshop.

11 - Metal and Glass

Charles Sainty
Lighting Class Blog
Metal and Glass

Wine Glass and Thumb Tacks, w/ light table and strobe

Alarm clock, w/ light table and strobe

For the final...

Edward Weston's Pepper #30

Lighting Setup (Strobe for daylight)

10 - Light Painting

Charles, Amy, James, Maggie
Light Painting

5 Separate exposures with single speedlight flash, compiled in photoshop with "lighten" blending.

Laser and LED flashlight, roughly 30 second exposure

9 - Speedlights

Charles Sainty

James Reddington

Speedlights

Priority setting, flash on camera

Priority setting, flash off camera

Aperture priority

w/ modifier (snoot)

8 - Strobe and Natural Light

Matching Strobe with Natural Light

Balanced 

Strobe lowered 1 stop

Exposure time reduced by 1 stop

Exposure time reduced by 2 stops

7 - Strobe and Continuous

Charles Sainty
Matching Strobes and Continuous Lights

Strobe Foreground/Continuous Background

Subject is jogging, which causes a blurring effect around the subject because of the continuous light on the background, with the subject himself frozen by the strobes in the foreground

Strobe Isolated

Continuous Light Isolated

Strobe Background/Continuous Foreground

The subject is jumping and spinning in this shot, creating this strange effect.  This lighting arrangements freezes a sharp silhouette of the subject because of the strobe light on the background, while the space within the silhouette is blurry because it is lit by continuous light, with a long enough exposure to allow for some real motion.