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.

6 - Octabank and Beauty Dish

Charles Sainty

Lighting Class Blog

Matching Octabank and and Beauty Dish

Octabank at about 18 feet

Beauty Dish at about 10 feet.  To better match the shadows, the light source should have been lowered 6 to 12 inches, but would have entered the frame in the top left corner.

5 - Strobe and Softbox Assignment

Strobe Assignment 1
Charles Sainty
Prof. Chris Callis

Light side, Dark Background/Shadow Side, Light Background

Strobe and Soft Box

Evenly lit face/Dark background

4 - Hollywood Portraits

Charles Sainty

Lighting Class w/ Prof. Callis

Assignment #4 

Hollywood Portraits 

"Rembrandt" lighting: (clockwise from top left): Complete lighting, Key Light, Background Light, Fill Light

This shot uses a 150W bulb at about four feet, just behind and to the left of the subject's head, and a 75W bulb just out of frame on the top right corner, as well as a frontal light 8 feet from the subject, a few feet to the left of the camera.

3 - Opposing Portraits with Single Light Source

Single Light Source

Opposing Portraits

Maggie - Peace

This was shot with the light source on the left, held behind a diffuser about four feet from subject, and balanced with a glossy, silver reflector on the right.  The Inverse Square Law can be seen in the difference between the lighting intensity on the left and right sides of Maggie's shirt.  The Angle of Incidence Law is responsible for the reflector-cast lighting from the right.

Maggie - War

This was shot with the light held at around the subject's right knee, and a red gel..  The Inverse Square Law is more noticeable here, in the difference between the left and right side of Maggie's shirt, because the light source was much closer to the subject than in the previous photograph.  Light Travels in a Straight Line makes possible the red cast confined to Maggie's face, which was created by partly obscuring the light with the small, rectangular, red gel.

2 - Laws of Light

Charles, James, Maggie

ISO 200, 1/160 @ 16

1 - Inverse Square Law Exercise

Date: September 08, 2012
Group: Charles, James, Erica


Inverse Square Law Demonstration Grid

2ft: 5.6 @ 1/40 

4ft 5.6 @ 1/10 (actual reading 1/15)

8ft 5.6 @  1/2 (actual reading 1/5)

16ft 5.6 @ 2" (actual reading 1")

Inverse Square Law, Compensation Exercise