Assignment #5: People lighting

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 8:29 am

Since we are on a lighting theme this assignment is : People lighting - side lighting.

Sorry for not having the assignment posted earlybut time got away from me.

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 8:40 am

You also forgot how to count. Assignment #5.

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 9:16 am

Thanks.. no sleep

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 6:58 pm

Are we going to allow reflector fill? Or not?

I favor one light only and images posted with and without the reflector fill.

So this would be a 2 image assignment. Same portrait with and without a white reflector fill.

Comments?

Premium Member Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 5758

I'd prefer just to leave it at side lighting and let people's creativity fill in that blank. The important point is that the bulk of lighting is directional, but I don't think it has to be a single light or that a reflector be either mandatory or forbidden. It might be nice, for instance, to take a picture under a street light but with a tiny bit of fill flash for the shadows.

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 11:37 pm

I would say at this time no reflector allowed.

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:23 am

Side lighting, as I was always taught, is lighting that comes horizontal to the subject. Often it is used to bisect the face.

Are we all on the same page with this?

Examples:

http://flickr.com/photos/revjim/40315128/ (studio)

http://www.nyip.com/sub_idx_pgs/contestidx/nyiwin.php (window light)

Joined: 22 Aug 2005 Posts: 1875 Location: BRISTOL ENGLAND

Damn number 5 already I missed the last one :-(

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:31 pm

I better hurry, whats the deadline?

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 8:31 am

KurtSchneid wrote:

I better hurry, whats the deadline?

Your grade goes down 1 letter point for being late, but go ahead an post.

New assignments are on the 1st and 15th of each month.