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| Photo by Clara Kwon |
These are examples of the students work from this past week on lighting that I taught in the School of Photography 1 which is part of Youth With A Mission's University of the Nations campus in Kona, Hawaii.
This was the first time for most everyone in the class to use studio strobes.
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| Without flash -- Photo by Andrea Klaussner |
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| With flash -- Photo by Andrea Klaussner |
They learned how to use off camera flash on location. The assignment required them to hand in one photo without a flash and one with it. Some of the students photos looked better without a flash and sometimes there are times you don't need a flash they found out.
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| Without flash -- Photo by Lizz Busby |
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| With flash -- Photo by Lizz Busby |
The bread and butter assignment for a photographer is the environmental portrait. Being able to take a poor lighting situation and improving it was the purpose of the assignment as well as to know how to make it.
The students took a baseline photo without a flash and below the sync speed for their camera. Then they made a flash reading setting the strobe to be one stop greater than the aperture reading without the flash. They then only changed the aperture to the one stop great aperture that the flash is set. They were also encouraged to see if more power from the flash was better for the photo.
1:3 Lighting Ratio Assignment
You can see the assignment the students were given
here in an earlier blog post. Basically they needed to have the main light [key] at 45º from the camera, with the model looking straight into the camera. We did this to help them see the shadow across the nose. They then had a fill light one stop less than the main light.
They could use different backgrounds from White, Gray or color.
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| Photo by Debbie Smit |
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| Photo by Erik Wuesthoff |
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| Photo by Keziah Khoo |
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| Photo by Lizz Busby |
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| Photo by Oo Shinoda |
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| Photo by Melissa Kelsey |
I think the students all did a great job and in less than a week each person had a potential of a couple of photos to add to their portfolios.
