lighting workshop 7

For this Lighting workshop we were split into two groups. we had to set the ISO on our camera too 100 with a white balance of daylight or sunny.

Our first task was to use a basic flash set up using a key light. We had to position two flash heads directed on to the backdrop and Setting the light meter to its flash mode setting which was lit evenly at an aperture of F/16. We then positioned our model so that he was not casting a shadow on to the backdrop and was also evenly lit himself by a 'key' flash. We set our shutter speed to 1/125. We then took a flash meter reading from our model and adjusted until we measured the aperture at F/8 which we set on the camera, we had to check if all the flashes were firing at the same time and was linked to the right channel because in the past we have had trouble with firing the other groups flash off ( it is quite funny but can get very annoying). this is the first photo we took:

For Task two we had to repeat the first few steps however add a modifier to the key light. For this we put a soft box on the light rather than the spill kill we were using before. setting our aperture to F/22 as the flash power needed to be more powerful to pump out more light. This was the result we ended up with:

You would use a key light when you want to evenly light the background and also light the model. We found it hard to get the lights in the right place and at the right power for the Apeture to be the same as what was suggested on our workshop task sheet.

I had a lot of fun doing this shoot, the group i was in made a great team, we just needed a lot of help from the lecturer to figure out how to do some of the stuff. I left that workshop feeling confident on how to set things up and how to take them down, and also how to evenly light everything in shop getting the right exposure in the images.