Lighting Workshop (03-10-16)

Our lighting workshop this week was all about blancing ambient light and flash using the ranger kits.
Each person in the groups had a role.

1. model
2. photographer
3. light meter reader
4. light operators 

My role within this was to operate the lights with another person.

To start off with we measured the ambient light, and set the camera up to match it.
we then set the lights up so it matched the ambient in a 1:1 ratio.

This didn't create a very natural look, which we were aiming for.
we experimented with different shutter speeds opening it up more and more. This just washed the images out, like so.

We then decided to change locations and model so that we could light from behind to create a kind of halo effect around the model and create a sense of a sunny day. Again we took an ambient reading, put the settings into the camera and then used fill lights to try and match up with the ambient in a 1:1 ratio. Here is the effect it had:

I think we managed to achive this quite well as the above photo, to me, looks like it was taken on a sunny, if cold day.