Light Basics and Vocabulary

Butterfly (or Paramount) -- 

• 1. What effect does it create?
• 2. Why use it?
• 3. How many lights or light sources? 3

 Loop --

• 1. What effect does it create?
• 2. Why use it?
• 3. How many lights or light sources?3

 Rembrandt --

• 1. What effect does it create?
• 2. Why use it?
• 3. How many lights or light sources?3

 Split --

• 1. What effect does it create?
• 2. Why use it?
• 3. How many lights or light sources?3

Broad and Short --

• 1. What effect does it create?
• 2. Why use it?
• 3. How many lights or light sources?3

Flash Basics

Flash fact #1: Every flash photograph is two exposures in one
Flash fact #2*: Flash exposure is not affected by shutter speed.
Flash fact #3: Flash illumination is dramatically affected by distance
Flash fact #4: Your camera measures ambient light and flash illumination separately
The fact that you have your flash turned on has no effect on this**Flash fact #5: With automatic flash metering, the flash illumination is measured after the shutter button is pressed, and the flash output is adjusted accordingly.
Flash fact #6*: Every SLR camera with a mechanical shutter has a maximum flash sync shutter speed

Finish this sentence: The further your subject, the darker it gets.

Will your exposure be brighter from the light produced by the flash, if you use a slower (longer) shutter speed? What type of light will a longer shutter speed increase in any type of exposure?


What is the primary limitation of flash?

What is the maximum sync speed of most DSLR cameras?


What is a Guide Number on a flash?

What is the problem with using a flash pointing directly at a subject? How can a photographer address this problem?

What is the advantage of getting a flash off of the top of a camera?

Part 2 Tutorials

1. Name of Tutorial? Long Exposure Photography

3. What equipment do you need?
a camera and the tripod.

 4. List of important things to do to prepare for shoot? Aperture Priority mode and let the camera do the rest of the thinking. This is what I got after a 1/25 second exposure.

5. List of important tips during shoot. putting on my 10-stop neutral density filter and letting the shutter speed go to 30 seconds

6. List of important tips on how to process in Lightroom (or other software) after shoot? opened the photo in Photoshop and made a selection of the sky using the Quick Selection Tool, Then I pressed Cmd-J  to duplicate that area of the sky on to it's own layer in the Layers panel and Cmd-clicked to put a selection around the same sky area again. changed the Blur method to Zoom and increased the Amount to 50 percent. 

Year in Photos 2013

  Landscape

2. Explain Rules of Composition present in photo and provide written evidence.
the rule of composition in this photo is S-curves.
 3. Describe the lighting: only one light source this photo has a natural light.
4. Explain what work photographer have to do to capture this image?
the photographer took the photo in precise moment of the sunset.

 Cityscape

2. Explain Rules of Composition present in photo and provide written evidence.
the rule of composition of this photo is Viewpoint
3. Describe the lighting: only one light source, Natural light.
4. Explain what work photographer have to do to capture this image?
the photographer had to be located in a high place.
Cityscape

2. Explain Rules of Composition present in photo and provide written evidence.
the rule of composition of this photo is Create depth.
3. Describe the lighting: only one light source, Natural light.
4. Explain what work photographer have to do to capture this image?
the photographer had to be located in a high place and a little far.

Black and White

2. Explain Rules of Composition present in photo and provide written evidence.
the rule of composition of this photo is Contrast of content and Balance.
3. Describe the lighting: only one light source, Natural light.
4. Explain what work photographer have to do to capture this image?
the photographer had to be located in a high place in the center.

Landscape

2. Explain Rules of Composition present in photo and provide written evidence.
the rule of composition of this photo is rule of thirds.
3. Describe the lighting: only one light source, Natural light.
4. Explain what work photographer have to do to capture this image?
the photographer had to be located in a high place.