Gel Lighting Beauty Shoot - Technique

Key Light - The main light used to light the subject

Beauty Dish - A circular dish which is flexible - if it's white it is more diffusive, if it is silver it has more contrasted directional lighting.

Diffusion Sock - The cover placed on the Beauty Dish, it makes the light more diffused (more even)

Honey Comb - Something put over the light to control the direction of the light, this restricts the direction of the light

Fill Light - The lighting placed under the Beauty Dish which fills in the shadows

Back Light - This light separates the subject from the background, it's behind the model and it lights up parts such as the hair.
Colour Gel: A transparent coloured material that is used in filmography, photography or theatre for coloured lighting or for colour correction

Lighting Diagram:

This is a lighting diagram that my shoot group drew. it shows us how we put the lights when we set up the studio, the lighting diagram is a good reference point for what to do if we want to recreate the shoot. The two back lights had gels over them, they changed the lights colour which caused the effect that we can see in our photographs. We also used a fill light and a key light, these made the photograph look lighter. if we had just used the gel lights it would've been too dark because the gel lights, especially the dark blue gels, block a lot of light getting through.

Multiple Exposure - Technique

Definition: Multiple Exposure is the superimposition of two or more exposures to create a single image, and double exposure has a corresponding meaning in respect of two images. The exposure values may or may not be identical to each other.

Menu System - Multiple Exposure - auto gain off - number of shoots: 2 

High key - put camera in spot metering mode (this will focus on the face of the subject and not the background, making the background over exposed) nothing else is visible. Put it in aperture priority mode, puts focus point in the centre. Exposure +2

Photoshop - open the two photographs, drag to the same canvas and select normal and turn it to screen on the side of the photoshop

Multiple Flash - Technique

To create this effect we need:
A tripod
Flash
Soft box above the subject

Shutter Speed: 6 seconds
F stop: 22/16
ISO 200

Multiple flash is when you take one photograph with more than one flash, to take this type of photo you need to use a long exposure time, which is around three or four seconds.

This photographic technique is quite interesting and I think that it has a very good effect. This technique is used to show movement, although you can use it on objects like balls being thrown for example, I think that it looks better when you are taking photographs of people.

Wide Angle and Close up - Definition Post

Close up: A photograph taken at close range or with a long focal-length lens. Usually close up photographs only focus on one thing.

This photograph is an example of a close up photograph because it is only focused on the frogs eye, meaning it has a very small depth of field. I like this photograph because of the use of colour, red and green are opposite on the colour wheel and the two are so different, it makes the photograph more interesting to look out, in addition to this the colours are very bright which also attracts the eye, if the photograph was dull colours I wouldn't be as interested in it.

This is another example of close up photography, I really love this because you can see all the individual raindrops on the ladybird, with the naked eye, you wouldn't see in this much detail. And again the use of red and green really attracts the eye, along with the black which is very bold in contrast.

Wide angle: A wide angle lens is a lens which has a small focal-length compared to the focal length of a normal lens.

This photograph is a great example of how wide angle can distort the subject of a photograph, the head of the goat would not be this big in real life compared to the body, personally I think this is a good effect, it makes the goat the main subject of the photograph, your eyes aren't really distracted much so the goat is the only thing you look at.

This is another example of wide angle photography, this photograph is really nice because it centres on the building in the centre and it is very symmetrical due to the lights on either side of the building. I love how this looks however personally I probably wouldn't try this this term because I want to focus on people for now.

To create this effect you have to use your camera at its most zoomed out, which for my camera lens is 18mm, I also made sure that everything was in focus, this doesn't look as good as it would if I had a specific wide angle lens, although I think it worked pretty well for a normal lens.

Wide Angle and Close Up - Technique & Work Diary

Wide Angle and Close Up:

Wide angle: A wide angle lens is a lens which has a small focal-length compared to the focal length of a normal lens.Close up: A photograph taken at close range or with a long focal-length lens. Usually close up photographs only focus on one thing.

This is an example of the technique, you can do it on anything, people, animals, or plants and objects, though personally I think it works best on people because you can see much better how it has distorted it.14mm, 20mm 24mm, 28mm, and 35mm are good lengths for wide angle close up photography

When I took photographs using wide angle, we used our normal cameras and just experimented using the camera settings on the smallest focal length, this didn't work very well but the photograph I took of Ellie is quite good and I'd like to experiment with this technique again as it was quite interesting, I would like to use an actual wide angle lens and take photographs of people to see how much it distorts them.

This is the best photograph from the wide angle shoot, I think that it definitely shows wide angle, the subjects face is slightly distorted but not as much as the example photograph at the top of this post.

This is my worst photo from this shoot, it doesn't show any distortion and it just looks like I was practising depth of field, I think that this is a very boring photo and it probably doesn't help that the object I took the photo of is see through.

If I was to do this again I would use an actual wide angle lens because I don't think that this lens worked very well, although I did the best I could with what I had in the lesson.

Focal Length Experimentation - Straight Images and technique

18mm

24mm

35mm

45mm

55mm

This series of photographs should've worked really well, however I had to change the battery and when I did that the aperture changed and I didn't notice, this meant that the photographs after I changed the battery are slightly darker. Although I still think they worked well overall.

55mm

45mm

35mm

24mm

18mm

I like this series of photographs, I think that it worked well and I managed to keep the same headspace more or less as I zoomed out. However the last photograph of this series is possibly a bit close to the camera.

To do this technique I kept the camera completely still on a tripod. 

I then did two different series of photographs, in the first one I zoomed in each time whilst not moving the camera at all, I didn't think this was that interesting as it was just looking at how different focal lengths change a photograph, however I liked the second task where we had to keep the subject in the same headspace whilst still zooming out, meaning that I had to move the camera. I think this worked really well as it meant we could see how focal length changes a person in a photograph.