Lit by Phipps Spring 2014: 2014

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Assignment 11: Q-Flash

Q-Flash on Camera with White V-Board

ISO 100
1/125sec @f16
Flash set to TTL

Q-Flash on Camera with BlackV-Board

ISO 100
1/125sec @f16
Flash set to TTL

Both of the above photographs were taken with the same position of light and camera settings. The only difference is V-Board color.

[INSERT LIGHTING DIAGRAM]

Q-flash with White V-Board

ISO 100
1/125sec @f16
Flash set to TTL

Q-flash with White V-Board

ISO 100
1/125sec @f16
Flash set to TTL

Assigment 10: RE-DO Pop-Star Protrait

The Second Attempt

ISO 50

125 sec @ 7.1

Also tried moving the lights to the same side as blue one above to create one shadow and also failed.

Monday, March 31, 2014

Assignment 9: American Apparel Ad

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Assignment 8: Alice Beck-Odette Portrait

ALICE BECK-ODETTE

"Its never to late to be a virgin"

-Alice

PORTRAIT TO EMULATE

BACK LIGHT F14

FILL LIGHT F5.6

LIGHTING DIAGRAM

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Assignment 7: Pop-Star Portrait

Bruno Mars for "The New Yorker" photograph by Sebastain Kim

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Assignment 6: 1920's Portrait

Replicated Light

Set-up

Reflector: angled slightly on subject and shadow

Large Softbox: over camera

Power 120V Settings:

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

A grey backdrop was used instead of a white backdrop. The size of the umbrellas I used also varied. I had one medium umbrella on the right and one large umbrella on the left. The strobe heads pointed straight and the center to the umbrella came up to the subjects head. A beauty dish was placed about 9ft up and pointed slightly down at an angle. I did not use v-flats as depicted below.

The Replication was based on these photographs from the behind the scenes photographs:

Photo by Kira Pollack

The New York Times - Obama's People by Nadav Kander http://www.nadavkander.com

According to Creative Review, Kandar's project was inspired by the work of Richard Avedon, from 1976, which featured 73 portraits of powerful people and was published in Rolling Stone magazine.

David Axelrod, Senior Advisor

Mona Stuphen, Deputy White House Chief of Staff

Ken Salazar, Interior Secretary

Diagram:

After evaluating the diagram, before shooting, we discussed using a ring flash to achieve the shadow around the subject and using a strobe to light the face.

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Assignment 4: Green Screen

GREEN SCREEN: Lighting for Compositing

PRODUCTION:

LIGHTING DIAGRAM:

Assignment 3: Commercial Still Life of a Toilet Seat

Photograph to Emulate:

I wanted to photograph my toilette seat with even lighting like above and as a part of a sculpture using the same lighting. Below is the original plan I had in mind: