Assignment 8 / Outdoor Flash

1. Make a portrait where the person’s face and the background are the same exposure.

2. Make a portrait where the person’s face is exposed one stop under and the background is normally exposed.     Drop the power of the strobe by one stop keeping the f stop the same.

3. Make a portrait where the person’s face is normally exposed and the background is one stop under.

4. Make a portrait where the person’s face is normally exposed and the background is two stops under.

Print your f stop and shutter speeds.

Upper Left: F/8 ISO 160 1/25sec.

Upper Right: F/8 ISO 160 1/25sec.

Lower Left: F/8 ISO 160 1/50sec.

Lower Right: F/8 ISO 160 1/100sec.

Assignment 7 / Strobe and Continuous Light

Set the camera on Strobe light balance.

Photograph a person with just the strobe light on the person

Photograph a person with just the tungsten light on the background

Photograph a person using strobe on the person and tungsten

on the background combined.

Try some with motion.

Set the camera on Tungsten light balance.

Photograph a person with just the strobe light on the background

Photograph a person with just the tungsten light on the person

Photograph a person using strobe on the background and tungsten
on the person combined.

Try some with motion.

Assignment 6 / Size Matters !

Take two portraits of a person one with the 21" Beauty Dish and one with the Octabank and get the same results by using the placement of the subject, the light and the background. Look at results from class demonstration for ideas.

The Beauty Dish
1/160 Sec.
F/18
ISO 160

Octabank
1/160 Sec.
F/7.1
ISO 160

One Strobe / One SoftBox

1) Using one strobe with a softbox, light a person against a white background so that their face has a highlight and shadow side. The background should appear darker on the highlight side and the lighter on the shadow side.

2) Using one strobe with a softbox, light a person against a white background so that their face is evenly lit and the background is black.