We had a world renowned photographer Joe Lavine for our studio lighting. You've seen his work before I'm sure. You can find it on ever hamburger helper box! He is a serious food photographer specialist and a master with his studio techniques. Too bad our class and him didn't get along so great, but all differences aside, here is some of my work:
First we just worked with the lights.
We shortly moved onto people with Traditional portraiture. Thanks Rich for being my first model. Here we tried the primary lighting techniques. Side lighting, split lighting, Rembrandt lighting and some others whose technical terms...may be evading me without my notes.
Then we moved onto Contemporary Portraiture and I got to work with "Uncle" Scott! He's from Hawaii, so we played with that a little bit:
Then we had a trickiest challenge...reflective metal and clear glass. This is really tricky because of the potential for reflections and unwanted highlights. For the spoon, we created a scrim tent and light it from above with a softbox. The elephant was a bit trickier. Put on a black felt base and backboard, we lit two hard light reflectors behind the backboard and used those highlights to pull out the shape and definition of the object.
Then we moved our studio lights outside and worked with groups. Using a softbox and the sun for ambient light, we found a location and feathered the fluorescent so the light was distributed evenly.
Finally, our last class in studio was working with a model of our own choice on our own terms. I just wanted to have some more fun with contemporary portraits and here they are:
Kristin was lit solely with the Octalight in the second two, in the first she is lit with an Octalight and a rear hair light. Thanks Kristin for being such a good sport.
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