Studio Practice

My peers and I had the task of booking out the studio and getting

to grips with using the hot lights to create different studio setups,

producing a range of photographs with various effects.

The two photographs above Have Been Taken using one hot light on the right side of the frame casting a harsh shadow on the left side of the subjects faces.

In this photograph we added a soft box over the top of an additional hot light to the left of the frame.

 The two images above show a before and after shot when using a reflector on the left side of the frame to bounce the light back to the shaded side of the face creating a softer tone.

In this photograph we used the same principle and reflected the light back to the opposing side of the subjects face.

For this photograph we placed a hot light behind the subject so that the camera could not see it and pointed it to the back of the subjects head creating a rim glow.

Keeping the rim glow we then added the lights to the front of the face to get a nicer composition.

In this photograph we placed a hot light behind the subject and faced it at the backdrop. This made the white background extra bright removing the creases in the sheet in some places.

We then moved the light to behind the backdrop and shone it through making a silhouette.

Here we used a soft box on the left side of the frame and a brolly on the right side.

Here we placed props into the scene.

To create this strong silhouette we placed a hot light pointing at the backdrop behind the subject and turned off all the lights lighting the front creating a sharp black figure.

In these images we exploited the camera, hand held and tried different angles to create different compositions. The can evoke effects of dominance or weakness respectively.

The final couple of images were shot using a fisheye to create distorted angles of the subject.