Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Using available light & differences of lighting settings on a DSLR

On 14/10/09 Andrew Farrington set up various sets within the photography studio to demonstrate how natural light falls on a subject and to show the differences when taking a photograph using a different colour balance on a DSLR. Unfortunately to date oneself does not own a DSLR camera (as yet!) so I therefore teamed up with Gemma McAuley and below are the pictures obtained from the demonstration and notes taken from the lecture;

Set 1 - Lighting via a window on the subjects left hand side (the photographers right)
DSLR set at 1/125, F4.5 @ 400ISO DSLR set at 1/125, F5.6 @ 800ISO
White Balance Tungsten (Incandescent) Tungsten
Set 2 - Lighting via a window on the subjects left hand side (the photographers right) with a reflector on the subjects right (photographer's left hand side)
DSLR set at 1/125, F5.6 @ 800ISO

White Balance (Daylight)


Set 3 - Lighting via a window behind the subject using reflectors in front as shown below:
DSLR set at 1/125, F5.6 @ 800ISO
White Balance

Lighting via a window behind the subject (No reflectors)
DSLR set at 1/125, F5.6 @ 800ISO

White Balance

Set 4 - Lighting via a window 'Above' the subject
DSLR set at 1/125, F5.6 @ 800ISO

Camera pointing down Camera pointing straight
White Balance White Balance

Camera pointing down Camera pointing down
Shady Cloudy

Set 5 - Lighting using a 5500K Fluorescent daylight tube on the right hand side of the subject ( the photographers left)
DSLR set at 1/125, F5.6 @ 800ISO

Tungsten Shady Cloudy

Set 6 - Lighting using a 5500K Fluorescent daylight tube under the subjects face
DSLR set at 1/125, F5.6 @ 800ISO

Cloudy




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