Assignment 6 - Portraiture

1st shoot a portrait in full sun with a reflector.

2nd shoot a backlit portrait using natural light using no reflector. 

3rd shoot a portrait using window light. 

Canon EOS 600D

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

49mm f/5.6 1/40 ISO 800

This is my best friend Renee. We are shooting this in my living room. All blinds and doors were closed to give us as much darkness behind me as possible. The window that you see behind her, the blinds were only half open which actually bought a lot of light in. Renee is sitting on top of two bean bags which made her side inline with the window sill so we didn't have a light of dark anywhere on her face. The cloudy soft box light of the sky is coming in from the top of the window coming down onto the top of her head. 

It could almost be a back lit portrait but I don't think that it would be a good example of that. I think that in the green colour of the plants in the background in the first picture is actually distracting this is probably why I like the black and white picture better.  

In this picture she is actually taking a picture of me on her phone because she thought that my pose while taking this shot was funny so she is laughing at the picture that she is taking on her phone. I thought that this photo really portrayed her laugh and how we are around each other. I have placed the colour and black and white version because I like both versions and couldn't pick which on to put on. 

Revision workshop - studio

Separation lighting and Rim lighting 

Task 1 - Produce a Rembrandt light head and shoulders portrait with a subtly lit background. Use a grid and a coloured gel to light the background. 

Canon 60D

Canon EF 28-90mm f/4-5.6 USM

1/250 @ f/11 ISO 100
Focal Length - 90mm

We had the light set up on Georgina's right our left, high up. Her body is facing the light and her head is facing the camera. Rembrandt lighting technique is having a triangle on the opposite cheek to light source. (eg. light on right side - triangle on left cheek) The background light source had a grid on it and had a purple coloured gel attached to a clip that was 30cms away from the light so it wouldn't get to close to the heat of the light that was lighting up the background.

Task 2 - Produce a Hollywood lighting portrait with rim light as the separation lighting

Canon 60D

Canon EF 28-90mm f/4-5.6 USM

1/250 @ f/10 ISO 100
Focal length - 76mm

We have the soft box directly in front of Georgina. The Camera right below the light. Georgina is sitting on a stool facing the camera. The light that is set up in front of her is to produce a Hollywood Lighting. The light behind her head is to produce Rim lighting which makes a slight lit rim around her shoulders and head. 

Task 3: Using one light and a reflector, produce a loupe lighting portrait with a 8:1 lighting ratio. Then reshoot the portrait with a 2:1lighting ratio. shoot the portrait with short lighting. 

Canon 60D

Canon EF 28-90mm f/4-5.6 USM

1/250 @ f/13 ISO 100
Focal length - 75mm
8:1 ratio photo. Short lighting. Soft box light is on the right of Georgina. Using the light meter had to work out the 8:1 ratio. Took us a while but after moving the light and the subject a couple of times, we finally got it.

Canon 60D

Canon EF 28-90mm f/4-5.6 USM

1/250 @ f/14 ISO 100
Focal Length - 75mm
 2:1 ratio picture. Short lighting.