Denise certificate in photography: Week 7: CAMERA USE STUDIO GELS & Artist

CAMERA USE WEEK 7 ........ STUDIO GELS

Gels are thin polycarbonate or polyester that project colour when placed in front of lighting fixtures .

In todays exercise we chose purple/red and blue Gels.

I must mention my camera would not function so I borrowed a camera off Ralph . Thanks

EXERCISE..1

As a group choose two lighting set-ups.
The lighting should be similar to the image but does not have to be exact.

We chose 2 images to copy but we ran out of time and only completed one of them. We had lots of fun and the images were beautiful. It takes a lot of time positioning the lights, to get the right light and reading the light meter and not to forget to mention the model. A lot is involved something I had never thought of or imagined. The amount of work that goes into studio shots is amazing. I certainly appreciate the work involved now.

This is the picture we chose.

Our lighting set up was similar but we ended up having to move our red coloured Gel back light behind our models. We were continuously moving our lights around to get the shots we wanted.

Camera settings 2 spots under exposed Keylight F11
Positioning Lights

• Light Metering
• Key light 5.00
• Fill light Blue Background
light 5.6
• Fill light Orange light
half light
• Back light Pink Background
light 5.0

Subject incorrect colours.
Changes to the lighting position Gels and Light Metering.

I asked Karen if I could use these notes of hers so that I could learn from them .
Karen wrote these down . Good one Karen !

Positioning 4# Lights

• Light Metering
• Key light 5.00 OFF
• Fill Light Blue Background
light 4.9
• Fill Light Green light
half light
• Background Light Red light
4.0

The Green light highlights where overpowered by the Red light and Blue light.

Stephanie and Tracey were our Super Models

f/11 1/125 ISO 100
This is an under exposed by 2 stops image but I do like it opposed to the over exposed. You can see the blue Gel shinning on the back of Stephanies hair and the opposite side the beautiful purple Gel.

f/11 1/125 ISO 100
This is the same shot as above but I went into camera raw and just did auto exposure, contrast, highlights etc. I prefer the under exposed shots but thought I would show both so I could look at the two types.

f/11 1/125 ISO 100
The purple and red light are beautiful in the background with the contrast of the blue shinning on her hair.

f/11 1/125 ISO 100

Another Auto focus Im still liking the under exposed images better .

f/11 1/125 IS0 100
This shot is showing a total halving of the colours on Stephanies face and body. Not a great in focus shot but I was able to show the 2 colours on our her.

f/11 1/125 ISO 100

Totally not in focus but a soft shot of Stephanie with the lighting.

Our second model Tracey

We had doubled up on our back light with 2 different Gels. We had red and purple.

f/11 1/100 ISO 100

Again two shots the same but the bottom image has been auto adjusted in camera raw. To give an example of the over exposed look showing the brighter colours much brighter.

f/11 1/100 ISO 100
This is an example image brightened up on camera raw.

f/11 1/100 ISO 100
The colours are just divine. The blue gel is slightly lighting the back of her hair.

f/11 1/100 ISO 100

I like this image as being under exposed. The colour gels are hitting Tracey in all areas and are high lighting her stripped top. I have some great shadows going around Tracey's arms and her side . This is a great combination of Gels and Split lighting.

f/11 1/100 ISO 100
I decided to add this shot in because I like it. It was just a shot I took as Tracey was waiting for us to get organised. I like it because you can see the 2 different colours running off from her feet. Its not in focus which is disappointing but I just felt it was worth displaying. I did play around in Camera raw

f/11 1/125 ISO 1600

This shot is of Taitiana modelling . I took this shot without a flash. I try to keep up with what we are doing. Its not in focus and very under exposed but interesting.

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STUDIO : CHIAROSCURO, REMBRANDT & LOOP LIGHTING.

My Artists that I researched for this exercise was Shigeyuki Kihara and Paolo Roversi.

Shigeyuki Kihara was born in Samoa 1975 and raised in Japan before coming to New Zealand at the age of 16 to study at Massey University. Her father is Japanese and her mother is Samoan. She happily expresses herself as a Fa"a famine..( A Samoan who is born physically male, gifted with the spirit of a woman and a man).

She is a contemporary artist and the first New Zealander to hold a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Titled Shigeyuki Kihara: Living Photographs.

A very popular Exhibition of hers was Assume Nothing. She had an exceptionally beautiful solo performance entitled Taualuga; the last dance. The shadow behind her as she danced was amazing !

Her work can be found at Te Papa, Auckland Art Gallery, The University of Auckland Art Collection.

I would say this was a split lighting image one side of her face is in the light the other in the shadow.

Beautiful work and an amazing person .

PAOLO ROVERSI.....

Italian born in Ravenna in 1947 he enjoyed photography as a teenager and whilst holidaying in Spain in 1964 he ignited his passion for photography. Back home he set up a darkroom in a cellar with another amateur and began developing and printing his own black and white work.

Paolo Roversi

He spent many hours with a local professional photographer Nevio Natali. In 1971 , he met by chance in Ravenna , Peter Knapp, the legendary Art Director of Elle magazine. At Knapps invitation, Rovers visited Paris in November 1973 and has never left.

In 1974 Laurence Sackman a British photographer took Roversi on as his assistant he lasted 9 months before starting on his own with odd jobs for magazines like Elle and Depeche Mode until Marie Claire published his first major fashion story.

Now today he is one of the worlds most influential fashion photographer, working exclusively with the 10x8 Polaroid format.

His photographs are of well known film stars/ fashion models absolutely beautiful photos. I find for myself his photos truly capture everything we learned in week 7.
It was so hard to choose my examples I could of gone on and on choosing dozens of images.

His images were used for Vogue Italia , wow what an amazing photographer.

The Butterfly Lighting

A soft effect of the Butterfly Lighting

Again a classic example of the Butterfly Lighting

The Rembrant Lighting effect.

This really shows the Rembrandt lighting effect I love this image.

Again another beautiful Rembrandt lighting image

Loop lighting images. PAOLA ROVERSI

When I look at these pictures I understand when they explain more subtle and more hard photos. My photos of Stephanie with the loop lighting were quite hard compared to these. A good difference to learn by.