Here’s another set of big pictures in the wild.
I’ve done another set of images but they’ll not be seen ’till next Xmas (always thinking ahead!) but in this case let’s have a look at how using different types of lighting can have an impact on how images are created.
There’s lots of types of lighting and I’m not going to list them all but let’s look at two examples that were used on the job above:
The “lighting” is always decided on what the job/image requires and the first thing I look at is the natural/ambient lighting. This is whatever is in front of you, the sun outside or inside of a building or whatever lights are inside a room. It is possible to use these to your advantage but as a professional photographer/film maker you need to be able to control whatever is there and also add your own. Thats what image creation is all about!
In the first image, its in the planetorium, so a different way of working was used for this image. Flash would require a bit more time to set up and I thought a quicker way of working in order to catch the expression on the models faces. I set up two LED battery lights, this made the mood/ambience of the image easier to control, one a small spot light top-right with a lilac filter and a small panel light on the floor bottom-right with a green filter. These coloured filters would add a bit of drama and would key in the image to the space vibe and the art guys could strip in an appropriate space image above. Camera on this one was a Nikon D4 with 28mm f1.8 G lens. I knew I could get a clean Ei1600 image out of the camera which made using the low powered LED lights possible.
The second image is a bit of a different way of working, because of the nature of the activity. Flash would freeze the models and this was the prefered way of lighting this time, an ambient light reading was around 1/40th sec at f2.8 Ei 320. I decided to use a Godox 360 flash to output an F stop reading at f4 top left so it’s one stop brighter than the ambient reading, I also had a quarter warm filter on the flash so it would blend in with the ambient lighting. The position of the light was critical so no shadows would be cast across the faces of the models as the focus of the shot was families having a great time. Camera on this one was a Nikon D800e with again 28mm f1.8 G lens. I knew I could get a large clean file at Ei320.
So same job, two different ways of using lighting, sorry about my poor drawing skills but I’m known for my photography not my illustrations, haha!!
Seeya mb
