Showing posts with label lighting 102 overview. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lighting 102 overview. Show all posts

Monday, April 27, 2009

Onto Lighting 102

Well, I've read through Lighting 101 on David Hobby's strobist blog, and now I'm onto Lighting 102.
Both of which you can find here.


I think it's important to blog about this, or keep track of it somewhere. As DH says, you're more likely to keep it going, and then I'll have a reference to go back to the points that stood out for me.

Lighting 102 Light Controls Overview

1. Varying position: To create mood and dimension, move the light around depending on the look you're trying to create.
2. Varying the apparent size of the light source: Shooting through diffusers, into reflectors, etc.
3. Altering the relative intensity: balancing light with ambient, other strobes, other light sources. This one is a bit confusing for me.
4. Restricting light: Controlling where light does not go with gobos, snoots, grids, cookies, etc
5. Refraction and reflection: Zoom flash, bending light... Not sure about this one at all. Until I read this I had totally forgotten that my flash wasn't TTL anymore and that I had to set the zoom. Oops.
6. Altering the color: Got this one covered with Gels. Ordered a pack of color correction gels and special effects gels from Photogels.com
7. Time