18.06.2012
TAOP
Assignment 4. 2nd Submission.
Applying Lighting Techniques.
For the first four pictures I have used photographic lighting employing two radio controlled flash guns fitted with soft boxes. The crane and camera positions were not changed. My aim was to change the lighting to bring about the desired effects
SHAPE. I lit the crane from behind and to the right with a single strobe. I avoided flare by using a rim light effect having the flash head out of line of sight from the camera. This has given a silhouette effect with very little modelling. It is so flat it is difficult to see which way the jib is pointing.
FORM. I have used two strobes for this image. The first is as in the silhouette picture but with a second at camera level and to the camera's left. The flat surfaces catch the light in different ways giving it depth and a feeling of being a 3d object.
TEXTURE. For this image I removed the rear strobe so there was no fill in from the back.
I moved the front strobe further to the left of sharpen the shadows. The result has picked out the patterns on the jib and the engine bay quite neatly and for the first time the gearing under the cab is seen in some detail.
COLOUR. This called for flat full on lighting so I mounted the strobes close into and either side of the camera. The effect was to flatten out all the detail and highlight the colour.
TAOP
Assignment 4. 2nd Submission.
Applying Lighting Techniques.
For the first four pictures I have used photographic lighting employing two radio controlled flash guns fitted with soft boxes. The crane and camera positions were not changed. My aim was to change the lighting to bring about the desired effects
SHAPE. I lit the crane from behind and to the right with a single strobe. I avoided flare by using a rim light effect having the flash head out of line of sight from the camera. This has given a silhouette effect with very little modelling. It is so flat it is difficult to see which way the jib is pointing.
FORM. I have used two strobes for this image. The first is as in the silhouette picture but with a second at camera level and to the camera's left. The flat surfaces catch the light in different ways giving it depth and a feeling of being a 3d object.
TEXTURE. For this image I removed the rear strobe so there was no fill in from the back.
I moved the front strobe further to the left of sharpen the shadows. The result has picked out the patterns on the jib and the engine bay quite neatly and for the first time the gearing under the cab is seen in some detail.
COLOUR. This called for flat full on lighting so I mounted the strobes close into and either side of the camera. The effect was to flatten out all the detail and highlight the colour.
For the second group of images I used sunlight.
SHAPE. I used the transparent disc from my Interfit reflector, backlit by the sun, as my background and set the crane in front of it. This threw the crane into silhouette and emphasised the shape rather than any other quality.
FORM. I set the crane up in such a way that the jib was pointing sharply up in such a way as to emphasise its height. I angled it to the light so as to give good modelling.
TEXTURE. To highlight the texture I set the crane up with the jib pointing very close to the sun and then photographing it from about 90* to the sun. This emphasised the shadows on the jib and showed up its texture.
COLOUR. This was the easiest one. The green background highlighted the red of the crane. I took the image with the sun coming over my left shoulder and giving maximum flat lighting.
I found this exercise was far easier when I had full control of the lighting and could move the sources around. Working with the sun took a lot more thought and, with the exception of the last colour shot, the results were not as good.
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