Workshop 2

In this workshop we did some revision on lighting styles and were shown a few different lighting kits, such as using flash guns or Moby kits. We shot two different lighting styles Rembrandt and hollywood but had to reshoot Rembrandt because we used the same camera body.


Shot 1 - Rembrandt using flash guns



I found the flash guns to be great almost a good as using the mono blocs but because we were using bad batteries the recycling speed was very slow making the process slower.


Shot 2 - Hollywood lighting using mono blocs



Mono Blocs are great as the are very powerful, They are defiantly on my list to purchase in the near future.

Explain what you think the best attribute a photographer needs to be a successful business person.

I believe they need good work ethics also good people skills but most of all they need the skills to be a photographer.

Workshop 1

Our first Location lesson of the year was a bit of revision on the 35mm camera DSLR and some colour balance theories. I believe that the white balance theories do not suit my style of shooting as i like to see my image as close a possible to the final output on my camera LCD. I use preset white balances NOT AUTO to achieve this. I also believe always having your white balance set to daylight is incorrect as this would be very inappropriate in a studio situation but i see the point for some people as they may like to do all colour balance settings in editing.

Next week
Revision on Mono-blocs, Mobilities, Portable fill Flash and IR triggering

Inferred trigging can be used to set of external flashes using an inferred signal, This can used with transmitters and in cannon 580 flash gun. Some flashes can also be slaved from other flashes e.g. NIKON. The disadvantage to this is that the inferred signal has to be seen by the transmitter, this can be difficult.

Mono blocs are good because the are alot more powerful than the portable flash guns but can be hard to lag around on location.