Sunday, November 29, 2009
JRN 420 In- Class Bounce Flash
Spending the class experimenting with bounce flash was fun and I learned a bunch of things. First of all, you can bounce off of just about anything: ceiling, walls, posters, tile, and...the inside of an elevator. I learned that the subject should not be able to see the flash of the strobe, otherwise it ends in flat light. Bounce flash works best where it is needed: i.e. use bounce flash where there is not a ton of ambient or natural light. Bouncing off of colored objects will act as a gel for your strobe. Also, be sure your strobe is on the correct ISO, that it is at a wide aperture, and that it is zoomed in all the way.
Monday, November 16, 2009
JRN 420 Editorial Illustration
I realized that coming up with good ideas wasn't the problem, it was seeing how to visualize it and make it so everyone else could understand what the message was.
I shot both at home and in the studio; studio as always with the technical problem of the hot shoe adapter no being in room or either cabinet, and the rim light refusing to work 68% of the time. Hahha, bad luck.
I am not sure which I like better. I think the first one.
NO TIME BUT COFFEE TIME.
Rebecca Crawford, Editorial Illustration, F 9, Shutter 1/200, ISO 100.
NO TIME LEFT BUT COFFEE TIME.
With long hours and crazy schedules, people feel like there is no time between morning and midnight. It is almost like the days just flow one into the other and we have too many things on our lap to handle. To stretch the day out and sleep for less, people drink excessive amounts of coffee around the clock, leaving no time left but coffee time.
This illustration was shot with an umbrella front left of the subject and a white reflector left of his left arm, into which a strobe was bounced to aid soft fill light. In Photoshop, the clock's numbers were erased, smudged, and the number 12 was added and blended in to give the feel that the clock measures tiny days not hours.
Rebecca Crawford, Photo Illustration, F 25, Shutter 1/200, ISO 1600.
NO TIME LEFT BUT COFFE TIME.
With faced paced lives it come sometimes feel like there isn't any time in a day. Coffee and caffeine are used in excess to stretch out the hours, but when you crash, all you've done is had coffee time.
This illustration was created with a main light to right, a rim to the back, and a fill back left. The clock's numbers were Photoshopped out and the the faint image of a coffee cup was placed on the clock.
Lighting
I shot both at home and in the studio; studio as always with the technical problem of the hot shoe adapter no being in room or either cabinet, and the rim light refusing to work 68% of the time. Hahha, bad luck.
I am not sure which I like better. I think the first one.
NO TIME BUT COFFEE TIME.
Rebecca Crawford, Editorial Illustration, F 9, Shutter 1/200, ISO 100.
NO TIME LEFT BUT COFFEE TIME.
With long hours and crazy schedules, people feel like there is no time between morning and midnight. It is almost like the days just flow one into the other and we have too many things on our lap to handle. To stretch the day out and sleep for less, people drink excessive amounts of coffee around the clock, leaving no time left but coffee time.
This illustration was shot with an umbrella front left of the subject and a white reflector left of his left arm, into which a strobe was bounced to aid soft fill light. In Photoshop, the clock's numbers were erased, smudged, and the number 12 was added and blended in to give the feel that the clock measures tiny days not hours.
Rebecca Crawford, Photo Illustration, F 25, Shutter 1/200, ISO 1600.
NO TIME LEFT BUT COFFE TIME.
With faced paced lives it come sometimes feel like there isn't any time in a day. Coffee and caffeine are used in excess to stretch out the hours, but when you crash, all you've done is had coffee time.
This illustration was created with a main light to right, a rim to the back, and a fill back left. The clock's numbers were Photoshopped out and the the faint image of a coffee cup was placed on the clock.
Lighting
Monday, November 2, 2009
JRN 420 Fashion Assignment
Going into this project I wasn't the most excited about shooting fashion, since... I have no sense of what is fashionable. It was amusing to be photography people in dressy, flashy clothes while I was in my usual flats n sweatshirt. Once I started shooting I had a lot of fun!
Rebecca Crawford, Fashion, F 4.5, Shutter 1/160, ISO 100.
Brooke Blanchard, 23, of Petoskey shows off her favorite style for Fall before going for a walk with her poodle. Blanchard believes that style is not only about what looks good, but what is also comfortable and allows her to be on the move.
For this shot I used a dome diffuser on a strobe set just right of the model, close to her, a little above eye level with an umbrella for the main light, and a strobe fired above eye level from the left side to fill in shadows.
Rebecca Crawford, Fashion, F 22, Shutter 1/200, ISO 1600.
Kristen Williams, 21, and Mike Stefonik, 25, show off their sexy relaxed style. Both Williams and Stefonik are involved in theater and are use to having to feel confident in whatever they wear. Unlike Williams, Stefonik usually is shirtless with animal print under garments of some sort.
For this shot I had the dome diffuser firing full power into an umbrella set behind them to the right and a strobe as a fill light aimed at them from a few few away in front of them on the left. My camera for some reason I still don't know changes back to Iso 1600, even though it says its manually set at 100
I also liked this one but couldn't really decide it is was fashion.
Lighting Setups
Rebecca Crawford, Fashion, F 4.5, Shutter 1/160, ISO 100.
Brooke Blanchard, 23, of Petoskey shows off her favorite style for Fall before going for a walk with her poodle. Blanchard believes that style is not only about what looks good, but what is also comfortable and allows her to be on the move.
For this shot I used a dome diffuser on a strobe set just right of the model, close to her, a little above eye level with an umbrella for the main light, and a strobe fired above eye level from the left side to fill in shadows.
Rebecca Crawford, Fashion, F 22, Shutter 1/200, ISO 1600.
Kristen Williams, 21, and Mike Stefonik, 25, show off their sexy relaxed style. Both Williams and Stefonik are involved in theater and are use to having to feel confident in whatever they wear. Unlike Williams, Stefonik usually is shirtless with animal print under garments of some sort.
For this shot I had the dome diffuser firing full power into an umbrella set behind them to the right and a strobe as a fill light aimed at them from a few few away in front of them on the left. My camera for some reason I still don't know changes back to Iso 1600, even though it says its manually set at 100
I also liked this one but couldn't really decide it is was fashion.
Lighting Setups
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