Monday 3rd October

whooo back to school after a two week break. It is good to be back I didn't get much photography practice done in the holidays as I would have liked I went to the zoo with stephanie, crystal and samantha I was planning to do lots there for practice but it did rain all day and I didn't want my camera to get wet so I left it in its bag, we also went on a trip with dorothy so she can get her own DSLR camera. but I forgot my camera for that as well. Other wise we were busy most of the holidays and inbetween i was catching up on some sleep.

But for class today we are looking more into lighting and how to use it, and lighting equipment, such as diffusers and reflectors.

we had a look at some lighting tools online to see how to set up lighting.

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/portrait-lighting.htm

http://www.photomatters.org/light

We had a look at many examples in class about lighting. These are some screenshots from blinkblog, blog. 

We then were set a task: 

For my black on black i used a camera bag with a black back drop, For each shot I took for this I changed the exposure to darker each time to see what it would look like almost indiscernable. 

This was the best I could think of for white on white to start with, Stephanie volunteered her hands for this. 

Direct

Reflected.

Diffused 

In the afternoon we were back in the computer suites looking at more photoshop things to do. We had a look at blending photos and making actions. i was pretty groggy by the afternoon so i was being pretty slow and by the time it came to creating actions i was still trying to blend two photos and I ended up using google to help me out with the blending as well.