Wednesday, 8 May 2013

Week reflection(07 may-08 may)


This week we looked into making our own cheap light modifiers. We used a piece of flyway and folded it into a rectangle and we taped it together and onto the flashgun. It worked well and only took a minute or to. It worked just like a normal one but its cheaper. We looked into tilt and shift on photoshop which is where you can change the focus of an image. So you can do diagnol lines in focus and blur out the rest. We were looking into tilt and shift lenses which cost an awful ot but seem interesting. We looked into the advantages and disadvantages of studio lighting and speedlights. Basically the speedlights can stay cool however studuio flash can get really hot. There is no wires on speedlights like there is on studio lighting plus speedlights are small meaning they are more portable. However studio flash has a fast recycle time which is good for quick photoshoots. Speedlights have slave modes built in which is really handy when on location. With a speedlight it is much safer as it wont fall over and hit someone light big bulky studio lights can. Another issue with speedlights is that they take up a lot of batterys which over time could be quite a cost so you always need to carry spares around with you incase the ones you are using go dead. We also figured out about different sized soft boxes and how it doesn’t really mean it changes the scale of the light, it just changes the softness. 

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