Saturday, June 20, 2009

Lighting Ratios

Good Photography Discussion on an approach to lighting a subject. <Strobist>

Photographer approach to location lighting <joeMcNally>

Understanding Lighting Ratios <vividlight.com>

Lighting Ratios for Portraiture <cameradojo>

Lighting Ratios and Incident Metering Demystified <Super.Nova.Org>

Manual Flash Lighting Ratios <Super.Nova.Org>

Inverse Square Law & Guide Numbers

In physics, an inverse-square law is any physical law stating that some physical quantity or strength is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source of that physical quantity. <wikipedia>

Lightsource Intensity =1 / Distance squared

The Inverse Square Law defines the level of light from a fixed light source relative to the distance from the light source.

If the Light Source produces an output of light equal to X at a distance from light source to subject Y, at a lightsource to subject distance two times (twice) Y, the Light Source output will be equal to 1/4 of X.

Inverse Square Law <Geoff Lawrence Photography Tutorials>

Inverse Square Law and Guide Numbers <portraitlighting.net>

Interesting article on AlienBees by W.A. "John" Johnson

Calculating Range of Guide Numbers article

Giude Numbers = Flash-to-subject distance * f/stop
At 10 feet:
f * 10 = GN
f/8 * 10 = 80


Thursday, June 11, 2009

Class Notes: Reference for Reading Assignments in Book

PHOTOGRAPHIC LIGHTING 4th Edition John Child & Mark Galer

CLASS 1 Intro to Light (pages 1-21) Chap. Introduction + Characteristics of Light

CLASS 2 Lighting 101 (pages 33-72) Exposure & Light Meters + Contrast & Compensation

CLASS 3 ReView White Lightning  (pages 89 - 104) Color Correction & Filtration

CLASS 4 Field Trip

CLASS 5 Still Life Solid Object  (pages 145 - 161) Studio Lighting

CLASS 6 Still Life Transparent Object

CLASS 7 Environmental Portrait (pages 109 - 125) Lighting on Location

CLASS 8 Painting with Light

CLASS 9 White Background 

CLASS 10 Projects

CLASS 11 Hot Shoe Flash Photography (www.strobist.com)

CLASS 12 Business of Photography (www.asmp.org)

CLASS 13 Final Projects Due