Assignment 5: Portraits

Top row: Background Light (L) Fill Light (R)
Bottom row: Key Light (L) Three Lights Combined (R)
Model: Ryan Herzog

Background Light

Fill Light

Key Light

Three Point Light

Freestyle
Model: Ryan Herzog

Freestyle Cat
Model: Jaclyn Sands

Assignment 4: Capturing the Sides of Hana

Soft and gentle, much like the flattering diffused light that cascades upon her. The light was placed directly in front of the model in order to get an even cast of light. A Rosco Tough Spun diffusion filter was used. The Inverse Square Law can be applied to this photo when seeing how brightly lit the subject is as she was positioned close to the light source. 

Dark. Edgy. Mysterious. This girl has two sides, but neither of them are good. She likes the side directed light to hide half her face, and she doesn't care about all of the imperfections captured under hard the light. The law of light that states that light travels in a straight line is demonstrated in this photo because the light source is on the side of the model's face and that side is the only illuminated side. 

Assignment 3: Three Laws of Light

Three Laws of Light

• Light Travels in a Straight Line
• Angle of Incidence = the Angle of Reflection
• Inverse Square Law

Assignment 2: Inverse Square Law

Card distances from light: 2'/4'6"/12'

Setup

My understanding of the Inverse Square Law is that the intensity of light cast upon a subject falls as the distance between the source of light and the subject increases. With this in mind, our group set up the three cards from darkest to lightest. The black card would have the highest light intensity, so it would appear lighter in the photo. The white card in the back would have the least light cast upon it, so it would appear darker in the photo.