STA 474 BLOG

Inspo Photo: Recreation: (DISCLAIMER): I tried for an hour and a half to get the red gel to show, switching between continuous and strobe lighting, but to no matter what I did I could not get the gel to be intense enough. Photo Diagram: Behind the Scenes: 

Background gel lights: Just strobe softbox: Both combined: Movement shots:

Natural light: 1st lighting setup w/ octabank:  2nd lighting setup w/ many strobes:

Best 5 photos:

To recreate this photo I know ill be using many gels, with a red backlight highlighting her hair, and an orange gel over a strobe pointing towards the backdrop.  I will also maybe include a 2 small soft-boxes with a green gel covering one and a blue gel covering the other. 

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1. f stop: 10 shutter: 1/40 ISO: 100 2.  f stop: 10 shutter: 1/100 ISO: 100 3. f stop: 10 shutter: 1/60 ISO: 100 4.  f stop: 22 shutter: 1/200 ISO: 100

Photo with Octa: Photo with Beauty Dish:

Photo 1: Photo 2:

Behind the Scenes

A.  Camera Settings: ISO: 400 Shutter Speed: 1/40 Aperture: f/5 B. Camera Settings: ISO: 400 Shutter Speed:1/160 Aperture: f/4.5 C. For both pictures, I kept in mind the Inverse Square Law, which determined the good and bad photo. For the good photo, I made sure that the light being used was far away from the subject, so that it created soft shadows. For the bad photo, I put the light directly below and in front of the model to make sure it gave hard shadows. 

Camera Data: ISO: 400 Aperture: f/4.0 Shutter Speed: 2.0 sec Behind the Scenes: