Demo 15 Stop Action

Demo 14 Brooklyn House Day for Night

Demo 13 8 Lights

Demo 12 High Sync and 600B

Demo 11 Still Life

Demo 10 Bare Bulb and Cone Light

Demo 9 Monkey Bar Noir

For this Noir demonstration I choose the Canon speedlites for the following reasons:

1. Compact size and light weight

2. Can be used as optical slave with manual power setting.

3. A speedlite on the hot shoe of the camera can be set to not fire for illumation but still fire the other speedlites set on manual mode.

4. Small sourse of light used directly gives the noir lighting characteristics of distinct shadows and high contrast.

A good explanation of how to set the Canon flashes is here:

http://digital-photography-school.com/forum/tutorials/74480-tutorial-wireless-canon.html/

Demo 8 Monkey Bar Chiaroscuro

Demo 7 Monkey Bar Flat Lighting

This demonstration was to show how to light a large room evenly using 2 packs, 4 heads and 4 softboxes. We ended up using a bare head to light the back portion of the room and used the 4th softbox as a flag. The well oiled machine at work.

Demo 6 Various Light Shapers

Demo 5 The Use of Feathering when Photographing Groups

Feathering is taking advantage of both the characteristics of the inverse square law and the characteristic that the intensity of the light diminishes toward the edges of the light pattern given off by a particular light source. The closeness of the light to the subject, how it is placed and which direction it is pointed come into play. The light meter is valuable is determing the effectiveness of feathering. By reading the light from left to right and top to bottom then moving the light until the reading are within an acceptable range (I try for a 1/3 stop difference).

Demo 5 The Use of Feathering when Photographing Groups

The intensity of lighting not only diminishes by the distance as prescibed by the inverse square law, but also diminishes more on toward the edges of the light pattern projected by the light source. It is the use of these combined characteristic that we call feathering the light.

Demo 4 Grids

This grid demonstration shows how adding grids affects the angle of coverage of a single light. The bottom row show multiple grids added and one shows what happens when we put a 10 grid on the reflector and an additional 10 grid at the end of a 12" snoot.

Demo 3 Canon Wireless System

This demonstration was made using a Canon 1D MII and Canon 580EX II. This combination allows the use of the the External Speedlite Controls on the menu of the 5D MII all the lights can be controlled remotely from this menu.
Pros and Cons of this system:

Pros:
1. Control all lights from the back of the camera
2. No wires
3. Light weight
4. Once set can move light and camera and maintain lighting ratios.
5. Can be used outdoor in bright sunlight and at distances of up to 300 feet with Pocket Wizard Mini TT1 and Flex TT5 system.
6. Can be set manually and still triggered remotely.
7. No light readings necessary.

Cons:
1. Steep learning curve.
2. Reflective light reading can be false depending on the value of the subject.
3. Somewhat expensive.
4. Does not work well in bright sunlight.
5. Limited transmission range and angle of view.

In this 1st demonstration we used the flashs direct and A was on the left, B on the right and we added C on the background.

In the second demonstation we used a mini white translucent umbrella to shoot light through to light the subject and a 42" white umbrella to bound off of for the background light. For the image on the bottom right we used a mini beauty dish on the subject and a snoot on the background.

Demo 2 Artifical North Window Light

We created an 8'x8' light source by making a box out of foamcore books and using 4 bare Profoto heads place inside the box. We covered it with a white king size cotton bed sheet. We shot side lite and with the light behind the camera.

Demo 1 Avedon Passport Lighting

This demonstration is simple lighting with a white background. The top left photo shows the back lights only. Care was given that the background light did not hit the subject or creat a specular highlight on the side of the face. The top right photograph shows the front light only. You can see that the light falls off by the time it hits the white background and renders the backgound a dark grey. The lower left photo shows the combination of the front and background lights. The class portraits where done with this light and processed in Lightroom with B&W High Contrast Preset. In the final photograph we turned down the backlights until it read two stops under the front light.