New Lighting Equipment

The media department have bought some new lighting and studio equipment. In preparation for our short film, NOVA Team, particularly Rachel, our chosen photographer, has been experimenting with the new toys. We tried using numerous filters, including a red one and two others which weren't coloured, but fragmented and faded the light.

Emily, our model.

Rachel also used a desaturation effect while taking some of the photos.This is an example of the desaturated image. The aim of this experimental photo shoot was to test out idea we have for our future film poster. In this image, Emily's face is highly lit and her facial features are clear, rather than shadowed which is what would have happened in natural light. 
Though I cannot image why we desaturate an image to this level in our actual poster, I could see a little desaturation being used to remove and ultra bright colours.

The image to the left has been captured by lowering the shutter speed and changing the camera settings to portrait. This means it has had time to capture all the light and the movement. We particularly like the effect it gave. We could see our film poster involving a similar type of effect, as the trails of like remind us of the movement of time. The image on the right is me. It too has been captured at a low shutter speed, except I sat still in the dark while a light was waved behind my head. It was also quickly flashed on my face to light it too. Apart from looking rather professional, its given a really cool effect, which we could combine with the previous one. If we had two models, one could stay still while the other slowly walked around. This would show how one moves around in time as the other watches. We could also do something cool with the lights if we could justify it. 

This image is just of the set-up. As you can hopefully see, we have 1 screen and 3 lights. We used one light with a filter and one with an umbrella to bounce the light  The third light had no other. We turned off the room lights, only using these lights to illuminated the model.







Rachel really likes the image on the left. The light bounces off her eyes and face, leaving a slight shadow on the side of her face. This is effective and quite flattering. 

The reason these images may be blurred is due to us not being familiar with the cameras used. Me and Rachel both have our own cameras which we know well and will hopefully utilise well when doing our actual shoots.




- RM (Edited by BW)