This was taken in my village at 5am one morning after it had first snowed. I feel that it is really interesting as it shows all different types of lighting, tungsten, sodium, halogen, and reflected light from the white snow.
After uploading your images into Lightroom, you go to the develop menu, where you can alter the tone of your image. If you slide the temperature bar all the way to the left, this makes the image COOL, whereas, if you slide it all the way to the right, this makes the image WARM. You can also see this on the Histogram. The Cool image makes it cold and full of blue tones, and lacking in reds and warm colour, whereas the opposite is true of the warm tones.
Working in groups of three, we picked a film that we knew about. We looked on the internet and recalled the film clips, and picked one of the scenes, and then we went to reconstruct a scene from our chosen film Rear Window. The scene was where James Stewart was recuperating, bored at home.
This was taken using a Soft box modifier or diffuser over the light source, which was a Bowens studio flash light. To avoid large areas of flash on reflective subjects you can raise the light source above the object which cuts down reflections.
This is an example of Halogen/Tungsten Lighting, which is around 3200 to 3400 degrees Kelvin, an gives a normal to warm glow.
This is Sodium Lighting, which you see in the street from street lamps. These give an orange cast to everything including the whites.
By using a very slow shutter speed, here I have used 1/80th of a second at f.1.4, you see that the motion of the fan becomes a blur. Very little detail can be seen as all the image blurs into one moving piece.
This photograph uses a 70mm focal length, and is the same object as the next picture, except that by using this focal length you can fill the frame with more of your subject than background, and bring the subject closer to you.
This is how I am constructing my Time Line for History of Image. I am using Adobe Photoshop CS4 to create a layered document. This allows me to import images, set them out where I want them on the page, type in text to talk about them, and ghost images into the background, by reducing the opacity levels between different layers. This is an excellent tool, as it allows you to go back and change or update your work, as long as you save it as a Photoshop Document (To PSD FILE), and not flatten the layers until you are completely happy with it. To post this on blogspot you save it as a Jpg file in 72dpi, and low resolution format.
This is how you can manage your images using Adobe Lightroom. You import your RAW file images into a folder, and then you can browse through them all at once, make changes such as exposure, change to black and white, change histograms etc etc. Once you are happy with your changes, you then export them back to a file, where you can then open with Photoshop. You manage your files in large format, 300dpi., but for posting on your blog, you save them as 72dpi, for viewing.
This is an example of 45 degree side lighting, which gives a dark shadow on the opposite side of the pineapple to the light. Here the light was on the right, casting a shadow away to the left. I took this photograph (as all the following) with my Nikon D700, with an 85mm f1.4 Prime lens. This was taken at 125th of a second, on ISO 200, and an aperture of f11. By using this type of light set up you can give your subject contrast, and highlight interesting parts.
This effect was created by blocking light that would reflect and making the light bounce downwards.
