Demo 15 Night for Day

The stradegy was to use the power of the strobe to over power the ambient light and the use color to say night. One light on the outside was used to shine the light through the neighbor's tree and give the outside of the house a dappled moon light effect. The camera was set on tungsten white balance so that the strobe light would appear blue. 3 strobes were used on the inside of the house. Each light had 2 layers of tungsten conversion gel. The 1st layer makes the strobe match the tungsten setting on the camera. The 2nd gel makes the light look like tungsten light on daylight color balance.

Production Stills by Lauraberth Lima

Demo 14 Pocket Wizard TT5 and Profoto 600B

To demonstrate the range of the Pocket Wizard TT5 on both TTL and Hi Sync. Note the shutter speed of 1/4000 of a second. Amazing!!

Look under Links of Interest for Pocket Wizard TT5 and Hi Sync. There are some excellent videos that helps explain how all this technology works.


The light weight and powerful Profoto 600B in action.






Production Stills by Pacifico Silano and Mike Lin

Demo 13 ND filter and Weather Balloon

We talked about using the Pocket Wizard II to trigger the camera and then using the same pocket wizard on the camera's hot shoe to go into relay mode to fire a flash. Page 8 of the Pocket Wizard II manual explains the setting and cabling. The weather balloons came from here: http://www.scientificsonline.com/professional-weather-balloon.html Production stills by Brandon Holmes

Demo 12 8 Light

8 Light Portraits with Backgrounds

Production Stills by Ryan Koopmans

Demo 11 Still Life with Tilt Shift Lens

The 90mm Canon Tilt Shift lens is good for controlling the depth of field. The lower left example is with the lens shifted to exaggerate a shallow depth of field. The rest of the examples have the lens was shifted to increase the depth of field. I had a picture of a blue sky that I used as a background in the final still life. Since I had shot the still life in two parts I was able to use the shlhouette layer as a mask for the sky background. Production stills by Jeremy Haik

Demo 10 Monkey Bar Noir

Production Stills by Pacifico Silano

Demo 9 Monkey Bar Chiaroscuro

Production Still by Michael Lin

Demo 8 Monkey Bar Flat Light

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Production Stills by Kika Espejo

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Demo 7 Jail House Light

Images from City of Shadows: Sydney Police Photographs 1912-1948 appear on the French Website http://www.laboiteverte.fr/portraits-de-criminels-australiens-dans-les-annees-1920/ and inspired this week demo.



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Production Stills by Elli Chung

Demo 6 Bare Bulb

In this demonstration we used a single bare bulb (Profoto head pointed up and no reflector). We didn't move the light, subject or the camera. With the use of the white walls, the black curtains, an 8'x8' white reflector, a small gobo (flag), and a shiney silver card we were able to adjust the lighting dramatically. No fancy light modifiers were used either.

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Demo 5 Feathering

The idea of feathering is to combat the effects of the inverse square law. A common use of this technique is for a side lit group portrait. By pointing a light source away from the nearest person, the farthest person sees more of the light sources surface that the person closet to it. By angling the light source in the right balance you can achieve a fairly consistent light reading across the group. In this demonstration we used 4 small soft boxes to make up our light source. We then were able to give twice as much power to the two soft boxes furthest away from the background and therefore increasing the amount of light hitting the people on the far side of the photograph.





In the series below, the top two images used feathering up to point more light at Michael and less at Rachel. The face of the Octabank and the Beauty Dish where 4 feet away and the feathering worked. In the bottom two images we moved both lights back to 15 feet which evened out the fall off due to the inverse square law. The quality of the light changed because each light source became effectively smaller.

Demo 4 Various Light Shapers

There were no adjustments to these images except for slight exposure modifications. The contrast differances are due to the light shaper used.

Demo 3 Canon Wireless System

Demo 2 Artifical North Window Light

Demo 1 Mattias Clamer