Week #1: Window Lighting
The purpose of this week's assignment is to learn to turn off the flash during the day indoors...if possible! Look around your house for already existing light. One good place to start is near the windows. Place your subject facing the window or to the side of the window. There are a few things to remember before taking any picture.
1. Remove any clutter from the background. You don't want anyone's eye to be draw to what is laying around in the other parts of the picture.
2. Get in close. Step back and zoom in if you can. This will help blur your background and give it a more professional look.
3. Get down on their level. Unless it is the look you want, the lense should be at eye level with your subject.
4. Don't be afraid to take LOTS of pictures.
In order to see the difference between a picture taken with the flash and one without, do the following:
1. Take several pictures without the flash on. You might need to put your camera on a tripod, a table, or anything that will help you steady your camera.
2. Take a "fill" flash picture. Turn on your flash and take a picture with the window light still there.
3. Close the blinds and remove the window light as much as possible. Take a few pictures with only the flash After you are done with this, post your favorite picture from each one. So there should be three pictures...window lighting only, window lighting plus flash, and flash only.
More Advanced:
A few suggestions:
Try a more artistic look. Get rid of the white background. Move to your bed, the kid's bed, a couch, just a wall. Maybe a child can be reading or hugging a special toy. See what you can come up with. Try and get more shadows. We are doing this with the Haynies too, so I will post mine from last week.
Also, pay close attention to the light in the eyes. Try to take some close ups. Depending on your camera you might need a tripod and you also might need to use your "macro" setting.
This picture is a bit blurry, and the window is kind of covering the black part of her eye, but this is the look I am talking about. A nice big window reflecting in the eye.
1. Remove any clutter from the background. You don't want anyone's eye to be draw to what is laying around in the other parts of the picture.
2. Get in close. Step back and zoom in if you can. This will help blur your background and give it a more professional look.
3. Get down on their level. Unless it is the look you want, the lense should be at eye level with your subject.
4. Don't be afraid to take LOTS of pictures.
In order to see the difference between a picture taken with the flash and one without, do the following:
1. Take several pictures without the flash on. You might need to put your camera on a tripod, a table, or anything that will help you steady your camera.
2. Take a "fill" flash picture. Turn on your flash and take a picture with the window light still there.
3. Close the blinds and remove the window light as much as possible. Take a few pictures with only the flash After you are done with this, post your favorite picture from each one. So there should be three pictures...window lighting only, window lighting plus flash, and flash only.
More Advanced:
A few suggestions:
Try a more artistic look. Get rid of the white background. Move to your bed, the kid's bed, a couch, just a wall. Maybe a child can be reading or hugging a special toy. See what you can come up with. Try and get more shadows. We are doing this with the Haynies too, so I will post mine from last week.
Also, pay close attention to the light in the eyes. Try to take some close ups. Depending on your camera you might need a tripod and you also might need to use your "macro" setting.
This picture is a bit blurry, and the window is kind of covering the black part of her eye, but this is the look I am talking about. A nice big window reflecting in the eye.
posted by Erin | 3:34 PM
1 Comments:
I am super excited to play around with my not so great camera! So I'll be posting my pictures sometime this week.
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