Thread: Camera Test
View Single Post
  #13  
Old 21-06-07, 14:50
nldunne's Avatar
nldunne nldunne is offline  
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: North Vancouver, B C Canada
Posts: 20,811
Default

For those who may be interested - an exercise one can try to learn about lighting.

Take a model of some kind - doll, car, ship, railway loco as examples - and in a dark room take some flash lights of different sizes and set those at different directions and distances around the subject. Make a note of what each light does to the subject.

This will help when you come to use a flash(es) or other lights when you want to take an image. I find a built in or off cam flash at about 45 degrees to a subject helps me keep away from back flash off eyeglasses, cherry eyes, and does not flatten a subject's features like a front flash would.

Norm D
__________________
Norm Dunne

I love the Old Masters for incentive and compositional ideas.
Reply With Quote