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Tomorrow you will turn in the Sunset project one more time.  I wanted to go over it real quick one more time.  Remember that the ambient light (the sunset) is controlled by shutter speed.  The aperture and distance from subject to flash controls the flash exposure.  In the last example we did in class, we opened the shutter by a stop to let more light in and brighten the sky and at the same time we moved the subject back one step and lowered the power on the strobe to reduce the flash exposure on the subject.  That keep our exposure a bit more natural for the subject, less dramatic.


When you shoot the video portion of this, make sure you can see detail in the subject and the sunset.  If you use a secondary source, try bouncing that source off the fill card instead of pointing the light directly on your subject.  That will keep it looking natural.

The example above is the final test we worked on in class for the flash with sunset lighting.

Hello and welcome to all of my new students at Otis college.  This Summer semester I am teaching two classes.  Digital Photography and Lighting for digital media.




Digital photography will focus on using Photoshop as a darkroom.  The basics of camera operation will be reviewed, but many of the students enrolled in my class should have taken basic photography in past.  We will cover color management and using bridge to organize your photos in the first class.




The documentary project is the first major assignment.  You will have at least 3 weeks to complete this assignment.  I am will also assign the first weekly assignment, shooting a series of images with the widest aperture of your lens.  This weekly assignment will be due the following week on the 14th of June.




I am excited to start a new class on Monday the 6th- Lighting for digital media.  This is a hands on studio class that focus on using both still imagery and motion.  Many of the cameras on the market today can shoot still images but also have a movie capture.  After viewing many of these short films I realized that lighting for these shorts needed some guidance to make more viewable.  Basic understanding of lighting for different situations is the focus of this course.  I will show some examples in class and we will demo how to achieve better quality imagery in class.  Weekly assignments will require students to completer their own versions of the example in class to be reviewed the following week.




An example of a typical assignment is the first assignment due on the 13th of June.  Shooting a subject at sunset.  Using just a fill card for motion capture and using  the on camera flash or equivalent for still imagery, students will learn to have both the sunset sky and their subject illuminated for better quality image.




See you all soon,