As of Monday, November 7th, we will be meeting twice a month on Mondays rather than on Wednesdays in the Fellowship Hall at OAC unless stated otherwise. The meeting time has not changed and will remain from 7:30-9:00pm.
Our first meeting of 2011 will be at OAC located at 5350 Baillie St. in Vancouver (just north of Oakridge mall) from 7:30-9:00pm tonight, January 19th. Please email us at oac@dolcepics.com for more details.
New members welcome!
At last night's photo club, we had the studio lights set up against a black backdrop to try out some different low-key type lighting. We used two lights and a reflector and ended up with some nice contrast in the portraits.
And lastly, we removed the black backdrop to try a lighter background.
Here are a couple shots from Matthew's camera that he processed:
In this shot, we took away the back light for more shadows.
Inspired by this blog post we decided to give it a try.
We only had a very tight confined space to work with but I think we still got a few interesting shots. These are almost straight out of camera with just a little boost in contrast.
You can see what cookware we used to get these shadows.
focal length: 55 mm
shutter speed: 1/125
aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 200
flash: single flash fired - camera left
Last week, we worked on using off-camera flash to create a rim of light and separate our subject from a dark background for a dramatic effect.
What do you think?
(The red on the background was caused by a reflection off of a red piece of paper I attached to the flash as a flag to prevent the light from spilling onto the bookcase behind it.)
focal length: 50 mm
shutter speed: 1/100
aperture: f/4.0
ISO: 400
flash: not fired
Last night, at OAC Photo Club, inspired by Strobist's article about food photography, we decided to make a smaller version of the inside-out soft box (because we didn't have a big enough box) and try our hand at photographing food.
Here's our setup.
Instead of a strobe, we decided to try using a continuous light source, a lamp without the shade. One of us held it above the box so it would shine through the tissue paper acting as a diffuser. The tissue paper covered the opening at the top of the box.
The lamp wasn't bright enough to allow the white pieces of paper to reflect any light onto the red peppers and the pieces of paper may have been too far away to be effective, which I was ok with since I intended to keep one side in the shadows for more drama.
Here are a couple more photos using the same setup.
focal length: 50 mm
shutter speed: 1/100
aperture: f/3.2
ISO: 400
flash: not fired
focal length: 50 mm
shutter speed: 1/100
aperture: f/4.0
ISO: 400
flash: not fired
The box was super easy to make and the lighting is something everyone has at home already. It was so nice to be able to instantly see how the light would fall on the subject because we were using a continuous light source. Give it a try. I'd love to see your results.
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