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from angles to composition and lighting to styles
for our studio induction we were shown all the technical side photography has to offer when it comes to lighting and equipment.
this article will be a quick re-cap on the types of lighting available from the studio.
- beauty dish
this lighting gives a soft glow to the subject being shot, however best results come from when focused on the face as the light gives a soft glow to skin tone and makes the colour of the skin seem more radiant.
- snoot
a snoot is a cone like piece of equipment that fits on the end of the lights to give a more focused and controlled ray of light so that whatever subject you are shooting, you are easily available to move the point of light to any desired location.
- honeycomb grid
again, this is another piece of equipment that fits to the lights and like the snoot gives light to a desired location of the object being photographed, but unlike the snoot, the honeycomb grid gives an even more accurate array of light and so results can be fine-tuned exactly to how you want.
- continuous light
this is simply a type of lighting that stays on and is the same type of light all the time
- slave (wireless activator)
this small piece of equipment allows the photographer to control settings of the light e.g when it goes off or how dim or bright it is. this can also be helpful in self portraits so that lights and cameras can be activated whenever desired.
- work lights
these lights are long poles of light that are generally used in portraiture or modelling shots but can also be used for anything else due to how manual they can be.
the lights give a out a clean white light and are very lightweight so can be easily lifted and manoeuvred,
an example shown to us was on a persons face, the lights gave a beautiful soft glow to skin tones and also brightened and framed the eyes.
- soft boxes
again a simple piece of equipment, this type of lighting gives off a very clean, white and continuous type of light to the subject.
- polystyrene
polystyrene is used to give the lights something to bounce off and wash the studio in that particular type of light, usually the other side of the polystyrene is painted black so that opposite effects can be achieved like light being absorbed to create a darker light was in the studio.
- umbrella lights
these are just another type of light reflector but have a greater radius.
- sky-light
in the studio that we use, we have access to a sky-light that opens up (by any amount you want) and gives a general wash of natural light within the studio.
that was just a general re-cap on what types of equipment we were shown during our studio induction but i will be shown more as the months go on and as my photographic knowledge expands.
The following images are a few test shot photographs i took with the lighting set up (pictured above) on a products table.
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