Tim Location Techniques

Spotlighting: 

For our first shoot with Tim we used a flash gun that was mounted on a tripod to make the subject stand out from the background, As if it was done in photoshop or in studio. To do so, you need a low iso and a high F. number. With the flash gun mounted onto a tripod it gave the image depth and we also saw how easy it was to use the flash externally. Here are some examples:

Lesson 2: 


In studio techniques. The first technique we used was the silhouetting. We lit the background and stood the subject in front of the background out of the light.

The second technique e used was lip lighting, where we put the light behind the model in a way to just show the outline. 

Here are some of the other techniques we used.

I tried some more of the studio techniques in one of our other lessons and I think they came out really well. We used the red head lights and tried to be bit more experimental with it. 

Natural Light:


For this lesson we used natural light and a reflector to get the most out of people's faces and images. I think it works well with the right techniques and with the reflector in the right place. 

With this i placed Lily side on to the sun then used the reflector to light up the dark side of her face. I think it gives a nice shadowing as well as lighting up her face enough to see detail.

Here, i put the sun in different places and used the reflector to light up Lily's face again. Although she doesn't look happy, I think the technique is still working well.

We tried this in the shade as well. 


HDR:


HDR is one of my favorite location techniques. Its pretty easy to do when you use programs like photomatix, but we tried it in raw on photoshop. I prefer how it came out when we did it by hand because it is more detailed and more interesting. 
  

We opened the raw images into photoshop and adjusted them to suit how we wanted the final image to look. We then opened the image again twice, over and under exposing it ready for the next stage. 

After we had done this, i over layer the three image and rubbed out the sky on the over exposed photo lightening it and emphasizing the clouds in the background.  This is the final image i ended up with: