"The List"

All kidding aside, there is a list of things that you cannot photograph in my classes - ever. Here they are:

pets, children, homeless people, beer bottles, cigarettes, insides of bars or other place you might be anyway, flowers, bunnies, babies dressed like flowers and other pea pod things, icons (characters, hearts, crosses, anything that is embedded with a story of its own) and anything you photograph as you see it everyday of your life.

So what does this mean? This means that you are expected to put effort into every shoot to create images, not document your life. You may use the above if they are backdrops or models that can be controlled/altered to enhance your image. "Cute," "all I had to work with," "out of time," and "easy" are phrases in which I have no interest. You don't need me or college to pick up a camera and push a button. I am here to push you out of your comfort zone. One day, you will thank me.

Todd Hido has always been one of my biggest inspirations. He looks a the quality of light. And of course, he uses combined light sources. I am a big sucker for combined light sources. When you are photographing at night, don't just look at the light, but what is the light doing for the image? If the answer is "nothing" then do something else.

Daylight Assignment over a Cloudy Weekend

The goal of the project was to not photograph under a super sunny day, but to control the sunlight to create a photographic series where the lighting is the main character. It's not about intensity of light, but controlling the ratio of light and dark. I have no idea how someone would control sun in the middle of a day with no clouds (without lots of fabric or perfectly placed windows)

And, its sunny now.

Blog Sites - Follow and Comment

Here is a list of all of the blogs for the class. You don't have to formally "follow" them, but you must make comments on other people's blogs. As the computer in the Alt Process room states, I am watching...

Nicolette: studiolighting11.tumblr.com

Adele: adelewinnsl.blogspot.com

Heidi: heidisstudiolightingblog.tumblr.com

Mim: dumpsters2011.blogspot.com

Julie: everything-lucida.tumblr.com

Casey: mcagradentseesthelight.tumblr.com

Annie: studiolighting2011.tumblr.com

Amanda: amadagahasl.tumblr.com

Ariella: ariellalovesgreatlighting.blogspot.com

Yeinier: ciegosordomudo.tumblr.com (this probably translates to english as "I hate doing blogs Haley"

Elena: elenaalvarez.blogspot.com

Dustin: lesterphotography.blogspot.com

Elaine: release-----------me.tumblr.com

Cole: dumpitoritllblow.blogspot.com

Jonathan: jloicx.tumblr.com

Richard: i don't remember.blogspot.com

Andrew: phosphorusfixation.blogspot.com

Scales: scalessl.blogspot.com

Lighting on Tumblr:

lethatumbla.tumblr.com

Daylight Assignment

The second assignment in Studio Lighting is the Daylight Assignment. Yes, the project does not involve studio lights, but sunlight is harder to control than strobe lights. If you can control sunlight, strobes will be a lot easier than you think.

For the assignment, you must create a series of 10 8x10 images of any subject matter, as long as some form of sunlight is the ONLY source of light and it is the main character or star of the image. You may shoot indoors or out. The only tools that you may use to control the sun are reflectors, mirrors, windows and bounce cards. No solar powered lights, no fill flash.

As always, don't forget to turn in your lighting maps.

Critique is Tuesday, September 6th with a working critique today.