Rembrandt lighting

What is it? 

Lighting technique that studio portrait photographers use. uses one light and a reflector, or two lights. 

Why use it?

Photographers like it because, it is capable of producing images which appear both natural and compelling with a minimum of equipment. Rembrandt lighting is characterized by an illuminated triangle under the eye of the subject on the less illuminated side of the face.

How is it set up?

1. Put your light on a stand and raise it so that it’s just above the models head.
2. Set up a reflector, which is serving as a fill light, by placing it on the opposite side of the model.
3. The camera should be placed midway between the fill light and key light. With the model standing so that she is facing the key light, have her rotate her head to look at the camera.

Credit: http://www.lightstalking.com/an-introduction-to-rembrandt-lighting-for-portrait-photographers/

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GIFs: 

ideas for writing with light:


my work:

flickr photographer: OZ dean

writing with light

https://www.flickr.com/photos/forcefeed_swede/

Here are some of the pictures that this photographer has on their flickr. I really like how he did the spider on the web image. i think it is really creative and put a lot of work into it. I also really like the light waves on the door. I like how i looks like a fence, but it cant be really seen. I think it means something strong.

Rineke Dijkstra

      

 Rineke is a photographer from the Netherlands who has a series on portraits of growing adolescents on the beach. Dijkstra takes low perspective images and  uses the relationship between the content and viewer to bring this uncomfortable feeling to us. Her intent is to make the viewer and the subject uncomfortable with each other. I think that through these images she is trying to make us feel this awkwardness that these kids are feeling. This is kind of like a brief look into how weird and awkward growing up really is. She takes these images on a windy beach, while her subjects pose in a weird and awkward manner. Honestly if this was me posing in front of a camera on a windy day while in a bathing suit, i would look awkward as well. My favorite image from hers is the last one, the one of the girl with the very dark hair in the stripped bathing suit. Her expression mixed with her uncomfortable body position further wraps the entire intent that this series is about. I like how she does something different, instead of doing normal portraits of kids on beaches/ 

Second chance at: HDR's

For my second chance assignment i will be redoing the HDR final assignment. last semester I did not finish the assignment last semester. I started the assignment, but procrastinated and I ended up not turning in anything. So now that we have a second chance to redo an assignment, i'm going to take the opportunity to redo something that was super important and i failed to get it done. I'm going to do my HDR's on cars. Last semester i tried doing the same, but this semester i am going to attempt it again, but with better skills. here are some of my first HDR's (not a series): 

Here are my new HDR's: I decided to redo the assignment and take some pictures of cars. I love HDR images of cars because i love the way that cars reflect the sunlight. I think they make for great HDR's.

Pencil for free speech

          At school we stated a thing called pencil for free speech. At the library there is a table set up where you take a pencil or pen and set it down for free speech. Nearby there are posters hanging up describing the events that took place in Paris last week. We hope that more and more people get informed of what happened and stand up for what is right. 

Very brief summary:  Last Wednesday two men entered the Charlie Hebdo building in Paris (satirical magazine), and shoot and killed a dozen cartoonist who worked in the building. The attack was a terrorist attack, and the men knew exactly who they were to kill. 

STAND UP FOR FREE SPEECH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Winter break 2014:

These image were taken over winter break this year. Although i had planned to go out and shoot "good" images over the break, things did not go as planned and i ended up just taking images here and there when the time was possible. Most of these images are just at my house, goofy images that i took just to capture a moment. The most important part of this break that i learned is that sometimes things happen that you do not expect and even though they are not expected, you have to be ready to change your plans. It definitely does suck that i didn't get to shoot, but it does not mean that i wont have other opportunities to shoot later. That's something i really like about photography, whenever you have a camera and an inspiration to do something, you can make the best photography ever. Some people travel to the most beautiful places in the world and take a whole lot of amazing images, but that doesn't mean that they are better or more inspired than a person who stayed at home taking pictures of trees and her dog. Anyway hopefully i get more chances to shoot when the weather get better because it is freezing right now!!!!

HDR blog post
High Dynamic Range. 

• dynamic range is the difference between the lightest light and darkest dark you can capture in a photo. 
• Once your subject exceeds the camera’s dynamic range, the highlights tend to wash out to white, or the darks simply become big black blobs. 
• It’s notoriously difficult to snap a photo that captures both ends of this spectrum, but with modern shooting techniques and advanced post-processing software, photographers have devised ways to make it happen. 
• This is basically what HDR is: a specific style of photo with an unusually high dynamic range that couldn’t otherwise be achieved in a single photograph.
• http://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/what-is-hdr-beginners-guide-to-high-dynamic-range-photography/
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• These images where taken with a canon rebel T1i
• I used photomatix to edit the images together, then used Photoshop for some simple touch ups.
• I manually focused the images and used the auto bracket tool to take images from a -2 exposure to a +2 exposure. 

Photo Essay 

 http://time.com/11254/afghanistan-msf-health-care/

          

          

          

          

Andrea Bruce and Mikhail Galustov

In this photo essay found online, from TIME magazine, is about the hard to reach healthcare in all parts of Afghanistan. This essay is from earlier in the year in the time that foreign troops were leaving Afghanistan, after being located there for over 10 years, and documents the quality of healthcare that Afghans are receiving and will receive once foreign aid is no longer available. "access to emergency or basic medical care remains hard to reach" quotes the author of the title. In this article i learned that even though billions of dollars have been spent in humanitarian work in Afghanistan, There is still work to be done. Many people the authors interviewed stated that they had family members and friends die from lack of proper care. Many hospitals don't have the right equipment, staff, or even electricity to run a health facility. The only good note about the article is that the number of healthcare facilities has considerably risen, with having a health facility at least an hour walking distance. 

1. A photo essay is a series of photographs, normally documentary, which is meant to impact people and tell a meaning or story of current events in the world.

2. This article and the photos relate because they are evidence of what the article is talking about. We see in the pictures poverty all over Afghanistan, People receiving poor healthcare, and no help being delivered.