Beginning Lighting 85A 6pm-9pm starting 8/14 - has a few spots left! Register today at ccsf.edu Material covered in the syllabus Overall objective: To give a stronger “voice” to the student who wishes to speak through the language of photography. Proposed outcome: The student will gain an understanding of general studio techniques, the importance and power of color, thoughtful composition, and the use of artificial light, including hot lights, strobe lights, and painted light. Text(s): 1) “Light, Science & Magic”. 3rd or 4th edition. Suggested that you buy “used” at amazon . This text is good side-by side to the class notes you will take.. 2) “W” and “Vanity Fair” magazines are highly recommended as a good srurce of “Tear- sheets”. Tear-sheets are required to analyze what others have done with light and compostion. Covered material : Listed content blow is not necessarily in order 1.) What do you already know about light ? Introduction to a basic lighting tool (the reflector flood) 1a.) Carrying insurance for your equipment ? 2.) Hand eye coordination..Looking, this time, “seeing” light, shadow, and composition 3.) What is color and how does it affect the picture and the viewer 4.) Lighting limiters: (gobos, barn doors, snoots, flags, diffusion screens, kuokolarous, and feathering) 5.) DIfferent types of hot lights. (quartz, spots, dinky, broads, reflectors. etc. 6.) Working with the electronic flash (strobe light) (safety, power, accessories, stopping action, making a blur) 7.) What is “texture and how will it enhance your photograph 8.) The impact and control of “painted light” 9.) Use of jells and combinations of jell and clear light, including projected imagery. 10.) The qualities of “diffused light” (and various quantities of diffusion) (handouts) 11.) Working with backgrounds, horizon lines, background light(s). 12.) Props, (selection, size, color, mass) why? too many ? too few ? 13.) Designing the frame 14.) Creating a luminous background (totally white) and controlling it.. 15.) The absorption and contrast of the black background 16.) Selective focus, and the background 17.) Exploring “skins” 18.) Illuminating humans with different skins 19.) Working with and directing the model. Techniques for professional or non professional) 20.) Photographing highly reflective objects (silver, chrome, gold etc.) 21.) Techniques for photographing glassware 22.) Window light, outdoor light.(how it relates to studio light) and the illusion of outdoors. 23.) Strobe as a main light (outdoors) 24.) Working with others on a group independent subject 25.) The use of “J” boards 26.) Tent lighting, (to tent or not to tent) a question for the contemporary photographer 27.) making food look good for the camera 28.) Working with the reflected light. 29.) Making multiple lights look like one. 30.) Building a “set” (the illusion) 31.) Creating an “indoor / outdoor” lighting effect 32.) And a lot of other things that will come up serendipitously or through your questions 33.) “Visual impact”. 34.) A summation. The power of a photograph and how it affects the viewer.
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