ALP2 Assignment 4. Industrial Photography

Pre Production Notes.

1.What is your intention in terms of how you plan to use the available light?

To give the photo a real feeling.

2. What is the reason for your lens choice?(Do you want the compression of a long lens or the exaggerated perspective of a wide angle, fixed focal length or zoom)? 

White angle

3. What aperture do you plan to use and why?

f5.6 or f8

4. What shutter speed to you plan to use and why?

1/30 in order to keep ambient light

5. Do you have enough available light to achieve these camera settings?

Yes.

6. Do you have enough strobe to achieve these settings?

Yes.

7. Do you have too much light to achieve these settings?

No

8. Are there any technical problems that will need to be addressed at the shoot or in post-production?

Not really.

9. How will you be addressing color balance?

Gray card

10. What is the equipment you will need for the shoot? 

1 profoto kit, soft box, green filters, tripod, light meter.

Are there any other special requirements or information?

No.

ALP2: Assignment 3 Food on location

Mhmmm...Pizza Time!

Self-assessment report:

Done by Gosia Babiarz & Juan Venegas.

For this assignment, our plan was to try to keep the nice colors of the ambient light of the background and use them to frame our shot.

Due to the lack of the equipment in the equipment room finally, we used two white lighting heads and a small soft box. our main light was coming from the side, with a soft box, and another coming from the back with a grid.  Our first problem was that the second flash wasn’t fireying off. But with Pierre’s help we managed to put some aluminum foil on the back of the second light and that help out in our case, the light was bouncing back from the paper and the flash was able to read the first one. As we made our tests we realized that out color balance is off, our pizza was way too cold whereas our background very warm so we added some gel filters to balance it. Still, because our background is very warm and red I find that it is a bit too warm and colorful.

I think that balancing the white balance was our main issue in this project.

This is the last shot we did and overall I think that it is ok.

Ass 3 - Pre Production Notes

1.What is your intention in terms of how you plan to use the available light?
The interior of the restaurant where we will be shooting is quite dark with tungsten lighting overhead & no daylight therefore I will be using two flashes and a white reflector and a bit of available light.

2. What is the reason for your lens choice?
I will be using 24-70 mm lens and also will try to borrow from the equipment room the tilt-shift lens if possible.

 3. What aperture do you plan to use and why?
F 4.0 or F 5.6 in order to get enough DOF .

4. What shutter speed to you plan to use and why?
Probably I will do a long exposure.  I will be using flash therefore I will ness to get some readings in order to see.

5. Do you have enough available light to achieve these camera settings?
Don’t know, hard to tell.

6. Do you have enough strobe to achieve these settings?
Yes, two Pro Photo kits & a reflector should work out fine.

7. Do you have too much light to achieve these settings?
No, I am aiming to have a simple shot.

8. Are there any technical problems that will need to be addressed at the shoot or in post-production?
Color casts, not enough of available light.

10. What is the equipment you will need for the shoot?
Tripod, 1 vagabond power pack,  2 pro photo lights, 1 small reflector disk, 1 will shoot through white umbrella, 1 light meter, 2 black stands,

Ass #2 _ Final Image

Stephan is a first year student in the theater department in Dawson College. He came to see the play that was playing at the time of our outdoor practice. Since Stephan is a very simple guy i wanted to use a very simple and natural lighting, nothing too dramatic which wouldn't suit his personality. Stephan dreams big and is full of energy and passion for what he's doing. 

Assignment # 2 - Pre production

I plan to shoot in front of the main entrance (from Maissonneuve street) of Dawson College. I’m going to be photographing preferably a couple of Dawson students attending school. My aim is to create a nice, even light that will place my subject center stage.


1.What is your intention in terms of how you plan to use the available light?
I plan to use two artificial lights + available light.

2. What is the reason for your lens choice?
24-70mm. It’s a full length and the only one I own. But I find that It can give me the result I’m expecting.

3. What aperture do you plan to use and why?
f/2,8
To have the background a bit out of focus.
4. What shutter speed to you plan to use and why?
1/50
5. Do you have enough available light to achieve these camera settings?
Yes, I think so.
6. Do you have enough strobe to achieve these settings?
Yes.

7. Do you have too much light to achieve these settings?
Saturday should be a very cloudy day therefore it shouldn’t be a problem.

8. Are there any technical problems that will need to be addressed at the shoot or in post-production?
Rain, rain and Rain.  Dirt in front of the Dawson College Entrance.


9. How will you be addressing color balance?
Grey card.


10. What is the equipment you will need for the shoot? 
- Camera
- 24-70mm lens
- Tripod
- Sand bags
- 2 white lightning lights
- 1 vagabond power packs
- 2 umbrellas
- 2 Black stands
- Light meter
- Grey card


Are there any other special requirements or information?

Nop.

ALP2- Self assessment and final photograph.

Overall I am satisfied with this shot although I completely changed my lighting setup from my original idea.

At first I planned to use 3 heads, 2 in order to light up the background but as I played around with the lighting I realized that I didn’t need to complicate too much so I went with one main light ( a medium soft box) and a reflector placed on the side of the subject.  What I found the most difficult about this photo shoot was the reflections in the window. Since I was shooting in the morning and the outside was a bit dark whereas the inside very well lit I couldn’t get rid of the reflections in the windows behind my model. So I had to get creative with the angle as well as with the positioning of my model. Since I didn’t wanted to go too crazy on the angle I managed to find a spot where the reflections where not very apparent and with the use of cropping I was able to get rid of the window reflections.
Also my main mistake in this shot i find is i that didn't notice my model's suit was not  properly buttoned.

ALP1_ Assignment #1

1.What is your intention in terms of how you plan to use the available light?

At first my intention was to Light up the background with two flash heads but after having done some testing I realized that I don't need to use two extra lights. I simply used the available light and added a soft box in order to light my subject and a white reflector.

2. What is the reason for your lens choice?

I have used a 24-70 mm f.2.8 lens simply because it’s the only one I own at this point plus I find it will allow me to achieve shallow dept of field.

3. What aperture do you plan to use and why?

I plan to use f2.8 or f4 in order to get the blur in the background

4. What shutter speed to you plan to use and why?

1/60 or 1/125 if shooting in natural light or with flash.

5. Do you have enough available light to achieve these camera settings?

Yes.

6. Do you have enough strobe to achieve these settings?

Yes.
7. Do you have too much light to achieve these settings?

No.
8. Are there any technical problems that will need to be addressed at the shoot or in post-production?

If the weather is bad and is too dark outside I would have to use more lights in order to recreate a natural light.

9. How will you be addressing color balance?

Daylight is about 5.5k K so I will try to work with that. If not

I will use computer software to determinate if color balance is adequate.

10. What is the equipment you will need for the shoot? 

tripod
Camera with 24-70 mm lens
Light meter
1 pocket wizard

1 profoto light kit (2 heads kit)

2 light stands

1 circular reflector

1 soft box (Med)

2 power cords

computer