Photography Final

3 Point Lighting Assignment

(Probably my 2nd fav. I was happy with the contrast the black clothing gave to the wall color in all of the images, yet the first few are my best attempts at capturing this model without any shadow problems.)

(My pick for the in-class review. Let me know if u guys think so as well.)

(   Realized when I arrived home from Wal-mart that I had accidentally printed this img twice. :(   )

Artist Statements

Nick Ut

  

Huỳnh Công Út, known professionally as Nick Ut, (born March 29, 1951) is a photographer for the Associated Press (AP) who works out of Los Angeles. His best known photo is the Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of Phan Thị Kim Phúc, who was photographed as a naked 9-year-old girl running toward the camera to flee a South Vietnamese napalm attack on the Trảng Bàng village during the Vietnam War.

 "Forgiveness made me free from hatred. I still have many scars on my body and severe pain most days but my heart is cleansed. Napalm is very powerful, but faith, forgiveness and love are much more powerful. We would not have war at all if everyone could learn how to live with true love, hope and forgiveness. If that little girl in the picture can do it, ask yourself: Can you?" -Nick Ut

Baron Wolman

 Baron Wolman is one of the most well-known photographers of the rock and roll years. He is infamous for his photographs of people like Jimi Hendrix and other pioneer and revolutionary musical artists. What started out as being the chief photographer for a new magazine known as Rolling Stones, he has claimed some of the best and most recognizable photographs as his own work.
 He not only witnessed what is without a doubt the most important period of change in popular music and popular culture, but his photographs helped shape it. Rolling Stone magazine encapsulated and distilled the most important events and changes as they were taking place. Each issue would speak to this evolving youth culture in a language that was all its own and Baron’s photos captured the events and personalities, and visualized the music.
 "I don't think we've gained anything by having musicians become celebrities,'' Wolman - who gave up music for fashion, football and aerial photography as the suits took over the rock asylum in the late 1970s - says. ''For me, the celebrity component has totally taken away from the purity of the music. Not only the experience of hearing it, but the experience of playing it.'' -Baron Wolman
Eadweard Muybridge

 Eadweard Muybridge is one of the earliest and most popular photographers in the entire world. He had very revolutionary work for his time period, and much of his work is still well-known even to those who may not really follow the history of photography much. His pioneering came in the form of using still photos to capture motion.
 
Steve McCurry

 

 Most people probably don’t know his name, but almost everyone has seen his images. Steve McCurry is probably the most famous for his image of Sharbat Gula, the Afghani refugee girl with the striking eyes. It has been said that this image is the most recognizable photograph in the world

3 Point lighting (out of class experiments)

3 Point Lighting 3 Pic Montage

Original Image (Mostly Auto Settings)

Original image desaturated.

Colors pushed slightly from blue to yellow, as well as the tones changed slightly.

6 different 3-point lighting

In this photo, the hair light appears to be placed to the back right of the subject, giving the model's hair more of a shiny appearance. At the same time the photographer has managed to let the exact same side of the model's face fall into shadow.

In this image, the main light gives the model's front side this sort of shining effect, while leaving the very center of her face in shadow, the hair lights catch both the left and right side of her face as well.

In this image, it is very apparent that the main light was the brightest of all, and offset slightly to the left of the model. This setup lets the right side of the face, as well as the upper right portion of the neck fall into shadow.

The main source of light seems to be coming from the right of the model (our left), and falls into shadow on the opposite side of the hood of the sweatshirt. The thing i like about this image is the ability of the photographer to work with shadows on a model with such bright, blond hair.

In this image, although the model is the same, the techniques of lighting seem ever so slightly different. The background, or hair light, is almost adding a transparent, glossy effect to the edges of the model's hair. Due to the offset placement of the main light, the model draws the majority of the light on her right (our left) side of her face, while her left side falls into shadow.

In this image, although the light is fairly dim all the way around, it is apparent that the main light is softly lighting to the left side of the model. This provides for the shadow effect given to the right side of the nose, as well as the cigarette. A very soft hair light seems to be in use on the back left of the model's head, adding a slight amount of gloss.

3 color edits of Depth of field image

Original

Color Edit

Color Edit 2

CRAZY Color Edit 3