Assignment 9 Canon Dedicated Flash

Here is how to change the flash sync speed in Av mode:

Use direct flash on camera Aperature Priority (Av) setting at 1/200 sec shutter speed
Use direct flash off camera Aperature Priority (Av) setting at 1/200 sec shutter speed
Use flash fill Aperture Priority Auto shutter speed
Use flash with modifier (Bounce card, bank or ceiling) Aperature Priority (Av) setting at 1/200 sec shutter speed.

Label your best result from each of the 4 techniques, write down your camera settings for each photograph and post them separately.

Read the two pages (posted  in the Lesson 9 section) from the Canon 580EXII or the Canon 600EX manual to help understand what the settings mean

Lesson 9 Dedicated Flash

Some photographers who use off camera flash extensively:

Roxanne Lowit

Dina Litovsky

Miles Ladin

Larry Fink

Bruce Gilden Website

Bruce Gilden Video

Instructions for using Canon Speedlite 580EX

 Instructions for using Canon Speedlite 600EX-RT

Assignment 8 Outdoor Flash

1. Make a portrait where the person’s face and the background are the same exposure.
2. Make a portrait where the person’s face is exposed one stop under and the background is normally exposed.  Drop the power of the strobe by one stop keeping the f stop the same.

3. Make a portrait where the person’s face is normally exposed and the background is one stop under.

4. Make a portrait where the person’s face is normally exposed and the background is two stops under.

All four should be photographed in exactly the same place to make it earier to compare the results.

This is a test for your reference and should be laid out accordingly.

Print your f stop and shutter speeds.

Subject should be 2 or 3 stops darker than background.

Lesson 8 Outdoor Flash

Assignment 7 Strobe and Continuous Light

Set the camera on Strobe light balance.

Photograph a person with just the strobe light on the person

Photograph a person with just the tungsten light on the background

Photograph a person using strobe on the person and tungsten

on the background combined

Try some with motion.

Set the camera on Tungsten light balance.

Photograph a person with just the strobe light on the background
Photograph a person with just the tungsten light on the person
Photograph a person using strobe on the background and tungsten
on the person combined

Try some with motion.

Post each photograph separately.

Lesson 7 Strobe and Continuous Light

Assignment 6 Size Matters

Take two portraits of a person one with the 21" Beauty Dish and one with the Octabank and get the same results by using the placement of the subject, the light and the background. Look at results from class demonstration for ideas.

Lesson 6 Size Matters

Assignment 5 One Strobe and a Softbox

Photo 1
Using one strobe with a softbox, light a person against a white background so that their face has a highlight and shadow side. The background should appear darker on the highlight side and the lighter on the shadow side.

Photo 2
Using one strobe with a softbox, light a person against a white background so that their face is evenly lit and the background is black.

Lesson 5 One Strobe

http://www.atgetphotography.com/The-Photographers/BRASSAI.html

http://life.time.com/margaret-bourke-white/

http://edgerton-digital-collections.org/

http://life.time.com/culture/trick-photography-stroboscopic-photos-life-magazine/#1

http://collections.mcny.org/Explore/Highlights/Stanley%20Kubrick/