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Exercise: Real & Implied Triangles
The section on shapes end with an exercise on real & implied triangles (p92). Does anyone else think of the Eddie Izzard sketch about Darth Vader eating triangular food? No? Just me then. Ok, so I...
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Exercise: Rhythms & Patterns
On p99, the last exercise for part 2 is of patterns & rhythms. Photos with Rhythm lead your eye in a pattern to a beat. And for photographs with patterns your eye can imagine the pattern continuing...
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Exercise: Primary and Secondary Colours
Part three of the course is all about colour. I love colour photography and usually find it much more visually satisfying that black & white images so I thought this chapter would be quite easy....
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Exercise: Colour Relationships
The exercise on p114 is in two parts. Part one is to produce photos with the following colour combinations and ratios: Red & Green, Ratio 1:1 Orange & Blue, Ratio 1:2 Yellow & Violet, Ratio...
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Exercise: Colour into tones in black & white
The exercise on p119 is about trying to explain the use of colour filters on the outcome of a black and white photo. The exercise gives you the option of using actual colours filters on your camera of...
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Exercise: Measuring Exposure
And now onto section four – which is all about light. The following quotes seem appropriate here: Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all...
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Exercise: Judging colour temperature
The exercises on p136 & p139 are two parts of a whole story about judging colour balance. This function is also know as white balance because it sets the very brightest parts of the scene to pure...
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Exercise: Variety with a low sun
In this exercise, p142, we are demonstrating advantages to shooting when the sun is low, so called magic hour. The light is golden and lovely but from which angle should we shoot? I think the photos...
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Exercise: Cloudy weather and rain. Part 1.
This exercise (p146) comes in 3 parts. The first is a comparison between sunny and cloudy weather for three types of scenes, the second is finding opportunities for best using the diffuse lighting that...
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Exercise: Cloudy weather and rain. Part 2 & 3.
Following on from part one of this exercise, now we can demonstrate that overcast and rainy weather needn’t mean putting the camera away. Some scenes are more pleasing when shot in the enveloping,...
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Exercise: Tungsten and Florescent lighting
The exercise on p151 is a follow on from the earlier colour balance exercise. It’s split into two parts – part one is essentially its a comparison between tungsten & daylight. I couldn’t find any...
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Exercise: Softening the light
The exercise on p157 is designed to show the effects of adding a diffuser to a light. Here are two photos of Danbo. The first is with a bare lamp (I’m using normal desk lamps with Daylight bulbs in...
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Exercise: the lighting angle
The exercise on p158 is a series of photos where the camera & subject stay static and the light moves around the subject. This is to get a feel for the way the angle of lighting will affect a...
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Exercise: Contrast & Shadow fill
The exercise on p160 introduces the concept of shadow-fill. Essentially if you have your light source at an oblique angle you will have high contrast on your subject – the side facing the light will be...
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Olympus Image Space @ The Loading Bay
This weekend Olympus was doing a very special event to celebrate the launch of my camera‘s big brother the EM1. I went along to the free workshops and they were a great chance to try out some types of...
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Exercise: Outdoors At Night
The exercise on p152 is all about photographing at night in the city centre. The aim of this exercise is to explore the variety of lighting effects and colour in artificial light. To include in our...
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Exercise: Concentrating Light
If you only want light to fall on part of the scene you can create a snoot or some other way to confine the light. That is what the exercise on p162 is all about. Here I took my desk lamp shade off...
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Exercise: Shiny Surfaces
The exercise on p163 is about taking photos of reflective surfaces. The instructions were a bit weird, take a shiny object to lay flat and photograph & light from from above. Then take a cone of...
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Book Review: Light Science Magic
This is Nice simple introduction to lighting principles. I like the way they don’t try and narrow it down to using flashes and get too bogged down in the equipment right out of the gate. That is often...
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Assignment 4: Applying lighting techniques
For this assignment the task was to apply different lighting techniques to one object to emphasise Shape, form, texture & colour. Click on the small images below to enter the gallery view. I’ve put...
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