Tuesday, 17 July 2012

Softening the Light


I am lucky enough to have a small studio setting at home so I was able to use my light and soft box for these photographs, I firstly took some without the softbox and just the naked light I then marked where the light was and then replaced it with a softbox.



I have to say about the differences that I noticed, colour is one of the first things I noticed the top photograph which was taken with the naked light has bright spots an uneven red in the flowers and the back drop should be black, I also noticed that the edges of the top photograph were not as defined as the diffused one which had an even light across the whole photograph, there were no shadows where you can see some shadowing on the naked light one.  I would say the photgraph taken with the diffuser was an improvement, also I have noticed that the naked light photograph shows  the crease line where the back drop goes along the floor and the diffused one doesn't again this is an improvement. 

I looked at the two photographs as if I was looking to buy one as something to hang on my wall and I had no hesitation in choosing the one with the diffused light as the one  I would buy.

These photographs were taken at f11 125/s and an iso of 100.


this is out of sequence with the exercises due to the weather being so poor I was unaable to do some of the exercises so went on to the ones I could do.

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