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Softbox Studio Photography
For the final class, Mr. Vinod wanted to show us how to use softbox lights. The knowledge of its usage is said to be essential in our degree as many lecturers from the degree courses would require you to shoot photos using these lights. We were given a fairly early warning that if we handled these lights in the wrong manner, our picture can look terrible.
Firstly, Mr. Vinod demonstrated the flash that emits from these softbox lights. All I can say is," The light.... It burns.......!". Then we moved on to taking a picture, and this time our model was Cheryl again. I was helping with the lights, adjusting its intensity so that the lights gave out equal amount of exposure. However, we were not able to achieve equal amount of exposure on both sides of the model.
It turns out that the lights didn't go off at the same time. When one light emits the light, the other light did not. Mr. Vinod was almost close to end the class early until he revelaed a shocking revelation....... We actually have new lights, from a brand called Profoto in Germany. These lights are expensive. I'm not sure of the precise amount but it costs around 4 to 5 PS4s.
As these lights are new, we had to install them ourselves. Here's the video to our hilarious attempt at light installation.
There are also a few photos of the situation here:
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| The lights are controlled by this huge power supply box |
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| One of the softbox is missing a button |
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| The problem was solved using Faizah's and Shazreen's broaches |
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| Profoto, the brand of these amazing lights |
This time we have Shazreen as the model for our photoshoot using these lights.
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| Shazreen waiting to be tortured by these lights |
Figuring out the lights was quite difficult at first. Then, we managed to work everything out with the power supply and we were handling these lights like a pro. When I finished playing with the settings, Mr. Vinod then continued by taking pictures of said model.
Here are the products of the said photoshoot that I have a particular liking to:
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| Landscape |
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| Portrait |
Reflections
The first picture has a pleasant looking circular gradient around the model. This gives the picture a very dynamic look that you can find in fashion magazine's. The soft greyish background also gives the picture a pleasant looking contrast that is not harsh to look at. Other apparent things are the different value of tones achieved because the model was wearing three different tones of clothing. The pose is also very vogue looking, which we're able to achieve through taking a surprising shot of the model.
The second picture is not as up to snuff of the previous photo. It is however the decent one out of the batch of portrait-sized pictures of this session. The second picture was taken up close and the light gave the background a very light grey which created quite a harsh contrast between the positive and negative space. However, the different tonal values of the clothing were still achievable despite the harsh white background.
The overall experience of assembling these lights and using them was quite honestly tremendous as this is my first time handling these lights. I did not only watch the process unfolding but actually participating in it by testing and manipulating the intensity of the lights. The skill of handling these lights will be tremendously important in the next chapter of my study.
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