Friday, June 19, 2009

Different Lighting




This weeks' assignment was to photograph an object in two different lighting set-ups. This is my cat, photopgraphed in incandescent light in the night, and then in natural (mostly cloudy) light coming in from a window around 7:30pm. By manipulating different settings under low light, the artificial light brings out some rich coloring that is lost in the other setting. The natural light definitely has a cooler look, that's evocative of a very different emotional tone. Interestingly, the shutter was set to 1/5 for both pics. The aperture was 4.8 for the natural light and 5.6 for the artificial light.

4 comments:

  1. I like the richness of color but some frontal or side filtered light might brighten the subject.

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  2. I really like the close up of your cat. You can see his coloring better I think, I also like that he looks like he is thinking about something :)

    -Becky

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  3. Cats are always great subjects....very versatile. It looks like at least three of us have tortoise shells!

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  4. This was a great light study too because you could see the "unreal" colors of the un-natural light. The light in the natural one must've been in a south or west window, because it is really good light...

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