Photography mini assignment

Equipment used in a photography studio.


The Lights
Decide what kinda of camera you'll be using. Bigger cameras need smaller apertures to get adequate depth of field and need more light. Decide how big your subjects are going to be. Head-and-shoulders portraits require much less lights.


Hot Lights
Advantages;

• you can always see what you're going to get, even if you mix with ambient light. In the film days, you wouldn't need Polaroid tests, fancy meters, and a good imagination. In the digital age, you can spend more time looking at the subject and less time at the back of the camera.
• you can use hot lights with movie, video, and scanning digital cameras

Disadvantages;

• heat. Thousands of watts of heat that make the photographer sweat, the models sweat, and the props melt.
• tungsten color balance. Kodak makes some nice tungsten color slide film but if you don't like it, you'll have to filter your lights and lens like crazy to use your favorite color films.
• limited accessories. It is much easier to control a light source that isn't hot enough to light paper on fire. You can experiment with electronic flash without burning your house down. With hot lights, you must make sure that your diffusers, soft boxes, umbrellas, etc. can handle the heat. 

Warm Lights.

It is called the fluorescent light bulb. For most of the 20th Century, fluorescent lights had a spectrum that was too peaky to give natural-looking color with film cameras. 

Fill light.
makes a shadow


Main Key light.


The Background
The basic professional background is seamless paper. This comes in rolls 53", 107", and 140" wide. 


Equipment used in a dark room. 

Enlarger is a piece of equipment that projects an enlarged lighted image from a negative onto an easel. It works with a timer and an f-stop to control the amount of light. There is no negative shown in this image, but it would be on the metal strip under the lamp.

The Negative holder holds the negatives firmly and allows the correct negative to be positioned properly for the enlarger.

The Easel holds the photographic paper under the enlarger. 

Image magnifier is a piece of equipment used to see if an image is in focus as it is projected from the enlarger. It sits on top of the easel, before paper is inserted into it, and diverts the projected light up to the eye piece where it can be viewed.

Enlarger Timer is used to set the amount of time that the enlarger lamp is projecting an image onto the photographic paper.