Picture of mine...

This is a picture I took for a photography class. The reason I like it is because of the way it finally turned out. I did alter it in photoshop but the original picture looked like this without the color difference. The reason I like it from a lighting standpoint is because the way I had to set this picture up. I set the ring on the side of a lightbulb with a piece of sticky tack so it would not fall. I then used a flashlight that had bluer light and put that behind the bulb shining up inside of it. I used the blue light because the flash is very white/blue opposed to the tungsten orange in most flash lights. Then, in the front, I used an external Nikon flash to get the glitter of the diamond. I like how you can see the edges of the right glow because of the light coming through the light bulb. I really liked how this picture turned out.

Jennifer Thomerson

This is a picture I found on the internet. I like the lighting in this photograph because I think it's interesting how the moonlight coming in the window is lighting the whole scene. It is causing shadows of the window panes on the floor and shadows on the wall. It is shedding light on the stairs and wall and also highlighting the boards on the floor and leaning against the opposite wall. There is also light on the ceiling and a shadow caused by the framing of the hall.

Flower Picture- Artisa Ricks

I found this picture just surfing the internet and it immediately caught my eye. I love the natural lighting from the window and how it falls directly on the flowers and the table. The light eventually hits the floor and makes the floor more interesting. It is something about the orangey light that I really like. I also like how everything to the sides of the window like the walls are dark. It is like to sit in that seat makes you golden and thats automatically where you want to be. The focus of the picture is everything in front of that window and nothing else matters.

NPR story about Roger Deakins

You should all watch this on NPR.org, and listen to the descriptions of the shots as you play them. Wonderful stuff.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114249616

I was lucky enough to work with Roger on The Hudsucker Proxy, and I find his work incredible. One of my biggest regrets in life was going back to grad school instead of taking some time off to work on The Shawshank Redemption, my favorite film.

This is a picture I took two Easters ago when I went home to celebrate the holiday. I shot this in my Grandmother's back yard with a simple Kodak still camera. I like this picture because for me it symbolizes the season of Spring. Obviously, all lighting was natural, with an afternoon sun filtered through tall pine and gum trees and coming from the upper left-hand corner of the photograph. The sun is harsher on the tips of the pink petals, which washes out the flowers a bit. However, I do not mind this because the focus is on the butterfly, with a softer light enhancing the yellow and black of its wings.

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The Original (Sunrise:the shadow becomes shorter)

After the sun basically reached its stoppin point!



The sun was still rising!




The sun was still rising but not as high up yet!

The beginning: when the sun was rising (at one of its low points)!

The Sunrise Remake (Shadow becomes shorter)

The sun basically finished rising!



The sun hadn't quite finish rising!






The sun was rising, but still not quite there!




The sun was rising! (7:30am)

Artisa Ricks Assignment 1

Lighting Assignment #1

Jennifer Thomerson - Assignment 1

Camera workshop

A couple of months ago, there was a camera workshop headed by Dan Kneece, a guy that got his start in filmaking by mastering the Steadicam and working his way toward the top. He was in town for the short Civil, and with him he brought two awesome cameras. One was a Panavision and the other an Arri Flex.

The main purpose of the Arri Flex (I'm assuming) was for slow-mo, since it shoots at 120 fps. Camera A was the Panavison, and everybody wanted to crowd around. There aren't many times when you can get near, let alone touch and play with this camera since they are Hollywood-only. We all took turns with different roles on each camera: focus puller, camera operator, 2nd AC and the clapper. I enjoyed pulling focus, because I've always wondered how that worked on set. I also enjoyed operating the Panavision; the pan and tilt each had a knob with a rotating handle that you worked simultaneously to get the frame you wanted. They were counter-intuitive at first, but once you adjusted, the panning and tilting were very fluid. (Oh, we each took turn as the talent, walking in a straight line from mark A to mark B in case you are wondering what we filmed).

I also got hands on experience with loading film in a canister in a light proof bag (I don't know the lingo for these things). The actual clapper/loader for Civil didn't help me out at all, but a fellow workshop attendee guided me through it, and I must say, what a stressful job that would be (I'm up for the challenge, however).

This was an eye-opening experience, and I felt like an outsider at first around all the media arts types, but I brushed all that aside and jumped right in (I had to elbow a little bit) to learn as much as I could during the day. Thanks for telling me about the opportunity Heidi!

Midterm

The chiaroscuro of the latticed window in the puddle instantly caught my attention. The silhouetted dancers balance out this reflection and seem very grounded against the beam they are canvased upon. The gradient of midtones in the midground tie things together nicely.

The sun is low as the cyclists bike down the westward street. This picture's lighting gives a calming and casual air, and alludes to a place foreign to me. The light gives a direction for the people, and the ones lurking in the shadows just seem to be missing out. The mood this photograph gives off is hard to put into words, and that's why I like it.  

This is my favorite picture that I stumbled across for this assignment. I love the figures' balanced composition as well as the balance of darks and light. I also love the diagonal lines that connect the foreground figure to the midground one, and the midground figure to the background one. I love how each figure is looking in a different direction. I love how the illuminated figure is out of focus, and the silhouetted figures are more in focus. Even though the foreground figure is illuminated, her eyes are closed, thus tying her together with the other two unidentifiable figures. Each plane holds its own. The inverted triangle gives off a feeling of drama and instability. The seafoam background is an interesting color choice, but I have no objections to it. Wonderful.

463- Lauren Ellis

I immediately loved this picture for numerous reasons.  The fact that the only light source is the sun outside of the car draws your eye deeper into the image and background. Also, because the sun is at an angle above the car, it does not shine into it, and it creates a silhoutted subject. The dark subject and inside of the car make for an interesting composition because it frames the image with darkness and pulls you into the light. Her loose strands of hair blowing in the wind along with her arm extended out of the window also pull your eye into the light/background.

This image, which is actually from the movie "Almost Famous," provides another example of a subject lit inside a car. Once again, the light comes from outside of the car. However, you can tell the sun is at a lower angle due to the fact that Kate Hudson's face is not completely silhoutted. In my opinion, it's actually coming from the right of the image because of the way that her hair and rim of her face are lit.

The Beginnings of My Lighting Experience

One of my assignments for a class I took a long time ago was to take environmental portraits. I took this one of my friend who lived next to me and I used 3 60-Watt bulbs to get this picture. I wanted to capture the essence of a guitar player and to make sure I lit him well. Luckily we were in a small room and the tungsten bulbs I was using created a very warm effect on him. However, I did not know I could rent a lighting kit or anything from either the J-School or the Media Arts school, but I was able to get this picture really well, flooding his face but not the background and really getting the catch lights in his eyes, which makes the picture much better. The funny thing is that I had another assignment during the same semester to take environmental portraits. I took a similar picture of this same person but was unable to get the catch lights on his eyes. That picture was not as good as this one. Although this picture has a lot of flooded light, I really like the fact that I was able to create what I think as a well-crafted image using a three-bulb lamp and a small dark room. And not using the built-in flash on the camera.