There's no Place like Home

Willow Tree at Home

This is a project for you to explore your familiar space and surroundings with the camera to document something about you and where you live. 

Explore your home and neighbourhood with your phone camera. You will be given a "prompt"; for each topic, you are to capture 3-5 images, post your images to your blog and write a brief explanation of your image and post your best to the your blog.

1. Capture something about your community - email the images to yourself, post to your blog, write a short description of your community and why you decided to capture it in this way, then upload best to the class share site. 
2. Then with a real camera explore lines around your school community. Consider simple lines, organic and geometric lines, wiggly and straight lines, lines that make a pattern. Also, see if the lines can lead to some thing important in the frame.
3. Framing with shapes
4. Colours, tones, and contrasts
5. Rule of thirds .

Try to think about the light when you photograph each image. Where is the light coming from? How is the quality of light in your image? Make sure that there is enough light. Natural light from outside or a window is WAY better than from an incandescent bulb.

You will be marked out of 4 for each required image saved to your blog. You will be marked on the completion of each image, but consider the topic/subject, and lighting exposure (so we can see the subject) for each image.

You will be assessed on each series of images and description saved to the blog. 

Studio Portrait Lighting

Light Source
One of the most important things of a good light source is its size. This determines what type of shadows you are going to have and also affects the type of reflection
Small light sources will produce a hard edged shadow, large light sources will produce a soft edged shadow.
Take as an example the most important light source in our life, the SUN. In a nice bright day with no clouds the sun will act as a small light source. On the other hand when it is a cloudy day the clouds will act as diffuser and the light source will not arrive from a direct single point but will be diffused through the clouds thus becoming a large light source and therefore producing soft edged shadows.

Lighting Angles
A person looking at an object sees each point of that object at a slightly different angle. If we sum up all these angles we would have a family of angles. The family of angles is very important thing to master as a photographer because it determines where we can place or where we cannot place our lights.

For this Studio Portrait Assignment, you are going to work with three basic lighting angles: Hatchet/Side Lighting, Rembrandt, and Glamour/Butterfly lighting. Below is an example of a

Find an example of each lighting style and add to your blog. Explain how the lighting set up is arranged to create this effect.

Rembrandt Lighting set-up:

Rembrandt

Glamour Lighting

Side Lighting