Blog 18: Third Answer

EQ:

How can a photographer best achieve ideal lighting during a photo session?

Answer 3:

Having an understanding of natural light/ given light is a stepping stone to achieving ideal lighting during a photo session.

Details:
Directional Light: A photographer has to know what direction the light is coming from in order to know where to place the subject and additional lights if needed.

Light temperature: There are different light temperatures that photographers have to know about in order to know how to adjust their cameras, the reason we can't tell the difference is because our eyes adjust to light temperature automatically.

Surfaces: Depending on how bright of a day it is the sun or type of light might reflect off of surfaces that may not be flattering to the photo and a photographer has to know how to fix that.

Source(s)
Mentor, Jack Bohlka, Professional Photographer

Conclusion:
A photographer can achieve ideal lighting by first understanding natural light and the light around them

March Post

A lot of the things that I did this month include taking photos kind of miscellaneously, then editing them and posting them to my online portfolio, which has it's own link on the sidebar of my blog or here. A lot of the photoshop usage that I did, I put towards my independent component as a way of getting more familiar with the program in order for me to do edits more efficiently when touching up the portraits that I'll do for my independent component portfolio.Other than that this month has been pretty chill.

Blog 17: Fourth Interview

1. One of my answers for my essential question, "How can a photographer best achieve ideal lighting during a portrait session?", is knowing your camera, meaning adjusting your settings in accordance with given light, what are your thoughts on that?
2. What settings would you say work best for you during outdoor portrait sessions?
3. A lot of people don't like having their photo taken, what do you do to make them feel comfortable?
4. How do you deal with people who just can't relax?
5. On a day like today how would you adjust your settings? And do you think you'd need a fill light?
6. Speaking of fill light what would you define fill light as?
7. People have their preferences in lighting styles, broad to short ect.., what's yours and why?
8. What do you think of Rembrandt lighting? 
9. What's your opinion on softboxes and their effect on the harshness of the lighting?
10. In what circumstances would you consider using an on camera flash?
11. Opposite of that, when would you use an off-camera flash?
12. What's your opinion of the five in one disk reflector?
13. How does or does not using a disk reflector affect your work?
14. In what type of situation would you use a fill light?
15. What would you say identifies your work as yours?
16. When do you think it is more appropriate to not add any type of additional lighting and just do a silhouette?
17.  What is your opinion on three point lighting?
18. What do you think is more important in three point lighting, the back light or the fill light?
19. What about two point lighting?
20. Sometimes you get like really harsh light when doing outdoor portraits, what do you specifically do to make it less harsh?

February Post

This month I didn't do too much, though I did take some photos for yearbook ( I'll add one under all this text and such). I've also been doing a little research on three point set-ups, so when I get around to actually doing that I'll have an idea of how it's supposed to look. So not much done, but plenty to do before independent component is due.

[ Mirror shot of Lara McConnaughey, Brandon Salinas, and Cancino along with the rest of dance in a rehearsal. ] 

[ Example of three point lighting. ]