Blog 20: Exit Interview

1) What is your essential question and answers? What is your best answer and why?

My essential question is "How can a photographer best achieve ideal lighting during a photo session and why?". My first answer is that in order for a photographer to achieve ideal lighting they must have an understanding of light both given and natural. My second answer is that a photographer can best achieve ideal lighting during a photo session by adjusting their camera settings in accordance with given light. My third answer is that a photographer can achieve ideal light by adding light and using equipment. My best answer is my second answer because when doing any type of photo session a photographer always has their primary piece of equipment as their camera and it's important for them to know what they're doing in terms of adjusting in accordance with given light. 

2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

This is something that I kind of got right off the bat when I started taking ROP. I realized that I didn't really know how to use a DSLR camera

3) What problems did you face how did you resolve them?

I guess a few problems that I had faced when finding my answer was finding actual research and not prices of lights and reflectors, eventually I just looked up techniques and set ups. Another problem that came up was getting into the studio to work with equipment and learning how to use it and identify any problems, eventually I just set a day to go in and stuck to it. 

4) What are the two most  significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

My first would be Lighting Essentials by Andrew Langcake and Simon Mclntyre because it gave a lot of information about the differently types of equipment that photographers use and it also gave some examples of different lighting set up, this really helped me when I was working on my independent component, because otherwise I would've had to constantly ask Jack how to set things up.

My second most significant source would be Chapter 9 Advanced Techniques from Rob Sylvans' From Snapshots to Great Shots. I count this as significant in finding my best answer because it introduced me to the basics of equipment lighting.

Blog 19: Independent Component 2

LITERAL
(a) Statement saying: “I, Symphony Moreno, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
(b) Jack Bohlka
(c) Provide a digital spreadsheet (aka log of the 30 hours).   Post it next to your mentorship log.
(d) I worked in Photoshop after taking photos using a few different lighting set ups and equipment.
INTERPRETIVE 
Defend your work and explain how the significant parts of your component and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  
There is a link to my online portfolio under the links section of my blog, although I only put up five photos from when I went into the studio, I put a lot of work into some of the photoshop that I did ( especially the pop art).
APPLIED
How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped.

This helped answer my EQ because during the time that I was working I realized that the use of equipment (especially flash to act as a fill light) is important when trying to get a well lit photo. For example at one point I turned off the light that had an umbrella reflector and just used my dominant light(with a softbox) and my backlight, this changed the lighting of the portrait dramatically, because it created shadows on Lupe's face.