Objective: Creating soft beauty lighting for studio (softer and harder lighting), creating artificial daylight and "bounce lighting".
Tools Used:
- Soft Box
- Beauty Dish
- Light Metre
- Flash Head
- Lighting Stand
- Sync Lead
Measuring light for photographic exposure:
1. Turn on the Light Metre at the power button and press mode to adjust for the appropriate light setting e.g. Flash, Flash C (cable), Daylight, Daylight C (cable)
2. Set the ISO by holding the button down and changing it to 100 (Canon Camera) or 200 (Nikon).
3. Connect the front of the Light Metre to the Flash Head using the sync lead, this will allow you to measure the light from the flash.
4. Stand the same distance from the flash as your model will be and mark the floor.
5. Hold the front of the Light Metre up the flash placing it next to your face keeping the white flap shut.
6. Flash the Light Metre.
7. The number given will be the aperture required for the camera e.g. F8 the higher the number the more detail will be visible in the background as the depth of field increases. This will make any background dirt very clear to the eye.
8. Place the same ISO, F and Shutter speed (1/160) into the camera settings.
9. When changing the flash head to a soft box or beauty dish the aperture may change, to get this number to match turn up the power dial on the flash head until the number matches again.
10. If the model moves then a new reading must be done.
Three examples of lighting:
1. Beauty Dish - harsh artificial lighting, shows up all details of the skin/hair/body. Can be unflattering.
2. Soft Box - softer and warmer lighting that creates a diffused light to mimic natural daylight.
3. Bounce Lighting - firing any light/flash away from the model at a white surface to bounce light back at the model. Often polyboard is effective for this.
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