Saturday, October 3, 2009

Colors and Lighting

This week's assignment was fun! I played around with a few of the settings on my camera, got to mess around with lights, and contorted myself into the strangest of positions to get my shots.

For the Color Wheel portion of the week, I chose to go with a monochrome color scheme (which happened mostly by accident but I liked how it looked) and complimentary colors:

As for the lighting, I figured that I'd play around with color there, as well. My first shot was a plain-jane diffused room lighting. The others were much more interesting. I took some colored lights and added direction to give the subject a whole new look and feel:




Originally, I had tried playing around with a flashlight and spot light, as well as trying to throw light through a crystal prism, but these just weren't doing anything for me.

9 comments:

  1. You did a great job with the assignment. It is obvious you had fun with it. I like the monochrome and the different color lights that you used.

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  2. Creepy Cool Pictures! Looks like you had a good time playing with everything.

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  3. Great job! I LOVE the different color effects...that red is awesome!! Great job!!

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  4. How cool, sounds like you really had fun with this one. It is fun to have a class where you can really use your imagination and you did just that. Love the different colors and your choice of object was really neat.

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  5. Using different colored lights was a good idea... I never would have thought of it!! The pictures really give off a different attitude each.

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  6. Cool. I like the different coloured lighting you used on the gargoyle. They came out nicely.

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  7. I never thought to use different colored lights. That was a great idea! The gargoyle looks different with each colored light! He also worked great for your monochrome color scheme ( my favorite) Great Job!!

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  8. Maybe they are not "doing anything" for you but they are a great lighting study!!

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  9. Oh, that was SO unclear when I typed it up in there. These images were perfect. I meant that the flashlight and light prism images that I tried were the failures. They just didn't throw enough light, or the field of view needed to be too large (as in the case of the light prism) to catch the entire effect. I ended up moving over to the colored lights, which I thought came out perfectly!

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