Textured Lighting

Textured Lighting baby

ISO 200 f6.3 1/40

lighting

ISO 100; shutter 30; f/5.0

Maybe?

Big Buddies: Round II

I'm trying to get a time setup with Big Buddies to do light painting with them again this semester. Last year (above photo), we just gave them flashlights, but this year I think we should use flashes to put the kids in the pictures as well, like the example below:

HDR Rail Crossing

HDR of two exposures: 1/15" and 1/2" at f/16 and ISO 200

Textured Light vs Lighted Texture

A lot of people seem to be having trouble with the textured lighting theme, so here's a quick explanation by example:

This picture of Katya in a tree is a mix of textured lighting and lighted texture because the plants around her are creating shadows on her (textured lighting), but the plants themselves are in the picture, so we can see the light falling on the leaves (lighted texture), and thus the viewer knows exactly what is making those shadows.

The above photo of Angelico does not use textured lighting. The lights I put on him do not have anything on them and there is nothing between them and the subject. This is an example of what we talked about last week, about lighting textures. In this example, the light is setup to outline the simple lines of his figure against the environment.

Finally, the example above with Angelico in the tree is a classic example of textured lighting. The flash was positioned behind a tree, and we setup a branch full of leaves in between the flash and Angelico. As a result, you can clearly see the various shadows of leaves and branches cast over Angelico, which gives interest to an otherwise boring photo (unless you were already sold by the fact that he's got a sword).

Textured Light

A picture of the wall in my new room with a candle waterfall light and some electric candles shot at SS 1/10 F/ 5.6

Textured Light... on my shoe.

What happens when you show up to a shoot with everything but a subject? You use what you've got. And luckily, I had shoes on. Thus, I took off my shoe and got my socks dirty for this shot over at Texonia Park tonight.

28mm, 5 sec, f/7.1 at ISO 500 using a green-gelled flash through a park bench above the shoe.

Bri's Textured Lighting Shots

35mm, 30" @f/6.3, 100ISO

105mm, 10" @ f/4.5, 100 ISO