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Deja_Rowe_Photography_Assignment
Overview
This resource has been created to explain the difference between natural and studio lighting. It is also an activity that allows students to explore taking images and designing a story that goes with their image.
Looking Through the Lens
Photography is more than aiming your lens at an object and clicking a button.
Photography goes beyond what the eyes can see, it explores, creates, and designs the imagination in its rarest form. What comes from photography can be an image that expresses an emotion, a desire, and even a fantasy.
What is Natural Light?
Natural light comes from the sun, and is something that can be manipulated by objects such as mirrors, reflectors, and other outside objects, but above all, natural light is outside. There are many types of natural light shades, and it can become very challenging to shoot within these shades.
The different shades of natural light are:
- Cold Blue
- Bright White
- Warm Golden
Each of these shades depends on the time of the day. For example, cold blue occurs before the sun rises and after the sun sets. Next is bright white, this type of light is when it is in the middle of the day and the sun is "shining bright". Last, is warm golden and this is during the time when the sun sets.
What is Studio Light?
Studio light is light(s) that comes from inside a location such as a "studio". There are many reasons people use "light modifiers" for their images. Lighting an image can create different shades, and brighten a specific target area. A typical studio has three specific lights that capture the main key point of an object. When using a cell phone, many people use their flash when in a dark area, or take the flash off when they are in a location with too much light.
There are many apps that can be used to enhance the lighting used in images as well. Thus proving that light can manipulate an image in many ways.
Let's See Your Skills!
For this activity, please use two photos to show the difference between natural light and studio light, and please be creative. It's important that your chosen two photos tell a story, show an expression or create a thought of some sort.
You can use two photos that are already on your phone, use your phone to capture the pictures, or, if you have one, use a professional camera. As for studio light, this can be any area illuminated with light other than the sun or being outside.
Next, I want you to write a 200-word paragraph expressing the meaning, background, or story of the two photos you have taken.