Assignment 3 - Using One Light

For this assignment, our team used one light to portray opposite portraits.

The first portrait uses bright frontal lighting and light colors to show positive forward movement.

The second portrait associates dark colors and back-lighting with backward movement.  

Our team members included: Carla, Raquel, and Serichai

Lesson 2 - Demonstrating the Three Laws of Light

This image aptly demonstrates all three laws of light, which are as follows:
The first law tells us that the intensity of light will diminish the farther it travels from the source.

The second law tells us that light travels in a straight line.

The third law of light tells us the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection.

And what a lovely photo it turned out to be!

Lesson 1 - Inverse Square Law

Here is my example of using the Inverse Square Law to demonstrate that as the object gets farther from the light source, the intensity of the light reflected off of the object lessens. l=1/d^2

Additionally, we did an exercise where instead of using three grey cards placed one foot away from one another, we placed a black card in front, grey card in the middle, and white card in back. The challenge was to get the shade of all three cards to match by manipulating the distance of the light source. We were able to successfully complete this part of the assignment by moving the light closest to the front black card and focusing the radiated light upon this black card. Because the light was close and focused, less light reached the back white card and thus their colors looked similar when captured in the camera.

Amazingly enough, the photo above is of three different colored cards. From left to right: black, grey, and white.

This assignment will be helpful because it taught that placing an object close to a light source is not the best way to capture detail. Additionally, when photographing a crowd, placing a light farther away will ensure more even lighting upon the subjects.