Assignment 4 - Size Matters

21" beauty dish

Octabank












The first picture was taken with the 21" beauty dish, the second with the Octabank. We modeled the Octabank picture off of the first achieved beauty dish picture.

The distance from the light to the subject was approximately the same. The main variants were the angle at which the light was placed in relation to the subject, and the distance of the subject from the background.

The beauty dish was placed almost directly in front of the subject, but slightly to the side. To achieve the same shadow and light effect with the Octabank, it had to be placed directly to Paul's side. When we used the Octabank the subject had to get very close to the background because the light was larger and we needed the silhouette to line up directly next to his head to maintain the shadow.

One can detect that different lighting techniques are being used because the light cast upon Paul's face is first straight on, and then angled.