Photographic Lighting
Course Code
BPH204
Payment Options
Upfront & Payment Plans
Delivery
Online & Correspondence
Duration
100 Hours
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Learn to correctly use light in photography
- Learn about the most important element in photography. Light!
- Learn how to manipulate light and your camera settings in order to take better photos.
- Become a better photographer -whether a hobby or a job
- A course for photo enthusiasts, serious students of photography, or people working in the industry, seeking to build a better understanding of light and lighting techniques.
Lighting is a critical factor in photography. Light sources can be defined in terms of four properties:
- Colour Temperature
- Power (or Brightness)
- Size
- Prevailing Direction
There are 8 lessons in this course:
- Light Characteristics and Lighting Concepts
- Intensity
- Colour Temperature
- Incident or Reflected Light
- Exposure Readings
- Light Management
- Planning Ideas
- Learn from experience
- Adjusting light for digital or choosing film
- Curves
- Understanding Sensiometry & the Zone System
- Sensiometry
- The Subject
- Blackness of Image
- Transmission
- Opacity
- Density
- Scatter
- Callier Coefficient
- Characteristic Curve
- The Zone System
- Using the Zone System
- Controlling Contrast
- Equipment and Film
- Exposing shadows
- Processing Highlights
- Light Sources
- Natural and Artificial Light Sources
- Properties of Light Sources
- Copy Lighting
- Flash Photography
- Electronic Flash (Manual, Computer, Dedicated)
- Flash Synchronisation
- Flash Problems (eg. Red eye)
- Mixing Flash & Daylight
- Meters & Filters
- Measuring light (centre weighted system, Spot reading meter)
- Problems with different meters
- Backlit Subjects
- Filters
- Other Equipment for Lighting
- Reflectors
- Problems with Aluminised Reflectors
- Reflector attachments
- Diffusers
- Tripods and Stands
- Specialised Light Sources (Spots, Cyclorama lights, Part lights, Stroboscopic lights, Ring lights)
- Backgrounds
- Digital Cameras
- Contrast and Composition
- Introduction
- Subject Contrast
- Lighting Contrast
- Brightness Range
- Exposure Compensation
- Ways of Assessing Composation
- Compensating for Reflected Glare
- Compensating for Lens Flare
- Studio Lighting
- Portrait Studio Lighting
- Working with studio lights
- Creating lighting effects
- Background lighting
- Mixed lighting
- The Basic studio
- Additiuonal lighting equipment
- Special techniques (Fashion lighting, Butterfly lighting, Lighting still life, etc)
- On-Location Lighting
- Outdoor lighting effects
- Time of Day
- Weather
- Excessive outdoor light
- Night photography
- Underwater Photography
- Creating Intense Colour
- Rainforest Photography
- Photographing Cars
- Special Techniques (High speed, Injtermittent capture, etc)
- Lighting Plants
- On location Photo Skills
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
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