Mix yo Lighting

At first when I was told I had to "mix lighting" I honestly thought you were pulling my leg. I had no clue what I was suppose to do or how to start going about it. At first I went about this walking around the school going to windows and doors with the big studio lights. But that was just not got me. So I took a different approach to it and out came a mixed lighting photo I was satisfied with.

With my photo I used the big flash and played around with it trying to bounce it off all the walls and even the roof till I got a photo I liked how my artificial light played with the natural light coming through the window. This assignment gave me a better understanding of how to use light to my advantage, and that light is my friend!

This photo was taken with a Nikon D3000 f5 1/500 ISO 400

Is your lighting perfect? Mine is.

After many days in the studio; and moving lights after lights after lights, with a few snaps and finito I have my studio lighting pictures. Before I started this assignment I can say I honestly did not think it was going to be this difficult to put a few lights up around a subject and get some pretty awesome pictures. But I was wrong. I realized there is much more to perfect studio lighting then meets the eye.

I tried to base my my photos on a 1:2 ratio. I had to do a ton load of moving the lights around but by doing that I came out with some pretty rockin pictures if I do say so myself. (My model made it pretty effortless though, thanks smacey baby)

I had my model do more what she wanted, than me having to tell her how to move and what emotion to show on her face. I told her to have fun and do more of what she wanted. By letting her do this the lights played with her they worked well off of her. I learned a lot about myself as a photographer in this assignment and love it all in all.

All of my photos were shot with a Nikon D3100 f5 1/25