Studio Induction

In today's lesson we learnt the basics of the studio, we learnt that the F-stop, shutter speed, ISO and white balance are the most important things when shooting something. The F-stop is supposed to be set at 3.5 as it is the ideal exposure level, this can be control manually by turning the dial on the top left or right side of the camera to M. The shutter speed should be set at 60th and the ISO should be 100 - 200. The white balance will be on flash so it can create light in the shot. This can be further controlled with reflector. We were using the Bowen flash kit which had two lights to control the brightness. A soft box was placed on each of them to diffuse the light. Another light that was used was the snoot, this is a directional light that is used to create a distinct separation between the object and the background. This means that object will appear to be more three dimensional.

 In the studio a three point lighting system was used; the key light was directed onto the subject so you can see them, the feel light was used to make the whole scene brighter, and finally the hairline light was used to separate the subject from the background.

During the introduction we were reminded that the camera should be used in portrait so it can be used for the front cover, contents page, and the DPS. The teacher explained that the simple movement of making the camera sideward, would change the orientation and therefore make the whole magazine look more professional. If the image was taken in landscape it wouldn't fit on to the cover and would therefore need to be cropped and resized. This would make the image look distorted and unprofessional. finally, the lens are extremely expensive and it has different setting modes you can set it to; AF, A and M. We were told that it was best to leave it on A or AF as it would mean it would auto focus.