Lesson 8 Outdoor Flash

Assignment 8 Outdoor flash

1. Make a portrait where the person’s face and the background are the same exposure.
2. Make a portrait where the person’s face is exposed one stop under and the background is normally exposed.

3. Make a portrait where the person’s face is normally exposed and the background is one stop under.

4. Make a portrait where the person’s face is normally exposed and the background is two stops under.

All four should be photographed in exactly the same place and the strobe does not have to be adjusted once it is set.

This is a test for your reference and should be laid out accordingly.

Print your f stop and shutter speed.

Subject should be 3 stops darker than background.

Lesson 7 Strobe and Tungsten

The photograph above is an example of how I used strobe and tungsten in my work in the 1980's

The background was lit with tungsten or an HMI light and the subject was lit with a strobe with and and 40 degree egg crate. The camera set to flash color balance. The 1st step was to figure out an exposure for the strobe set at the fastest sync speed of 1/160. The continuous light on the background is measured to match the f/stop established by the strobe. The use of the shutter speed/f-stop slider helps to visualize the exposure relationships. Care was taken to keep the lights confined to their intended targets and a capture of each light was made separately to confirm its purity

Production Stills by Heidi Zito

Assignment 7

Photograph a person with just the strobe light.

Photograph a person with just the tungsten light on.

Photograph a person using strobe on the person and tungsten
on the background. Try some with motion.


Photograph a person with tungsten on the person and strobe
on the background. Try some with motion

Lesson 6 Size Matters

Assignment 6
Take two portraits of a person one with a large 21" Beauty Dish and one with the Octabank and get the same results by using the placement of the subject, the light and the background. Look at results from class demonstration for ideas.

Examples of different light with the surface of the light 5' from the subject.


Examples of diffent sized lights at various distances where the light appears to be the same size as each other from the subjects point of view.

Here are some images to help you understand what I was talking when I described the large light I was using with 8 heads. You can only see 6 heads because the bi-tube head is hidden in the center of the rig. It is a 10" Jumbrella by my friend Gary Regester. http://www.plumeltd.com/jumbrella.htm I made the rig to hold the 7 lights by bolting together various parts I ordered from http://www.mcmaster.com/ The light was place 20' from the subjects and I stood right in front of the light. It gave an even, shadowless light and the fall off to the background was minimal.

Production stills by Heidi Zito

Lesson 5 Strobe

Assignment 5
Photo 1

Using one strobe with a bank, light a person against a white background so that their face has a highlight and shadow side. The background should appear darker on the highlight side and the lighter on the shadow side.


Photo 2
Using one strobe with a bank, light a person against a white background so that their face is evenly lit and the background is black.

Production Stills by Sally Bozzuto