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SoaringUSAEagle
20th of January 2007 (Sat), 00:33
Wow so today was my first real taste at studio photography. I used a large format camera along with some mole-richardson tungsten lights. I was required to do two different assignments where we had a paper clock taped to the wall and I had to focus just the 12 and 6, and then just the 1 and 7. It was fun tilting and swinging the camera to achieve the requirement.

And for the second we used just a key light and then a key with a fill right above the camera with a scrim to diffuse the light and wow... I am totally impressed with my results.

I learned to process my own 4x5 negatives today... Pretty similar to 35mm I suppose lol.

I dont have much experience with strobes but so far, continuous lighting is really neat. Yeah it gets a bit warm working with after a bit but it definitely gives you the control needed and/or wanted.

After reading that big long post about continuous lighting vs strobes and whanot, I have learned a lot.

I am about ready to invest in some lighting equipment but I dont quite know yet what I want to get. My school uses mole-richardsons but is there something else that is better?

TMR Design
20th of January 2007 (Sat), 01:19
Can you post something from your shoot? I would love to see.

SoaringUSAEagle
20th of January 2007 (Sat), 01:21
Yeah let me go scan my kleenex box haha... My scanner sucks FYI.

BRB lol

SoaringUSAEagle
20th of January 2007 (Sat), 01:38
I will take these to school next week and scan them with their high res scanner. Mine really blows. And I will have the clock pictures by then too... I havent processed them yet.

But here is the kleenex box.

This really does look better in real life lol.

The first image is with the fill light and the second is without obviously.

jcw122
20th of January 2007 (Sat), 01:44
LOL I thought you were kidding when you said you'd scan your klenex box haha

SoaringUSAEagle
20th of January 2007 (Sat), 01:45
lol its the image I took in lighting class today.

Next week is a damn ceral box ROTFLMAO

BrandonSi
20th of January 2007 (Sat), 21:24
Very cool.. I always wished I could've gotten some experience like that in college.. Please do post the clock shots when you get them developed, I'd love to see them.

SoaringUSAEagle
21st of January 2007 (Sun), 00:06
I will for sure. And I will scan and repost the kleenex shots lol.

View cameras are a lot of fun once the basics are understood and the inverse square law is understood too lol... ugh math. Just kidding.

I'll probably just post in here once a week or so with what I am doing.