window light simulation

[michaellossi]

Hey there, I have a project wherein I need to simulate window light artificially on a person....HOWEVER, I don't have any real studio lighting available save for a reflector. Any help would be appreciated!

[Curtis N]

Got a flash unit?

Hang a white bed sheet over an interior doorway, and blast it with flash from the other side.

[Wilt]

No flash? Hang a sheet outside across a window, run an extension cord to a light with a incandescent spot or flood lamp and shine it on the sheet from the outside. No window? (you're taking a photo class from inside prison)...get some 1"x1" and make yourself a window frame with divided 'glass' panes!

[inward/outward]

Unless I understood wrong, I think the student's project is to simulate window light without actually using a window.

I could be wrong.
IO

[Wilt]

Unless I understood wrong, I think the student's project is to simulate window light without actually using a window.

I could be wrong.
IO

If the window was real, is it any violation of the assignment to use artificial lighting at night?!...it is, after all, simulating the light, though not simulating a window! I think the assigment in a photography class is simulating the light thru a window :) He would certainly be cheating if it was a carpentry or architectural design class! :cool: If he owned some lighting equipment, I'd tell him to borrow a softbox and put black electrical tape across its front, to divide it into panes.


I once covered a wedding where the building we were in had an interior wall (partial) with a window frame set into it, which opened into another room. No light coming thru it. I set studio lights on the other side of the partial wall, and simulated a window for a bridal portrait, triggering the light with radio slave. I simulated window light, had a prop that looked like a window (and was a window frame), but from an artificial source positioned and aimed to achieve what I had in mind when I set it up.

[PacAce]

Hey there, I have a project wherein I need to simulate window light artificially on a person....HOWEVER, I don't any any real studio lighting available save for a reflector. Any help would be appreciated!

Does the assignment indicate the type of window lighting? Direct sun coming through the window? Light through a North-facing window? The former is easier to simulate than the latter so I was just curious.

[michaellossi]

To clarify, the assignment is to simulate window light on one person (subject) WITHOUT a window, but using only artificial light. The type of window light (direct sun/north-facing) was not specific from the instructor. Thanks so much for the responses/interest!

[PacAce]

To clarify, the assignment is to simulate window light on one person (subject) WITHOUT a window, but using only artificial light. The type of window light (direct sun/north-facing) was not specific from the instructor. Thanks so much for the responses/interest!
And incandescent bulb set low can simulate the sun at dusk or dawn.

A flash set high and pointed down at an angle can simulate a midday to mid-afternoon (or mid-morning) sun.

A flash bounced off a white or bluish-white wall or a very large poster board can simulate light coming through a window on the non-sunny side of the house.

[PhotosGuy]

I don't any any real studio lighting available save for a reflector. Aim the reflector directly at a wall. Sit the person down 2-3' from the reflector. Done.

[PacAce]

Aim the reflector directly at a wall. Sit the person down 2-3' from the reflector. Done.
What's going to provide the light? Or is reflector here used the same was as Metz does in their documentation?

[bieber]

For catchlights, try using black duct tape or gaffers tape to divide the reflector into "panes"

[PhotosGuy]

What's going to provide the light? He said, "I don't have any real studio lighting available save for a reflector.", so I think it's a reflector like a work light with a bulb in it? Otherwise it seems that he has no light at all? OTOH, I've been wrong before! :)

[michaellossi]

I can use any means of artificial light for the portrait, but I only have a regular 2-sided reflector and the crap built-in flash for my 30D. I was just thinking lamps, sheets and angles might do the trick. Thanks guys!