LVA PHOTO SCHOOL: light

Welcome to LVA PHOTO SCHOOL! Today’s zoom lesson was all about light and its qualities and characteristics that make it our most essential photography tool. After all, light there is no photography.

Here’s a quick recap of what we learned:

• If in doubt, window it out!

• Pick where you want to meter: highlights or shadows

• 4 characteristics of light: QUALITY, INTENSITY, DIRECTION COLOR

• 2 types of light: NATURAL, ARTIFICIAL

• Always have a key light, it directs your audiences’ eye to your focal point

  • You can have multiple light sources!

• Look to shadows to determine direction

• Bracket if you’re working with difficult light

• Be weird and experimental

You can tune into our zoom class from April 3, 2020 below to listen to the lesson and see the lecture. The light photo challenge follows: try it out and tag me on instagram using #LVAphotoschool.

Tune in April 6, 2020 for a class on manual mode!

LVA PHOTO SCHOOL: light

Learn the qualities and characteristics of light so you can master the most essential photography tool.

LIGHT CHALLENGE

Rules:

1. Always have a key light!

2. Utilize your compositions!

3. Practice social distancing!

4. Tag me on insta + use #lvaphotoschool

Scavenger Hunt:

1. Take a small object (happy meal toy size) and take photos of it in 10 different types of light: practice metering in both highlights and shadows (examples below)

2. Take a portrait or still life using soft window light

3. Take a portrait or still life using hard window light

4. Silhouette with a window or sunrise/sunset

5. Take a high-key photo of fruit 

6. Take a low-key photo of a baked good

7. Take a photo of your salt + pepper shakers shooting with an experimental technique

pre-visualization & a self-portrait.

Pre-visualization:  "the importance of imagining, in your mind's eye, what you - as a "photographer" (not just a snapshooter) - want the final print to reveal about a subject (and to communicate of your artistic vision)," according to Ansel Adams and this photo blog.

Well, I did it. I let pre-visualization get the best of me.

For those who are aware of what I've been up to with my documentary piece, you know it's been a turbulent ride full of access problems and idea conceptualizing. Basically, my original vision, my pre-visualization as you could say, got the best of me. I was so wrapped up in my brain's film reel, I couldn't see reality. And reality sucks. So tonight, I've sadly resorted to Photo Booth for a webcam self-portrait to capture a wish and have gone back to the drawing board for a new outlook on my documentary.

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Thanks to the video above, my loved ones, friends and Pat, HOPEFULLY, I'll get back to being a #badass #fotoninja by Christmas.