DAY 7: Lighting and Food Photography

     Our professor introduced to us the Photolight Pro App. The app lets you practice visually the lighting in a studio. You can freely move the lights anywhere you want. By the help of this app, you can still learn new techniques and ways in lighting your models all by your own,though you have no studio at home. 

     After the demonstration of the use of Photolight Pro App, some studio equipment available in our lab were shown to us. These are the following stuff:

•  Light Reflector (which our professor challenge each to fold) - it's circular and have two sides with different color. One is silver for a neutral reflection and another is gold to give a warm lighting. You can use reflectors if for example the lighting is not enough and you don't have any extra flash to lighten your subject. 
• Umbrella Reflector - we often see on TV umbrellas during photo shoots in a certain TV Series where the protagonist is a model. I thought it's just a normal umbrella but it isn't. It has different layers for additional purposes and a good light modifier. 
• Strobe Lights - these are the common lighting equipments with stand that you see in studios.

      Take not that the bigger the reflector, the softer the light.

     When we're all done in trying to fold the light reflector, we had an activity. We form groups and set up on our own some studio equipment! We had discussed also about the stop of light. It's the measurement of light and we found out that it can be divided into 3. 

• 1/3- 2/3 - then 1 stop  like in aperture,  4 - 4.5 - 5 - 5.6 

     After the discussion, we finally had our food photography! We made it by groups. Thank God I was able to borrow a camera from my classmate who's already done in their food pictorial.

     Our concept was simple, a birthday. hahaha! We bought cupcakes, colorful candies, creams, and cute candles! Look at my shot, I think it's a bit dramatic. I was flattered when my professor told me that it's a composition. I just need to add some fill light. He mentioned us before we do our activity about the fill and key lighting which we talked about also in our Film Theories class last semester. 

    The photo was warm with a dark background that suggests certain dramatic effect. A lonely birthday indeed, Lol!