1st Light Observation
I had everyone meet up at Lowe’s early in the morning
because I felt like a cloudy early morning empty parking lot in black and white
would be a nice aesthetic. Also I thought the clouds would keep things a little
dimmer than usual therefore we would not have any problems with light. However,
what we observed through using the light meter is that even though there were
clouds out, it was still very bright outside. I guess it was more of a white
bright than it was an orange bright. So some of the ideas that we had for shots
needed to be rethought.
2nd Light Observation
In the parking lot I had Ideas for the realistic shots. But
those ideas were the ones that were ruined by there being too much light out
there. So what we did was calculate where we need to have the shutter speed in
order to shoot outside with the light given. We also put in a high slide. So
the same pictures that were meant to be realistic and shot using the specific
shutter speed ended up being adjusted to different settings to deal with the
brightness, and in doing so we dubbed those photos experimental or abstract.
3rd Light Observation
Another light observation that I made was after we left the
parking lot at Lowe’s. I took the guys to a pier that’s actually close by
campus, across the street from Carolina Cove and the apartments over there. The
view is really cool. There’s a lake with a giant patch of forest smack dab in
the middle of it. So the forest looks like an island. I guess it is an island.
I wanted to get pictures of it. However, there was no way for us to get a light
reading on the forest/island. Unless we hopped in a boat. So what we ended up
having to do was place an object on the bannister of the pier and get a shot of
the object with the forest/island in the background. That way we could take a
light reading from the object (pair of glasses) and know what settings we’d
need the camera to be on to take the photo.