In the first session at Blackburn University Centre I created my first blog.
After setting up your blog site, you click on NEW POST, give your blog a title, then click on the picture or video icon to upload your work. You can only upload Jpg images in roughly medium size files.Click UPLOAD image. You should then label your post with relevant topic names so that other bloggers can look at relevant subject categories. Then simply decide whether to save it for now, or publish! BLOG DONE!!!
This image was taken at the beginning of magic hour -10th October 2009, 17.51 hrs, using a Nikon D80 Digital SLR, with an 18 - 55mm short zoom lens. ISO 400, Focal length 52mm, and using a tripod to avoid camera shake at slow shutter speeds, Aperture f.16, and shutter speed 1.6 seconds.
Although this is not the best example of magic hour lighting, you can start to see the side glow from the sun setting. So, you wait patiently, and watch the magic unfold......
This is under lighting using a daylight balanced light tube. This gives an eerie look to your subject, especially human ones, since we do not normally see the catch lights in the lower half of the eyes, as sunlight doesn't shine from below.
This is the effect you get when you use a daylight balanced light tube held overhead, as per the set up shown. This replicates the look you would achieve if looking upwards towards daylight, or sunlight, which is a natural human thing to do, so is quite effective.
Here we see an image taken using available daylight with a white background when the subject is facing the light, which is quite natural. When the white balance on the camera is set to tungsten, however, the image gets a bad blue cast, which is completely wrong, so always check your white balance settings to achieve the results you want. Daylight is around 5500 degrees Kelvin.
Using available daylight through a window, you can see the difference you can achieve by using a reflector with your subject. In the last picture below, there is no reflector, so the light can be seen around the edges, but the face is too dark, whereas by using a reflector such as the set up right, the light is bounced back onto your subject which gives a much more natural and flattering shot.
Setting your light, as here with a soft box diffuser at a 45 degree angle gives a degree
