Today in class I took the opportunity to take some portrait photographs of another students model.

Below is a photo of the set up. Quite complicated with four lights. One, to light the background slightly and the other three to light the model.

Colour gels/filters were used in these next set of photographs. To complement the models purple shawl and slightly orange hair, purple and orange cellophane have been taped across separate lights. The set up photograph above shows the colours on the lights.

The colours add warmth to the photographs.

Care had to be taken when taping the cellophane to the lamps as the can get very hot. We also had to be careful of the lead from one of the lights. It was on a free standing tripod and not a pantograph like the rest.

Trying to have a go at capturing some movement shots. Initially I wasn’t able to capture the model mid hair flick. My shutter button wasn’t pressing down. I quickly realised I had the focus on automatic. This meant the lens was searching for a focusing point that was constantly moving, therefore not able to be pushed down. After I switched to manual focus, I captured these below.