Today we reviewed the results of Exercise 5 and 8. Both exercises were mostly about balancing the light between two vastly different exposed settings. Attempting to understand the latitude of the cameras and our choices to control these. 

Robin gave insights into the results of Exercise 8. We talked alot about exposure within this scene as the exercise prompted. Having a window behind the subject in a room always makes the decision on exposure difficult. This group chose to expose the subject correctly and allow large amounts overexposed highlights outside the glass. We discussed how there were sort of two ways to approach this scene without getting hot parts in the image. They could either silhouette the character and expose for the window outside or match the brightness outside by lighting the character. Both would have eliminated over exposed sections of the image.

When looking at Exercise 5, this group seemed to handle the bright and dark areas of the image a little better. There were small areas of over exposed sections in the frame, but the group did a nice job of exposing for both the characters in the shade and in the harsh sunlight. However what robin touched on was the discrepancies in exposure between the different shots. Exposure in exercise 5 seemed to change during the scene with the characters in the shaded area. Keeping exposure consistent throughout the scene is also important so if you establish the characters in a shaded setting, keeping them slightly underexposed keeps a visual flow within the scene. Lighting and exposure are two fields that directly affect one another and its important to understand the latitude your camera can handle when shooting in tough situations.

This week we were also introduced to the correct naming terminology of different types of diffusion and gels. Colour correction gels such as CTO (colour temperature orange) and CTB (colour temperature Blue) come in different density’s which can be used to change daylight in tungsten and tungsten into daylight. But can also be used in half and quarter density for effect and or to compensate for different coloured lighting. We touched on types of diffusion sheet and ND gel’s were also looked at. I don’t believe we’ve looked at them before but they are used to dim lights both in and out of shot.