KAY BAISDEN O C A: COLOUR

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REVEALING COLOUR

Light intensity is important when capturing
colour. It is important that the light dose not
burn out the colour. Light coloured tonally
with the colour of the object can enhance
the overall colour levels of the object.
It is important also to reduce the shadow
levels to keep the levels of colour. Diffusion
softens the shadows and enriches the colour

natural light back right

over light tent

gold reflector front light

f 20 2.5 sec

I planned to use the light tent to take

the colour images as I wanted the

light to be soft so that the saturation

of the colour was not burnt out.

I bracketed the exposure and the above

photograph is one stop over ave

exposure as the ambient light was

not strong and so the images were

a little dark. I used to gold reflector

inside the tent close to the subject

to increase brightness and also

enhance the colour of the subject

I think the image colour is not

as intense as I would like.

f 20 1.3sec

the suggested exposure setting on

aperture priority.

colour is more intense but image is

alittle dark

f13 1/60 sec

1 diffused studio flash

back right

light tent

gold reflector left side

wb set to flash

The light is more intense

but the colour is very pink

based on the gold reflector

and the white balance compensation.

I still am not happy with the colour

levels of this image

ONE FLASH DIFFUSED OVER

ONE SOFT BOX LIGHT TENT

GOLD REFLECTOR FRONT LEFT

F10 1/60 sec sync.

Original Planned set up

full studio set up white background
full diffused light. Try to intensify to
gold tones of the shell.

I set up the lighting as planned
but changed the backdrop colour
to black to fully show the intensity
of the colour of the object.

I think the softness of the lighting
shows the full colour of the object
and is not burnt out as full
undiffuesd lighting does.

NATURAL LIGHT BEHIND AND LEFT

OF THE OBJECT

1 GOLD REFLECTOR FRONT BELOW
OBJECT.

F4.5 1.3 SEC

I wanted to use ambient light as a light source
for this assignment.
From doing the exercises on the use of reflectors I
had planned to use the gold reflector to bounce
light onto the subject to ensure that the subject
was fully exposed but also to enhance the colour.

I placed the reflector under the subject and tilted it
towards the object and reflected the full light back
onto the shell. This enhanced the gold colour of the
shell and also lit the front of the subject to ensure
all the detail was captured.

I used a wider aperture setting to be able to
capture the limited avail light and reduce the
exposure time. I also wanted the image to be
softer .