Steve Carty Photography Workshop

        The other day Steve Carty, a famous photographer, came into our CyberArts program and did a photography workshop with us. We were after asked by our teacher to choose three pictures from that day to upload to our blog. So featured below are my three pictures from the workshop.

 So the first photo above is taken in a studio with a single light fixture off to the right side of his face. with no reflector, we shot inside at Iso 400 at 120 shutter speed, the f-stop was at 16. the lens was put into a length of 50mm. The subject was placed an arm's length away from the background. the background is not lit by any other light beside the one single light. The subject was in a very comfortable state and that relates to his expression. The placement of the frame, being vertical, works much better than if it was horizontal.

In this photo, I had placed the subject against a brick wall outside. The day was fairly overcast, so the subject is fairly evenly lit. No use of a reflector for this picture. The subject, again, is in a very relaxed state. The camera was set down to Iso 200 f-stop was set to its lowest, 4.5, the lens was still zoomed to 50mm. The placement of the subject works, once again, being vertical rather than horizontal.

For this photo, we went back into the studio, this time, the subject was placed a bit more centered towards the light back to an iso 400 and shutter speed 120, f-stop 16. This time, a gold reflector was used to bump up the side of his face. The subject once again was very comfortable in his position, reflected on his facial expression. The single light I used, was focused a bit more downward onto him. the framing of this picture works vertically because it has a stronger composition than if it was horizontal.

This is a diagram of the studio set up that we used.