#9: MULTIPLE EXPOSURE IMAGES (8+)

MULTIPLE EXPOSURE

DIRECTIONS: Using your silhouettes & direct side-light photos, and other photos, combine your photos into various multiple exposures. Use BLEND MODE in the Layers Palette, to blend the various images in your layers. Erase or cut away parts of photos if needed...The beauty is in the unexpected.

Make EIGHT+ multiple exposure images.

More will earn extra credit. 

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Sara Byrne. CLICK HERE.
Christoffer Relander. CLICK HERE.
Dan Mountford. CLICK HERE.
Matt Wisniewski. CLICK HERE.
Nacho Oraechea. CLICK HERE.


Annie Kornberg


Nina Coleman


Hyesung Yu


Erik Radzik

Stefan moses.
Duane Michaels
Arturo Bragaglia
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 Hohman.

#8: REMBRANDT & CHIAROSCURO Portraiture

chi·a·ro·scu·ro

/kyärəˈsk(y)o͝orō/

noun

1. • an effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
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DIRECTIONS.

1. Make 5 exposures of a person, or people, using the Rembrandt lighting technique (that is, with the small triangle of highlight on the shadowed side of the face).

2. Make 5 additional exposures using the chiaroscuro technique (does not necessarily need the triangle that is specific to Rembrandt light)

RATIONALE.

To explore intentional light, and exert a bit of control in the way the light illuminates the subject.

NOTE.

All 10+ images must be portraits of people.

 

Chiaroscuro (Italian for light-dark) in art is characterized by strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition. More HERE.

Rembrandt lighting is a lighting technique that is sometimes used in studio portrait photography. It can be achieved using one light and a reflector, or two lights, and is popular because it is capable of producing images which appear both natural and compelling with a minimum of equipment. Rembrandt lighting is characterised by an illuminated triangle under the eye of the subject, on the less illuminated side of the face. It is named for the Dutch painter Rembrandt, known for his use of light. More HERE.

In order to achieve the beautiful contrast between light and dark, known as chiaroscuro, there is a method employed by photographers -Rembrandt Lighting.

 

Decoding Chiaroscuro. CLICK HERE.
Click HERE to see and read how it is done.
An Aper(cul)ture article on Rembrandt lighting technique HERE.
Click HERE to see a few more lighting techniques (as well as more on Rembrandt lighting)
Examples. (CLICK HERE).

How to Create Rembrandt Lighting

PROJECT #7: LIGHT & SHADOW (15+ Intentional Images)

#7: LIGHT & SHADOW (15+ Intentional Images)

DIRECTIONS: 
15+ photographs of distinct & dramatic LIGHT and SHADOW in your daily life over the next four days.

THE CHALLENGE:

Make images that have beautiful...striking...sublime...gentle...nuanced...stark...etc...light and shadow. 

Subject matter is of your own choosing 

TO CONSIDER:

-Approach the project as a project of observing. 
-Use the RULE OF THIRDS compositional if possible...but other compositional arrangements are fine.
-Place the LIGHT OR SHADOW you want to be the main focal point in one of the intersections.

-Identify the direction of your light source.

-Silhouettes?

-Side light / direct light portraits?

-Something else you discover...

Robin Broadbent

Olavo Azevedo