Fill

Lee "Brennus" Wenzbauer plays the violin near the corner of Broadway and Ninth Street on March 23. Brennus, as he calls himself, has been playing for the past 10 years on a more than 100-year-old violin. He usually can play for an hour before his fingers get tired, he says.

For this assignment, I had to find situations that challenged the brightness range on my camera's sensor. This photo was taken around noon. I used an off-camera strobe to fill more light under Brennus's baseball cap. By doing so, I eliminated the harsh shadows created by the sun and his cap and lowered the brightness range.

Here's my lighting diagram:

Color Correction

Local artist David Spear layers on the base colors of his 11-by-6 foot painting for Boone Hospital in his studio at Alley Way Arts. The final work will be an aerial view of Columbia. He hopes to finish it by late April.

For this assignment in my Advanced Techniques class, I had to photograph under two different lighting situations, fluorescent and tungsten, and correct the color casts by putting gels on my off-camera flash and adjusting the white balance on my camera.

The photograph above was shot under fluorescent light. I used a Roscosun 85 gel on my flash and set my white balance to warm-white fluorescent. This removed the orange cast from the fluorescent bulb.

Here's my set up:

Single Flash

Rachael Amick looks on as her residents bowl March 8. Amick has been a community adviser at MU for the past two years. She tries to organize a floor activity at least twice a month.

Rachael Amick, a community adviser for Hudson Hall, watches her residents bowl during a floor outing for Marti Gras on March 8. "It's interesting to watch how they have grown through the year," she said.

For this assignment, I had to use a single flash as my main light source. I used direct flash in the first photograph and bounce flash in the second photograph. I have never used flash like this before, so I had to experiment a great deal. But, the photographs are not as ugly as I anticipated. I even picked up a little bit of fill light from the seat on the top photograph. Thank you, Galactic Fun Zone.
Here's the lighting diagram:

Lighting Glass

For years, Chinese and Indian medicine have used green tea as natural stimulants, diuretics and astringents. Although lab results have not confirmed green tea's health benefits, researchers continue to conduct studies that test its potential in fighting heart disease and cancer.

I wanted to the clarity and energy of green tea through this assignment. So, I chose the bright-field technique for lighting glass. Here is how I did it.