Using a Portable Flash

It's quite easy when you know how. Here are some photos that me and some friends of mine took:

This didn't save properly on the SD card
but the lighting was with a green gel over it, we
used greeen with this pose because
it can be a happy colour, but in this photo
it didn't favour that idea - it looks
quite sickly.

This photo is alright, I still think we should have concerntrated more on the getting more ambiant light in.

The photo looks like this poor girl is frozen in time, and the blue tint adds to that, giving it a cold as ice sort of frozen.

I must say Sophie could have struck a better pose for this, facial expression is
valued so much in any photo, and in this one her expression is the wrong one,
she is trying to look evil and horrible but if she is smiling like she is, it throws over
the concept. This image would be improved by making the appropriate expression.




This is a really good photo, although Sophie looks like she is shocked about something she also looks like she's seeing something nauseating, the green gel helps this feature as well, with the black, mysterious background, it looks like she's discovered a body or something really shocking. 




 

  



This is an alright photo, it looks like one
of those images where the good superhero
is in the dark trying to defeat the evil
guy.



This image truely freaks me out, and
really looks and has that cold, evil, harsh
feel to it. If i kept the ambiant light down, I
think Seb would look really evil.



This looks creepy - wierd creepy- if the ambiant light was a little darker
then it would look the right sort of creepy, although the facial expressoina could also
be changed. instead of clenched teeth Seb could open his open mouth to look like he's
shouting.

This would make a really good
poster if Seb ever wanted to go into
opera singing, although again the
lighting could be better.As in, letting more
ambiant lighting in.

This photo looks a little scary, but i think
the flash was a little too bright, so to fix
this we turn up the aperture.



This is using the flash to Sophie's left.
This photo is perfect except the one thing that
is worng with all of them; the ambiant light.

This is using side lighting, which went well.
i have no critizism for this 



This photo had a silly pose to it, but the

objective was to light from underneath

Sophie, so we have a happy/evil Sophie.





This is the one that we got right, becuase the ambiant light is the correct level same as the flash light. Although it is a little blurry.





Evaluation

If you haven't caught the message yet, yes I neeed to use more ambiant light, and ask Sophie to do exactly what I want her to do, but I must also make sure that I describe what I want specificly. I enjoyed this lesson it has been a useful experience that I hope to use later in future projects.

This is one of two that i took of Seb, we put the flash
behind him, and it gave him this outline of red. It looks
really effective, personally I think it would look better
with even less ambiant light.

This photo is the same technique of
the one to the left, but this one looks heroic.

Health and Safety
The precautions we had to be aware of, are tripping on the long wire, dropping the battery, and and flashing the flash in the eyes of any surrounding people.