Larry Getz
Saturday, October 11 - 9:00AM to 12:00AM
Jenkins Fine Art Center Rm 1108 and Light Studio
This Teaching & Learning presentation with live interactive lighting demo will cover the basic and essential checkpoints of light every photographer must consider when making images.
We will very briefly discuss what light is, the physics of light, natural and artificial sources of light; how to control and modify light, color temperature and its use/importance in visual communication. The program is a culmination of my initial exposure to photographic lighting concepts at Brooks Institute, my personal experiences creating images for high-end advertising productions over 30 years and finally, from ideas, conversations and concepts gleamed from multiple educational sources. The workshop presentation uses a lecture PowerPoint including sample images, many created by my former students, and interactive, hands-on, lighting demo of lighting concepts being discussed.
The workshop is designed to help photography instructors in lighting course development for basic introductory lighting courses. The logical progression of information and exercises includes activities for all student learner types. The program quickly moves along to a live demonstration of three distinct levels of diffusion using natural light. These points are then repeated under artificial/studio conditions. The lesson learned is that studio lighting is nothing more than the attempt at duplication of natural lighting conditions, how natural light would affect the scene/subject.
Included is explanation of the importance of scene brightness/contrast and the use of light ratios to control scene brightness in both artificial and natural lighting situations.
The workshop concludes with a demonstration of the three universal surface characteristics and how lighting is used to portray each surface.
Time will be available for questions and further discussion.
A handout of Five Essential Lighting Checkpoints will be available to attendees.
This workshop is for SPESE conference attendees only. To register go to:
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Due to limited space, please register only to a single workshop!
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