Minimalist Lighting by Tuck Kirk

Author:Tuck, Kirk [Tuck, Kirk]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-58428-424-6
Publisher: Amherst Media, Inc.
Published: 2007-09-05T16:00:00+00:00

4. Zap. Flash. Buzz.

Modifying the Photons You’ve Got and Making the Light Work for You

You can light stuff by shining your lights directly onto your subjects, you can diffuse the light through translucent or opaque materials, or you can bounce the light off reflective materials in order to modify the apparent size and characteristic of the source before the light hits your subject. Or you can do all three at once.

Anything Goes

You can even modify light using things most people have never thought of using. Many years ago, when I was teaching a studio course on lighting and the view camera, I had a student come in and rip open two large, brown paper bags-grocery bags. She proceeded to make a solid sheet out of the two bags by taping them together with gaffer’s tape. Then, she converted the sheet into a large ball. She used the joined brown bags as a diffuser and blasted the light from two flash heads, each set to 2400Ws (a really powerful pop), directly through the bags. The light coming through the other side was gorgeous.

As this example shows, you can use just about anything to modify light that you can think of; it’s all trial and error. The following, however, are some of the more common and useful types of tools.

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