Taking photos and Using the lights

Using and Heath & Safety of Lights 

This is the lighting systems we have in collage, the main risk with them is that after they have been on for a period of time they become very hot, this can result in someone getting a serious burn on there hands or other parts of there body so we have to be careful when moving or touching the lights. Another health & safety problem when using the lights is that there is wires hanging out of the back of the lights, someone could trip over these resulting in hurting themselves or damaging the lights. 

To use the lights it is pretty self explanatory, you have to firstly alter the hight and angle of the lights so they are pointing in the direction you want them to. You do this by unscrewing the leavers on the side of the lamp and stand. Then all you need to do is turn them on at the plug then turn the big red button on. On the back of lights there is the different setting you can have. Each of them controls different bulbs inside the lamp, by having only one bulb turned on the light is dimmer but having them all on make the light bright.  

Ideas and Practising using the lights

I used some one in my class to just model for me so that I could practise using the lighting systems and practise shadowing on the face. It was important that I practised this is my planning and before I did the production, because firstly it saved me time and I know now what kind of settings I want the lights on and also  because I had to learn the health and safety of using the lights. 

In this shot I have turned both of the lights up and then turned all the lights off in the room I was in. I also turned the flash off on the camera so you can just see the lights. For my magazine I will most likely use a shot like this because I think the lighting looks really good and if I add a model in between these two lights having the lights shine on them it will look really good.

 This shot didn't work out as well as we thought, we had the left lamp on full beam and the right turned off completely. This has created a clear shadow down the middle of his face, although this photo didn't turn out as well as we may of thought it would, I am still considering using a shot like this in my magazine. 

I personally think this is the best shot we took, I had the right light on only 1 bulb and the left light turned up full. Also we made our own back drop for this shot out of white paper that has made this photo look more professional. The shadowing on the right side of the face makes this shot look really real. I will defiantly use a shot like this in my magazine.

In this shot we had the light on the right side turned down to only 3 bulbs and the light on the left on full beam. This created quite a lot of shadowing on the nose area and I will certainly consider this kind of shot when taking my photos.

In this shot both of the lights are turned up on full beam, this hase created not a lot of shadowing. I will probably not use a shot like this for my magazine.