Enrolment Task Part 2

 In this clip, I attempted to construct soft lighting with a variety of different light sources, including a back light, fill light and front light. I believed this went fairly well, however could have been improved with the use of more advanced lighting equipment, rather than just using dim torches and candles that I had lying around my home. I also attempted to adjust the depth of field to see if different focal points would change the contrast of the light, but I found that in soft light not much changed when the subject was in or out of focus.


 In this clip, I tried to see how decreasing the aperture to f/5.6 and experimenting with depth of field affected lighting in the scene in the camera's manual mode. I found that when I decreased the aperture, the bulb was in much higher contrast to the dark background. I also found that when I made the light out of focus, it appeared to get much brighter therefore I can conclude that in such low key lighting focus and depth of field greatly affect the light density in the area, therefore increasing contrast.

 In this clip I attempted to create hard lighting by using one source of front light and increasing the aperture to f/25 to allow less light to enter the image plane. I think this would have gone much better if I had used a brighter source of light, rather than a dim LED torch I had lying around my home, however I think other than that I proved what I had intended to do in that with low aperture, there is a high contrast between the shadows and light. Also, I proved that with one source of light, there are a wide variety of effects that placing the light in certain locations can have on the scene, because in some places the light will cast small shadows, whereas in others there will be long, thin shadows, so dependant on the emotions a producer is trying to portray in a scene the light can be manipulated to alter the mood.