Strobe Assignment

Part One:

The purpose of this part of the assignment was to find an equilibrium in the ambient light and the flash so that it appeared that the photo was taken with just available light. To accomplish this, I went out at dusk (about 7:45 p.m.) to take photos of Graham Watkins jumping. The quicker shutter speeds did not allow enough light, so they came out very dark. The opposite occurred with the slower shutter speeds, as they were overexposed. I think in my pictures the best light balance was in the photo with an F-stop of 5.6 and a shutter speed of 1/8 second. Although the subject is blurry, the flash is not obvious and the lighting is still even.

Photo by Nicole Hall

This photo was taken with an F-stop of 5.6 and a shutter speed of 1/1000.

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This photo was taken with an F-stop of 5.6 and a shutter speed of 1/500

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Photo by Nicole Hall

This photo was taken with an F-stop of 5.6 and a shutter speed of 1/250.

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This photo was taken with an F-stop of 5.6 and a shutter speed of 1/125.

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This photo was taken with an F-stop of 5.6 and a shutter speed of 1/60.

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This photo was taken with an F-stop of 5.6 and a shutter speed of 1/30.

Photo by Nicole Hall

This photo was taken with an F-stop of 5.6 and a shutter speed of 1/15.

Photo by Nicole Hall

This photo was taken with an F-stop of 5.6 and a shutter speed of 1/8.

Photo by Nicole Hall

This photo was taken with an F-stop of 5.6 and a shutter speed of 1/4.

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This photo was taken with an F-stop of 5.6 and a shutter speed of half a second.

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This photo was taken with an F-stop of 5.6 and a shutter speed of one second.

Part Two:

The exposure or levels of these photos were not altered. They were all taken with a flash after experimenting with shutter speeds and F-stops.

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Graham Watkins plays his bongo drum to the beat of the music playing from his computer. This is an aerial shot of him practicing to show is shaker that he also uses to make rhythm.

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Graham Watkins adjusts the position of his bongo drum. He plays percussion drums that he left at his home in Dallas and uses the small bongo drum as a way of practicing his rhythm when he cannot play his real set.

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Practicing the bongo drum helps Graham Watkins focus on his school work since it relaxes his mind. In Dallas, he use to play drums in a band called Resonance.

Portrait Lab

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Cameron Mebane is a photojournalism junior from SFA. In this portrait, she is posing at a window at Banita Creek Hall.

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The lighting in this horizontal portrait gives a dramatic effect.

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This is a tight-shot portrait of Cameron.

Portrait of an Artist

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Mandy Clay is a painter. She is an art major at Stephen F. Austin State University.

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This is another artist portrait of Mandy Clay as she paints her current piece.

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Brittany O'Sullivan is an English major who likes to play the viola in her spare time. Her favorite songs to play are the Disney classics.