Lessons
Day 1
1Introduction
03:58 2Theme: Dogs
20:39 3Theme: Hair
18:22 4Theme: Vanishing Act
12:46 5Audience Q&A
46:34 6Extra: Art of Composition, Spring Tour 2010
02:11Day 2
Lesson Info
Reflective Light
and the last type of light is reflected light, and it's when I can. I will photograph people and subjects in very bright conditions. It's in the shadows. It's in the great caverns around the Platte planet. The caves it's in, um, snow caves. It's the way the light is reflecting or coursing its way through that. I'm picking up that reflective light, so I'm often crawling in under very thin cornices of snow or snow caves. I'm not recommending it because it's very dangerous. These were photographed when I was young and foolish a couple of years ago. This is in a hot in Ethiopia. It's useless to photograph outside when the sun is high in the sky, but in the shadows you can pick up and work all day. Long is the way Degas painted his dance ballerinas, using almost entirely in his career reflective life. Berlin that Siri's anyway. So Children following me through a mountain or a village in western China. It's reflective light on the faces of these camel drivers in Roger Stan, India, so I'm you...
know, I'm spot reading off. The face is illuminated by the light, and it's that reflective nature. It's the way I photographed these camel drivers in the Sahara Post Sunset Light on in San Francisco. It's the Buddhas in a meme are, but it's all that kind of reflective light. There's harsh light just a few feet away, but in the shadows it becomes magical. So this is mysterious light. This is beautiful light. It's It's not traditional light. You know, it's not the sunlight. It's reflected light. And if I'm using sunlight than it's putting subjects like in this case of this ah young tour AEG, which are people off the desert on the southern reaches of Morocco and on the northern reaches of Mali, they wear turbans to practice protect their head from the sun. It's bright noonday light just a few feet away, but in the shadows of the doorway, it becomes soft and nice, beautiful light to work with. Young man in Bhutan, you saw earlier those three models that I was photographing with candlelight. I'm just using that kind of dreamy light. This is a young girl in Myanmar, a great location again, that I'll be conducting workshops in the near future and again in the shadows of the underground cities in Morocco. I call him underground. They're really above ground, but they're all in the shadows. You know, people have to escape the heat of the summer heat in Morocco. And again, this I This is not a great shop. It it's a great one that exemplifies what I'm talking about. Shaft of direct light is hitting the ground, and I'm exposing for the face of the boy and the donkey. It's using that soft bounce light that suddenly transforms the subject into something magical, which also happens, by the way, in Antelope Canyon and some of those deep chasms in Arizona, the best light is noonday light, but 70 feet below the surface, where all that direct light is bouncing off the various walls above you. These air long exposures Cesaire 3 to 4 minutes long. Exposures. Tripod cable release absolutely necessary. The largest waterfall in the world is on the border of Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina, and this is the first shot. This is a double exposure. Actually. The first exposure of the water is an eight minute exposure of the moonlight reflecting on the water eight minutes. Six hours later, I took a second exposure of the source of the light, which is the full moon. So it's a double exposure first, the light and the source of the light and reflected light of, ah, wild grass fire in northern Australia. You know, just moving through only burns off the grass. The trees remain live and intact, and this is taken ah, half hour to hour after sunset, where there's still a little bit of lingering light in the post sunset sky. And then the source of light, the the fire And these were all shot the same way. Whether it's photographing cultures around the world, landscapes, wildlife, urban scapes. It's all about how that light reveals that subject. So I thought it would be important one to close on this three week class. So now let's go to some questions. Well, that's that's just too much good stuff to fit. We can't even fit it all in one class, but let's give art around