Cally Whitham photography

Cally Whitham is a photographer from New Zeland.

He does very stylish animal portraits, which may look cool from the first sight, but when you look closely into them, you can notice, that this is not a softlight, he is using there. Photos are highly and badly photoshopped, and lighting is adjusted with soft brushes in photoshop, and this is highly notable when you look at the fur lighting, which is lit with a hardlight or daylight and overal lighting, which is trying to look like studio shoot with a softlight.

Apperture

The apperture is the hole in camera lens, wicth lets the light through. The bigger is the apperture stop, for example f32, the less light comes through it. The bigger it is - f1.8 - more light passes.




Shutter

A shutter is a device that allows light to pass for a determined period of time, for the purpose of exposing photographic film or a light-sensitive electronic sensor to light to capture a permanent image of a scene.
The slower shutter speed or exposure is - light comes through a lens for a longer time.

Histogram



An image histogram is a type of histogram that acts as a graphical representation of the tonal distribution in a digital image. It plots the number of pixels for each tonal value. By looking at the histogram for a specific image a viewer will be able to judge the entire tonal distribution at a glance

http://dmitriphotography.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/histogram.html

Health and safety in a photographic studio.

Watch out wires under your legs. Stick them to the floor.

Be carful about the equipment. Watch your surroundings.

Dont eat or drink near any equipment.

Dont look directly at the flashlights, you may have eye problems later.

No food in the darkroom - toxic chemicals are very easy to transfer from your hands or surfaces, to your food.

No drinks in a darkroom - you may dismiss them with chemicals.

Chemicals in a darkroom can permanently stain your clothes - don't wear something that you care about.

Be careful in a darkroom - try not to run into stuff. Use safety lights (those red tinted lights)

Moment

I was lucky enough to be in a right time and right place to capture driver's emotions after accident. I used wide 18mm lens, to capture all the scene while beeing very close to it.

Final piece

This is my final piece for Beautifuly Unhinged project.
My intentions were to make a one picture, featuring 3 different persons at the same spot.
I could do that easily in photoshop, but I am more interested in experimenting within the camera.
So I decided to get a picture using only one exposure. First of all I did some tests with two models ana a flashlight, to find, if it is really possible to do that. After seeing that tests are working, I started to take picture itself.
I used 10 seconds exposure to make sure models have enough time to move. To compensate long exposure I had to lower ISO to 400 and apperture to 8. I used flashlight 3 times, each time swapping model, while keeping the studio very dark.

The outcome was really great. It was exactly what I wanted, altought it has some issues with focusing, as it was hard to focus camera propertly  in a dark room.

Experimenting woth DOF

 Here I used f5.6, and 50mm lens. I was focusing as close to camera, as i could, probably about 20cm, while all the objects was more than 50cm away. Ths helped me to get a nice bokeh effect.

Studio Photography, work with lighting.

Softlight

Softlight

Softlight

Hardligfht

For theese photos I used ISO 400 and f7.

Here only the hard keylight was used.

Things I could have done better - is to find compromise between overexposure and underexposure, as in some photos this seems to be a problem.