This part of the El­e­ments of Light is fo­cus on the use of color as an ac­cent­ing fea­ture of shot.

In this shot, I used a bot­tle of Irish Manor Leg­endary Irish Cream Liqueur that the PHDI de­part­ment has as a prop.

Irish Manor Leg­endary Irish Cream Liqueur

To light this shot, I used two lights, a main light and a color light. The main light is bare with a large scrim in front of it soft­en­ing the light. The color light has two blue gels in front of it which both knocks down the amount of color, but also makes it a bit more in­tense. I also used is a re­flec­tor next to the color light and one next to the main light. Both re­flect in the bot­tle pro­vid­ing form. Click to continue »

I shot the fol­low­ing three shots with a medium for­mat Mamiya 645 cam­era sys­tem. I used the fol­low­ing lenses 45mm f/2.8, 80mm f/2.8, 150mm f/4.

The as­sign­ment was to shoot a city and what bet­ter city to  use than the small town of Dun­das, Min­nesota. In­stead of the typ­i­cal city scenes, I shot along the Can­non River and go some nice land­scapes within the city limits.

The first scene is on the river where a spring lets out into the river. The spring is far­ther up the hill and re­sults in some nice open water.

Spring

The sec­ond scene is of the walk bridge be­tween the east and west sides of Dundas.

Walk Bridge

The third scene is with the Archibald Mill.

Archibald Mill

Tech Specs:

Mamiya 645 with Il­ford FP4+ (ASA 125) film. Shots were about f/11, 1/125 at ASA 125. For those that don’t know ASA is the same as ISO speed.