ASSIGNMENT 6:   LARGE LIGHT SOURCE/SMALL LIGHT SOURCE

Take two portraits of a person, one using the 21" beauty dish and the other with the octabank and get the same results by using the placement of the subject, the light and the background.  

(Note:  We did this assignment as a team:  Joey, Jean, Flore-A, Barry)

Since the octabank is much larger than the beauty dish, the way to achieve the same lighting effect is for the large light to be further back and in the same line as the smaller light.  From the subject's position, the lights should appear the same size.

In the two shots below, the light was to the side at about 160° and very close to the subject (beauty dish was just a few inches from the subjects face).  The backdrop was immediately behind the subject for the beauty dish shot and about 4 ft behind the subject for the octabank shot.

For the set of images below, the lights were also off to the side but at a greater angle to the subject and further back.  The Backdrop was immediately behind the subject for the beauty dish shot and about 4 ft behind the subject for the octabank shot.  Lighting on subject and tonality of background match, but given distance of respective lights and background, we could not eliminate while maintaining lighting constant with the two different set-ups.