{"id":123,"date":"2004-08-04T18:39:25","date_gmt":"2004-08-04T10:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2004\/08\/2004_08_04_1839.php"},"modified":"2004-08-04T18:39:25","modified_gmt":"2004-08-04T10:39:25","slug":"a-day-in-the-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/08\/04\/a-day-in-the-studio","title":{"rendered":"A day in the studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Considering I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/nf\">make music<\/a>, you&#8217;re probably wondering why the hell this post is in the &#8220;photography&#8221; section.<\/p>\n<p>You guessed it &#8211; I had the chance to accompany Nono to one of his studio photo shoots in DPI Photography Center, just behind UA&#038;P (formerly CRC).<\/p>\n<p>I had an awesome time, as I learned first hand about the usage of studio lighting equipment. From the backdrops, to the metering, to the different light source combinations.<\/p>\n<!--more-->\n<p>&#8220;Sample pic&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of the shoot, I even got the chance of suggesting lighting, shooting angles, and subject poses. It was insane! I loved every minute of it! Again thanks to Nono for yet another great learning experience. <strong>IN NONO WE TRUST!<\/strong> as I always used to say =)<\/p>\n<p>We used strobes for the lighting. For those of you who don&#8217;t know, studio strobes are like (or primarily) flashes. Industrial grade flashes at that. Unlike dedicated continuous light sources (high luminance lamps), they emit a low lamp-like light for modeling and positioning, but their primary lights are actually <em>flashes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This was what made the light meter so important, since it&#8217;s impossible  to adjust your settings after seeing a split second of &#8220;ideal brightness.&#8221; I have found a newfound respect for the &#8220;light meter&#8221; after that experience.<\/p>\n<p>One caveat though, is that if you want to be more creative with the lighting (say if you wanted something like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grcreativexchange.com\/bp\/gallery\/displayimage.php?album=54&amp;pos=51\">this<\/a> in the studio), either you should know your calculations down pat, or get ready for a lot of guesswork. Nono was able to fire some similar shots, but we did a lot of trial and error on the lights before we got it. Obviously a solution for such situations is having a continuous light-source, where you can see the effects immediately.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>We even saw our benchmate; director Quark Henares (who didn&#8217;t recognize me cuz of my hair). Nono and I, as well as everyone in the floor fell victim to one of the &#8220;projects&#8221; he was doing (not that we mind) hehehe. In any case check your TVs in two weeks and you just MIGHT see us. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Twas an enjoyable day all in all, looking forward to more studio trips.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considering I make music, you&#8217;re probably wondering why the hell this post is in the &#8220;photography&#8221; section. You guessed it &#8211; I had the chance to accompany Nono to one of his studio photo shoots in DPI Photography Center, just behind UA&#038;P (formerly CRC). I had an awesome time, as I learned first hand about &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/08\/04\/a-day-in-the-studio\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A day in the studio&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}