Monday night

Just wrapped a long and photon-filled day with nine of the best fellow photon-junkies one could hope to meet. We managed to keep the techie geekie talk to a minimum (well, three hours or so) and spend more time actually looking at light. A long day, yes, but not overly exhausting. I feel like everything clicked into place as it should: footcandles (mostly), ƒ/stop, DoF, field of view and the every illusive subjective camera sensitivity.

At the end of the day we'd reflected light, diffused light, colored light, cut light and bent light. And we decided that our camera's ASA was somewhere between 400 and 640 ASA, but consistently so. So I'd call that a pretty good day.

Tomorrow is interview lighting and ... The Jammer.

Monday Morning

It's a slightly foggy Monday morning. Beautiful soft light sliding through a nearly infinite number of spherical diffusers. By the time class begins, this will have burned away leaving the crisp, clean, 5600K hardness of full sunlight. We'll likely be inside a sound stage for most of the day discovering illuminance in footcandles, the symmetry of ƒ/stops and the gentle slope of light falloff.

Time to go.

Saturday Night

It's Saturday night - about 20 hours separate me from a sound stage full of light fanatics. Before we get to work shaping photons there are just a few more details to wrap up. The syllabus needs a last going-over. The techie geek presentation needs a few more slides. Do we drag out the fisher on Monday or Tuesday morning?

It's going to be a great week of making pretty light.