Year 10 - Art and design
Picture taking: lighting
Photography
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This pupil-friendly study guide includes a unit summary, clear notes, common mistakes, and quick questions with answers.
Unit Summary
This is a teacher led unit which introduces to pupils to the skills within their endorsements. Through a series of workshop activities, students experiment with a range of materials and techniques. They develop a range of studies exploring mark making media, print and mixed media.
Lesson Summary
You understand how lighting affects photographs and can experiment with using light creatively.
Key Notes
- Lighting is one of the most important elements in photography.
- Photography can be in a studio or outdoors, and a major difference between these two strands is the light source.
- The direction of light plays a big role in how an image looks and feels.
- Subject, composition and lighting in a photograph can have a big impact on the mood.
- In early photography, artists relied entirely on light, shadow, contrast, and tone.
Vocabulary To Learn
- lighting: how light illuminates the subject of a photograph
- light source: the source of light identified in a picture, including natural and artificial light
- mood: the feeling or atmosphere a photo creates.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Lighting is just a technical tool in photography.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Lighting is one of the most important elements in photography. Photography can be in a studio or outdoors, and a major difference between these two strands is the light source.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'lighting'
how light illuminates the subject of a photograph.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Lighting is just a technical tool in photography. Correction: Lighting has the power to transform a photograph, shaping its mood, tone, and clarity.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Darkroom processes: using an enlarger and developing a print Study Guide
- Digital processes: using digital media to layer an image Study Guide
- Digital processes: using digital media to manipulate an image Study Guide
- Introduction to the principles of photography Study Guide
- Photography: the influence of sources on photographic investigations Study Guide
- Picture taking: aperture and shutter speed settings Study Guide
- Picture taking: depth of field Study Guide
- Picture taking: motion Study Guide
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