{"id":2940,"date":"2012-10-18T17:45:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T17:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2940"},"modified":"2014-02-20T17:45:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T17:45:33","slug":"camera-club-workshop-halloween-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2940","title":{"rendered":"Camera Club Workshop: Halloween Witch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At our recent camera club workshop we had a witch to photograph:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2941\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/10\/camera-club-workshop-halloween-witch\/e12_6527p1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2941 aligncenter\" title=\"E12_6527p1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/E12_6527p1.jpg\" alt=\"witch green and blue\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/E12_6527p1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/E12_6527p1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>We advertised in the local parish magazine for people to come to a free Halloween portrait session, but only one person arranged to come. What we lacked in numbers we gained in a well made-up lady who posed for us for nearly 3 hours &#8211; she was wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>What we wanted to do was to experiment with different coloured lighting and the effects they would have. In this case we used green lighting on the left, blue on the right, and yellow through a grid onto the background. We were really pleased with the effects we obtained.<\/p>\n<p>For this photo, we still had the green and blue lighting on the subject, but used a dark red light on the background:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2942\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/10\/camera-club-workshop-halloween-witch\/e12_6508p1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2942\" title=\"E12_6508p1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/E12_6508p1.jpg\" alt=\"witch with green, blue and a red background\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/E12_6508p1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/E12_6508p1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were quite surprised at the effect different colours make to the image. Here, we went for yellow and blue with the yellow background:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2943\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/10\/camera-club-workshop-halloween-witch\/e12_6549p1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2943 aligncenter\" title=\"E12_6549p1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/E12_6549p1.jpg\" alt=\"witch - yellow and blue\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/E12_6549p1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/E12_6549p1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>A totally different effect! We tried other colour combinations that you can see in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/featured-photographs\/Bungay-camera-club\/bungay-camera-club12\/halloween-witch\/index.php\">photo gallery<\/a>. But we could not pass up this opportunity for a bit of witchcraft in getting the witch to fly:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2944\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/10\/camera-club-workshop-halloween-witch\/e12_6514p1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2944 aligncenter\" title=\"E12_6514p1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/E12_6514p1-600x399.jpg\" alt=\"witch flying\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/E12_6514p1-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/E12_6514p1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/E12_6514p1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>All in all, we had a bit of fun, learnt a bit about using coloured lighting and gave the subject an unusual experience (along with a selection of photographs for her time). A good afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At our recent camera club workshop we had a witch to photograph: We advertised in the local parish magazine for people to come to a free Halloween portrait session, but only one person arranged to come. What we lacked in numbers we gained in a well made-up lady who posed for us for nearly 3 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2940\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Camera Club Workshop: Halloween Witch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera-club","category-portraits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3517,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions\/3517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}