Tutorial- Lighting

As i have never held a photoshoot before i am going to look at the tutorials on how to light images. Where to put the lighting and how far away from the person or object, and these are my finds after about half an hour of searching on google.

http://www.geofflawrence.com/studio_lighting.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_4679646_light-photography-studio.html

Night Time Outdoor-

http://www.ehow.com/how_4450254_use-night-lighting-photography.html

Double Page Spread- Shooting In Black And White on DSLR

Instead of editing the photo on photoshop for my double spread picture in black and white i then decided to research into how to do it on a dslr similar to the one i will be using for the actual photo shoots, this will hopefully then give a better black and white effect rather than adding the effect on after and it possibly not being as good of a shot than setting it on a dslr, a link to a tururial is shown below:

http://www.cameratips.com/d3100/nikon-d3100-shoot-in-black-white

Creating Artificial Bokeh -Photoshop

During looking on the internet for tutorials to create Bokeh on a DSLR camera I had come across how to create this effect in Photoshop. This seems the easier way as I could take a normal picture without lights and then add them in the editting stage as I could choose the positioning of them and how blurred/glowing I would like them to be.

Tutorial:


Using Brushes
http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/chroma-wallpapers

Using Foreground and Background Tools
http://www.graphix1.co.uk/2010/08/17/bokeh-background-effect-photoshop-tutorial/

Merging Two Images Together Seamlessly In Photoshop

So now i have found out how to create my main image on a DSLR but i know that i need to take two images and merge them together as otherwise i would have to get the person that i am focussing on in the main image to stand very still because the shutter speed will be 1 second for example

Tutorials:

http://www.photoshop911.com/masking_channels/layer_masking.html


I then found something called Vector Masking by this tutorial and if i take two images one with the shutter speed open so i get the car lights blurred across the background and then another image with my model in the same background, but with the shutter speed lowered to get a clear picture and then with this tool i should be able to either use the Magic Wand tool to remove the background completly or use Vector Masking to fade the two images together


http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-tips/vector-masks-photoshop/

Researching Into How I Can Create My Main Image- Tutorials

During some research i have found some tutorials since my last post that i can use to create my main image these show me how to get the Bokeh effect and how to set the camera in order to do this.

The first is a simple 5 step tuturial, explaining how to use the apperture and the depth of field in simple terms however this only gave me a basic idea of what i had to do:

http://photography.tutsplus.com/articles/quick-tip-5-tips-for-getting-great-bokeh-shots--photo-8557

This tutorial therefore applied the terms to a Nikon DSLR camera with a similar design to mine and told me what to do specifically step by step however i am not sure whether this will cause the lights to blur in the background or whether i will just get a blurred background in general:

http://photographylife.com/how-to-obtain-maximum-bokeh

What do i do with the shutter speed or is it all about the Aperture and the Zoom ?

Youtube Tutorial on a similar camera in the Nikon range that i will be using with a 18-55mm lense standard to Nikon :

Researching Into How I Can Create My Main Image

I know that i would like to for my main image to focus on the model but also to have car lights moving behind the person however i am not sure how to carry this out or what settings i will need on a DSLR, instead of guessing i have decided to look into it and i looked over this theme of photography called Bokeh and is defined on Wiki as

'In photography, bokeh is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image. Bokeh has been defined as "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light".^'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokeh

Into the future i will also look into tutorials on youtube other such places so i can know how to carry out this effect so this will be a ongoing thing running up to my photoshoot