Lesson 1 Inverse Square Law

The inverse square law states that the intensity of the light from a point source diminishes inversely to the square of the distance.  I=1/d²  Here is a better illustration that what I drew on the white board.

Here is a diagram of the 1st part of the assignment.

Example of how part 1 of the assignment should be laid out.

The top picture is an example of how you can lay out part 2 of the assignment.

Production Stills

I got this next chart from Lee Varis's website.  He illustrates here the relationship of 18% grey to a modified 10 step zone system, 50% that you would see in Lightroom's histogram and the number 118 you see in Photoshop's histogram using RGB color space.  



Here is the results of our test in class with the middle grey card adjusted in Lightroom and tweaked in photoshop to look the same.  You can see the Front card gets darker in relation to the Middle card as the light is moved further away and the Back card gets lighter as the light is moved further away.