Softbox single source lighting set up in my studio T he importance of hard & soft edgesĪn edge is where two objects or two surfaces meet together. One of the key lessons from this demonstration I want you to come away with is to understand the importance of soft edges in your drawings. The Softbox gives us the fall of light we’re after, yet slightly softer edges on the shadows. My lamp has a diffuser on it called a Softbox. This set up demonstrates each distinct area to be aware of, exaggerating the widest tonal range, and when you’re a beginner, it’s the simplest way to see the difference between the tones. The different characteristics of the light hitting an object can completely change its appearance.įor this demonstration, I’ve created a lighting set up using one single light source which gives us a predictable fall of light. This week we’re going to put pencil to paper and see how the theory works in a simple pencil drawing of an apple… Understanding your light source In Part 1, we looked at the theory of light and shadow. I believe that if we implement a more people-centric approach to managing our businesses, we will get a lot larger output on production a smaller turnaround of staff and in general a healthier company culture as people will be led the way they would like to be led rather than continuing with the usual carrot and stick approach.In this light and shadow series, we look at the theory, drawing and painting of a simple form focusing on shadow, light and edges. So, if we look at the drawing from Kevin Nicoll, he hits the nail on the head satirically when he says that the plains Indian already knew back then that the best strategy would be to dismount a dead horse, but where is this dead horse? Is it not perhaps time we shifted our view and start thinking about “dismounting” our old ways of managing our people and start leading the way that our people would like to be led?īy implementing a more interpersonal way of managing, we might end up with people who are more productive, and work harder and faster because they want to and not because they must.What about if we dismounted the way we look at productivity and rather implement flexible work environments and work times, in order to create better work environments for our most important assets – our people? We are in an age where you cannot manage each staff member the same way, people are different and they come from different backgrounds and have different expectations and require different management approaches dependent on each specific situation. The shift would not be to make the carrot bigger or to train them to be better but to rather apply situational leadership and management. There are a lot of strategies that companies are employing in the workplace currently in order to improve on delivery and to get more for less as it is in business, but what if we made a paradigm shift in the way we engage with our employees? When applied to the management of people, it is more often than not a sad truth that managers and leader alike still like to use the carrot and the stick approach, and where the stick does not work we will just use a larger one, or just use performance management to “whip” our people into shape or just threaten them with dismissal. The tribal wisdom of the Plains Indians passed on from generation to generation, says: “When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.” Picture by Kevin Nicoll
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