Exercise : Experimenting with light...

Finding myself a little limited in access to models at the moment,I am using Terry again.. And in trying to find a range of different lighting effects, I started this exercise last November while on holiday in Lanzerote...at least reasonably confident that I would find some hot sun and dry weather.

P755:F5.6 @ 1/60  40mm  ISO 200

P755 above was taken late morning under a shelter open to the air which provided a slightly diffused light..Contrast with P754 below taken later in the middle of the day in direct sunlight against a white wall covered with graffiti..harsher shadow..

P754:F6.3 @ 1/100  128mm  ISO 100

Back at home outdoors in the garden, the weather more seasonable and shooting from a different angle ...P753

P753 : F2.8 @ 1/400 40mm  ISO 100

Good capture of the shape and planes of the face...coming from a combination of the angle of the light on the face and direction of shot from below.

P757: F5.6 @ 1/60  40mm  ISO 200

Example of sunlight diffused through a venetian blind ..in P757 above the shadows are not so dark that they obscure detail but enhance the detail of the face. Tried this with Terry looking the other way  i.e the sunlight coming from behind...P756 below:

P756: F5.6 @ 1/60  40mm  ISO200

Taken on the same day and same time i.e. mid morning...apart from the light bars on the back of the head (!) the angle gives a crisper definition of lines with the light edging the face from Terry's right..a slightly harsher impression which I guess my model might not like as much as P757 which is softer and perhaps more flattering..

P758: F5 @ 1/6  51mm  ISO 3200

P758 above was an attempt to take an image lit only by torchlight!! Interestingly the angle of light gives shadow definition but also allows the eyes to be seen...might revisit this approach for my assignment..

Lastly, P759 the image that didn't quite work out.....I saw the effect that a Kindle lit by an attached mini torch had on the reader's face....a good idea which was let down technically and due to lack of available tripod..again, need to revisit this to see if I can actually capture what I could see in front of me!!

P759: F3.5 @ 0.3sec  40mm  ISO 3200

Scary and definitely not flattering to the model...but it does throw up the shape and planes of the face..