Portrait Lighting

Portrait Lighting

I recently took a few pictures that deal with the different types of lighting, from natural to artificial, from one angle to another.

This picture of me was supposed to be a portrait with artificial lighting to the side of me. I used the light from my room to create the light, the only issue was the blinds. The blinds still had some light going through, so some of my light is natural.

This picture was taken with two artificial lights, a main one, and a fill one. For my secondary light, I used my phone to create the light. The issues I had was trying to find a position for my phone to create good light.

This was me trying to take a picture with natural light. I used the sun in front of my to create the light. As you can see, the issue is the fact that the sun is very bright on my eyes, but I solved that by closing my eyes.

This is a light source that created a silhouette. I took a picture with the sun behind me to create the silhouette. The issue was actually the LCD screen on my camera, it looked darker on the screenn than it actually turned out.

Things March 10th

In this photo, I was attempting to take a photo of an everyday object, and take a closer look at it. What I did was I took pictures of trees, rocks, bars, and I took one of my dies around and took pictures of it around different areas. I liked this one above the rest because it blurs out the background giving more emphasis on the die itself. Of course though, I modified the image a little bit, starting off with a cropping so that the subject isn't at the center of the of the image. I also modified the curves in Photoshop to at more brightness into the bright area, and made the darker areas darker, that's why the die looks a little bit cool. Then I modified the vibrance and the saturation of the image so look more alive. Originally I had the image be a little just black and white, but someone suggested that the color looks better with the background. The only issue I'm having with this picture is whether or not I did a little too much modifying with the curves tool, to me the effects looks cool, but I don't know how others will look at it.