Lighting Practice

Today we practised using lighting to emphasise certain expressions.

In this photo we used an artificial light to darken out most of Andreas' face.   The fact that his eyes are darkened yet his mouth is mostly visible shows that he is a suspicious character, as the shadows of the light also emphasises his sinister expression.      

In this photo we used the light to brighten up one side of Brad's face. One half of his face is black, and his expression shows that he isn't a protagonist, but is rather the antagonist. This can also refer to an effect of binary opposites, where the light and dark meet each other to make Brad appear more evil.

This photo of me used to lights to light up my face in the dark environment without making it too light. My facial expression is that of happiness. The light shines on my smile, not just making my teeth yellow, but emphasising my smile. Also, the light sort of reflects off of my glasses, making my eyes dark and secretive.

We used two artificial lights for this picture of Me, one was shined across the left side of my body and one was placed above my head but also put shining towards the left to make the whole left part of my head brighter than the right side. This is shown to make me look happy, as the light shines on my smile and it makes seem like the jokey character who isn't serious.

We also took this shot from above to make the light show more and that I show a larger smile when my head is leant back to make me look at something higher than myself. In addition to this, we used the high angle shot to show my glasses reflect a shadow onto my face which shows a good effect of making me look secretive but happy.

In this image, we used the natural light in the room to make Andreas' head stand out to the background. Even though the light in the background is fairly similar to Andreas' head, it makes Andreas' head stand out as it makes his hair brighter.

In this photo of Brad, we used the light created from the ceiling lights in the room to make Brad look intimidating, this is shown by the low angle shot but in addition the light shining down on him makes the front part of his body slightly darker which could also show how he could be an antagonist and how evil he will look when the light is shown making him darker from the front.

 

In this photo of Max, we used the natural light seeping through from behind the blinds to attempt to make an effect. There was one artificial light placed next to the camera aiming at him but in this photo it did not come out in a good enough quality for the full effect to be seen.

The light from behind is supposed to show that there could be something else in the shot to look at apart from his head. This is useful to make multiple things happen at once during the shot.

Of course, Max being Max and me being me, had an opportunity to make something silly from a photo of me so we took it.