Sunday, January 22, 2012

Lily


The assignment for my lighting class this week was to create an image using side light and rim light, using either hard or soft light and choosing a high key or low key exposure.  For my subject I chose this small lily.  I enjoyed playing with the lighting configuration, especially since I'm still new to using studio type lighting, and getting the right mixture of the side light and rim light was a good challenge.  I loved learning about rim lighting (creating light that comes from the back side angle of the subject to provide a small outline of lighting on the far side of the shadow created by the side light).  Before I got this last image, I had been photographing in my new basement "studio" for almost 4 pleasurable hours.  We convert all of our images to B&W for this class, but I also liked the color photo, so I'm posting both.

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