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.