Portrait Assignment

 

Split Lighting 

Here I have captured what is called a split lighting photo. It consists of half the face in shadow and half in light. This light could be natural or from a lampshade of some sort. As you can probably tell, I went with a dark room and lampshade. Straight down the middle of the face, there is a sharp change from the shadow.  After studying this image, one thing I would've done differently is, I should've pulled the light away from the model's face more so it wasn't pure white at the very right side of her face. Overall though, I am happy with the image.

 

Rembrandt lighting 

Here I captured a Rembrandt image. This consisted of only 1/3 of the face in light and the rest in shadow. The Rembrandt image is rather similar to the broad shot, the only difference is, the lampshade in broad lighting is placed in the opposite place. As you can see the shadow isn't as intense as the split one. The model's right eye is partly visible. 

Loop Lighting 

This image turned out very well, in my opinion. The little loop at the side of the model's nose is sharp and so is the small shadow further right of the face where the right ear can't be seen due to intense shadow.  To position, the shadows correctly, I had to rase the light higher than the model. This is probably one of my favourite images. 

Butterfly Lighting 

The butterfly lighting image was hard to get accurate. It consisted of catching shadow under our facial features. For example, our nose, eyes, lips and under the chin. Again, like the loop image, the lighting had to quite high above the model in order to capture those good sharp shadows.

Broad Lighting 

Here, we have the opposite of the Rembrandt image. Only 1/3 of the face is in shadow and the majority of the face is in light. I had to et the model to leave her shoulders and tilt her head so that the light was at the side of her face. Due to the fact that her head is slightly tilted it created the shadow side of the face to look small.