Preliminary Images

These set of images are from my first shoot. I used this shoot to experiment with the lighting so's to help me gain an understanding of how the light reacts with the model and to see what effects it can create. As you will see these images are all in a Low-key style, which consits of a single light with a diffusing umbrella attatched to cast a soft light upon the models face. Due to this single lighting it creates an areas of light which then fade into dark shadows. This effect is very good at highlighting facial features and bringing out the contours of a face. I feel that this type of lighting would be more suited for a model with a more interesting face, by this I mean someone like an older persons, who's face could contain lot's of wrinkle's and intern lots of detail. I have included this image on the right just to show you the effect you can create by using a low-key lighting setup. I think this models features are a little too soft, for a shot like this i would prefer a modle with a stronger bone structure.

As with the two above images this again is a low-key shot. I was interested in seeing the effect this style of lighting has on a male model, who I believe to have a stronger facial structure. I feel that a stronger facial structure creates more contours with the dark and light contrasts within the image. I feel this first image in which he is just wearing a t-shirt is a little to plain so I asked the modle to wear a coat, which is based on a 1940's Russian army jacket, I feel this adds an extra edge to the image, it creates a little more interest for the eye's, I perticulaly like the effect the low-key lighting has on the collar, the contrast from dark to light helps bring out the detail of the material. Although I think these images are quite nice, I do feel that they are too plain, and due to this they don't tie in with my ambitions of creating an artisticly looking image. As I have said earlier this first shoot was just for me to experiment with the lighting a help me gain an understanding of its capabilities. I did find this shoot very usefull, with this shoot I was able to find out the suitable lighting set up, knowing this would save me lots of time and energy when going on to complete my final shoot.