OCA – Exercise 3: Experimenting with light

This was my first attempt at excercise 3. The objective was to take a a number of portraits of the same subject with various lighting effects.  

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The shots were lit as follows.

1. Natural light (subject backlit)
2.Indoor lighting. Overhead tungsten bulbs
3.Camera flash (direct)
4.Camera flash bounced.
5.off camera lighting (modelling light)
6.Off camera studio flash.

 I was left a bit dissapointed with my first attempt, as the lighting of 5 the shots appears very similar in light quality and direction. However I am very happy with portrait shot that was shot in natural light, I created a black and white version.

I shall re visit this excersice in a few weeks.

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