Portrait Assignment

In this assignment, we had to use two different lighting set-ups to take portrait photos.  The first one we used was a three-point lighting studio set.  In ours, however, there were four lights; I used this to take the photograph on the left.  The photograph on the right was taken with light from a window and a large white poster to deflect some light onto the darker side of the face.  We then had to create a single composite of the two photos to show the different lighting effects.

MY PHOTOGRAPHS:

In this assignment, I learned about all of the different lights used in a three-point light set-up, including the hair light, back light, and the key light.  I also learned how to adjust the card in order to balance the light from a window on both sides of the subject's face.  I really like being able to see how studio lights work and how they help a photograph.