Marbles

I photographed some marbles with a DSLR and a 55mm lens, I lit the marbles from behind whilst they were sat on white paper to shine through the marble and highlight all the details. 

I've shot these marbles to show that although two things can be the same, they can be massively different, for example all the subjects are marbles, but they have unique qualities which make them individual, similar to people. I thought it would be appropriate because of my 'appearance' theme, and I'll definitely be shooting some similar subjects, because of how well they've turned out.

I really like the detail that has been captured with this lighting, and I'll be using it again for similar subjects. But if I decide to reshoot these in future, I'll get a much wider variety of marbles to get a broader range of photographs.

I really prefer the brighter, slightly over exposed photographs compared to the correctly exposed ones. I like that the light, when passing through the marbles projects colour onto the white reflector to create blue and red shapes. If I reshot marbles with a wider range of them, I'd probably do it like this.