Portraits

These are some portraits taken in the studio, for these, I used two Bowens lights with soft boxes equipped, with two black reflectors. The first light was placed in front of the model to the left, and the second was across from the first, behind the model, this was to light both front and back of the model. The reflectors were placed either side of the model to create dark definition on either side of the face.

I've done these photographs this way to capture people in their natural state, I've not made anyone pose, they were only asked to sit in the middle of the set up, then the photographs were taken when they didn't expect it to maintain a naturalness to their expressions. 

I like how these photographs have turned out, the lighting makes the model look soft, whilst having defined shadows on the face. Aswell as this, there's a lot of detail in the faces and hair of all the models, it's definitely something I'd use again.

These two are probably my favourite from the shoot, there's a great range of grey tones on the models face, which slowly fade into black. I really like both the composition and the lighting in the photographs, and I like that the model is oblivious to the photograph being taken.

In the rest of the photographs, I've turned the light on the left hand side down slightly, making the model's faces look less over exposed, which makes the faces look a lot softer. I prefer the light being turned down in some of the photographs, but at the same time the over exposed skin looks great in some.

I thought these were interesting, because she was the first model not to look into the camera straight away.