Week 4 - Same Subject different Light project

The first candle only has light from candle light. The light travels from the the top of the candle, however not showing the sides of the candle, the plate or the table it is upon. The focal point becomes the light source itself. On the second picture, the source of light is the candle light and a flash only. The top of the candle is accentuated even more so with the a direct flash, however it does not give much depth to the image although it shows what is in the background and color appears washed out. The third picture has candle light and energy efficient light source being bounced off of the ceiling. This gave a deeper yellow hue to the candle, which in fact the candle is yellow and the picture is pretty close to the actual color of it, the plate is much more pronounced and lighting helped to create depth, the candle looks like as if it has 'height' now.

Week 4 - Color & Light - Variety of Pics

Monochrome

Analogous & Monochrome if fern by itself

Complementary (below also)

Complementary

Monochrome

Analogous

Complementary

Above is an example of natural light and below is an example of when a flash is used how the lighting affects the picture (the same time of day). The nuances created by natural lighting I think makes the subject more interesting and creates more of a focal point where the flash gives credence to everything in the picture, the entire picture is the focal point.

So far these are some of the favorite pics out of the many that I have taken the past couple of days. I prefer working with natural lighting and found that the time of day can either give a cool cast or a warm cast and depending on the tone and effect that I wanted would depend on the time of day that I would take the picture. I found that objects that were in the same color category had to have some kind of texture to it to make it interesting to me. I tried to touch on the different types of color categories that there are. There were shots where I found that I had to manually set my camera to as opposed to the auto due to focus and lighting effects that I was trying to get that I was not able to with the auto set. I was very excited over the dragonflies. There are three different types and these were taken over two days, amazingly they did not fly off and I was so close I could see them 'blinking' and moving their eyes!

Statue Macros