Day: November 19, 2017

Within groups today (me, Jennie Hawkes and Scott), we created photos inspired by the work of David Bailey especially featuring Rembrandt lighting.

We started our work by trying to recreate this photo, but the lighting was very orange-toned, so when changed to black and white it was far too underexposed as well as lacking in contrast.

We then started to create photos with more contrast and better lighting to become more like David Bailey’s photographs.

However these were still underexposed and lacked contrast so we changed locations by natural light to improve our photos.

These become much more accomplished photos which feature the Rembrandt lighting.

Within our workshops today we did a studio shoot in which the subject had to try to hide their identity. This photo that I took of Miguel is one of many I took, however the others were not focussed on the eyes which means it would not be an accomplished photograph. Therefore after looking at all the photos I decided to only upload this one. I like the lighting and the focus on this photograph and think it is well thought out and it captured what I set out to do at the beginning of the photoshoot.