Side lighting and front lighting is basically exactly what it says. It is lighting in a photograph either from the side or front of the object or person that is being used. Different lighting can connotate different things such as front lighting can show a way forward or a going towards something with meaning or a bright light, meaning death. Side lighting can accentuate males as it shows off their best features and more of a feminine take rather than if the lighting was front on, it would look far more meaner and agressive. Front lighting accentuates females by showing off their whole face and feminine qualities rather than cutting half of their face out making them look manly.

Side Lighting.

I really like this photo as i think the light catches her face really well. I also like the background we used as it looked very pretty. There is a bit too much light as the shadow doesn't show too well but overall it worked well as a whole.

Side Lighting.

I like the shading on this photo and the lighting does look nice, although i think it highlights the wrong part of her face, and as it was natural sunglight it was hard to get in the right position. I wish i had gotten her whole body into the photograph either from above or below to show variations of shots. Although i do like the brightness of this photo.

Side Lighting.

I like this photo as I think it has nice framing around his face. Although the light is coming straight on, the hood on his jacket gives a nice shadow which is projected onto his face. I like the way I have took this photograph, from the bottom right as I think it shows the shadowing well. I think I could have included more of his body or even his shoulders a but more but overall I like the way this photograph turned out.

Shutter speed.

In this image we used a fast shutter speed which froze the movement of the leaves in the air. I do like this image but it took a lot of tries to get It right. We kept missing our timing of throwing the leaves into the air. I think because the sky was quite grey this day it has made the picture look dark and hasn’t turned out as well as it should have done. If I were to use this image I would definitely brighten it up in post production and this will make it more vibrant. The leaves blocked our faces as we through them up in the air, so we had quite a few problems whilst trying to understand how to use fast shutter speed. Although it did capture a freeze frame image I definitely preferred the slow shutter speed.

Shutter speed.

For this photograph I used 1/30 shutter speed. This is a low shutter speed and achieved this beautiful image. It captured the light as it travelled and made it captured the movements of the lights. I love this image because it has captured the light exactly the way I wanted it too, whereas if I had used high shutter speed I would have just got an image of the light itself and that wasn’t the effect I was going for. We had some problems when we took the photo’s such as adjusting the shutter speed to get the correct picture, and this took many tries. Also as the lights were off to get the effect of the light, it was hard to get a decent image. We tried using flash but this didn’t work, so we just persevered. I like the messiness of the image and it works really well with the dark background and I had a lot of fun actually taking the photographs. I think using the cameras a bit more and taking time to try out different settings and speeds will make me understand how to use it more. Next time if I did this again I would make sure everything in the background was blacked or we were in a darker room, as although this photo came out great, some of the other didn’t.