Lighting

This week my focus for class was on lighting. I used all natural lighting but used it in a way to bring the best out of my photos. Last week I was happy to have a visit from my dog Chichi. We have taken many photo shoots together before but I would have to say using this high quality camera brought the best out of her features. As for my other photos, I wanted to play with some liquids and a soft light bulb. All of these photos really don't have a particular story other than that they are a part of my daily life.

This is a photo of Chichi, my Chihuahua. She is about 10 years old, 10 pounds over weight and has a bad ear infection so inevitably she was laying down in this photo feeling disgruntled. Now that she is old I love how you can see the flecks of white hairs coming through her coat. The couch she is laying on is placed right in front of two windows while the midday sunshine came through to greet us on this particular afternoon. This natural sunshine highlighted a lot of detail on Chichi's fur and on the couch embroidery.

Here is good old Chichi once again. I really love the look of bright sunshine coming through a window. Unforchunaly theses particular windows are on the top of my front door to the house. So, I scooped up Chichi in my left arm and shot the photo with my right hand. It was a bit tricky to get her to look away from me and at the same time keep the camera steady and further away from her face. I like how you can see all of the tiny little wiskers and her buldging eyes from the lighting.

• This is a photograph of myLiz Claiborne purfume that I have been wearing since I was 16. I think the bottle is pretty neat because of the triangualar design and then the small triangle that holds the parfume. I wanted to have the liquid in the bottle to really show through the glass so I placed the bottle on top of my light fixture that is on the wall in my bed room. It is simply a soft light bulb with a glass surrounding where the light shines to the top and bottom. I think that the lighting and the sharp focus created a really clear photo.
  

I wanted to keep experimenting with liquids and lighting so I took this photo. All I did was put my water bottle up to my window and shoot the photo with no flash. I like how crisp the water bottle came out with the lighting in the back drop. I also liked how the screen of my window shown through when I hightened the contrast on the photo.
















This is actually one of the last photos I took for this collection. I thought all of the wrinkles on the foil looked neat next to the sandwich. The table that the sandwich is sitting on is right next to a window with bright sunlight coming through showing all of the detail.