Ryon Odneal

Ryon Odneal

The thing I like about the lighting in the photograph is that it is very subtle.  You can see that the photographer used the lights to highlight the subjects, however I am not overwhelmed and the wood frames that seem to be on the same plane as the subjects do not seem to have the same emphasis.  Allowing the subjects to be emphasized as well as having the background fall into shadow lets us as the audience to direct our attention right to the models.  

Alex S. Markow

Alex S. Markow

Honorable Mention from pfmagazine.com 2011 Best of College Photography 

The lighting in this photograph allows the viewer to wonder about what is not visible as well as highlights the main elements.  This image has  high contrast due to the directional lighting scenario and having the rest of the body in shadow.  Having only the eyes and a small part of the body lit, the viewer then wonders where the subject is, and what she is thinking about.  Using lighting to show only the elements of a photograph that you want to tell a story is one way of keeping the audience in suspense.  Also it allows them to interpret more of a story of their own, compared to when the whole image is shown to the viewer.   Some things a person looking at this photograph may interpret is that the subject is looking through something or longing for something.  There is such a deep story behind her eye and you can not help but want to know everything about it.

Jonathan Knowles

Savage Beasts by Jonathan Knowles

Jonathan Knowles has really well thought out direction when it comes to his lighting.  This photograph shows the light directed right on the product (sneakers) without an overwhelming feeling.  The light is highlighting the product allowing us as viewers to immediately look at the shoes.  They seem to be lit from the top as well as the front.  If they were lit from one side there would be a strong shadow on the other.  Also if a product such as this one that comes to towards you as well as structured with height, lighting it only form above would make the rest of the shoes get lost in the grass.  

Norimichi Inoguchi

Still life photography seems a bit more difficult to master.  Norimichi Inoguchi is a wonderful still life photographer that uses lighting techniques that do not overwhelm the product he is shooting.  This photograph shows an all white shoe against an all white background, but separates the two by the way he set up the lights.  The show being photographed almost looks as if it is slightly off the backdrop; most visible when looking at the tassels.  This gives the photograph a very three-dimensional look instead of thinking that the show is flat on the surface of that backdrop.  

This photograph by Norimichi Inoguchi is a great example of a reflected surface being successfully photographed.  The bright light on the top of the glasses indicated the direction of the light which is set up.  The fact that there are no reflections of the actual lights themselves, or anything else, drew me into this photograph. 

Chrissy Piper

Martha Hunt for Free People - Photographed by Chrissy Piper

The photograph above has very well thought out composition, which is something I saw immediately when looking through Chrissy Piper's photography.  The position of the subject is reflecting the scenery beautifully.  The model's position of her right arm (our left) is highly successful in the fact that it starts to move towards the left side of the photograph, which copies what is happening in the background.  The lighting is a nice technique that is something I'd like to try.  We've photographed using lights as a source to backlight our subjects in the studio, but it's interesting to see the subject backlit from natural light as well as being lit from the front.  

Francesco Carrozzini

Daphne Guinness shot by Francesco Carrozzini

This photograph sparked my interest because of Francesco Carrozzini's ability to create such even lighting.  Now having been in the lighting studio, I understand how to achieve such a lighting scenario like this one to the best of my knowledge.  The soft lighting projected onto the subject allowed for the artist to achieve great detail in the fold of the clothing without overwhelming the photograph with harsh shadows.  The shadow which falls to the backside of the subjects face is a very soft gradual shadow that can be hard to accomplish.  Also, when I look at both arms in this photograph, I notice that while both against the body, there are hardly any shadows from either direction.  

Danielle Dehardt

by JOE PERRI

This photograph by Joe Perri interested me by his ability to photography at night yet have so much of the scenery visible.  I've learned this semester so much that the lights allow us to do and when looking through images it's interesting to pick up lighting senarios and now know how an artist got their shot.  I love photographing nature and trees, however this semester I have stuck indoors with the lights.  This image is a beautiful portrait taken by Joe Perri that makes me want to take the lights outside and experiment.  I am inspired by all of his work, but this one in particular I believe is the next step for me with shooting with the lights.  

Sacha Dean Biyan

Sacha Dean Biyan

This photographer really struck my interest by the way he uses a futuristic influence on his work.  I love how every one of his images seems to convey a fantastic, slightly unknown or odd feeling even through simple construction.  This photograph uses a wall of lights to create a world with no other hints of landscape.  The lights become the landscape in this photograph which is and interesting view from the photographer.  I like the way the lights seem to be in a straight line until you reach the subject when you see the arms go either in front or behind.  It makes you wonder if the other lights are all on the same plane as the others.  

Thomas Vandecasteele

Model: Ellen

This photographer's body of work interested me after reading the first of our lighting book.  To pick up on the different terms and effects used by lights in the studio in the actual work itself is an interesting way to look at the way an artist works.  In this particular photograph, and I could be wrong because I just started reading and figuring things out, there is either one light source being used or all light is coming from one direction.  The contrast would be less harsh if there were more of a diffused lighting set up in the studio.  The harsh lines in the models hair as well as her face tell us that the light is not diffused in any way and all coming from the same direction.  

Vandecasteele has a fantastic body of work in the fashion industry that I enjoyed looking at.  Seeing his work has put a tiny idea in my head that it may be interesting to work with fashion.  Looking at other artists work can sometimes make you see the possibilities of something you didn't see before.  The photographs below (entitled KIDS) are clearly fashion shots but works of art as well.