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.