This weeks task asked us to view a series of images and describe the light and what emotions and critiques the images invoked in us. These are not my images and were part of the assessment brief from our lecturer.

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Female Portrait

The image evokes a sense of unconventional beauty in the wonderful symmetry of her face and the freckles covering it. The studio lighting is a a cool white and reflected to highlight her face combined with a shallow depth of field emphasising the subjects face and bold unblinking stare as if she’s daring you to pick on her about her freckles.

Male Portrait

This image stuck me as a high contrast studio portrait with warm directional artificial light from the side so directed to profile the subject in a way that conveys the emotion in this image. I feel a sense of sadness and deep despair as I look on this young man. The black backdrop and lighting helps convey the emotion by directing our eyes to his posture in and downcast eyes in this pose.

Double Portrait

This delightful image of siblings blowing bubble in a field automatically gives me the feeling of cliched current trends in “candid” style family photography, that said the beautiful natural lighting backlit the subjects so that the sun glints of their hair creating natural highlights a sense of warmth and joy and childhood innocence.

Seascape

The cool natural light reflected in the water and clouds coupled with the rising mist on the shoreline and the sharpness of the image convey a sense of calm before a storm and of a cool winters and early mornings almost so you don’t notice the muted green of the hills and rising island.