As well as lighting being of undeniable importance to a portrait I also wanted to see how expression changed the image so I have also taken just some normal portraits using different expressions. I wanted to put them together, but also create some sort of quirky image. Displaying them like this I think shows the angel and devil on each side of the middle portrait. I purposefully left this one in colour as I think, that although usually more attention would be given to the colour image by the eye, the black and white ones on the sides have more impact as they are different expressions. This type of image does let the portraits sit well together as they compliment each other as they are obviously the same person. The lighting for all these images was using a flash fun and the usual black background studio set up. The use of light in this image has not had as much impact as the other experiments I have done have. However I do think that the plainer lighting ensures that the expression is fully focused on.
I also experimented with eyes and the different ways eyes can create tension and change emotion. In psychology I was looking at a psychological study into autism Baron Cohen and I found that people with autism find it difficult to distinguish emotions from just seeing eyes. I placed these 3 sets of eyes together as I think they each show different emotions however these are expression I make with my own eyes so I wonder what other people will think? Will they know what expression I am trying to create? Again with this image I kept the lighting in a neutral was with the black background and with a flashgun, however obviously they are much closer up so did not require so much lighting.
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