Painted it Red

When exploring portraiture and in partiulcar self portraiture I found it of high importance to ensure I know what compotents are creating the image, especially as I am not taking the image myself. To take ownership of the image I must plan every aspect of how it is shot. I looked at how light can change or distort an image. I used a red rope light, with my set up still with a plain black background. This time however no flash was used as the light stood alone and upheld the image.

I really like these images, they are probably some of my favourite images of this year so far. I think the colour is really vibrant and the use of the strobe makes the light a lot more intimate as it is so close to the face. Also the intensity of the eyes in the second images compared to the shadowing of the mouth gives a real point of focus for the observer. The use of the simple strobe light does seem to fully illuminate the face and this means that no extra light needed to be used.

This image is quite different to the other two. Primarily because of the different composition. In this image the red light follows around the face rather than over the face and across it. This effect brightens up the face and changes the mood and style of the image as the first two had quite a seductive manner where as this image has more of a natural full face shot. These images show how a simple strobe light can change the whole perception and style of an image. Which in turn creates a completely different mood and percieve story behind the image.