Shoot Nine - Work Diary

For this shoot I did some self portraits, I wanted to do one masculine style shoot and one feminine style shoot to look at gender ambiguity. 

Aperture: 22

Shutter Speed: 1/125

ISO: 200

This is my best photograph from the masculine shoot, the lighting in the image is quite harsh and there is a lot of shadows, a lot of the face is hidden due to the light being positioned on only one side, I really like this photograph because of the contrast, there is a lot of light on one side and not on the other, I am looking towards the darker side in this image which also brings negative connotations.

Aperture: 22

Shutter Speed:1/125

ISO: 200

I don't like this photograph and I think it's the worst of this shoot, the shadows on my face make it look misshapen, in addition, my glasses are reflecting a bit which doesn't look very good. I also think that the light was a bit too bright in this photograph, my face is very bright compared to the darkness of the photo and I think that it would look better if it was a bit darker like the photo above. To fix this I just had to make the light that I used a bit darker, although I could've also changed the camera settings as well.

This is the lighting diagram for my shoot, I decided to only use one light because I think that it creates a much more shadowy effect on the photograph. I also didn't want the background lit up so that the photograph stayed quite dark.