Child Project

For this project, I took pictures of my cousin Simone who is a little over one year old. It was extremely rainy and dark that day and Simone was sick, so I decided to go with the flow and take blurry emotional portraits of her. 

here are some extra pictures, just for fun :

Flash exercise

direct flash

45 degrees

90 degrees

45 degrees bounced diagonally 

Catchlight research

subtle catchlights using natural light by David Urbanke

technically this isn't really a catchlight, even though there are some reflections in the model's eyes - I just thought this picture by Kenta Murakami was really interesting

by the69th

In all these pictures, the catchlights help to add depth to the models' expression, making them seem more alive. In other cases, if the catchlights were bigger, they could even show the environment surrounding the models which I think can be interesting in certain situations.

Fill Flash research

here are a few images by Noah Kalina (http://www.noahkalina.com/) :

I think Noah Kalina's use of fill flash is a bit harsh at times but overall it successfully creates an interesting atmosphere. By using this fill flash technique, he manages to get a lot of details in his main subjects while underexposing his background a little bit