Portrait Assignment

In this assignment we had to take pictures with natural and artificial lighting. I used Miranda Lessner as a photo subject. For the natural light we stood next to a window or place of light and used a piece of poster board to reflect light on the other side of our faces (right photo). For the other picture we used a series of lights to illuminate our faces. There was a bright light on our right, a smaller light to our left, a light behind us to create a "halo" effect and lastly there was a light behind the background making it brighter (left photo). I think this will help me later when i want to take pictures of people and light isn't very available.