Unit 3 Activity 1

 photo by Michael Kanashkevich

Photo by Aaron Lockart

 Here are a couple examples of soft lighting. Soft lighting works well for portrait photography and getting every detail well lit. It shows everything evenly and leaves little out. However, sometimes it can make a subject look flat and without any roundness or edges. without shadows, you cannot see much form and specific detail.

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Photos by Jeremy Cowart

These images show hard lighting. Hard lighting usually only has one light source that focuses on a single section of the subject. Hard lighting really gives character to a face or shows detail and texture of a subject. The shadows can also give the image a bit of mysteriousness. Hard lighting can sometimes leave out important pieces of a subject, however. If you do not intend to have large shadows, hard lighting can ruin a picture.