I decided to re-shoot my portraits for the self-portrait portion of the brief, this was because I wasn’t entirely happy with what I had created for the portraits, they seemed flat and lacklustre which led me to become very critical of my work in general. I didn’t know where to go or what to do, I felt like I needed to leave it for a couple of weeks until I had recharged myself. This led to me thinking about colour and shadows, I have recently purchased an LED bulb that is colour changing, because of the nature of cheap products they aren’t the best for colour reproduction, making some of the colours have multiple tints of colours which work really well for this type of photography that I wanted to try with this brief, I wanted to step away from the plain old portraits that I have created for the friend portrait.
The coloured light I decided on was a ‘white’ light setting which turns out to be just mix of red, green, and blue, giving a mixture of colours that can be manipulated to get results such as pictured above, now this was something I enjoyed creating as if you move the light ever so slightly you can get a different look from it.
I decided that to get the most dramatic image possible I would go into the corridor in my flat and turn the lights out and try and almost rake the light across my face to give this low-key look without being in a studio. The light just catches my eye which makes it shine a bit more.
Processing this image all I did was up the clarity and dropped the saturation and made the dark bits smoother as there was a slight grain on them parts after it was saved.
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