I took these photographs with the intention of creating a Rembrandt lighting effect.  The first two photographs in my contact sheet shows the primary set up for which I experimented with the lighting effects.  These lighting effects were created by me adjusting the harshness and and delicateness of the lights.  I used a primary light source and this was quite powerful in terms of supporting the main lighting.  To enhance this, another light source was used and pointed in various angles to pick out the sharper details of the object by using varying strengths of lighting.  In some cases I used a reflector to incorporate past techniques where I can get a nice balanced effect of light.  Whereas on other photographs, I didn’t use a reflector and this illuminated a section of the object up, and leaving other areas in dark.  This was effective especially where I took photographs with a black background as the darker tones of light on the objects thoroughly projected and enhanced the brighter areas.  Also, to counter the varying light angles, I sometimes took my photographs from angles such as birds, worms and face on angles.  By countering the angle of which I took the photograph with the light sources,  I could include things such as shadows, overtones, an d warmer effects of lighting.