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As you can see in the photos above, 1 point lighting (also knows as chiaroscuro) creates a high contrast of shadows- and with portraits, its a great way to bring out the facial shape and its features.

Within this photo session in the studio, my main focus was to experiment with 1 point lighting varying from both sides and slightly below.

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Throughout the photo-taking I kept to the same tone of light (which was warm) as it responded well to the choice of clothing which was vintage-like. However I tried different intensities (dull and bright). Also, used a variety of different poses.

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I chose these two images out of my first selection. In image one, I like the composition and the straight posture of the model which portrays dominance, strength and confidence- there is also one sharp shadow on the right and a much more soft shadow on the left which contrast. In image 2, There are sharp shadows and bold golden reflections coming off the models shirt- however the majority of focus is still on the models face which is very defined due to the angle and lighting.

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When editing I made a couple small adjustments such as cropping image 1 and sharpening both images very slightly.

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Another outcome that I think turned out well was turning the images black and white- this was to refer to the 3 images by other photographers at the beginning on the blog.