Color and Light | Set 2

For My images I went with my sunglasses and their case as a subject. I feel this worked because the lenses of the glasses work to provide a reflection of the lights I was using and the case has an interesting texture and works well with shadows to show where the light comes from. For my lights I chose to use all of the lights in my room. The lights i used are the main overhead light of my room, the reading lamp by my bed, the Christmas lights on my shelf, and the light of my TV screen. The first image is using my reading lamp and as a key light which can be seen in the shadow on the back of the case and in the reflection on the lenses and and the Christmas lights as a secondary light which can be seen in the background of the image. I think this image shows the lighting and the shadows it produces well and I like how the Christmas lights in the background of the image don’t dominate the image but still draw attention to it. I think this image is bad when paired with the other two images because after I took this image I moved the setup for the other images which I feel makes it harder to see the changes in lighting. The second image uses only one light, my overhead light, I only used one light because i really wanted to show off that the shadows were coming straight down from above the subject and I didn’t want anything lighting those shadows. I moved the setup of my subject because I felt with the original setup you couldn't see enough of the shadow below the glass so I moved it so the ear pieces create a long shadow underneath the glasses. I think the second image has too much interesting things in the background which distract from the glasses themselves. The final image is done using the light of my TV and the Christmas lights again. I was originally just use the TV but the image wound up too dim and so I had to add the Christmas lights for this image. Where this image is good is it stands out from the other images by having a different colored key light. I think it also shows off where the light is coming from by having the outside back of the case be lit up and the inside be dark. I also think that the Christmas light serve to add more light to the image as a whole but do not over power the light of the TV which is the focus. Where is think this image is weaker is that in the image the viewer can see the inside of the case but it is out of focus and thus you can’t really see any detail about it which I feel would have been interesting to see. I also feel that there is a distracting pile of variously colored stuff in the background which detracts from the image. Overall I feel the two biggest weaknesses that all of my image share are that I moved the setup of the subject between the first image and the other two and that each image is taken from a different angle as opposed to one angle for all of the photos which could have showed off the change in lighting better.