natural light: project 45
June 21, 2010
picture count
Below are 4 photographs that I found on the internet that show the lighting directions discussed in project 44:-
Back Lighting

Frontal Lighting

Side Lighting

Edge Lighting

Below are 10 photographs from the course’s textbook where I felt the lighting was of prime importance:-

Kurt Benning ‘Musicians’ Platform in a German Farmhouse’ 1975.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo ‘ El Umbral’ ( The Threshold ) 1947.

Robert Frank ‘ Crosses on Scene of Highway Accident – U.S. 91, Idaho’.

Charles Sheeler ‘Interior’ 1917.

Robert Demachy ‘Academie’.

Jacques Henri Lartigue ‘ Bibi au Restaurant d’ Eden Roc, Cap d’Antibes’ 1920.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo ‘ Verde ‘ ( Green ) 1966.

William Henry Fox Talbot ‘ The Open Door ‘.

Hippolyte Bayard ‘ Garden Tools and a Straw Hat ‘ 1843 or 1844.

Emmet Gowin ‘ Edith. Danville, Virgina, 1971′
what I have learnt
The recognition of the many uses of light in photography.