For the subsequent two weeks your problem is to make TWO pictures! One utilizing exhausting mild, and one which makes use of gentle mild.
Very principally, exhausting mild produces exhausting shadows solid out of your topic, The place gentle mild produces (you guessed it!) softer shadows! You’ll find extra direct mild sources producing exhausting shadows and thus exhausting mild, the place subtle mild sometimes provides you a softer high quality of sunshine, my instance under (sorry, used my cellphone, it’s after midnight! I’ve been having photograph storage points (exhausting disks are both useless or dying from the very first time you utilize them! don’t ask!) reveals exhausting after which gentle. You need to use exhausting mild to indicate element and robust distinction, it’s sometimes just a little tougher to grasp once you’re beginning out, however enjoyable to play with. Softer mild is mostly nice for portraits, so you would attempt your hand at gentle and exhausting lit portraits, or meals or pets or nicely… something you want! Two pictures, Two weeks, Go!
Be sure to embrace the hashtags #dPSWeeklyChallenge and #dPSHardLightSoftLight in your put up, right here within the feedback or over on social media. You’ll be able to tag us on Fb, Instagram or Twitter!
That is what exhausting seems like, you possibly can see I shone a torch (small mild supply) onto a rock and produced a tough shadow..
Within the body under, you possibly can see I used a small white field (actually a white cardboard field, you would use paper or just about something to diffuse mild, you can even attempt messing about with tinfoil to create loopy exhausting mild, too!) ..that I pointed the torch at, subtle the cruel torch mild and it softened the shadow and gave the rock a softer mild.
Be sure to embrace the hashtags #dPSWeeklyChallenge and #dPSHardLightSoftLight in your put up, right here within the feedback or over on social media. You’ll be able to tag us on Fb, Instagram or Twitter!
Discover all of our earlier weekly challenges right here.
Merely add your shot into the remark area (search for the little digicam icon within the Disqus feedback part) they usually’ll get embedded for us all to see or if you happen to’d want, add them to your favorite photo-sharing website and go away the hyperlink to them. Present me your finest pictures on this week’s problem. Typically it takes some time for a picture to seem so be affected person and take a look at to not put up the identical picture twice.
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