Lighting effects research:

As I don't actually know any official terms for actual lighting effects I have decided to research this topic as I want to find out how the technical terms apply to when taking a photo.

B A C K L I G H T I N G:
light that shines from behind the subject. This is the effect that can make palm trees turn into silhouettes against a sunset

S I D E L I G H T I N G :
It is often used to create mysterious and dramatic portraits. It adds texture and depth to otherwise dull subjects.

D I F F U S E D L I G H T I N G :
This is a technique to soften the incoming light to take away some of the contrast of a good photograph

A R T I F I C I A L L I G H T I N G:
Is from a wide range of forms. Ranging from the flash setting on a camera to the. Unless you are using a black and white film regular indoor lights will often give the photos a yellow cast.

Schedule update

I have started taking the different types of jewellery photographs for the second time around, due to my camera dilemma. In the first photo shoot I used a desk lamp as a spotlight to shine on the jewellery hanging from the birdcage,but in the second photo shoot I have decided to use different sorts of lighting. As I have quite bright lighting in my house as a lot of the rooms contain lots of ceiling lights I think that taking some of the photos appeared more effective with just using these lights.

I will also be able to edit the lighting effects once I upload the photos onto the computer, therefore if the lighting appears drastically bad will be able to resolve the problem.

Because I have not yet took all of my photos I think that I may experiment with different lighting effects using the resources that I have at home in order to capture the best photos that I possibly can.

Postponed blogging

• I have not posted any blogs for a while due to the fact that it was the Christmas holidays. I also had three different portfolio's to create for university, which unfortunately took up allot of my time. I am also slightly behind schedule, I had previously took lots of jewellery photos using many different techniques/ using different settings on my camera, such as a fish eye setting, a pinhole setting and a sketching setting. My plan was to edit these photographs during this week ready to place them onto my website in the following weeks. However, due to the fact that I needed the images for my portfolio to be of a particular DPI I was experimenting with different formats on my camera and then accidentally deleted all the photos on my memory card.
• Unfortunately I did not save any of these images, therefore i am having to start again from the beginning.
• The only potential good thing about this situation is that perhaps with the benefit of hindsight I have the advantage of potentially taking better photos the second time around.