Connecting Essay

This a photograph I found on the internet by David Bailey, he has used honeycomb lighting to create this effect and I think that it looks really good, it creates a high amount of contrast because on one side it is incredibly lit up and there aren't many shadows at all, however on the other side it has a lot of darkness and shadows, it looks like there is a lot more depth. This could be showing us that there are two sides to him, good and bad, or that there is more depth to him than you would usually see, on the left is what we see but on the right is how he is in reality.

This is my photograph that I took in the studio when I was studying portraiture, I took this using the honeycomb light but I made the photograph a lot darker than David Bailey's photo. In my photo Sarah looks like she has quite a dark personality because one side is completely black and the other has a lot of depth and shadows. This photo was inspired by both Thomas Ruff, who takes passport-like photos and David Bailey who takes photographs with this honeycomb lighting.

Honeycomb lighting is a type of lighting that is more direct and controlled, it means you can make some of the photo very dark and some very bright, it can create a contrast or it can drag the eye to a specific area of a photograph.