Split Lighting

I love photography. I am amazed by the beautiful pictures that some people can take. Learning your camera can be very tricky and takes so.much.practice!!! I'm really going to try to focus (pun intended!) more on my camera and practice as much as I can. I always say I'm going to do this but then I get frustrated and give up. But not this time!!

 I came across a website that has been very helpful in providing photography tips. It's called Click it up a Notch (http://clickitupanotch.com) and the blogger has soooo many tutorials that can help you learn your camera. It's a pretty fantastic website, actually.

After looking at some of her tutorials, I decided to try something called Split Lighting. It's basically when the sun is hitting half of your face, which causes one side to be lit up and the other side to be dark. I grabbed my camera, tripod and remote flash and tested it out. I put a chair in front of my window and threw some pillows on it (so I could focus on something before I got in the picture). I removed the pillows and sat at a 90 degree angle so the sun/light was only getting half of my face. I was so surprised to see that after one shot, it actually worked!! I took the picture a few times, trying to make sure I was in focus and getting a shot I liked.

Here is the final picture ...

 I know it's not perfect but I think it turned out pretty good. When I try it again, I will probably use Photoshop to brighten one side and darken the other. In this picture, both sides are bit dark, but you get the point! Hopefully my sister will let me practice on her - it's hard to take pictures of yourself sometimes!! 

Happy Shooting!