Lighting Photo

For this lighting assignment I thought I did pretty well overall. I was kind of confused on diffused and silhouette lighting, and I wasn't even sure the photo I chose was diffused lighting until I asked others' opinions. I just thought it was a cool picture and I knew I wanted to use it, but I didn't know if it reflected one of the lightings we were studying in class. I was very happy then when I was told that I could perfectly use it as an example of diffused lighting. When it was time for critiques, I thought I was given a lot more credit than I deserved. I got back a lot of positive feedback. Half of the things I hadn't even noticed such as the foot prints in the snow and all the lines leading your eyes down the road. There just happened to be no cars in the street also. These elements all really added to my picture, and I think without them my photo would not have been as real or unique. A lot of people found meaning in my photo when I was just snapping pictures. I think this shows how cool and diverse photography can be. After hearing the feedback from my photo, I have grown to like my picture even more. I have definitely learned from hearing the feedback from my photo and others that everyone has their own opinions and everyone can take something different from the same photo. From all the different critiques, I was able to figure out what silhouette, diffused, and direct lighting are really supposed to look like. Everyone's comments really helped me see what they thought was important to them in a picture, and I will try to keep these things in mind next time we have a photography assignment to take pictures. In the future I also want to try to think about the meaning of a photo more before I just start taking random pictures. Some people showed really good examples of the different kinds of lighting, but I thought the best pictures were the ones that had good lighting and had real meaning.