Photograph Inspirations

I used these images as inspiration for my own photographs. The photos all have something in common - use of lighting.

The top photo is an NME front cover, with Carl Barat on the front. In the photograph, he is looking directly into the camera, which is why it is ideal for the front cover. The photo is also really bright on his facial area, because there has been lighting used to contour his face and make the whole image brighter. For my own front cover image, my model looked directly into the camera and i used lighting to brighten the image and highlight my model.

The bottom row of images are all very similar. In each, the model is gazing dreamily to the side and the lighting highlights and contours the model. In my own images, the lighting is very important, as it can make a whole image so much better with correct lighting. In my double page spread photograph, my model is gazing out of the shot, like in the above images, and the lighting is mainly on one side of the photograph, like the first image in the row.