This week in our workshop, we were given images by photographers and had to try to recreate them. The photographer I was given in my group (with India Hicking and Scott Bentley) was David Bailey. This was the specific image we were trying to recreate:
The first few images we took were very poor quality. We were not aware of how to accomplish the Rembrandt lighting style so the lighting is really off. Also, to get the photograph with a plain background we ended up taking it in a really badly lit place. These are the first few images we produced:
The following images are after we asked how to reproduce the lighting technique, and these are all much better. To accomplish the Rembrandt lighting, we positioned the subject near a window and got him to rotate until he only had a small amount of light catching on his right cheek.
This is the final image from this week’s workshop:
I think we captured the Rembrandt technique very well here, as there is an almost perfect triangle of light on his right cheek, and the rest of the right side is dark. I also think we replicated Bailey’s image pretty well, although there is much more contrast between light in dark in his photo. I tried increasing the contrast in our image but it didn’t look very good so I left it relatively normal.
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