Assignment #3 Daylight

Now, I've been playing with daylight for the last 5 or so years. Having the opportunity to spend an afternoon looking at how daylight plays shaped on the building in the city is very exciting.  I took a walk on Wednesday and spent some time looking at the light.
Part 1

12pm facing north

 2pm, facing east 

2:30pm, facing south east, 

 the angle creates a nice highlight

 2:45pm, facing south

the direct sunlight turns the buildings into silhouettes

 4:45pm facing east

the color temperature has warmed as the evening approaches

6:45pm, facing west

from earlier this month, minutes before sunset 8:15pm

Part 2 Make a Daylight Portrait:

I have been using a daylight studio on the top floor of a building on 17th street for the past 5 years. 

the studio uses north facing, and 60 degree angles windows to give a traditional painters style light.  These 2 are portrait figure studies from a shoot this past weekend; 2 angles, and the bottom image is a film scan from a shoot from this summer where you can see a v-flat used as both a prop and fill reflector.

 silhouette into the light

light is coming from the upper left, and i used a black 

to intensify the black edge on the right.

 wider BTS shot of the shot above

The light is coming from above and down and the vflat is

reflecting a fill light on the back right edge of the model.

These last two are images from my portfolio which I feel are good examples of using daylight for a portrait.

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