High Key by TJ

This topic was great fun, and also gave me a good opportunity to experiment with my camera settings to achieve over exposure and removing shadows. The picture was set up in a bedroom with my white backdrop draped over a bed as I had no way of hanging it up. I set the camera up on a tripod and on a 10 second timer meaning I had to get around to the front and lay down on the floor on my stomach in order to get into shot. I also used a light reflector for the first time and this certainly made a difference in the eyes. I thought that I would have to use editing software to get the finished article, but actually this is the first topic we have done, where I haven't tweaked the picture at all in post production. The only thing I did was to crop the original photo, so what you see in the photo is my eye against the white backdrop. I was really happy with this exposure as it is hard to make out the line of my forehead above the eye.

In my other photos I had tried photographing an orchid and was pleased with the effort, but the flowers were on the way out so I really needed to find another white flower to pursue this idea. The portrait in the top left is the photo I used to crop for the main photo, which shows how the outline of my face seems to merge into the white backdrop. The bottom left photo I almost chose as the main photo keeping it as a portrait shot as not only was it nice and bright without shadowed areas, it was also not too bad a shot of myself.