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3-26-2025
Department
Classics
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A man sits on a chair, holding his lute and looking into the distance. The man, wearing a periwig and a red coat, appears to be from the past. He sits alone with his instrument at his side. Has he stopped playing to wait for other band members? Did he ever have bandmates to begin with? Looking at the man's face from various angles makes it unclear exactly what he is feeling, because different angles affect the emotions of the seated man.
I used controlled light and cropping to accentuate the sitting man's changing emotions. From one angle, I focused on the man’s expressions as he looked toward the viewer. I used darker light around his face to display the emotion of frustration. For another photograph, I focused on the man looking into the distance. I used light to highlight his features to display confusion. From this angle, it seems that perhaps the man is focused on something beyond the scope of the image. The sitting man makes one ask themselves, how do the different angles change the character’s story? I invite you to wonder: What is the sitting man thinking? Feeling?
Camera Settings: Aperture
Images of face: F16
Camera Settings: Shutter Speed
Images of face: 1/4
Camera Settings: ISO
Images of face: 100
Lighting
Images of face taken with moveable lights placed in front of the object at different intensities to highlight emotions.
Photoshop Adjustments
Each image was cropped to focus on the man's face from two angles. Finally, the contrast was increased by +10 to mitigate the reflection of the lights and accentuate the colors of the face.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
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