By looking at the class exercise from week 6, I think the purpose of this exercise is a demonstration, manipulating the different quality of lights on the different shape of faces will better explain why we need a lot of time to work out what sort of lighting we need for each scene. Dan and Max have a completely different shape of faces, Asian’s face usually are less sharped and outlined, so I can see more shadows is showing on Max’s eye socket when the light is very hard and without any filled lighting. Whereas Dan’s face is flatter comparing with Max’s face so he had fewer shadows on him during the use of hard light.

One thing I found very interesting and I heard everyone else did also is the shadow of the big clips, this once again reminded me the power of film lights. In our everyday life, we might have never thought about when an object is close to the light source, it’s shadow will be less sharped. This is something we might have seen every day but we would never consider how to convert the lights in an actual scene. When the clips appeared closely in front of the lamp(key light source), it’s shadow became blurred so when it is moving, the clips look like the shadow of leaves. This is a good skill to grasp when I am shooting something that needs to create a shadow of leaves.

When the light sources are adjusted to the softest, it was interesting to see the soft light was working similarly on both of their faces but when it was hard lighting, they had different effects. I can see there are reflections of the key lighting bouncing off from everywhere possible in that room, so Max and Dan’s left face looked like were being lit up with filled lighting but it’s actually just reflections.