Hard and Soft Light Prints

The assignment was to create 6 prints. Two portraits (one picture with soft light, and one with hard light), two landscape pictures and two still life pictures. Unfortunately, I only had enough time to create one of the two landscape pictures.

Contact Sheets

Contact Sheet for Portraits -This contact sheet took me forever to create. I spent a lot of time trying to find the correct settings, and the best settings turned out to be

Aperture: 8
Time: 14
Filter: 2

Contact Sheet for Still Life -

This contact sheet didn't take too long to find the correct settings to.
Aperture:11
Time: 22Filter: NO FILTER

(Contact Sheet) Contact Sheet for Landscape -
I was running out of time, and luckily I found the corredt settings pretty fast.
Aperture:
Time:
Filter:

Portraits (Test-Strips and Final Prints)

Hard Light

The settings for this print was:
Aperture: 8
Time: 11Filter: 2
This is a picture of Faith and it was easy to say that the picture turned out way too dark. I had a lot of trouble with this picture. The picture turned out either too grey, or too dark. I decided to try with another filter and less time and so then I found the correct settings for the final print.

This print is an example of hard light because you can see the shadows on her face and you see a clear border between the light and the shadows. The settings for this print was:
Aperture: 8
Time: 8

Filter: 5

Soft Light

This test-strip of Almu turned out to be too grey.
The settings are:
Aperture: 4
Time (from bottom to top): 4,6,8,10

Filter: NO FILTER

For the final print I decided to put in a filter, and then less time.

This print is a example of Soft Ligh

t because the shadows aren't so hard and the light looks very natural. The settings from the test trip turned out to be pretty grey, so I added a filter of 5 and used less time. The settings are:
Aperture: 4
Time: 2.5
Filter: 5

Still Life (Test-Strips and Final Prints)

The settings for this print didn't take too long. The settings are:
Aperture: 11
Time: (from bottom to top): 40, 42, 44, 46

Filter: 3

For the final print I decided to add more time becasue this test-strip was still a bit too grey.

This picture is an example of soft light because the picture is lighter and 

not that dark. 

After a few changes of the settings from the test-strip, I found the correct settings for the final print which are:
Aperture: 11
Time: 50
Filter: 3

("Mama's Porcelaine" September, 2008)

The settings for this print was pretty similar to the settings of the picture above, so I used the sam

e settings only I used less time. The settings are:
Aperture: 11
Time: 13
Filter: 3

This is a picture of hard light because

 the picture is pretty dark and you can clearly see the shadows in the back ground.

Landscape (Test-Strips and Final Print)

The settings for this print are:

Aperture:
Time (from bottom to top): 14, 16, 18, 20
Filter:

(Landcape print)
This print is an example of soft light because there aren't any edgy shadows and the light is soft and natural. Unfortunately though, this is my only print for landscape and it took me some time to find the correct settings. The only change I made from the settings of the test strip was to use less time. The settings are:
Aperture:
Time: 11

Filter:

The setting for these prints are:

Time: 11 seconds

Aperture: 11

No filter was used.

This contact sheet had a time of 12 seconds

Aperture was 11 and no filter was used