In my mixed lighting portrait I tried to harness the use of the most powerful light source we have access to: the sun. With the help of a bounce card I reflected the light coming through a small window by one of the school doors onto Emily's face. By doing this I hoped to create a dramatic lighting effect in combination with some of the florescent light coming from the ceiling. I thought creating a photo with different kinds of lighting elements would be easier than studio lighting because not only are you taking your pictures in a more less up-tight environment, but the lighting is also more relaxed. While I was taking pictures outside using the bounce card, the extreme light tended just to fade my model's face completely out. But, by random chance of coming inside though one of the side doors, I was hit with the idea to use the light from outside that was coming inside to light her face. The result was an intense stream of light in a precise place while the rest of the photo is lit by residual light. Even though her eyes are not what the light is hitting directly, the shadowing it creates under/around her eyes helps to make them look more intense.
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