Week 10

I took this picture of my friend Darcy during the last few days of summer before I flew out for school from my home in Indiana. It was one of those really lovely summer days where the sun shines, the air is clean, and everything is just so pleasant and slow. What I like about the lighting in this photos is how the sun seems to illuminates every where around my friend. I get this feeling that she is surrounded by light as she takes a moment of contemplation. There is this cove that her hair creates that seems to give her a place for such a pause. The light is beautiful and soft. I really enjoy how the softness and clarity that hits her face blends into an overexposed outline of her face. The light glows with an amber. The amber is warm and calm. The light in this photo really takes me back to those last days of summer. The lighting just feels so natural. This is not just because this picture was taken outside, but because it captures Darcy's face in a refreshingly organic way that communicates something of real human experience on a day that is full of brightness and reflection. There is this hint of over exposure from how the light hits the hair, but the combination of how the light wraps around the face in such a smooth way really creates a cohesive moment.