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Kimberly
At the request of Mike McCarty, I am posting a recent photo I took of Kimberly. I am currently about 70% complete with the oil painting but currently have it on hold due to a sibling portrait I am working on taking priority. The goal for this photo was to have the shadow side of the face a bit darker than normal, at least for me anyway. The difficulty in achieving this was working around the cast shadow from the nose across her cheek. When I would move the light around (closer to the front) I would have too much light on the shadow side. I eventually put up a reflector to her left with the light source coming from her right. I still had too much of a cast shadow across the cheek so I modified the shadow in Paint Shop Pro. I was pretty happy with the results, particularly the color distribution.
The light I used for the subject was an Avilux screw in fluorescent (CRI=93; 5500K; 26W). My camera is an Olympus C4000 (4 mp), not the most expensive camera(about $499 at the time I bought it a year ago) but adequate for this type of photography I think.
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