Lighting is Different

[Christy Talbott]

For the past couple years at least, when taking photos for use as reference for head studies, I try to use a lighting which I'm confident will work well. This I'm afraid tends to make my portraiture a bit formulaic. Nowadays I most often use north (slight northwest) light from my studio windows. I feel I ought to be trying to challenge myself more than I generally do. The other day I took these photos at a client's home. The lighting on both is different than what I'm most used to working with. I feel pretty good (I think!) about the lighting in the baby girl's photo (I'll alter, sweeten her expression just a bit). I'm not sure about the little boy's photo... Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks so much in advance.

Christy