The biggest secret to good photographs
isn’t composition and it’s definitely not gear – it’s lighting.
Great lighting can make an otherwise humdrum photo into something
amazing, and clever use of light can give it that extra nudge. Nick
Fancher came up with a way to customize catch lights to create
interesting effects in the eyes of his subjects.
Fancher creates this unique look by
using white and black gaffer’s tape on foam boards in front of his
models. Making shapes on the boards creates shapes in the subjects
eyes, from nice round circles to snowflake and triangle shapes. There
are quite a few possibilities for taking advantage of this effect and
we’d be curious to see what kind of results different colored tape
would provide.
(via PetaPixel)