Experimenting

I got hold of a small torch and last night I quickly had a play around with lighting things and photographing them.
It was surprisingly difficult and was very hard to see what I was shooting. For most of the time I had to just rely on luck and see what I got.



I did a few just lighting up objects at first, but I then moved on and used a test model.



I was shooting on about f4.0 with a shutter speed of 2 or 3 seconds and I was barley getting any light. When I was photographing with a model I had to avoid directly pointing the torch at them as it gave a really bright glare, and instead I had to have the bright spot of the torch just out of the frame, and the outer rim of light illuminating the person.



Although the images are dark I do really like the way they look; quite scary and yet mysterious.
These are just some little test shots, but they have given me an insight into how to proceed when I do my next shoot, and I need to figure out how to get more light and how to direct it better.