Bringing the Outside In Pt. 2- The Dark Side

In these shots I return more to recent themes. Same day, same objects, just changed the light. In the earlier shots the only light I used came from the living room windows which created a soft even lighting allowing the objects to stand on their own in a sort of quiet meditation. For the images in Pt.2 I used artificial lighting from an off camera flash. Here the lighting becomes a much more obvious, and some might consider obtrusive, element in the story telling and meaning of the photographs. There is more of a tortured struggle, or play, between the forms created in the lights and shadows. I don't think one is necessarily better than the other, just two different stories being told.