Blog #1: Post Modern Dating and The Selfie

       

While I was scrolling through my dating apps today, I thought about this assignment and came to the realization of how the lighting of one's selfie can alter how that person is perceived. Take the first photo for example, the dim frontlighting of his face cuts off the top portion of his head and melds into the rest of the unlit background since the intensity of his camera flash is too low to reach all features captured in this photo. Taking this into consideration, this selfie gives a more casual tone to this person as the lack of overall illumination reflects the lack of effort put towards capturing his entire face, something that many would consider neccessary in this type of dating platform. In comparison, the second photo has a wash of light to capture the entire subject and background while playing with textures through the vertical shadows used. This photo creates a more open tone through the light intensity as well as a visually interesting atmosphere through use of texture. With this in mind, the latter of the 2 photos would produce a more viable dating candidate, in my own opinion, because of their intriguing lighting choices utilized in their photo, something that I have subconsciously noticed in the past but never had fully analyzed until now.