Some of the photos I took were of my good friend Samantha. She is one of my best friends and is a wonderful next door neighbor. I took these photos of Samantha at my house while we were hanging out. We both are taking photography right now so we just thought why not take some picture right now. Where we took them I found it quite easy to balance the lighting in the photo the room was filled with bright natural lighting since there was a large window and the rooms paint color made it seem even brighter. In the second photo I decided to add in another type of lighting so I could catch the lights reflecting in the glasses and so I could draw attention to her face by making it brighter. For this photo I ended up using the color balance to make the photo more blue since the lights I used gave a yellow to the photo that I didn't want to have. For photos I do seem to prefer when they have a darker contrast so even when I did the black and white I altered the color balance to make many things darker especially things that were already dark to show a very deep contrast things like her hair. Taking these photos was quite difficult because I wanted one of my photos to be serious but she kept laughing, it took a while but I finally got the shot I was hoping for.