lighting- Annie Leibovitz

lighting can make or break a photograph, it plays a massive part in making the photo look good, for example if the light is totally wrong the model in the photograph can look horrible and reflect off of all the wrong places. but on the other hand it can also make a photography look amazing, reflect of jaw bone for example giving them amazing jaw line. this is happening in the photograph below as well, the light is hitting her jaw bone, amazingly 

i think this is a good example of lighting, the was the light hits her and bounces of off her dress at the bottom, on the bottom left of the dress it disappears it is in so much light.

FACTUAL: this is by Annie Leibovitz photograph of Nichole kidman.

CONTEXT: this is a photograph of Nichole kidman, not for a fashion shoot. Annie takes photographs of beautiful famous people.

TECHNICAL: i think this photograph was taken in either a dance hall, or maybe a theatre, looking at the surroundings, lots of lights, i think it is more likely to be a theatre and the nature of the photography and the style, posh sophisticated, i would say theatre. the amount of lights play a big part and the shine and glisten on the dress, automatically draws you attention to Nichole Kidman and the dress she wears 

AESTHETIC: i think this is a good example of lighting, the was the light hits her and bounces of off her dress at the bottom, on the bottom left of the dress it disappears it is in so much light. i think without the light this photograph would not be no where near as great.
This helps me with lighting http://photography.about.com/od/takingpictures/tp/photographylighting.htm