English project-miniature guy and his shadows

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                   I had an English poetry project to do over the poem "My Shadow" so I decided to do something with photography because, well why not it's about shadows. I was originally going to use people but nobody in my family wanted to volunteer and be the subject so I went and found these little lego people and used that instead. In the poem it talks about his different shadows: big, small, weird, just his shadow in bed, him by himself, etc. (I have more pictures than what is on here.) The hardest, and worst picture is the one of just the shadow on the bed. I had my brother hold the lego man and a flashlight but you can clearly see his hand in the shadow, but I figured Mrs. Johnson wouldn't be too picky about that so I didn't worry about it. I used a flashlight for all of these since it was on such a small scale and pocket wizards never seem to work well with me. But the flashlight worked just fine for what I needed. The last picture is the guy getting up for the early morning sunrise so I just pointed the flashlight right at the well, but had it to where not the whole thing would be showing to try and make it look like the sun, which if you ask me, I think it kinda resembles it pretty well. Using a flashlight also makes it very easy to tell how big your shadow is going to be right then rather than taking the picture, looking, guessing where to move the flash and keep going on and on until you finally get it right, so for that purpose I enjoyed using the flashlight. It was a lot faster for the purposes I needed. I set up in a corner in our kitchen and was laying down or on my knees for all the pictures to get eye level with the little guy. I had a 17-50mm lens and reallly didn't do much editing at all except maybe a little crop and white balance adjustment.