Light is like the lifeblood of both living creatures and the Earth's evolution. It's also the magic ingredient in photography, which literally translates from the ancient Greek as "drawing with light."

In our photography adventures, we can work hours and days finding the perfect, project, angle, and composition, but if we don't get the lighting right, all that hard work can easily go to waste!

It's funny how we often think we need tons of fancy equipment to get great lighting, when sometimes all we really need can be one light setup. Take Rembrandt, for example. He's famous for his beautiful paintings, and guess what? He often used just one light and a bit of fill!

Today, I've set myself a cool challenge: I'm going to create a project where I'll exclusively use one light source but shaped it in different ways.

As subject, I will use one of the most challenging shapes to photograph, a sphere. Everything is shot in camera without any background comped in.