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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Robert Mitchell" data-source="post: 97712" data-attributes="member: 11282">Harsh is something of a subjective term.You're creating a very small light source relative to the subject and it's a hard source. Transitions from highlight to diffuse, diffuse to shadow and shadow to black are rapid. The light source is also positioned much lower than would normally be considered a pleasing height, and that's adding to the drama, or Halloween type lighting that you've created. Even if you find you like the hard quality of light, changing the height and direction of the light source will make a big difference.Having said that, I rarely see photographs of children with hard light that I like and for the most part, it's not done much at all.</blockquote>