Dark experimentation

In my last photography post I mentioned my intention to do some black and white experimentation and shooting with low light. I'd taken a couple shots in black and white and my favourite shot of that post was taken using low light for a nice contrast between light and shadow (photo two in that post).

I'm winging it here, I have no fucken clue what I'm really doing, or talking about, but that's what I attempted in the last shoot. This one I tried again, with different subjects.

I was going to do a different shoot this time but I didn't have the right subject so that'll have to wait. As a fill in I grabbed this jewellery and thought I'd see what I could get using less light figuring a little dark experimentation might turn up a reasonable result. All of these have been shot in colour and have not been edited to appear black and white.

I'm still undecided about where these shots sit on the scale of goodness to be honest. I think there's a couple good ones, good by my standards anyway, but I'm not quite sure I captured the essence of the whole dark thing and am not convinced my dark experimentation was very successful. Still, I got some photos and figured I might as well show them before I delete them and start again.

Feel free to leave any comments below, but try not to ask any technical questions about photography, I won't know how to answer. Basically I point, focus (manually) and press the shutter release with a healthy dose of hope. I respond to comments though, so if you're keen you know what to do.