Lighting
March 16, 2008 5:25 pm AestheticsI’ve always known lighting is important to a picture, I mean lighting is the picture, without light it wouldn’t exist. But it dawned on my a little harder the other day, I’d been looking at the pictures on Greyscale Gorilla which he’d taken for Digital Kitchen and whilst the pictures were great it was the lighting which struck me. So I had lighting in my head when I was having a shower and a bulb went (usually with an idea its a light coming on but this was one going out) but it struck me how different the room looked now it was lit from a single point (rather than two). The room instead of looking, I don’t know Mediterranean? looked more sinister edgier and harsher.
In my photography I usually take what I see, there is an argument there that I’m not being creative, I’m merely a technician capturing a scene but that’s another story. But now I think I need to go and do some more experimentation with lighting, I haven’t actually set up studio lighting (properly) for 10 years now and back then it was more for functional rather than aesthetic reasons.