I feel with this post that I want to take just a minute to brag a little about where I live. . . I live in Lake Elsinore with my husband and two dogs and every night we get to walk out by the lake and see miraculous views! We have neighbors only on one side of us and what you see below is what is on the other side (well, we have to walk just a short ways through a field to get to the lake, but it is very close). Every night the sunset is slightly different and the evening I took these pictures was particularly awe inspiring!
The orange and yellow hues radiating from the sun were energizing as I could feel their last rays of warmth on my skin. As the sun set a little more, the colors got warmer in color with deeper oranges and reds entering into the scene. The light reflecting off the water was more rich than the actual light coming from the sun and it makes me think about how this could be done on stage. Down lights would fill the space with a yellow/orange hue while a pipe end would send beams of brighter yellow to emulate the sun. I would then want to have the floor slightly warmer than the light filling the stage, so I would use the shins to put a bit of red along with orange onto the floor.
In the third photo as the sun dipped behind the hills, there was a softening and cooling of the light which seems to be created by the blue filling the sky. If this were on stage, I imagine the down lights would be changed to blue and then the pipe ends and/or shins would be a yellow/orange hue at 50%. Well, this is my best guess. I'd be interested to try it out and see what really needs to happen in order to recreate the colors and light from these photos.
I am so grateful to be able to see images like this every day. I love where I live!
Alex! Wow, you have every right to show off where you live, its beautiful! the way you thought about lighting the floor as if the sun reflecting off a pond was very interesting to me, I would never heave thought of it. I wonder what movement would happen on stage with that? I would love to see it. It was also nice to hear the process of the sun setting, and how it would be expressed with different cues on stage. I love the sunset, and i love how at the very end, when the sun is setting behind the hills, you decided that you would bring in blue.. I absolutely get where you are coming from with that, as the blue of the nighttime overcomes the last few rays of the sun. We should try this in class one day :)
ReplyDeleteVery nice ijmages and description - you will have to include pictures of your dogs in a blog post this quarter :) - Remember to always tie the look to emotions - I love the use of words like "softening and cooling" but also tie directly to how it affects you emotionally, we can light emotion but often times fall short replicating nature, if we do not have strong context
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