Saturday night after rehearsal I came outside of the studio and the most incredible sunset was gracing the sky. It had been a foggy day, and I'm not science-y enough to know if thats why the colors were so incredibly bright, but I figure it had something to do with it. It's that magical time of day when the street lights come on, although there is still natural light around. You get to bask in the sparkly artificial lights and the warm glowing natural light all at once for about 30 minutes. My favorite.
The colors is the spider photo are untouched, which is hard for me to believe. Basically I've got a pink and violet cyc and then warm downlight. The light source (which is artificial) is coming from directly above and then I have all this incredibly vibrant backlight that is really making the spider pop off the page. This little guy is hanging out on the lamp by the bike racks between the studios, and I've been watching him do his thing for the past week. I saw him again late Saturday night after Sabrina's show and I was with Yasmin, and she nearly had a panic attack. Hence the warning.
The photo below is another comparison of the natural and artificial light, taken maybe 5 minutes after the photo above. In this photo however, the two sources are falling on different subjects and creating different textures instead of contributing to one 3 dimensional subject. I love the crisp and detailed texture of the leaves (under a harsh fluorescent foot light) compared with the soft and dreamy texture of the clouds, also lit from underneath but from our favorite natural light source, the setting sun.
Very nice comments and comparisons and how texture is all around us when we open our eyes to it :)
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