All week I’ve been taking pictures of shadows. Shadows are everywhere and I started to think that maybe I should give this whole gobo thing a shoot. And then -last night after work- I walked outside and saw this beautiful sky. The first thing I thought was “this is texture”. Even though the sky looked like a 2D backdrop, I saw so much texture.
The different colors from the night sky and the setting sun mixing together, in conjunction with the clouds on different planes, created this extremely textured image. This sky has made me realize how much more there is to texture than shadows. I suppose in some sense the clouds are making shadows, and probably refracting light, but there’s just something different about this particular manifestation of texture. I’m not really sure how to describe it.
Based off this, I would say texture adds dimension and character to light. I was skeptical at first about this whole “texture” thing, but now I’m interested to see where it can go.
I'm glad you have a new appreciation - Gobos are simply one way to create it :)
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