Lighting Lab

  1. Fall Sunset

Backdrop: Top Blue 25% Bottom Red 50% Green 20%

Model Light: 1. Front side light 32 degrees AP7500 75% 2. Front Side light 23 degree AP7750 50% 3. Side light 27 degree AP7770 50% 4. Back light 23 degree AP2190 50%

 

The colors used in both the model lighting and background are those of a rich fall in New England. Those colors are often found in both the setting (trees, leaves and plants) but also sunsets. It’s as if the mountain sides become a mirror for the sky. The angles are more powerful on the right since from my house that’s where the sun sets. There is a variety of angles since the sun is on its way down but not there yet creating an overall romantic wash.

  1. Easter Sunrise

Backdrop: Top Red G280 50% Blue AP3800 10% Bottom Blue L120 20%

Model Light: 1. Front foot light 19 degree L020 with texture 50% 2. Front light 48 degree L029 50% 3. Front light 54 degrees L071 25% 4. Front Light 48 degree L029 50% 5. Side light 0 degrees L100 with texture 50% 6. Foot light -19 degree L105 with texture full

 

Cathedrals are filled with stained glass windows that create amazing colors and textures especially when the sun is moving across the filter. The blues, reds and yellows, are all common in glass art and the texture shows the pattern that would be giving shadows. The low and high angles show the variety of light reflection that can happen in the morning.

  1. Noon Summer

Back Drop: Top White 50% Blue 20% Bottom White 40%

Model Light: 1. Top Light 85 degrees AP2180 90% 2. Front light 48 degrees AP2180 60% 3. Backlight 42 degrees AP2200 50%

 

Noon in a vacation location I imagine is serene and crisp. The light is pure and bright. This particular scene the couple is in a cove so the light is coming through the tree behind them but they are enjoying the warm breeze and relaxing water as everything before them is illuminated while they are shaded.

  1. Winter Afternoon

Backdrop: Top Gray 50% White 10% Bottom Gray 40%

Model Light: 1. Top Light 60 degrees G885 60% 2. Front Light 48 degrees G885 50% 3. Front Light G885 80%

 

The clouds as they roll in before a storm especially over a lake bring such doom and gloom. It dulls everything under it, like a vacuum cleaner for color. This gray, dull tone just sits until the snow comes. There seems to be no specific source for this kind of light to be coming from since there is no angle for them to come in. It’s the little bit that finds its way through the clouds and just bounces of every surface losing luster with each reflection.

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