Light Observation #2
1) February 8th, 2012 – 3:41p.m. – Bits & Bytes
2) My lighting Observation happened while looking for my next meal at Bits & Bytes. While looking around, something caught my eye, it was the meatballs from 2Mato. Not only was this tray of meatballs on display under a heat lamp, like the pasta next to it, but it was in a special, bright, deep red heat lamp.
3)The way this food was being lit was very surreal. Under the bright red light, the meatballs looked like a corny eighties film cheat to recreate the surface or mars. Why was my eye so drawn to this? and why, when I saw it, did I right away thing, “this will be my lighting moment”? In the area that I was in nothing stood out, everything was as it always had been; the drinks were a collage of colors, the salad bar was a collage of colors, the frozen yogurt toppings were a collage of colors, and the italian food was browns, reds, whites, and greens. Then, all of a sudden there was this big, spot in the midst of it all. A huge red area, it was so different. Looking closer at it, there were really deep shadows and this made the texture of the meat clusters so apparent and so much definition was added.