interstellar
Here is my Get Pushed! challenge from HarryJ. Check out his stream, he's really good with light and has a great sense of humor.
"I'm going to give you two challenges, select just one of them
Photograph an item/thing, not a person, that is partially lit by the light coming from a street lamp. The light should not be "full frontal"
The second one is to take a formal portrait. It does not need to be indoors but it should not be a candid. I hope that the image you post will be one chosen from a number of images of the same person. Oh, and not a family member."
Well, to be brief, #2 was not an option for me. So I went for #1.
In my mind #1 was going to be kind of dark alley-ish, very shadowy, a shaft of light. But I just couldn't create that with the sodium vapor lamps around my part of town which just give out a wash of yellow light.
So to try to get to the point... the photo above is illuminated by the street lamp. That is the glare you see coming from the bottom left corner. The exposure is a long exposure and so it looks as if the tree is illuminated a la "full frontal", but it actually isn't. Believe it or not, the lamp is pointed down and away from the tree. And so, that's it. Thanks for the push HarryJ. It was very challenging for me. I came up with something I totally wasn't expecting, and which barely meets the challenge, but I guess it passes.
interstellar
Here is my Get Pushed! challenge from HarryJ. Check out his stream, he's really good with light and has a great sense of humor.
"I'm going to give you two challenges, select just one of them
Photograph an item/thing, not a person, that is partially lit by the light coming from a street lamp. The light should not be "full frontal"
The second one is to take a formal portrait. It does not need to be indoors but it should not be a candid. I hope that the image you post will be one chosen from a number of images of the same person. Oh, and not a family member."
Well, to be brief, #2 was not an option for me. So I went for #1.
In my mind #1 was going to be kind of dark alley-ish, very shadowy, a shaft of light. But I just couldn't create that with the sodium vapor lamps around my part of town which just give out a wash of yellow light.
So to try to get to the point... the photo above is illuminated by the street lamp. That is the glare you see coming from the bottom left corner. The exposure is a long exposure and so it looks as if the tree is illuminated a la "full frontal", but it actually isn't. Believe it or not, the lamp is pointed down and away from the tree. And so, that's it. Thanks for the push HarryJ. It was very challenging for me. I came up with something I totally wasn't expecting, and which barely meets the challenge, but I guess it passes.