Image 37

Day 37 of an Unknown Number

"Image 37"

 

Today's image was a lesson in selecting a perspective. I decided I would photograph an onion skin I had stashed away for a future shoot. The only problem was, I had no idea how to approach the shoot. Should I shoot vertically or horizontally? Should I shoot the inner or outer side? What lens should I use? After some experimenting, I nixed the "shooting into a bowl" perspective, and walked around to the side of the skin. Much more interesting! That is to say, I think it was. Not only did I like the lines of the skin from this angle, but I also got to play with how our subject is perceived. What do I mean? Well, we are actually looking into the bowl of the skin, but from the side angle. Because of the way the human eye works, one might assume we are looking at the outer edge of the skin, and not the receding area of the skin. Because we perceive brighter things as being closer to the eye, our perspective is fooled a bit. The fact is, the far edge of the skin is brightly lit, whereas the near edge is almost in shadow. In reality, we are not seeing the outer edge of the skin at all, but our eye sees shadow, and therefore assumes it is the back edge of the skin. Make sense? In regards to the lighting.....you are looking at it! There is a strip box above the piece of black Plexiglass, and I changed the angle of the light until it made me happy. If I rotated the light a few inches either way, the onion skin would be floating in blackness. Are you still looking at it? Excellent. Thanks for stopping in!!

 

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