Weekly Photo Challenge No. 284 - Light/Lighting

[Sepiana]

Hi everyone,

Would you like to participate in the Weekly Photo Challenge? Just take a photo that is your interpretation of the theme and post it in this thread.

- Your photo(s) should be your own, i.e., they should not have been taken by someone else.
- Photoshopping is allowed but should be kept to the basics only rather than a total transformation.
- Grab your camera, experiment, and, most of all, have fun.

NOTE

This week's theme was suggested by tonyw. (Thanks,Tony!) This is what this theme is all about in his own words.

I was thinking of subjects in different lighting such as morning or evening light but could also have other interpretations such as headlights or lamps. 

[pontiac1940]

Thanks: good topic. Light is so important.
 
Was dull and raining around noon and the sun "sort of" shone for a few minutes and light beams hit a few random leaves. Think the BW version displays the concept of "light" better than color. 

[pontiac1940]

Take 2.0 A lighting experiment. 
This glowing apple (a small Gala) was shot in almost complete darkness ... a smidgeon of light was coming from Quilting Central in the next room.  
The apple is lighted from behind (actually, below) by a small LED flashlight (torch).
The method is a tad weird. The apple is perched atop a vertical empty paper towel tube that is on top of a short step stool. A flashlight is inside the tube pointing upward. 
The apple radiates more light along the periphery because there is less tissue to penetrate. 
F11, 5 seconds at ISO 1,600. 

[hmca]

Oct 13, 2020 2:57:28 GMT pontiac1940 said:

A lighting experiment

Very creative interpretation of this week's theme! Thanks for including how you achieved your results.

[kdcintx]

Yes, thanks for explaining how you took the apple photo. The bright colors of the apple are enhanced by the contrast with the black background.

[tonyw]

Was in Stratford Ontario this morning and saw this scene while driving by and just had to find a parking spot and get out the camera. As a kid I was always told never to take a picture directly into the sun but I break that rule quite often these days - in this case the sun was just out of frame and conveniently mostly hidden by leaves but shining through enough to create patterns of light on the fallen leaves. I was just in time as a city parks person was just out of frame driving a big machine sucking up the leaves - they'd just finished that green strip you can see on the right of the picture. When I drove past later in the day those fallen leaves had gone for compost!



Tony

[pontiac1940]

Tony,
I am envious. We get smatterings of fall colors but nothing like the hardwood forests and parks in the East. 
Nice
Clive

[blackmutt]

Clive and Tony, love both of your photos. I need to find some time to play. Thanks for the inspiration

[pontiac1940]

Thanks Judy.
Photography is all about light and really little else...without light we have nothing else.
A challenge like this helps us remember the role of light and hopefully show off some cool aspects of light and lighting. I can't post it in this challenge (it's old) but one my fave "light" photos is of a power pole. Yup, just a pole bathed in warm light with gunmetal-blue dark clouds behind it.
Clive

[billz]

Here's a gas station and the lights lighting it.


Thanks for the theme Sepiana and Tony!

[billz]

Thinking about the effect of light and shadow prompted me to put an egg on the counter last night and recreate an exercise from lighting 101, moving a constant light and studying the shadows as they changed on and around the egg. It was a good refresher.

For the theme I put my lightbox in a north-facing window, with a white reflector to the south. Although the shadows on and around the eggs all changed as I rotated the eggs, the still photos weren't very egg-citing (sorry) until I added a couple chickens.

Thanks again for the inspiring theme ... it's what I love so much about these challenges.

[hmca]

So before I went to bed last night, I saw Bill's gas station. It gave me the idea to use a night light.

[hmca]

Noticed the afternoon sun casting shadows on the wall. I set up a few items to capture their shadows/silhouettes....converted to B/W.

[blackmutt]

Nice "seeing" Helen!

[pontiac1940]

Nice Helen.
billz so do you live inside a pyramid in which gravity exists in a matrix being high in spots and low in other zones?   
I am looking at the rear-most egg that is defying gravity or about to fly away...or merely standing on a mini tee. 
Clive