1: Back lighting
This photograph of a lone tree is back lit by the natural light of our Sun. Back lighting is frequently used to connote holiness or great importance. This is true for the image in question, as it is the only standing landmark. The light coupled with the loneliness of the tree places it at centre stage in our line of sight, and what a beautiful sight it is to behold. The tree rises from the horizon like some great glowing monolith, giving hope, salvation, or on a bleaker note some form of death and/or capture as its all-encompassing shadow stretches across the faceless ground.
2: Key Lighting
Key Lighting the first and most important unnatural light source used in media, used to focus solely on an object and highlight its features or dimensions. The shadows created can contribute to a sense of mystery, or connote baleful anticipation. Used alone a key lit shot can offer chiaroscuro to a scene, which is especially important in a Thriller in its subtle application of light and dark, good and evil.
3: Natural Lighting
Natural lighting, if nothing else, applies a realism to the shot. The consumer is urged to believe that it is in the day, and not artificial. An absense of well-coloured natural light can connote a sense of unreality, as seen in the incredibly green Matrix Trilogy. The wide and featureless open spaces of Thrillers are often naturally lit, if a little lacking in colour during Winter.
Well done Jack. Some very descriptive and evocative explanations of lighting effects and I like the images you chose.
ReplyDeleteRe-label this as Cosmetics Unit. I've missed marking this in Evaluation.
"well-coloured natural light" - I know what you mean but can you express differently. Natural light that uses colour filter? Realistically coloured natural light?