"We're Losing Light"...

[Tom Lowe]

These are three words of horror to many directors, DPs and especially UPMs and ADs.

But to me, the words "we're losing light" are music to my ears. Why? Because if you hear those three magic words, you know you're shooting at the right time of day!


http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/4769/lawrence600mf7.jpg
http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/5679/luke600di0.jpg
http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/3908/days600wq1.jpg
http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/9350/marty600fq8.jpg



*BOWS DOWN IN REVERENCE*

[Casey Green]

And with the RED's insane exposure abilities... perhaps we should be talking "magic hours" now. :)

[Simon Blackledge]

Thing is with those images, if you were there.. it wouldn't look like that.. but that is how you would remember the place :)

[Tom Lowe]

Thing is with those images, if you were there.. it wouldn't look like that..

what do you mean?

[J. Bernard Vallon]

I think he means that a good photographer will shoot a place the way people perceive it to look, rather than how it actually looks.

In your last shot (thin red line i think?), you have two light sources, the sun and a bounce fill. In reality, it looks less-awesome, but we remember beaches at sunset as "golden, warm, with beautiful beaded light on the water", and thats all in the shot, even if reality was much more gray and dark.

[Ryan Manes]

I thought the last one was Apocalypse Now.

[Tom Lowe]

I think he means that a good photographer will shoot a place the way people perceive it to look, rather than how it actually looks.

In your last shot (thin red line i think?), you have two light sources, the sun and a bounce fill. In reality, it looks less-awesome, but we remember beaches at sunset as "golden, warm, with beautiful beaded light on the water", and thats all in the shot, even if reality was much more gray and dark.

Yes in the case of that one Apoc picture you are right about the bounce. But such does not hold true for the other three pictures.

I've actually spent many hours (days?) watching sunsets, and I can tell you for sure that no photography, ever, comes close to the "reality" of what we humans are fortunate enough to see.

[Poi Boy]

I know what you mean flameop.
Aloha
-A

[Simon Blackledge]

My comment was inspired by beer, yet I stand by it this morning..:)
thanks..

S

[Tom Lowe]

haha, half my posts here are inspired by beer. :)