Comments on: Photographic Lighting Lesson 1 http://blog.larryeiss.com/2009/12/28/photographic-lighting-lesson-1/ photography, woodworking, and such as may strike my fancy Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:35:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Larry http://blog.larryeiss.com/2009/12/28/photographic-lighting-lesson-1/comment-page-1/#comment-17904 Larry Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:06:21 +0000 http://blog.larryeiss.com/?p=410#comment-17904 I'm very glad you stopped by, Curtiss. Thanks for the excellent comments! I took care of the second copy of this one. I do have moderation on, but now that I've approved you once, any future comments will post immediately. Thanks for the kind words about those photos. I, too, hope cameras always treat light this way. I’m very glad you stopped by, Curtiss. Thanks for the excellent comments! I took care of the second copy of this one. I do have moderation on, but now that I’ve approved you once, any future comments will post immediately.

Thanks for the kind words about those photos. I, too, hope cameras always treat light this way.

]]> By: H.Curtiss Leung http://blog.larryeiss.com/2009/12/28/photographic-lighting-lesson-1/comment-page-1/#comment-17899 H.Curtiss Leung Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:18:24 +0000 http://blog.larryeiss.com/?p=410#comment-17899 When I first starting doing any photography, it was low-light photography on a tripod. If that seems like a strange place for a beginner, what I can say in my defense was that I was simply imitating the main interest of the person who got me interested in photography, and he helped (or would it be better to say "enabled?") me by lending me a Luna-Pro F meter and a cable release (who remembers the mechanical shutter?) I go along with him on his night photo excursions, and loved them. He lived in NJ, and loved to catch the ruined grandeur of disused industrial sites within driving distance. I've lost touch with him since, sorry to say. At the time I was living with my folks on Long Island, finishing my degree, working part-time and taking pictures with what time I had left over. I'm not fond of my hometown, and I think the nighttime brought out the genuinely sinister things about it—or maybe I just thought it did. What I loved and still love about low light and night photography and what you show so beautifully in your last two photos is the difference between the way the eye sees and film/digital sensors "see." Our visual systems correct for color imbalances that photographic media doesn't, and I hope never will. The blue/yellow color combination in the next-to-last photo, caused by the different color temperature of natural light and incandescent light, is just magic; the dots of green light from florescent lighting in the last shot (to me at least) fills out the color palate and gives a slight but definitely sinister air to the cityscape, as if each window were some opening onto strange dealings or the workings of a mad scientist. When I first starting doing any photography, it was low-light photography on a tripod. If that seems like a strange place for a beginner, what I can say in my defense was that I was simply imitating the main interest of the person who got me interested in photography, and he helped (or would it be better to say “enabled?”) me by lending me a Luna-Pro F meter and a cable release (who remembers the mechanical shutter?) I go along with him on his night photo excursions, and loved them. He lived in NJ, and loved to catch the ruined grandeur of disused industrial sites within driving distance. I’ve lost touch with him since, sorry to say.

At the time I was living with my folks on Long Island, finishing my degree, working part-time and taking pictures with what time I had left over. I’m not fond of my hometown, and I think the nighttime brought out the genuinely sinister things about it—or maybe I just thought it did.

What I loved and still love about low light and night photography and what you show so beautifully in your last two photos is the difference between the way the eye sees and film/digital sensors “see.” Our visual systems correct for color imbalances that photographic media doesn’t, and I hope never will. The blue/yellow color combination in the next-to-last photo, caused by the different color temperature of natural light and incandescent light, is just magic; the dots of green light from florescent lighting in the last shot (to me at least) fills out the color palate and gives a slight but definitely sinister air to the cityscape, as if each window were some opening onto strange dealings or the workings of a mad scientist.

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