Blog Post #2

I found this picture as I was scrolling through the internet, and after glancing for a while I noticed how the angle of the picture influences a certain reaction. The angle of this picture is a prominent tool, because the shadow cast from the empty sections of the carton enhances the fact that these sections are in fact without an egg. Once I stepped away from the connotations of food and hunger that an egg carton gives me, and I started to focus on the lighting, the heightened absence of the eggs was more apparent in my mind than the sections with eggs in them. This got me to think about positive/negative space, and how lighting designers can use shadow to cast attention to small details. For example, when lighting a performer we may use a spotlight. And although the focal point is the light on the performer, it is a second response to notice that it is more prominent that other performers are not being featured when the spotlight is utilized. It's intriguing how light can be used for a myriad of ways, and I hadn't really thought about how specific lighting choices may implicit secondary features, until now.