Blog #5

I wanted to analyze this picture because I have yet to analyze natural lighting in a blog. I feel like when we do any theatrical lighting, especially theater, we try to mimic natural lighting. We try to trick the eye by using cues that make us understand and believe that it is day, night or a specific location. This photo is a sunrise over a very cloudy lake. Starting at the sunrise, it’s coming up over the mountain and diffracting around it. It’s casting light over the lake that is bouncing off the lake and illuminating everything else. It doesn’t reach the far corners of the picture. The dimming of the light shows the natural progression of light. It’s interesting to notice the focal points of light. The hot spots created by the sun are interesting. One could play with on-set and could create something beautiful with it. The mountain allows me to understand how light will bend around a set-piece. Also, the natural dim of the light as it goes close to the edge of the photo tells me how light to be accepted on stage. Finally, the clouds where it meets the sun as an intense glow. The piercing light makes it pop in the photo and attracts my eye. That was something I kept forgetting in my main lighting cues over the quarter but I have learned. I need to remember to always make things pop.