Week 8: Fog

This was taken at around 7:30 one morning this past week.  It actually kind of confuses me.  Looking at it from the tree to the light source (right to left), the picture is haunting.  It has a lost-in-the-woods feel.  However, looking at it in the opposite way from the source to the tree (left to right), it seems heroic, as if something good is coming, a hero is rising from the ashes.  I also thought this lighting was interesting because it does not look like morning.  Upon closer inspection you can see somewhat of a bright blue behind the fog in the upper righthand corner that suggests is to be so in addition to the lighter hue of the yellow around the source.  I really liked the shadows in the photo as well.  The fog makes it so nothing is distinct. There are only silhouettes. The tree in front is sharper, and the ones nearer the source all just kind of blend together.  At first glance this seems like a pretty simple photo, but there are actually so many details to look at!!

This second one was taken at the same time as above, around 7:30am, more just for comparison purposes. Four weeks back, I took an identical photo around the same time in the morning that had very different lighting (See week 4 blog).  I found it intriguing how all the shadows disappeared, the lighting was incredibly diffused and softened.   This lighting is so flat and dead, hardly radiating anything while the other one provokes many strong feelings.  The above causes an emptiness and its counterpart joy.  This is just one good example of how lighting can really effect our everyday emotions, even if we don't know it or take the time to notice.