On Friday night, I was hanging out with a friend, and we had some time to kill before we were going to see Woyzeck. We spent a good long time in the campus pub, and I had a few too many beers. So, I decided to lie down on a concrete barrier and look up at the stars. She told me to take a picture for the lighting blog, so I did. I took a picture of my view staring up at the sky, and the tree. The lens flare was a happy accident. The flare from a nearby light caught on my camera, and it gave the image a whole new power. J.J. Abrams be jealous of my lens flare game. The light scattering across my camera lens created this image. I looked at the harsh streak across the tree. The tree is washed out by the scattering of the light across the lens. I like that it forms a pattern blocking out the tree, making everything washed in tone and color. It helped create a dynamic look. The picture came to life when the flare shot across my camera and animated it. It's a sort of action, and the flare almost aggressively announces its presence in the picture. At that point ti's a declarative moment of action, of liveliness. It was kind of amazing to look at.
Great image - looked like a Japanese painting. Great observations about it as well./
ReplyDeleteOn a side note, JJ Abrams wife has barred him from doing any more lens flairs in his films :)