There are two different lighting effect here. firstly the the streetlight which falls onto a section of the tree and its leaves highlighting the selected area that sticks out, leaving the rest of the trees detail in darkness, i quite like this lighting effect on the tree, due to the contrast and the illusion that there is no tree trunk, somewhat like a cloud of leaves.
second type of lighting was by chance a car approaching. The headlights reflecting of the metal bus stop. anything that would need to be highlighted underneath the tree would need a light source from this angle or the opposite angle to be seen well enough.
The lighting here on a 'black path' on the way to my house, you can see why it is called the black path. There isn't much highlight in this photograph apart from the the water reflection on the tarmac. Due to the surface texture and reflection there has been quite a lot of contrast and detail picked up on the path. There has been loss of detail everywhere else on this image. looking back, to achive a little more detail of the surroundings i should have tried to either decreace shutter speed or aperture.
Further down from the previous image i took this photograph there is much more lighting here and i just managed to catch a subject underneath it. this lighting from above is highlighting
A little further down from the previous photograph i took this one. I saw how this street lamp caught the stone wall, the metal post and the grass surrounding it, as you can see the white street lamp is illuminating the area well even picking up all the colours in the grass, leaves and brick wall.
Again another image similar to the above, i took note of this lighting a week or so before i took this picture because as soon as i saw it i thought of the photographer Gregory Crewdson as he is a photographer which is known to use artificial lighting with natural light. This image perticularly reminded me of a specific photograph of Gregory Crewdson.
untitled (pregnant woman/pool), Gregory Crewdson
I have really grown to like Gregory Crewsons photoraphy, his work has a unique style, each photograph seems like a scene from a film, not from behind the television sceen or cinima but like a photograph from the film set with an element of a dreamy feel and also a fairy tale
feel beutiful bold colours nomatter how plesant or unpleasent the image. Ther is also an element of surreal and querky scenes that seem unlikely in real life. looking at some of his work remind me of a the film a midsummer nights dream originaly a play written by shakespere but reinvented into a film by the director Michael Hoffman.
Here there is a car bonnet and a fragment of he trees leaves, that has been lit up from the orange street lamp above, this lighting effect is more defined when there are no surrounding lights to disturb it. So there for a more succluded area at night with this light at night or not long after twilight in summer would work best, rather than on a moterway or street were there are car lights, house and building lights intruding.
This flouresent lighting from above was on the bus, as you can see the lights are revealing alot of contrast on the bus. There for wouldn't be very complementing for a subject but maybe for the definition of an object. A reflector could also be used on a subject to illuminate them and make them stand out in this lighting.
Another type of flouresent lighting from above, taken out of the bus window. I think to bring the eye into a dark photograph such as the background on this one this type of lighting is very useful. Again quite a similar aspect to the street light.
A photographic example of the flouresent lighting from above lighting a subject underneath. Reflecting the light from underneath the subject would counteract any shadows being cast.
Lighting under the train station. this lighting is fairly bright so would be good for a less contrasty photograph. Being close to this light would be quite usefull for the facial features as there would be limited places for shadows to hide. in a way this light would act as a spot light
This is the first picture i had taken to start my recording of different light sources. It stood out to me first because of how the building was set in a dark cornet and the street lamp is quite close to one side of the building illuminating one side and there for giving it its shape. The conclusion i came to with this photograph is that to achive more definition on a subject or object from a street light the light has to be fairly close. If i were to take a picture of a subject underneath this light and was trying to keep their facial features hidden with the shadow from the hair, forehead or hood to obstruct the light this would not be succesful with the light source so far away from the subject.
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