Hello! This is my first post to this group, I would like to share this photo with you all. I am about to graduate from Northern Kentucky University with my BFA. this is a photo from my senior thesis project "Loom" the series deals with fear in its most primal state.
This is a composited image from around 8-10 photos
Shot with Nikon D750, 18-35mm, and lit with hot lights.
Let me know what you think!
I am not getting this but we don't have any context in terms of your thesis project and the other images you have produced for it. So, I have little to offer except to say that, as a discrete image it is not doing anything for me and does not scream FEAR, partly perhaps becasue it is so light with well lit white painted shelves and wall panels. Also the box might have been turned a few degrees so it looks more 3D and more like a trunk. Here it is hard to read what it is.
Now I am known here abouts as one who likes the darkside and this is a case of darker, much darker, might have been better, much better. When I say darker, I mean control the fall of your light so it does not go anywhere it does not need to go and is only bright enough to do its thing, no brighter.
What do you mean, hot lights?
they were large continuous lights that get extremely hot hence hot lights, I've always called them that didn't realize it wouldn't translate.
thanks for your input Ian, i totally get what you are saying the shelves are to distracting and now that i see you can't see the side of the box ill never un see it haha. i realize it doesn't stand quite perfectly as an image alone, it needs others to build a context of what you are seeing i think. and yes i know it doesn't scream fear, but its not really supposed to be "scary"because fear isn't always a monster or heights, sometimes its heartbreak or regret or the thought of them.
and finally! thanks for the words about the light, i was nervous to not give enough information if i let the photo fall into to much literal darkness, but i can see where that would have been really interesting.
Deciding on the extent of darkness to allow into a image is not easy, it comes with committed practice and artist sensitivity. It is vital that editing such images is done on a calibrated screen, but that is always true, of course. Seek reference images, say from great movies or amazing photographers to get ideas on how they achieved their brilliant images, where the light was bright but localised, where it was dim and where it was totally absent. Figure out the placement of the luminaires and what basic charaters they had, floods, spots low, high colour etc. Usually they will be back lit shots or more or less back lit. Or lit with by just narrow shafts of illumination, very locally, amongst much larger and much darker areas.
All lights, luminaires, have names. The vast number of lamps produced over the decades means any generic name, such as hot light, means nothing to anyone other than yourself. I infer the light source is a tungsten product but it may well be an HMI. All lights produce quite a bit of heat, flash being the only exception and even some mains flash kit can get hot. It could be an open faced light such as a Red Head or Blonde or it could be a fresnel type such as an Arri spot. But truly the list is too long and I for one do not know more than the most popular from the last 50 years or so. Try googling for the light you used or ask a lecturer/technician at college.
Thanks Ian for sharing some insight and being a nice guy! I really appreciate the feedback.