Oooh, The Crane. 13 October 2015

This thing. We've all seen this thing looming over what was once Commons. I really liked this picture because of the silhouettes. I love that it is the lighting that is sculpting what is a tree and what is infrastructure. We can see that there is a huge crane in the middle of the background even though it has the same composition and is in the same plane as the trees. This is further shown by the street light that is in the foreground but is also in the same silhouette composition as the trees and crane. I also like how you can tell that there are cars in the foreground and you can tell that there are a number of them but not exactly how many. The lighting gives you the suggestion that there are many cars, and thus gives you a hint to the location being a parking lot, but it does not illuminate each car that there is. This, I feel, sets the place as more of a strong suggestion and less of a literal telling of where we are. There is also something lovely about the yellows of the horizon bleeding out into blues and purples as the light spills upwards. While the actual source of the lighting is being hidden by the silhouette horizon, you still get the idea of where right is coming from. I love how the cloud streams take the colors of the sunset and almost benchmark their transitions. The clouds add more color variant and intensities. Something I'm still struggling to come to a decision upon is whether the sunset colors are cools or warms. I think what I like most about the light itself is the fact that the colors at the horizon are warmer hues (yellows, golds, and a little red) and the colors farther out are cooler hues (blues and purples) the intensities are flipped in regards to the kelvin scale we were shown in class. The yellow light is the most intense and the blue light is the least intense. Since we are supposed to be looking at lighting in terms of emotions or descriptors that come to mind, the two words I would use to describe this lighting would be "stark" and "Romantic."