My friend and I took this photo of us walking to the buses from rehearsal earlier in the quarter. At the time I didn't really see anything besides a cool picture of us, but now I understand that part of what making it an interesting picture is the lighting.
This picture is lit by only a streetlight over by Aldrich Hall, and I purposely used my friend's shadow to hide my face because it made it more mysterious, not realizing that is a tevchnique used in lighting. Here the audience is able to connect with my friend more than me, because his face is lit better than my own. But there are also shadows on his face sculpting him and adding mystery to him as well.
On my face however, my face is split directly in half and they are unable to connect with me. This lighting might also be helpful in establishing the personalities of the characters on stage/in this photo.
hahaha this is hysterical. Definitely the split face lighting effect and weird source at night feel...almost noir! Great!
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