Reciprocal | Night farm on lake As the world turns Luminosity alteration |
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hotographing at night presents a plethora of procedural challenges. One major problem is how to deal with the many artificial light sources which are seemingly unavoidable. The best approach I have found is simply to incorporate these aberrant radiance elements into the composition. Learning to accept conditions as they exist, and to make the best of any given circumstance, is a usefully strategy increasing the potential for success. From the south shore of Hazel Hill Lake, looking across the water towards the northwest, on this night a lone light of significant magnitude dominates the scene. It illuminates a small farm house and its associated structures, which I suppose provides comfort for the inhabitants. Many humans have an exaggerated fear of the dark, and paradoxically never allow their visual system to fully accommodate under dim surroundings. But once the visual system is allowed to become hyper-sensitive, it turns out that the night is not so dark after all, and the extraneous synthetic light is totally unnecessary.
“Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.” - Catherine O'Hara
