Lighting Day 1

I found the basic lighting stuff we learned today remarkably interesting. I've seen a million lights in my lifetime, but it turned out I didn't really know a thing about them. Just the technical stuff like how to make a light harsher or softer and that quantity of light doesn't make a difference really interested me. It was amazing how dramatically lights affect a picture. Later, I was sitting in my living room and looking up at the chandelier, and I started to wonder why a light fixture would be designed to be so stationary when placement and arrangement of how a light is set up could give a room so many different personalities or feelings. What also interested me was how each technique and each principle could be explained with what the sun does. Photography, and especially lighting in photography, is just like what I always say about poetry. It mimics nature; the best poem represents something just as it is, staying as close to nature as possible, and a good photograph does the same. I don't mean the best photographs are of birds in trees; I hope I'm explaining this well. Anyway, I'm genuinely excited for the next workshop!