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I now come to the point which you particularly wished me to describe to you mean the luminous appearance of trees, shrubs and birds when seen from the foot of m
by andai 19d ago
I now come to the point which you particularly wished me to describe to you mean the luminous appearance of trees, shrubs and birds when seen from the foot of mountain, little before sun-rise.
I saw something similar at sunset the other day, a luminous dog! A fluffy white dog: the last sunbeams hit him from behind, so that he had an amber corona.
- jval43 19d agoNo pictures from 1832, but I found a photo describing the phenomenon. So low-res one can barely see the effect: https://onehundredmountains.blogspot.com/2008/04/sunrise-on-pines.html https://onehundredmountains.blogspot.com/2008/04/sunrise-on-...
- srean 19d agoSuch beautiful writing. Thanks so much for sharing.
- ErroneousBosh 19d agoCommonly used to this day in photography and cinematography, where you have a "key light", big bright one up high and off to one side aiming down a bit at the subject, a "fill light" being dimmer, lower down, and off to the other side to relieve the shadows on the face that the key light throws, and a "hair light" behind the subject to make their hair glow a bit and pull them off the background.
- srean 19d agoOne of my favourite use of lighting is the glowing embers in Sean Young's eyes in The Blade Runner.
- ErroneousBosh 19d agoOne of the films I want to watch at 4x normal speed so I can put it in my brain faster, then go back and look at each individual frame for ten minutes apiece so I can see every single thing in it.
- srean 19d agoThen you may like this one https://nofilmschool.com/2013/07/a-lesson-in-lighting-through-blade-runner https://nofilmschool.com/2013/07/a-lesson-in-lighting-throug... Let me submit this as a an HN post https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=49694634 https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=49694634
- ErroneousBosh 18d agoThis is amazing, thanks!