Lighting

We had a brief study in lighting last week looking at how light moves and how to use light in our images and work. The main point was to understand the principles of light and understand the main terms. Like the last task we had to find some examples of art and then analyse the work with our new knowledge.


This first piece of art i have found as a good amount a light in the image to begin with allowing me to be able to discuss it more. Firstly the direction of the light is from a point source e.g sunlight, making it more realistic, we can tell this by how the light has more bounce around the room of the image and there isn't doesn't focus on a spot on the wall but the whole wall. The occlusion on the wall shows the lack of light in that direction and the fading out of bounce light. The character shows a lot of bounce light as the skirt has many creases but the light bouncing from all over is lighting up the creases enough. Some are almost black as they are well folded over allowing no light and some are well out of the direction of light and most bounce isn't getting around. Her neck is also a good area to see bounce light in action as the head would block out the light but the back side of her neck is still fairly light as there is plenty of light as its most likely bouncing from the wall behind. This image works as you get a lot of light being bounced but the artist has understood the direction of the light and were areas would have shadows but calculated the amount of bounce that might hit that shadowed area.



This piece from Da Vinci shows a good understanding of Spot Lighting as the characters are strongly highlighted from a above source that is very strong. You can tell that this light doesn't come from the sun as he has included windows in the background that show the light is coming at a different angles highlighting the edges of the windows. This light seems to have no affect on the characters as the light isn't hitting the back of the woman highlighting her back edge. This also suggests the sun is directly behind and in-between the two windows as the light is entering them both at two different angles going out from each other. Bounce again is in this image best seen on the babies body. As the body is down and in towards the mother that means the direction light would mostly leave the light blocked out but most part of the body visible meaning bounce back light from the mother and other areas are effecting the image and Da Vinci has taken this into mind.



The light of reflection as been taken into account as the artist has looked how the light is being reflected off the waters surface and into our eyes. As the image is entering the water and then getting reflected some of the image is lost as well as the light is reflecting of a moving liquid allowing light to be lost while reflecting in a different direction. If you focus on the boat you can see that the boat has a blue side which means that the light is reflecting from the water to the boat giving it a blue look.