While walking to campus on a foggy morning, the lamps just illuminated into the morning. Each beam of light seemed to be tightly pulled into a string by the atmosphere and called me in towards the light. What I like most about the light was its eminence (which is not fully apparent in the photo unfortunately) and the warmth of the light. It awakened a sense of curiosity, like a moth to the flame and sucked my attention into one point. This reminds me of how we talk in class how our eyes are attracted to warm light first. Also, although I consider this morning to be "dark," it is actually quite bright. The fact that the light has such warm colors means that my eyes are registering another source as brighter (we see the brightest light as white. If the lamp was the brightest, it would look like white light). Hence, I suppose that in order to get this warm, curiosity inducing light in a stage setting, I would have to either have a brighter source of light with it. Or I could introduce the audience to bright light first so that they recognize that as white, take that light out and have the lamp be the primary source on stage. I feel like the first would be more successful (spots perhaps? Shins?) so the dancers could be seen.
Nice image and thoughts on warm and cool lights - a great study of while light
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This picture also is a good example of how atmosphere can add "that little something" to a dance. This picture would not be the same without that tiny bit of contrast we are getting from the pale lavender sky. And our eyes might not question that the lamp was white light if the sky was not present.
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