Sunday, February 3, 2008

The light


The light, originally uploaded by cieuxautres.

January 27, 2008 27/366
These are a couple of paintings I did in college when I was infatuated with Bernard Newman.

3 comments:

Scrivener said...

Very cool! I like the paintings and the photo of them--that glaring light at the top, and the flare at the botto, very nice.

cieux autres said...

Yeah, hey. Just what are those flares at the bottom. How did I create them and how do I stop them?

Just want to have control over them. They look like little UFOs.

Scrivener said...

I'm no expert, but my understanding is that it's light reflecting between the layers of lenses in your camera, due to small imperfections in the glass--so lenses that zoom will tend to have more flare, b/c you have more layers of glass in the lens. Unless you're shooting into a very bright, focused light beam, the reflection is not visible, but if you shoot at a bright light from a tight source and hit it at the right angle, then you get lens flare.

I think you control them pretty much just by how you angle the lens in taking the shot, and maybe by how much you're zoomed in on the subject. Or with Photoshop.