Week 6: Sailing Light

I took this photo sailing! I love being out on the water on a lovely sunny day, doing one of my favorite water sports. When I am out on the ocean I feel the happiest! To feel the breeze in my hair, the power in my crisp white sails, the ocean currents below my boat. I also love it when my boat keels over to where my sails look as though they are grazing the ocean water. When I look at this photo, the light source is coming from the right side... its about 2 in the afternoon and the sun is already moving towards the West. There is a clear light source and you can see the reflection ripples in the water.  I get a feeling of liberty from looking at this photograph... the clear vast blue sky broken by white sails gives me that sense of liberty. I love sky lighting... especially after seeing Kristine Reyes light my sky with LED's and the cyc.  This would be a fun photo to replicate with blue LED's on the cyc, and maybe some greens/yellows on the floor... I would have to ask about how to light the floor a color without making the sails look anything but white. There is also shadow play in the photograph specifically below the front sailboat that gives some dimension. If I were to give two words for this image it would be HAPPY and FREE. Then I would try to build my light cue such as in our presentations to those two words and try to capture the essence of this image.  I can't wait for Summer and Spring to Sail as much as I can and relive this moment.