While sitting in my apartment, I noticed a very interesting light pattern that is thrown onto my wall whenever a car drives by during the afternoon. It is the sun reflecting off of the cars and casting the shadow of a gate out infront of my apartment through the windows and onto the walls. To me, it had a very theatrical look, almost that of a prison/gated wall being reflected into a plain off-white room which made me think of a mental hospital or some sort of asylum for the deranged, especially with how the shadow is duplicated next to itself due to the light's reflection. This is something you could easily recreate with LEKOs and gobos and could cast onto a set to give this type of affect I believe. I also noticed the way the sunlight naturally brightens on my wall near the lower right corner of the wall. This is an affect that could be accomplished with a Cyc and cycle lights, or by placing a PAR at the base of the wall and shining up the wall to give the fading flood affect seen in the photo.
oh yea, it's almost like your wall is a giant cyc or projection screen...you can really see the very subtle differences in the texture of the reflections because of the flat white surface! It's also a GREAT example of how sunlight is actually quite cool in temperature...if you notice how blue the splash of sunlight is on the bottom right corner in comparison with the overall tone of the room...Love the different gate shadows! Nice!
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