A Street-corner at Midnight
In this image, there are several different aspects of it that attracted me. First the color: from the left of the image, we almost have a turquoise hue that shifts to green as we move our eye to the middle of the image and follow along the side of the building. To me, this green gives a very erie mood because it is almost sickly and looks very flat against the wall. On the right side of the image the building is lit by what appears to be natural streetlight. the sidewalk on this side of the image looks to me like where the action of the play would take place if this were the set, and on the left side in the green there could be a stranger waiting; hidden. I also love the green stoplight that (to me) balances the green on the left side of the image with the pale amber on the right. And right in the middle we have the streetlight which looks like a dim stage light shining right at me, I really enjoy this look. Lastly the pitch black background of the night sky. This causes everything in the foreground of the image to pop and the absence of back light makes me feel like this is a secluded corner that doesn't exist in the real world; it has been plucked out of reality for this moment. I enjoy the theatricality of this image and how I believe a play could very wall take place here if this were to be recreated on a stage
Dang this is awesome! What great color contrasts with the sources of light! It looks so THEATRICAL! Like this was a set on a stage somewhere...what interests me most is that I don't think I'd ever think to light it this way...and it's so interesting! And kind of eerie! Where is that flat green light coming from? Could be any number of things, but it's really neat. I love the image of all these manmade sources clashing together against a backdrop of NO natural light source whatsoever. It's super poetic and ominous! Nice job!!!
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