Week 2: Indoor Marigolds

Trying to come up with some thoughts on how to represent "love" using light, I found myself drawn to the idea of flowers.   I also found myself thinking that indoor lighting seemed to fit more with my ideas of warm, cozy, romantic light.  So I brought in a pot of marigolds from outside, and put them on my bedside table.




What I saw gave me a good reminder on how unpredictable color can be.  I thought that I would be getting a nice warm glow, coupled with the oranges and yellows of the flowers.  But what I had in my mind didn't match what I saw in front of my eyes.  The warmth I had predicted wasn't as strong as I hoped, which at first didn't make sense to me.   But then it hit me - the blue of the wall was having a big effect on my eyes, neutralizing some of the hoped for warmth.



I tried to snap a few shots, to see what things looked like from different angles.  Looking from above, the light takes on a more traditional front-light feel.  But when I got close up, looking straight on, the light behaved as I imagine one of the back-angle Pars would in class.



Although I wasn't able to create what I had imagined in my head, I think I really like the end result.  It feels a little less cliche than what I had imagined.  Which is a nice reminder about love as well - the cliches don't always hold up, but the reality can be really great.