Monday, February 24, 2020

Somethings don't photograph well


This is a large illuminated piece of active art composed of dozens of individual lights arranged in rows and controlled by a computer. The large screen changes colour and intensity in waves giving it the appearance of an electronic waterfall.

If this were video you might see the rippling waves of water effect. But this is not a video and you can't see the tumbling water effect.

I've shot the entire building and the art simply burns out--overexposed. The camera cannot get a good expose of both the mostly unlit apartment building and the brightly glowing light show.

Somethings are difficult to photograph. Sorry.

1 comment:

William Kendall said...

There's a light sculpture here that's much the same; it doesn't photograph that well. Its shimmering effect gets washed out.