I am working through some photographs of The Children to put up. There will be more in a few days, but for now here is a look at the finale to the big zombie chorus. Here are two photographs of essentially the same moment, one taken by the set designer the other by the official photographer.
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Each of them contain aspects of truth as far as what the moment looks like, but neither are as full as the live show itself. I always find this curious when it comes to documenting my shows. No photograph is ever actually what the lighting of the scene looked like. But they can often come quite close.
Tags: documentation, nymf, photography, pix, the children
The first one is particularly excellent, but the second one makes for a great publicity still.
I had a similar experience with photos of this scene in a production of Life of Galileo that I lit. The primary light for the scene came from three mercury vapor black light fixtures with the lenses removed, and UV filter gel covering them (for actor safety).
Their light certainly didn’t look as green as in this shot, but it was still sickly pale. Photos taken with other cameras are more blue-white, and still lacking something of the full picture. No photograph captured the way the scene literally appeared, but at least this photo has the intended visceral impact.
I love the first of your two photos. Portfolio shot all the way.
Yeah. I like them both, but for very different reasons.
Yeah. I like them both, but for very different reasons.
You like the first because of something other than its excellence?
*grin*
Heeeee . . . .
Yeah, those metal halide fixtures are tricky. I have found that when a show has mixed incandescent and discharge source that a “fluorescent” setting on a digital camera tends to get closest to the correct balance. But it is never quite right.
The top of my two pictures has the right color. More or less. But the overexposure is a bit of a problem. The bottom picture distorts the color, but the actual balance of the light is more accurate.
Its a trade-off. But it always is.