Lighting ~ Touch of Drama by bmac62
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Description
Balancing Act:
A museum curator must balance two conflicting purposes. 1) To illuminate displays for viewing, and 2) To reduce light to preserve the artifacts.
This is a photo of the Cold War Gallery (North) of the US Air Force Museum, Dayton, Ohio taken from a balcony that overlooks both the North and South galleries.
You can see many of the spotlights high up in the ceiling. Each aircraft is spotted to achieve the two purposes above AND add a touch of drama by adding colorful theatrical effects.
There is an art to all of this that I didn't appreciate until looking through all 2000 pictures I took here over the two day period of the 7th and 8th of June.
For those of you looking at individual aircraft here, I promise to eventually get to each of them :-)
Thanks for stopping by,
Bill:)
ZOOM...there's a lot to see.
Comments (35)
Drama indeed! Fantastic view of the room and the art of lighting the planes and the room itself.
I agree lighting makes a huge difference to a picture. Lovely capture.
Mega View! Don't use 'em all up Bill before i get around to showing my wares! But that said, the one thing that spoiled it for me was the 'red Light' wasn't working the day I got to the Stealth Bomber! Bummer! Some of these I NEVER thought I'd see! The Scorpion for one. Awesome..... Rob.
wow, it's a big cornucopia of glittering plane shots, the big suspended one almost invisible at first, lost in the glimmer of so many others. And all that darkness...You really caught the sweep and strange lighting of this place, as well as the 'crammed' look of all those planes on one floor (even though I'm sure it's larger from the ground). And fascinating about controlling the lights to preserve the artifacts: I know that's a must with paintings & drawings, but I never realized it with planes! Is it more the paint & finish of the planes, or the metal itself? I never realized these things. So the lighting must be carefully doled out. Yep, curating is one difficult art, isn't it...Well, in this angle, it looks almost like an underground cove, and we're seeing planes secretly stashed for a conflict...Beautiful capture, and the drama is loud & clear...
Zoom is absolutely amazing! Fantastic picture!