Just a piece of the skyline as seen from the deck a sailboat. Taken in the summer of ‘07. I love how the Custom House Tower is framed between two modern high rise condo buildings.
Day two of yellow. Today we see it as consumerism. Lots of companies use yellow in ads, logos and alike. It’s flashy, grabs your attention, and when you combine it with the shape of a price tag and you label the companies name of Best Buy a national chain, people are drawn to it. Fact is most people go into places like this, like drones, just believing what they are told by the “experts” that work there, there are other options and people need to do more research and make more informed decisions. It is not always the best buy
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We start off the third week of color theory looking at the color yellow. For those who might just be starting to flow this topic, this is not a study in color theory in a traditional sense, rather a look at how a dominate color in a photo can effect it, and how it can effect the person looking at the photo. Today we see yellow, and this particular instance, the hue of gold, which I consider part of the yellow family, as a sign of power. This is the gold guilded dome of he Massachusetts State House on Beacon Hill at sunset. It’s a fitting roof, seeing that Mass was the start of modern democracy in this country.
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Taken in the spring of ‘09. I literally raced out of the subway and down the Rose Kennedy Greenway to setup for this shot. I got there with the sun just below the horizon, to find a pickup truck parked in the middle of the arch with two construction workers just chit chatting away. I thought the shot was going to be toast, but when they moved I took a few frames, moved across the street, slapped on the fisheye, and whammo! this is the shot I got. A 5 exposure HDR of the Boston Harbor Hotel on Rowes Wharf.
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Well today is the final day of red. Starting tomorrow we move on to the color yellow. Today’s transition photo just smacks you in the face with color. This is a storage building in the south end out near Rt. 93. It’s actually across this street from the Boston Hearld newspaper. Thanks to Rich for playing the role of pedestrian in the frame, with the exception of some homeless and other sketchy people in the area, it is pretty much person free.
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Shot during the day on July 4th 2007. This guy is an instution on the streets of Boston, drumming up beats on 5 gallon buckets and metal pans. He can be found outside sporting events before and after games and at random places at night.
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Today we visit Copley Square on an unusual warm sunny Saturday afternoon. For Red today, we see red as a sign of luxury. Here are some of the awnings on the Fairmount Copley Plaza, a very luxury old school hotel. The hotel has served as a place to stay for heads of state, presidents, actors and alike over its history. The red awnings lead you down a muted neutral facade towards the entrance.
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Shot in the winter of 2008, this is a long exposure of Copley Square in Boston with Old South Church on the rich and the Boston Public Library on the left.
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Just a friendly reminder that next weekend, the weekend of March 14th is the start of Daylight Savings Time. That means sunrise is a hell of a lot earlier in the morning and sunset is way later in the day. Some of you early risers may have already noticed the sun is coming up faster in the morning. For some of you this is a problem because you cant get out of bed, you are starting to miss the sunrise shots that you have been getting all winter when the sun would rise around 7-7:30am, even today official sunrise was 6:12am.
The reason for this obvious reminder post you ask? While is may seem blatantly obvious that next Sat. night we “spring forward” with the clocks by an hour. What you might not realize is that for ONE WEEK, from Sunday the 14th to Friday the 19th, Sunrise will again be close to 7am. After that each passing day we will start to loose time at a rate of 1-3 minutes a morning. At which time you will have to start pulling yourselves out of bed earlier and earlier again. Why not take advantage of this, plan some shots this week when sunrise is early and the go execute those shots next week while you have little extra time to sleep. Remember, its going to get light earlier, but it isn’t getting warmer yet, its a lot colder getting up at 5am to shoot sunrise than it is to get up a 6am to shoot it.
Tip visit www.sunrisesunset.com and you can get official calendars for your area. You can also include Civil Twilight, Nautical Twilight, and Astronomical Twilight. I personally include Civil and Nautical in my calendars.
Civil Twilight is defined as when the sun is just below the horizon to a point about 6 degrees below the horizon. It is at this point in which you still get a little glow left at the horizon line, but the sky’s are turning deep shades of blue. Also if there are some clouds in the sky this is the point in which warm reds and oranges will appear on the undersides of the clouds but the rest of the photo will be that deep blue color.
Nautical Twilight is defined as when the sun is between 6 degrees and 12 degrees below the horizon. It’s at this point when all warm colors are gone and the real blues come out. This is also a very narrow window of time before night hits. It’s the point in which ambient light and artificial light, like that from buildings, are in balance with one another.
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Today we explore red as it is used in branding and advertising. There is nothing more iconic in Mass then the Hood Milk logo. From this 30 foot milk bottle at the Children’s Museum which serves food out of it in the summer, to the gigantic Hood blimp that flies over Fenway Park in the summer for Red Sox games, Hood knows how to market and strike an iconic image.
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