Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Smoky skies have low contrast (Duochrome)


When I saw sunlight on my curtains this morning, I was eager to get out and shoot some more Polaroid (Originals / Impossible) Duochrome, but the sky is filled with smoke, and so I can't get the contrast I want.  The light has a baby-aspirin-orange cast.  Shadows are present, but muted.  The sky is an ambiguous color - not blue, not gray, not quite as poetic as a William Gibson reference to a dead screen - and so I'll need to wait patiently for cleaner air before I revisit the scenes I'm eager to shoot.  

(I'm sure I've noted it before, but the building is Mira by Studio Gang.)