• David Tort at Space •

There’s an interesting quality to the light on the Space Terrace this time of year in the morning. The skylights above the Terrace make the early morning sun almost a neutral color. Maybe it’s the weather, but the light itself cools down from the usual orange-red of sunrise fairly early on. It is like a giant softbox in a way. Oddly enough, before the invention of practical hot lights, and later, strobes, photographers and cinematographers alike had their studios equipped with massive skylights to use natural lighting as much as possible. They had no other option. 

Kind of goes back to my ethos of that ‘there is a lot of light around if you know how to use it’. Flash and strobes are wonderful tools and if used properly, can help generate quality images, but a lot of the fun is working with the light that’s there. In a nightclub, there’s plenty of light. The intelligent lighting, static lights, candles, screens, and indicators can all be used very effectively. And it’s a bit more polite than blasting your flash and blinding 500 people.