TheFlyingCamera
Well-known
I'm having an opening reception for my exhibit, "The Colors of Night" on Friday, August 2, from 7-10pm at Mad Momos Restaurant, 3605 14th Street NW. The exhibit runs from August 2 to the end of October.
Mad Momos is proud to present photographs by DC area photographer, Scott Davis. Please join us for the opening reception to enjoy the photos, meet the photogrpaher and sip on complimentary California Champagne.
What is the color of night? It is indigo, it is fluorescent cyan, it is neon reds, yellows and blues. It is sodium-vapor pink, and glowing incandescent orange. It is all of the above, filled in with the colors of your imagination. It is the color of time slowed down, motion blurred, things and people half-seen through their background, perceptions distorted.
I have been shooting a lot of night-time work both in black-and-white and color, for several years now. Photographing long exposures at night gives you a creative freedom to accept serendipitous happenstance in your work that you would reject if caught in 1/60th of a second. Blurred motion becomes a good thing. People become icons. Cars are ghostly, their tail lights and headlights reduced to abstractions and records of things that were, like handwriting on paper. Colors become incredibly rich and even more important, since sometimes it is only by color that you can define and understand an object. The mixed lighting you find in a photograph of a night scene changes our perception of mood in a way you aren't aware of when you are there – your brain color-corrects light sources automatically so things look “right”, but capturing them on film, which can only record what's actually there without interpretation, reminds us that we do in a manner of fashion walk through the world with rose-colored glasses.
Mad Momos is proud to present photographs by DC area photographer, Scott Davis. Please join us for the opening reception to enjoy the photos, meet the photogrpaher and sip on complimentary California Champagne.
What is the color of night? It is indigo, it is fluorescent cyan, it is neon reds, yellows and blues. It is sodium-vapor pink, and glowing incandescent orange. It is all of the above, filled in with the colors of your imagination. It is the color of time slowed down, motion blurred, things and people half-seen through their background, perceptions distorted.
I have been shooting a lot of night-time work both in black-and-white and color, for several years now. Photographing long exposures at night gives you a creative freedom to accept serendipitous happenstance in your work that you would reject if caught in 1/60th of a second. Blurred motion becomes a good thing. People become icons. Cars are ghostly, their tail lights and headlights reduced to abstractions and records of things that were, like handwriting on paper. Colors become incredibly rich and even more important, since sometimes it is only by color that you can define and understand an object. The mixed lighting you find in a photograph of a night scene changes our perception of mood in a way you aren't aware of when you are there – your brain color-corrects light sources automatically so things look “right”, but capturing them on film, which can only record what's actually there without interpretation, reminds us that we do in a manner of fashion walk through the world with rose-colored glasses.
TheFlyingCamera
Well-known
Bump - just a reminder, a week from today is the opening. The show runs through the end of October.
mfunnell
Shaken, so blurred
I'd not seen this before. Congratulations on the exhibit. I do like the photo you've shown us here.
...Mike
...Mike
furcafe
Veteran
Congrats, will try to check it out. I've met the owner of that restaurant & know some folks who work there.
TheFlyingCamera
Well-known
Just a quick reminder - the opening is this friday, August 2, 7-10pm. Hope to see some of you there.
airfrogusmc
Veteran
I just saw this and a big CONGRATS..... I would have loved to have been at the opening or to see the exhibit for that matter. Did any RFF members attend?
Good to see one of our own getting their work shown.
Good to see one of our own getting their work shown.