Posted by BarryH: 
Bend light using the mass of a large planetary body

Hey, leave Anna Nicole Smith out of this!

or, better, a black hole.

THAT sounds PORNOGRAPHIC!


Actually, here's a few other ways:

*Bend light using fiber optics.

*Change the lights color temperature by varying the amount of electricity in a bulb, or by using different types of filaments and gasses in a bulb.

* Use a prism to defract light into different wavelengths.

* Go up higher into the atmoshphere to absorb more UV.

* Go underwater (deeper and deeper) to lose the red and yellow lightwaves.

*  Make allotta luv and you'll illuminate the world!

Posted by Ched: 
Name a method of changing the way light falls.

No repeats.

Excluded examples: gels, soft boxes, tree branches, gobos.

+10 points for each correct answer.
-5 points for each repeat (not including accidental double posts).

SCRIM

Posted by Tom Weis: 

A cucoloris is a type of gobo, but eliminating "gobo" (which is short for "go between" as a general category is too vague... sorry to veto you.
Flags, dots, fingers, scrims, diffusion panels, and cookies (another word for cucoloris/cucaloris) are all gobos.

I always thought Gobo was a fraggle, he had an uncle named Travelling Matt, and several friends, Maukey, Red, Boober, and Wembly.

Posted by Ched: 
Name a method of changing the way light falls.

Prism

Posted by Justin N Lane:
he had an uncle named Travelling Matt

lol, I love when they use production terms as character names.

Posted by Ched: 
Name a method of changing the way light falls.

is this light scattered or lazing?
you can bounce it, scatter it, filter it, reflected/bounced is also filtered by the color of the medium as only the color bounces the rest is absorbed and converted into heat.
cameras capture or *record* an image gathered by a sensor.

light doesnt actually fall but the descriptive is the percieved angle of appearance one percieves a single or multiple source of said reflection upon an object, which is also relative to the position of the observer.

one can bounce it but that bounce cannot fall if it is aimed above the horizon except for 'falling' upon the next thing in its way.

*he goes to www.mudvayne.com and plays happy*

in a light synthesized environment one can 'project' light to 'fall' in any and all directions but once it leaves the source it takes on all of the characteristics of its reflections both before and after filtering shades bounce of the surounding reflective surfaces. finally being filtered by the last reflecting object the observer views.


reflection is the prime reason a studio photography is usually performed within a large open space.