Argument: What is a light?

The color pallet or lack there of is the first element which defines the point of view within this photograph. The lack of color only shows the image to be “black” and “white”. ( this is photograph is using the same lighting technique )

The image is presented to be a very harsh image despite the lights which are poking out from the stairwell and from the street lamp. This actually does not soften this photograph, it adds to the severe undertone of this image. The point of view which is seen in this image is that there is always a light on out there. If one looks at the emotion which is felt, there is nothing out there but darkness making a person feels alone and abandoned from the world. If there is a shadow of light, one defining point changes the emotional state from abandonees to feeling as there is something out there; a form of light. A park usually would not make a person think about these things but the lighting concept truly gives this image this point of view. The overwhelming black is fear, the unknown and what most people spend their life running from. The darkness is what is not wanted to be seen and very hard for most to come to peace with. The light is what is strived for; it is that thing that most spend their life looking for. The image gives hope to anyone who is striving for that “light”, for someone who feels as they only can see the darkness there is the light out there. A person may have to search in the dark for this light but its there. Even at a dark park which would be lost in the “darkness” if not for the light.