100 Photos Of Liminal Spaces That Make Us Feel Deeply Uneasy
There’s something very off about these empty places. We can feel it in our bones. The hairs on the back of our necks are standing on end and our guts are telling us someone’s watching us, lurking in the shadows, just out of sight. Can you feel it too, Pandas? The eeriness? The tension? The low-key anxiety? We hope it’s not just us.
Photographer Dominic Sberna, from the United States, was kind enough to answer Bored Panda’s questions about the role that lighting plays in setting the mood and tone of photos. Scroll down for the interview.
Are you ready to step across the threshold into the land where nightmares and reality mix like waves in a storm? Stay close, don’t wander off, don’t get lost, and let’s go explore. Oh, but if you do find your way back safe and sound, you might want to take a dive into our previous article about liminality right here.
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According to professional photographer Dominic, lighting lies at the core of photography and plays a huge role in how the image looks and feels to us, the viewers. “Lighting can make or break a mood,” he told Bored Panda.
“The tones of the image really factor in when trying to portray a specific feeling,” he explained, adding that the color palettes that photographers use can wildly change how we interpret a photograph. “Cool colors typically fall unto the bleak side, whereas warm colors are more comforting,” he said.
I was curious if the in-built flashes on cameras are any good. “I’ll always recommend to never use an on-camera flash on a DSLR camera. The flash is powerful, but that’s about it. The direction and brightness of it are extremely harsh and you should either bump up your ISO setting or use an external flash,” the photography expert suggested.
