Rut Blees Luxemburg

Rut Blees Luxemburg work has a warm atmosphere as it focusing on keeping the natural tinted orange lighting emitted from streetlights/buildings. She has a stylized way of capturing water, with the use of a minimal colour palette.

The first photograph captures a small puddle which has been casted against a corner of squared tiles, reflecting the neon sign from the building above. The texture of the tiles create a more visually finished piece as the photograph doesn't look too busy or plain. The puddle is spread - fading away to the tile beside it as it glistens/shines from the orange tinted lamppost. The cold blue reflection and the warmth of the orange complements each other as they are complementary colours.

Her photographs are more focused on elements rather than capturing the full scenery, using different angles and perspectives to have a more varied/natural view.

However, she also uses a slow shutter speed to create an exposed look from the moving cars, this also makes the spots of light shine brighter. With her night photographs the images are not too dark, yet you can still tell it was taking during the night.​

Within her work she also uses long exposures, allowing her to use the natural ambient lighting of the city. Some of Luxemburg's photos use a much higher ISO to lighten some of her photos (alongside changing the aperture and shutter speed), as you can see some noise.

I will be also taking inspiration from reflection photography using puddles. However, this captures the streets and allyways with its different placement of objects in the background. Unlike Luxemburg's photographs, they capture a somewhat full view of both the streets and puddle reflection, creating this mirrored almost 2 world type of view. The positioning of the camera makes the picture more dynamic the angle is more towards the ground - which further enhances the idea of the 2 worlds.

The photograph is quite mundane with less saturated colours.

With this, I will try and create responses using natural sources of water to capture a reflection of buildings or objects.