As I sit in the living room of the family whom I nanny for observing light, I notice some new aspects to a room that is very familiar to me. I look at the sweetly sleeping seven month old twins. Their soft skin is kissed with a white light on the right side of their faces. The light is trickling in from the slightly cracked blinds, giving me a small glimpse of the light gray sky. The sunlight tries to push through the rain clouds that are acting as heavy blankets creating this white light that is reflecting on the babies faces.
There is a yellow tinted light coming from behind my head that covers the left side of the twin's faces. Softening the harsh white light as well as reducing shadows, this pale yellow light acts as a fill light. The more I observe the twins I notice how they perfectly lit they are. The white light coming from outside as the key lighting, the soft yellow overhead light acts as the fill light and light that is peeping through the french doors behind the twins becomes a backlight. This creates the very appropriate "halo effect" on the crown of the babies heads.
All of a sudden this well known space seems completely new again.
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