Rosco Spectrum: When he’s not busy as guitarist and singer for Boston’s modern-metal band “Unearth,” Ken Susi is an active photographer. He recently visited Rick Friedman’s photography studio in Boston to learn a few of his techniques. Acting as both student and model, Ken took part in a shoot that resulted in several photos of the rock star bathed in moody, evocative color – thanks to the gels that came out of Rick’s Rosco Location Lighting Filter Kit.
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I find the use of such saturated and intense colors in the photoshoot to be incredibly evocative. We rarely, if ever, see such strong coloring in real life settings that the use of such colors can immediately transport the viewer into a sort of fictional reality that the photographer designs. The subject is no longer a simple person- He is now a physical embodiment of the intense emotions that underscore metal as a music genre. He is the music he plays. Another such moment which uses intense colors is the club scene in the first John Wick movie. In this scene, John (the namesake of the movie) seeks out the man who killed his dog in a nightclub to exact revenge. The intense emotions that run beneath his stoic surface leak out in intense reds, blues, and greens in the lighting of the scene. Just as the musician extends beyond his physical form to embody a larger concept, so does John. The use of intense saturated colors can tell the audience a story all its own.
The lighting and gel colors chosen by the artist truly created a unique composition that blended the Medium Straw, CalColor 30 Cyan, and Rosco #24 Scarlet while pulling out varied emotional responses from the viewer. Because they are not natural appearing colors in life, and they so harshly light different portions of the subject, the emotions that are pulled out of seeing it are similarly vivd and harsh. The subject does not just look like a normal man in a normal situation, but rather a man with a story that is illuminated by the unnatural, highly saturated colors bleeding across his face. In the photography seen, the subject evokes one emotion with his stature and look. The yellow shaded across his face evokes another emotion individually, and same goes for the blue and red hues. But when blended they create a whole other composition that requires the audience to feel something in a completely different way.
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