I have been looking at work by Raphael Lacoste, who has been an art director for Assassin’s Creed and Prince of Persia for Ubisoft. He is very skilful at using environments, lighting, composition and moods.
I chose this picture above for its mood, environment and lighting. The lighting shines out of two places, one from a point source underwater and one coming down from the surface. The water has an opaque, granular feel which shows where the light’s going. One more thing I like about this picture is the rock formation and the height of the rocks. The ‘rule of thirds’ comes into effect here as well. This means that your eye is drawn from the bottom left to the top right, which focuses your attention in the middle, giving a frame within a frame effect.
This one above uses the rule of thirds again, my attention was drawn to the bright light first, then looking in the direction of the light towards the waterfall, and then to the dark area in the bottom left.
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