Drama 16 Stage Lighting

Source:  http://visualdictionarytomylife.tumblr.com/

Theme:  Modeling

I felt this picture was a good example of modeling because of the way the light hits the two pairs of shoes in this photograph.  Though it is not a very brightly lit picture, you can see exactly how each of the shoes curve because and how  they fit to the feet that are in them.  The way the light works with the furthest left leg also indicates how it is shaped.  You can also understand the shape of the small bits of chair legs that can be seen in the corner and between the two pairs of feet because of the side-light in this photograph.

2. Source: Toxel.com “Animals Painted on Lips”
3. Studio lighting shining on a model’s lips with a crab painted on them
4. I am so amused by this photo, and the overall concept behind it! I honestly would never think to paint a crab on my lips! (or fox, caterpillar, pikachu- see my fb- etc. that are in this album!) I liked this as a demonstration of modeling because part of the charm of the crab is that it sticks out away from her face, she’s puckering her lips. Consequently, the light that is shining down on her from up top creates a shadow under her lips; because the crab is modeled with highlight and shadow underneath the effect is that the lips/crab jumps out at us! I think it’s utterly adorable!

When/ Where:  At my desk in my dorm room, 2pm.

Objective Description:  Sunlight reflecting off a ring.

Subjective Description:  When I sit at my desk in the early afternoon the sun shines directly onto my left hand when I’m on my laptop.  What I notice is that when the light hits my ring it reflects little spots of white light all over the wall behind my desk.  The reflected light looks like tiny stars in an off-white sky.  This makes me happy because it reminds me of those little sun catcher things that I had when I was a child.  No matter how many times this happens, it always catches me off guard because the light that’s reflected is so bright.

When/ Where:  1am, my fiance’s apartment

Objective Description:  Blueish light on the ceiling from charging Wii remote.

Subjective Description:  When the lights were turned off in the room and you looked up at the ceiling from the bed you could see a triangle of blueish light on the right 1/3 of the ceiling.  The rest of the room was quite dark in comparison.  What was interesting about the light was in one eye you could see the blue light, but in the other it was dark enough that you couldn’t see anything, so in this moment I felt like I was half blind.  Between the feeling of not being able to see out of one eye and the weird color from the charger the ceiling looked very eerie and scary to me.  The light made me so uncomfortable that I had to unplug the charger in order to go to sleep.

1) February 22nd, 2011 in the NAB Blackbox

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: The inner doors of the blackbox are wide open, but the outer doors are closed. Light is showing through around every edge and the seam of he doors. The color between the inner and outer doors is lit and painted with a warm yellow color, but the light escaping through the seams is a very bright bluish light.

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION:It seems as though the inner doors are protecting from the unknown beyond them. The outside seems like it would be otherworldly and forbidden, but the doors look as though they are begging to be opened.