Archive for March, 2018

Lighting Observation #8 – Bridge Lights

  1. Date: 3/29/18, Time: about 5:50 pm, Location: Bridge near Netherlands dorms
  2. The lights that align the bridge create a pathway back to the safety of the parked cars below.
  3. I walk along a winding road, as I often do at the end of the day. There is still light outside, but the clouds make it dark enough to see the inner bridge’s lights shine a bit brighter. Each light acts as a spotlight of its own, pouring down a small pool of light on anyone beneath it.

Photo Observation #8 – Surreal

  1. Found on https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/create-a-surreal-moon-balloons-scene-with-photoshop–cms-27547
  2. Theme: Surreal (plus Lighting Key)
  3.  The moon is a natural reflector of light, sitting in the sky like a silvery mirror. However, the fact that the moon is represented as multiple balloons of light is beyond bizarre. And yet, it still provides the same natural glow of the celestial object.

Light Observation #7

1) March 29th-5:15pm-Penn Station

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: After getting off an LIRR train at Penn station, I stood to the side while I waited for my friends to meet up. There was a long and large strip of a florescent light that was very bright above me. It hit me on an angle on my right side. There was also a large square shaped post that blocked a certain area of the light which created a sharp line to the shape of the field of light.

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: The light was so bright it distracted me from what I was supposed to be doing. The light created a mesmerizing feeling because of how bright it was. I felt like a moth being attracted to light because of how I couldn’t stop looking at it. The light was leaning on the cool toned side, however not extremely cool toned that it was very noticeable. This lighting moment was distracting and very odd as it made me feel frozen in the busy train station.

Lighting Observation #8

March 28th / Axinn Library 10th Floor

Objective Description: The Sun is slowly setting and its light is directly behind someone’s head, creating a silhouette.

Subjective Description: Looking up from my book, all I could see is the outline of my friend. The Suns rays would have been beaming into my eyes if my friend hadn’t been sitting there and their long shadow hadn’t been cast. The image was nearly biblical.

Photo Observation #8

2. Taken By: Lucas Zimmermann
3. Surreal
4. The lighting in this picture looks like it belongs in a rave or at a really big party. Instead, it is at a cross section seemingly in the middle of nowhere. The way the Light is shining, it seems like they’re stage lights, and they provide the feeling that stakes are high.

Photo Observation #8

Source: Viktor Dikanchev

Theme: Surreal

Description: While at a glance this image is simple in concept, it’s actually very bizarre the more you stare it. The bulb itself is floating yet lit, and the person being lit by it is covering it and staring at it like a live fire.

Lighting Observation #8

  1. March 29, 2018 – 7:10pm – Hofstra Parking Lot
  2. I was walking home and passed by a puddle. The puddle was about 5 feet wide and was translucent, showing the dirty road underneath it. I had saw that the street light had been projected onto the puddle. The whole pole and lamp were not visible on the puddle, just the light.
  3. This puddle had gone from something that was dull, to something that was magical. The light brightened up the puddle, and made it almost look like it came to life. As the wind created ripples through the water, the light remained constant.

Lighting observation 8

  1. 3/27, dusk, Netherlands courtyard
  2. At dusk, the lights were just turning on, everything had a slightly blue-ish hue because the sun was setting and it was somewhat overcast, and the lights weren’t fully on yet.  People could still probably walk around without lights, however, it was beginning to get dark.
  3. At dusk, just as the lights were turning on to illuminate people’s way, the Netherlands courtyard was illuminated in a diffused, blue-y light, the light was light enough so that people could still walk without a flashlight or lights to light the way, however, it would soon be too dark to do so.  The light was cast in a way that it didn’t cast shadows, presumably because the sun appeared to have already retreated behind the clouds. The light shone a somewhat somber light because it was getting darker, and the connotations we have with the color blue, however, it reminded me of summer, where kids run around and play all day.

Photo Observation #8

Location: Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Room at the Louisiana in Denmark

Photo credits: Youngna (on Flickr)

There is a couple standing in the middle of a room full of lights. The lights vary in color and sizes. I’m not sure how many lights there is exactly, but after reading the photographer’s description, I learned that the couple is standing in a room surrounded by mirrors that multiply the amount of lights to look like millions. I find this picture surreal because it looks as if the couple is standing in the middle of outer space and its them agains the world. It looks as if the universe around them reaches out for what seems like forever.

Photo observation 8

2)Michael Huey

3)surreal

4) This photo of the Disneyland castle at night, with winter, exemplifies to me surreality because it goes in a way, against the way most people see Disneyland, and especially the castle. Taking the castle and photographing it at night, surrounded by fog with cooler rather than warmer colors goes against how many see the castle and especially with the fog, creates a dreamlike idea in me, and makes me question in a way, “what if” in my mind, seeing the castle in the fog allows me to think about the castle in a different way in part, because the lines are blurred and not as crisp, almost as if they’re fading into the sky.