Posts Tagged ‘hot’

Lighting Observation 7: Church illuminated by the Artificial Sun at Noon-Night

7 March 2016-6:40pm-A church on the streets of NYC (not far from Penn. Station)

The front of this church was lit up with several large film lights to make it look like day on the outside perhaps while a film crew shot an interior to exterior shot.

This feeling of falseness pervaded the scene since the light was like this big illuminated patch of sunshine in a dark in comparison world. It was like someone trying to create the white and pure idea of heaven on Earth. It was like the night was bleached out by this harsh, piercing light. The light was the awkward bleach stain on your clothes. It was the thing that seemed like it was trying too much to be the thing to be the actual thing. The main point that made this light seem so wrong and unmistakable from the sun is that this light was hot, white in color. It was warm as opposed to the cool bluish daylight. This warmth marked it as fake. The various angles of the light made the shadows small and few. The brightness and seeming power of the light claimed that it would disintegrate any great patches of darkness that might try to eek out their existence in this space. The light felt like a bully trying to make its victims shout that it was day despite this being a lie. The light was an illusion of day like if someone were to use fog from a fog machine to make a water dragon’s breath. Like all illusions, the light was artificial and not the natural. The light was an actor but not perhaps the best one from the perspective of a bystander. The camera’s footage might tell a different story.

Photo Observation 7: White Christmas Hot Spot

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My camera automatically took this photo while I was filming a community theatre production of White Christmas back home in Maryland.

The theme is “single source; artificial light.” There is only one light on the actor at this point in the piece, and it is artificial.

The light brings details to the surface from beneath the waves of darkness, the endless and mysterious abyss. It causes its own spots of darkness though. It penetrates and bounces back off the subject under its rays. The colors pop beneath its whitish spread and are the only thing attracting the eye in this darkness. The edges of the light fall off sharply and leave much to guess about the image. The bright, seething, and only light in this photo is the point of clarity and tension as it contrasts with the surrounding pit of blackness. It is a mysterious, bright, hot, white, harsh, light.
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By Candlelight (P4)

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Photo by Massimo Cerrato. Flickr photo page here. Direct link here.

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A blast of sweltering heat washes over your face, casting your face in flickering shades and tints of amber, creating deeper shadows in the hollows of your cheeks. The soft, glowing halo of just a few small candles, illuminating only that which remains within the close range of the candles themselves, establishes a small, intimate setting; flushing your cheeks with the heat from the flames as they flicker to and fro.

Photo Observation 4

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  3. Regardless of the snow in the content of this photo, the feeling is definitely warm, given by the blend of pink/orange in the sky, and the deeper pinkish/magenta that the snow is turned by it. Though the sun is clearly either setting or rising, one can easily imagine walking down this road and not feeling the chill that would be in the air.

Photo Observation 4

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I found this photo because it showed up as my lockscreen for my laptop. So, I was like “Oh damn, this fits the theme perfectly” and found a way to save the Windows Spotlight photos for this very purpose.

Theme: Hot

Description: What I love about this photo is that it’s a vibrant, warm, orange glow that flows all the way to the top of the staircase. Also, the circular pattern of the stairs as it focus more towards a condensed spot, the space between the bulbs is decreased and it looks like balls of energy converging into one. Also, from a different perspective, it looks like you’re going down towards the core of the Earth.

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Photo credit: Me!

Theme: Hot

Description: This is a picture I took at Witches Brew coffee shop back in October when they had all orange, red, and yellow lights up for Halloween. This lights, along with the warm decor inside gave the entire building a warm glow and made the building look almost as if there was a warm fire crackling in the fireplace, inviting you in from the cold.

Photo Observation

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Link: http://photos.qiguang.net/index.php/London2004/tatemodern4

Description:

this picture depicts hot/warming light themes. The orange light that is peering through the gate gives a silhouette effect off of the people standing in front of it. When looking at this picture you can feel the warmth from the sun. The lighting effect really characterizes as hot.

Photo Observation

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Photo Credit: http://imgur.com/gallery/J5HmrrW

Theme: Hot

Description: I was amazed when I saw this picture, and it was even more impressive when I zoomed in on it. The way the orange sunlight filters through the clouds makes it look as if the sky is on fire, and few things in the world are hotter than fire. The stark contrast of the bright sky against the dark, quiet forest almost gives you the illusion that you’re standing on a mountain observing an enormous forest fire far away – but it’s just an optical illusion, which makes it particularly cool (or should I say hot) … (sorry for the lame joke.)

Photo Observation 4

 

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Photo Credit: http://tophdimgs.com/468075-warm.html

Theme: hot

Description: This photo is made of entirely of warm colors. Not only are the colors multiple blended layers of varies oranges; yellows; and reds, but they are also heavily saturated which really make the photo feel very warm. The abstract bokeh dots remind me of embers flying through the air from a fire. This photo stood out to me because it was  is not a physical object that we know to be hot, but rather the color and abstract ember-like dots make you feel the heat emitting from the photograph and associate it with the word “hot”.

Photo Observation: Hot

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This photo was taken by the Masquerade Production of Carrie (Possibly Tim Hatcher).

Theme: Hot

Description:

A darknened border encapsulates the glowing red aura like a hot branding iron as it blares bright red, fresh from the flame. A blazing rainbow of warm hues scorching the outmost edges of the centered set send forth a rain of fiery intensity upon the fallen actors. A flame of white light illuminates the bottom downstage staircase on each edge of the stage. The red-tinted silhouettes of  life-less bodies sprawl across the floor under the suffocating power of the heat. One single survivor remains standing, about to enter into the cool abyss of black waiting behind the melting doors.