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Theme: Spooky
Description: This is a picture of a statue found in a graveyard. I personally find both statues and graveyards to be very creepy and uncomfortable which is why I chose this picture. The light is cast on the statue’s face at an angle so the shadows that are cast make it look even creepier.
This photo was taken by me.
The theme is spooky and it fits this theme because it looks like it could be taken out of a spooky scene from a horror or Halloween film.
The lighting is white and bright like a space alien’s ship coming to abduct someone or that horridly spotless idea of the future that many films attempt to portray. The bright lighting depicted in the animated film Wall-E for inside the space ship where the lazy humans are is similar to this bright moonlight. The light is expansive causing a soft halo to surround it in the night sky. The brightness at night also is spooky because night is meant to be dark in the minds of many. This bright moonlight might peer into a window and wake people up like how the people were wakened up during the Light Riots. The light backlights the tree making it a shadowy silhouette. Moonlight has a history of spookiness with witches flying across it, cows jumping over it, and werewolf’s howling to it; this moonlit picture harkens back to this tradition with the light’s boldness and the silhouetted tree’s bareness. The white light and lingering halo of grey contrast with the night-time blackness like a mysterious power; this starkness and utter lack of an array of colors and stark would be enough to spook a child into hiding under the covers. For all a little child knows, this could be the eye of a huge monster coming to destroy it; and the power (high value) and abundance of this light makes it imposing. The dead, dark world that some might think exists in blackness comes back to life with the bright glow of the moon. However, it is not as alive as day; it is like a half-life or perhaps undead life. After all, in the total dark, one cannot see that the world does not look as alive as the day, but in partial light one can. Thus, the lighting in this picture is spooky as it is a sign that scary things might be out and since it makes things that look bright and alive during the day appear dead, creepy, and unnerving through the limited, bright, far-reaching, and contrasting with the dark surroundings white moonlight.
Theme: Spooky
Description: This photo is a perfect example of the theme “spooky” the black background creates an eerie back drop for the subject of the photo. The awkward light coming from below illuminates the side of the girl’s face and creates long stretched out shadows that do not normally exist. Images like this one can remind us of scary movies or moments when we are supposed to fear something because the unusual shadows are not something we normally see on peoples faces. The single source of light also adds to the “spookiness” of this image.
Photo taken by Peter Charney
THEME: Spooky
DESCRIPTION: First of all, this shot reminds me of a scene from Shutter Island, which is one of my favorite movies. The lighthouse itself looks very abandoned and not inviting. The rocks around it make it feel dangerous and difficult to get to. But I think the light does a lot to create the feeling of horror as well. The shadows in the lighthouse and the rocks reflects the fear of the unknown. The water looks dark and ominous. My favorite part of the lighting is the sky, which vanishes into an overexposed pure white. I am pleased that I was able to take a poorly shot image, and use that to my advantage in created a different mood. The lack of color as a whole, with the exception of a blueish tint, makes the image feel even scarier. Spoooooooky.
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This photo terrifies me. I think there’s a theme in images that scare me– I’m afraid of lack of visibility and even though this area is well lit, the visibility for what’s around the corner at the end of the hallway is not available. I also hate fluorescent lights because they make me feel self-conscious, nervous, and under pressure. I think the lights in this hallway are also set up to encourage movement– I get the sense that there’s no choice when you enter this hallway, you can’t go back. You have to go to the end.
This lighting (a la Nic Christopher) always makes me think “spooky.” It was chosen for the final scene of “Bat Boy,” after all the murders and the sick revelations. I call this “spooky,” as opposed to “scary,” because there is something mysterious and ominous about it. There is nothing popping out — no red to suggest lots of blood and gore — but there is something unsettling about the blue and purple hitting the faces of the actors. The shadows on Deanna and Tyler are particularly effective, as we have seen them go from a seemingly normal husband and wife to liars, phonies. That, and the eerie musical finale to the show, will always feel “spooky” to me.
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Night in the forest, fog and an off green light in the distance=spooky. Reminiscent of a alien invasion scene in a movie, something from X-Files or American Gothic it just says don’t go in here alone if at all. The light silhouettes the foreground and sweeps across the landscape highlighting a thick fog. Usually light helps illuminate, but here it serves to remind us how much we really can’t see and in these woods what we can’t see will…?
1. Thursday February 29th 1:00am Lowe 201
2. Street lamps on Adams quad shining in the windows
3. Due to the time of night and clouds the light seemed to be contained within the four buildings around the quad and when that go let into the classroom there were so many angles that the shadows overlapped making the wall look more like a forest rather than just one tree’s shadow. I liked this moment because I first saw it as spooky but as I saw each branch’s shadow it became mysterious, demonstrating the multiple impressions of shadows.
1. Wednesday Feb 16th 11:00pm Leaving campus from the Oak Street South side of campus, across from the lions with a white back ground
2. The two lions are back lit with 2 outdoor type lights pointed directly at the words and not the sculptures. The light is pointed up so is splashing off of the white background to hit the letters of “Hofstra University” from below. This fully illuminates the sign for those driving by.
3. Though this light is all about the sign into Hofstra it was the shadows on the sculptures in front of that which I found interesting. We all know there is only so much you can do to a sculpture in order to make it look real and as far as lions in Hempstead we are pretty good judges. The quality of this light was that it was coming up from the slightly wet ground to have a charged beam of light to bounce off the white backdrop to the lions. These lions are in no way believable in getting up and coming after you. This light gave them just enough light from behind to be distinguished but not so much as to see any of the carving details, but you can see the overall shape. So without any light our eyes start filling in the blanks for us when we need it and play tricks to show something moving when it is still. It gives them the ominous presence in which to be a mystery and to cox them into their ground. So despite sculpture trying to welcome students at night because the words are more important, we may just be scaring children on their way by.
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