Drama 16 Stage Lighting

From pinterest.

I like the dreamy tone set by the light glares in the image. It gives the whimsical feeling of spring from soft colors complimented by the brightness and warmth of the light in the image

Via Flickr, Damon Tighe

For me, the most beautiful parts of spring are not those which border on summer, but those that break the crust of winter. The first few days, such as those that we aren currently experiencing, in which the air is warm and the sun shines brightly. I wanted to capture that feeling of life and warm sunshine by observing light casting through tree branches. This particular image was captivating as you can see the light diffuse through the branches, altering their colour, and the remaining beams caught in the morning haze.

To replicate this photo with lighting instruments would be difficult, as all of the light is motivated by the sun. That said, I would likely select a large, open face light with a wide beamspread for the primary lighting source. I would consider fresnels for their parallel rays but worry that their spread would be too narrow. I would also gel the light with CTS. The remaining light would be overhead softlights with a light ctb and maybe some additional diffusion.

Photo taken by Amy Marshall, April 2022

One of the best parts of spring is when it is nice out, and our modern professors let us take class outside. In the background, you can also see that there are a lot of other classes outside because it is warm out, and there is an overall happiness and warmth to the picture. Aside from the picture being taken literally in the spring, the bright sun and vibrant green grass give the picture a feeling of rebirth and renewing, which is what spring is all about.

Photo from Google, www.timeanddate.com

Photo Theme: Spring

This photo reminds me of spring because the sun is shining on the fresh grass and trees. Soft whites, greens, and glowing sunlight scream spring to me, and that is all present in this picture. Flowering trees in bloom are my favorite things to see in the spring, and I’m always sad that they are so short-lived.

This is a photo I took in April 2020. Flowers obviously signify spring, but the white, pink and green colors really get across the fact that it is the spring time. The white light coming out from the sky reminds of the “rebirth” feeling of spring. The brightness and vibrance of the photo really pop and emphasize feelings of spring time. If I edited the photo to make it paler or darker, I do not think the vibe of the photo would be the same.

I found this image on Google. I really liked the way that the light reflects off of the glass object. The different lights that shine on the wall based on the angle of the glass is also really interesting.

Via Instagram, Jonathan Sims

For this post I chose to focus on how refraction and relfection can create entirely novel looks entirely different from any other methods of light manipulation. This is utterly fascinating as a basic, unedited photo, can look like a kaleidescope. This is something that, if given the time and materials, I would love to incorporate into a lighting design.

Source: Pinterest

I picked this image mainly because of the shadows being projected around the room and the chaotic feeling it creates. The casing on the light acts as a sort of 360 degree gobo. It also creates a kind of trippy effect with the way the shadows are sharper toward the center of the photo and get blurry toward the edges creating what seems to me like a kind of illusion of a magnified lens when it’s really just the spherical shape of the light source.

This photo was online, from an online website called girllikear.life. They are an online store selling gobos. For me, gobos really work well to create bizarre lighting, just because you can take something and make it look really unnatural and jarring. For example, the human is this photo looks offputting with the holes in the skin made from the gobo. Also the black and white color makes it seem even more dramatic and bizarre.

Picture taken by me

I took this picture inside of a pop-up art exhibit at the ICA pre-pandemic. It was a small enclosed room with a bunch of big polka dot tubes. Additionally, the exhibit was also covered in mirrors, so you could never tell where the real tubes were and which ones were just a reflection. The whole exhibit was very trippy, and the assortment of different color lights and mirrors made it very bizarre and disorienting.