Drama 16 Stage Lighting

I took this photo on July 20th 2016 after returning to New York from a week long stay in New Orleans.

Theme-Night Life

Description- This photo was taken at the final stretch of what was a very exciting and very exhausting trip back from New Orleans. I believe the true sense of “Night Life” comes from how there is a certain aspect to this photo that is really energizing. The night sky when viewed from an airplane can look soothing and sleep inducing with the way the stars provide faint flickers of light in the darkness. One can certainly feel this tiring feeling when looking up at the vacant sky but then the eyes are immediately drawn to the various scattered, colorful, and vibrant lights that make up the New York City skyline. Time Square is clearly visible from up above and just this section alone can remind someone that while they sleep soundly (be it in their own bed or on a plane) the night tends to take on a life of its own. This is ever so evident here as the lights of the skyline (Time Square in particular) tend to be in constant movement creating ripples of color and sparks of life amidst the darkened sky. It is possible to feel the energy of the city as the night life is in full effect and soon the feelings of tiredness and longing for slumber are soon replaced with feelings of child-like wonder and elation. It is when we all go to sleep that the night really begins to come to life ( It is during the darkest of nights that some of the brightest lights are really allowed to shine!).

Location: Orlando, Florida at 9:35pm

Theme: nightlife

I chose this photo because I loved the layers of lighting within the building. Due to the fact, that the structure is similar to that of a colosseum, you’re drawn to the arches. Since they’re lit, you then focus on particular colors like the green in the corner. Then you notice the contracts of the sign which is in red, thus giving it a nightlife feel.

Date.Time.Location- 2/20/19. 12:15 PM. In my car on the Long Island Expressway driving home.

Objective Description- I am sitting in my car driving down the highway on my way back home. The sky is gray and snow eventually begins to fall. As the intensity of the snowfall increased, my vision began to blur and eventually seeing what was ahead of me on the road became difficult.

Subjective Description- The sky above me was gray with the threat of imminent snowfall. The gray color of the sky brought forth a certain dismal and gloomy feeling that was amplified once the snow began to fall. Eventually everything in front of me became so gray and blurry that something so simple as making out the lines on the road became a difficult task. The road back home seemed to become more and more obscure as the snowfall increased. Soon it seemed as if all that existed was this gray sheet that looked to consume the world around me. This ever present gray at first presented a sense of gloom and desolation, but soon brought out a sense of calm urgency in me. This was an acknowledgement of the fact that the path before me was fading fast, but if I maintained my present pace, eventually I would find my way home once again.

1. 11:30pm 2/21/19 My bedroom
2. On my nightstand I have a rock salt lamp. At the moment this was the only light on in my room.
3. I turned over to see my rock salt lamp glowing against the dark. Warm thoughts filled my mind as I drifted to sleep.

1. Attribute: Peter Kitchs’ Instagram. Photo taken by: Pamela Horton
2. Theme: Night Life
3. Description: In the caption of Peter Kitchs’ Instagram post he states that he is at a silent disco. This photo jumped out at me due to the lighting. The blue light from his headphones is creating a shadow on half of his face while, the light bulb is creating a purplish color in his hands. Though his background doesn’t have much going on the lighting to me is what shows night life and fun.

3) THEME: Night Life

4) DESCRIPTION: An accidental long exposure photo taken of a string of rainbow lights hanging over an alleyway in Salem Mass. Obviously there are all sorts of colors in the Primary focus but there is also a lot of color in the ambient lighting around this section on the walls of the alleyway.

Taken: October 12, 2018 by myself.

This was taken while going to a New York Knicks game at Madison Square Garden. The cool thing that I love about the arena is that one special nights where there are sporting events or other events, they light up the side of the arena with colors pertaining to the event going on. Since it was a Knicks game, they did blue and orange around the outside of the arena with a blue rim around the top.

1: 2-21-2019 at 10 pm in my lounge area of my dorm

2: Objective Observation: All of the lights were turned off in the lounge area except for the lights on my roommate’s DJ board and computer screen.

3: Subjective Observation: The lights from the dj board made it very mesmerizing to look at his fingers and with the screen illuminating off of him made my roomate the focal point of the room as he was playing the music made him seem as the one who is the party of the room.

1. 2/21/2019 at 11PM in my bedroom.
2. Objective Observation: I accidentally kicked down the floor lamp in my room (thanks god it was not broken). My backpack and some clothes were on the floor and there is a clothes stand at the corner too. I saw their shadows get much larger than themselves.
3. Subjective Observation: The floor lamp was aiming at those objects on the floor horizontally so their shadows were enlarged a lot. They were like motionless monsters given a lot of power but cannot release that. As if those objects were given life by the floor lamp.

From NY Times at The American Museum of Natural history

Nightlife

Although I did not personally take the picture I do remember visiting the exhibit a few years ago. I have always been fascinated by creatures who are bioluminescent not only because of biological curiosity but for the aesthetic reasons as well. Since a lot of these types of creatures only live in the darkest of areas I imagine that if someone was lost in the darkness of the jungle or a cave they would serve as a calming, hopeful presence.