Horseshoe Bend – Tia

Posted on February 16, 2016 by previousstudent

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2. Photo Credit: Me

3. Theme: Hot

4. This picture was taken in Page, Arizona. The water pictured is the Colorado River where it comes to form a bend. I chose this picture for this week’s theme for one main reason and that is the lack of shadows. To me, shadows mean that something is around to provide shade and cool to people or animals and none of that exists here. There is little to no shrubbery and the sun is high in the sky almost alway. The temperatures get very high. This picture looks hot to me because it resembles a desert. The light is very pale but dry looking suggesting that there is no moisture. All you see is just bright white/yellow light coming from the sun which gives a “hot” feeling to me.

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Lighting Ob #4

Posted on February 16, 2016 by previousstudent
  1. 2/16/2016, 12:37 am, Academic Side of Campus Quad
  2. Objective: Campus lamps lighting the south side of campus through the fog
  3. Subjective: The fog was not too thick so you could still see the lights, but they appeared to be covered by the thin layer of fog. It created an eery feel on the campus but also an intriguing one. Even though it appeared as a place you would want to leave you also wanted to stay and witness the beauty that came with it.
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Photo Observation #4: Hot as Oranges in Florida

Posted on February 13, 2016 by previousstudent

 

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I found this image online. It can be found at flickr.com.

The lighting theme is hot.

Orange, red, and yellow may be cooler in terms of degrees Kelvin but they are associated with warm things like the sun and fire. The big bright hues of the sky reflect the excessive warmth of the lighting. The sky is on fire, red hot. The golden ball of gaseous matter shines like the largest gem and greatest treasure in the sky and makes the sky its hue. It is yellow and white with a hint of orange like a match flame glowing bright to light a candle. It is thus a mass producer of heat parching the landscape like how a used match is charred. It silhouettes and gives a highlight of red to the things beneath it like what a dreamer might imagine the Martian landscape to look like. This red makes the world seem hot like a laser beam has been pointed at everything. The distribution is wide engulfing the entire sky and majority of the landscape in the warm colors and causing the silhouetting to occur. The light source glows with warmth, and the lighting is as hot as a bright red pepper tastes as a consequence.

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Lighting Observation #4: Fluorescent Ghosts

Posted on February 13, 2016 by previousstudent

2/12/16 – 6:27pm – Hammer Lab

The fluorescent lights are reflected through the glass to appear to be a double set on the other side of the glass despite there not being any fluorescents there in those exact locations over there. There are some fluorescents on that side of the glass. The reflected lights seem to be faded slightly and float in a way.

Stale, ghostly, and ominous, the mirrored fluorescent lights feel oppressive like an army of evil jellyfish that has started flying across the land on a campaign of terror. Jellyfish would be more pleasant than these glowing boxes of off-white though. Two eyes can be seen to creep forth from the bulbs of the light and to beat down upon you. It is a scrutinizing gaze and an unforgiving one. Harsh and inhuman, the ghost lights are so many in number that they seem to be following or haunting people. They bleach the world; they engulf it in an intense brightness that is unvarying and plain. The nightmare of a futuristic society where people have lost their own individuality and creativity is felt in the glow of these lights. The lighting is bland, unnatural, and dead.

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Mountain Snow (P3)

Posted on February 12, 2016 by previousstudent

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Photo found here, posted to tumblr by the user travellingwithmike.

Cold.

The all consuming white blankness of snow all around you, while the thin mountain air along with the tingling chill you can feel down to your bones steals the breath from your lungs as surely as the night is dark. It escapes from your mouth in a puff of smoke as if you’d been puffing on a cigar. The deep blues, overlaid with soft hues of pale pink reflect off the snow and the haze of clouds overhead, letting only just a peek of sunlight through casts the peaks and valleys of the surrounding mountains into stark shadows in a range of blues, violets, and purples. Staring from inside the warm cabin of an airplane sealed from the outside atmosphere, a shiver runs down your spine as goosebumps spread across your flesh as an imaginary icy wind cuts across your face.

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Photo Observation 3

Posted on February 12, 2016 by previousstudent

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Photo by Me, taken at The City Museum in Saint Louis, MO on August 17 2015

Theme: Cold

In the museum, there was a section that was set up to resemble a cave. There were more crawl spaces than you can count, and some hard to find. I stumbled upon this little nook and the lights reflecting on it made it look kind of like a moon to me at the time. But the colors of the lights made this area feel cold, which at the time felt like an awesome retreat from the 100 degree weather outside.

 

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Sunrise on the Meadowbrook (LO3)

Posted on February 12, 2016 by previousstudent

2/11/2016 7:20am Driving southeast through Westbury on the Meadowbrook

The sun has just risen, flooding light across everything I can see. It is low enough in the sky still that every bridge I pass blocks the sun itself, leaving, for just a moment, the sky glowing with the soft hues of yellow, orange, even pink without the searing glare of the sun itself. Flashes, moments in time; blink-and-you-miss-it moments flash through my windshield like stripes of an optical illusion as I speed down the parkway; glaring blindness as the sun reveals itself contrasted with brief flashes of relief as it’s hidden, leaving behind a soft glow illustrated in beams seemingly shooting out from the bridges as I pass, cutting through the chilly morning haze like beacons from lighthouses at the shore.

If I believed in such things, I would call it the ethereal light that emanates from angels; glowing beams of light left in their wake, while their form is hidden from human eyes. Striking through the bleary, confusing haze of that in-between-dreaming-and-awake state are heavenly beams of yellows and ambers, oranges and pinks. The sweet relief that comes from a lazy morning stretch in a warm bed; the sense of awakening after sleeping long past dawn; releasing a breath, and with it, all anxieties and thoughts of the long days ahead – simply existing, here, now.

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Lighting Observation 3

Posted on February 12, 2016 by previousstudent
  1. February 10th, Academic Side of Hofstra, 1:00am
  2. Objective Description: The bright white lighting of the lamp posts at night don’t mix with the orange tinted streetlights. There’s enough light to illuminate the path, and then some. Like the sun, these lights are challenging to look at for more than a second. The lamp posts emit a cooler toned white and they are reflecting off of the snow and trees around them.
  3. Subjective Description: It feels kind of like Narnia when you walk through the pathways around the Spiegel and there’s snow on the ground and a sidewalk lined with lamp posts. I’m not sure I feel safe but it’s definitely calming. It reminds me of my home town and the lamp posts we have around the town center, only i’m pretty sure those actually once were lit using fire.
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Lighting Observation 3

Posted on February 12, 2016 by previousstudent

Date: 11/1/2015 Time: 5:30 pm Location: SUNY Albany

Objective: The light identified is the overhead street lights on one of the walkways leading to one of the residential buildings, as well as the sun setting.

Subjective: I thought this lighting moment was pretty dope because the sun was setting and it was getting dark so the street lights came up yet I noticed that one of them was defective as it kept flickering on and off. Still, the part that amazed me was that the sun setting was perfectly lined up with the end of the walkway, giving the appearance as if one was running off into the horizon directly towards the sun. The defective light added character to the moment as if it was too perfect, it may have seemed unreal. Though the faultiness of the light oddly brings realism in my opinion as nothing truly is perfect.

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Photo Observation 3

Posted on February 12, 2016 by previousstudent

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Credit: Online

Theme: Cold

Description: This is a photo of the sign from the game turned movie, Silent Hill. The main lighting source depicted is the sunlight from the top left portion attempting to bypass the fog to then shine down upon the road. I feel this photo embodies the theme “cold” because as the protagonist is surrounded by this thick fog, she is seen traversing into the haunted town of Silent Hill.  With no one else around to accompany her, another meaning of cold be it lonesomeness, is then evoked.

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