Lighting Moment #4

Posted on March 2, 2026 by Emily Giammalvo
  1. March 1st, 2026, The Playhouse
  2. I was on stage left helping with the flies during a cue-to-cue. There were footlights and lights on the side of the stage that shown directly to where I was with the flies. With the brightness and the many colors, it made it very difficult to see the colored spikes that we needed to find onstage and on the ropes.
  3. This happened for hours. It was so bright that when you turned around it took a minute for your eyes to adjust. It also made us basically color blind due to all of the colors mixing together. It was much more noticeable than other lighting because it was so bright and colorful that it drowned out all other colors.
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Photo Observation #4

Posted on March 2, 2026 by Emily Giammalvo

  1. January 15, 2022, El Yunque National Forest
  2. Theme – Bizarre
  3. This photo was taken at the end of the day so the sun was slowly setting. We were in a van and the photo was taken looking out of the back window. Something about the tint of the window gives the photo a purple tint, even though that wasn’t what it looked like outside. It created a stormy look. The movement of the van also made the picture blurry. The whole photo is bizarre because it was one of those moments when you take a photo and the lighting changes just enough to make it look completely different and it turns out really cool.
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4th Photo Observation:

Posted on March 1, 2026 by Katelyn Smith
  2. February 15, 8:22pm, Over FaceTime
  3. Theme – Bizarre
  4. In this photo, a cat is running up a flight of stairs. However, due to the timing of the photo, the lighting and focus of the shot were blurred. This blurriness caused the cat and stairs in the photo to take on a creepy and almost demonic/uncanny quality. The abnormality of the photo and the things it captured makes it fit the “bizarre” theme perfectly.
  • Credit – Julie Liuzza’s cat, Pickle
  • Pickle is amazing and adorable. My statements are only due to the photo quality, not the Pickle quality (Julie I love Pickle I swear)
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Lighting Observation #3

Posted on February 27, 2026 by Maggie Dippel

1) DATE-TIME-LOCATION: 2/18 10:00 AM, El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: On my recent trip to Puerto Rico, we visited a rainforest where we hiked to a small waterfall into a pool. Over this, there were layers of trees and branches that the late morning light was pouring through. The whole forest was shaded by the trees giving everything a green tint, and where the light shined through, the water reflected these patches of light.

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: The rainforest felt magical and full of life with all of the green and blue colors in the light. It was warm and humid, which the shade expressed like the trees were hugging us and keeping the sun at bay.

 

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Photo Observation #4

Posted on February 27, 2026 by Kaleera Hall

1/12/2025 My bedroom, San Antonio Texas

Bizarre

This is a picture of my cat sitting peculiarly on my windowsill. He likes my windowsill but he has never put his front paws on the bars of my brothers bed like that. I chose this photo for the theme because of strange pure white light that my camera captured. It was midafternoon but nowhere near bright enough to cause the pure white background that lights him. The backlight makes it seem like he is some angelic figure who has come to bless you with the knowledge of the universe. You can see the light kind of shining through his ears and lighting up the edge of his fur which only adds to the divine feel.

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Lighting Observation #4

Posted on February 27, 2026 by Grant Tridone
  1. February 27th, 2026 – 2:02am
  2. Blue light from bathroom fan. Very small in the fan on the ceiling that clears the humidity, just bright enough to make things visible.
  3. In the middle of the night I woke up to get some water from the sink. I walked into the bathroom and realized something I had never noticed before. This tiny blue light coming from the fan was enough. Usually my habit is too instantly turn on the bright light and quickly flash my sleepy eyes with a shining beam that rips me out of my exhaustion. But this light was subtle, balanced, and sufficient. It had a stark, LED, bold effect yet it is such a small spot from the ceiling that it only spreads just far enough to light up the tiny, square bathroom. This light was interesting to me because to see something so small make such a specific, noticeable impact on a room is reassuring and soothing. Nothing overwhelming, it is just the light you need for just that time of night. I sat there for a moment in the peaceful light and appreciated what it means to be just the right amount. Sometimes subtlety is most crucial for the comfortability of a space.
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Lighting Observation #3

Posted on February 27, 2026 by Saniy Coates

1) February 19th- Alliance Hall (Friends Dorm)

2) I had went upstairs to my friends dorm to get some homework done with her. When I got out the elevator, I noticed how bright her hallway is compared to mine. My hallway has dimmer lights and more darker decorations. But her hallway was very lit up and colorful. But since I wasnt used to the light, it hurt my eyes a bit.

3) On my floor, the lighting is pretty dark. It gives me off a vintage vibe, as if the floor has been years old. But on her floor, it felt new. It felt like when you step into a new house and you observe all of the details inside it.

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Lighting Observation #4

Posted on February 27, 2026 by Saniy Coates

1) February 26th, 2026 9:20 am (In Brower Hall)

2) I had arrived early to class to study for my math exam when I noticed that it was a lot more dimmer in the room. There really two windows in the room and both windows were pretty much closed, only letting in a little bit of light in the small room.

3) When I saw the room in its entirety, it made me feel melancholy. Since the lighting was pretty dim and it was only me and the teacher in there at the time, it made the atmosphere feel lonely. The room reminded me of when you would see in movies when the window is open and you would hear a cold breeze in the empty room. It felt lonely yet it made me question all the people that had been in there before me.

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Light Observation #4

Posted on February 26, 2026 by Grace Mitchell

1)  1/29/26- 4:48pm

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: light pouring through an window onto a white wall. The sun is setting and painting the normally white wall in shades of yellow. The light reflects off the initial wall spreading to the connecting wall and ceiling.

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: the yellows warm the entire room making the space feel warmer than it was. It feels hopeful, like the sun is shining in the room just for your viewing. The once poorly lit room is bathed in gold light, and everything suddenly looks as if seen through a filter.

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4th Lighting Observation

Posted on February 26, 2026 by Mia Gozinsky
  1. February 26th, 2026 – 6:48 Pm – In my Composition Class
  2. The lights in the classroom… on, the screen plastered on the whiteboard… On, and the computers… ALL ON! But once I look outside, I see that there are two lamps outside, and the light from them is cutting the darkness outside in half like a knife.
  3. The look of all this is absolutely haunting. It’s giving the feel of a Tim Burton movie, with the cold February breeze and the lamps being mysteriously on, kinda mirroring one another, making me feel a sense of peace and relaxation from a very tiring Thursday.
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