Photo Observation #5

Posted on March 7, 2025 by previousstudent

January 19th, 2024 in Athens, Greece–12:34. Taken by me. 

Theme: Spring. 

Lazy cats sat on the roof, just outside anyone’s touch but the sun. Sleeping on old plastic bags and inside broken cardboard boxes, their solace lies in a sweeping canopy of bright green. Warm and inviting amber light peeks through the web of leaves, cooking the tin waves that cradle them. Their stubbly fur becomes soft under the heat of the sun. It is in these moments that street cats receive word that the tough cold winter is finally seeing its way out.



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Lighting Observation #5

Posted on March 7, 2025 by previousstudent
  1. March 5th, 2025 in Adams Playhouse Theater–3:32PM.
  2. The lighting cues for Guys and Dolls were being run, my view came from SR wings as I was painting scenery. My work was being done on a yellow wall, which turned into a strange, greenish-hue under the bright blue lights that were hitting it. Other portions of the scenery were hit with pinker tones, which deadened the wall colors but still maintained their original saturation. The blackness of the stage floor and drapery stood out against the strangely-lit scenery.
  3. What should have remained happy pastels of yellow, green and blue instead turned into uncomfortable browns and washed out grays as fluorescent lights hit the walls. The light that obscured them was unusually happy–vivid blues and punchy pinks. The only thing that humbled the two disagreeing parties were the deep pockets of black made up by billowing curtains and creaky floorboards; it was this sea of onyx that made the disfigured pastels wash away. Among the weirdness of these soft-hued color matchings, its bottomless pit drew our eyes in and kept them hostage.



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Lighting Observation #5

Posted on March 6, 2025 by previousstudent

1.) March 4, 2025 – 8:34pm – Adams Playhouse

2.) The red and blue stage lights that create a white light on the actors, but separate again on the ground.

3.) As the actors sing out to the audience, they are illuminated by a brilliant white light. The light is soft and gentle as it washes over them, as if it were the moonlight that was actually shining on their faces. However, from the wings behind them, I can see that their shadows are not being lit up by this delicate, natural glow. Instead, it looks as though there are two of them displayed across the stage floor: a pinkish-red outline and a blue one. The sparkling effect of light from the night sky was actually created from two separate fixtures that were mixed together. The intricacies in the shadows also made the scene even prettier to look at, and it was a great example of the warm/cool 45 degree rule we learned about in class.

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Lighting Observation

Posted on March 6, 2025 by previousstudent
  1. Wednesday, March 5th, 2025, inside my car. 11:00pm
  2. The headlights of my car reflecting through the rain
  3. It was pouring more than it has the entire semester. I could barely see two feet in front of me, nevermind the road up ahead. As I sat in my car, I turned on my headlights and watched as the yellow light protruding from them appeared to be cut up and uneven. The rain cascading from the sky blurred the limited light, creating fascinating fragments of yellow among the wet, dark road ahead of me. I decided to drive slowly.
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Photo observation #4

Posted on March 6, 2025 by previousstudent
  1. December 23, 2024, 11:59 pm, Limon, CO
  2. Bizarre
  3. In the middle of nowhere, there is no light emitted. Yet, from a far away field, red lights flash across the horizon. There is a rhythm, a consistency to their flashing. It feels ominous, like that of another world. Even though they are from the wind turbines, it feels as if I am watching an alien invasion or something of secrecy. It is the only light for miles, but it is not blinding, it does not emit more light into the sky. It is just a never ending field of flashing red, an ominous reminder that we are never fully alone.
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Photo observation #4

Posted on March 6, 2025 by previousstudent

March 6, 2025 Photo found on X

Theme: Bizarre

I found this image on the social media app X, where there is currently an influx of political media on there. Current Vice President J.D. Vance has been digitally altered to the point where he is unrecognizable. However, the lighting is left exactly the same. The background is bright and yellow and with all the people in the room it appears as though everything is normal. However once you really analyze the image you find a shocking discovery.

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Photo Observation #4

Posted on March 6, 2025 by previousstudent

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6 March, 2025, Photo found online

Theme: Bizarre

I found this image by searching “the backrooms” on the internet. The idea of the backrooms is a space that feels wrong or off or bizarre. I chose this image specifically because of the yellowed walls, ceilings, and floors that are somehow lit by bright, radiating white light. One would expect a warmer light to be making every surface in the image seem so stained yellow, but the lights are so bright that their illumination shines past their insertions into the ceiling and are completely neutral white.

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Photo Observation #4

Posted on March 6, 2025 by previousstudent

November 25th, 2023 at the Coney Island Aquarium – 12:03PM. Taken by me.

Theme: Bizarre.

Piercing electric blue overtakes our vision, placated by wispy strings of cool gray. The jellyfish is technically the center of our attention, its slithering body absorbing what little light there is and spitting out in flat, ashy tones. Its one shining moment lies within the flowering of yellowy-white stingers (scientifically known as “oral arms”), whose spark fights the blue that overtakes our vision. Bizarreness exists here as the jellyfish’s dreary, slate-colored lighting strongly contradicts the vibrancy of its surroundings; the only light that seems to agree with the royal azure is its glistening, trailing arms.



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Photo Observation #4

Posted on March 6, 2025 by previousstudent

  1. Ice Castles, New Hampshire, 2019, Taken by me

2. Theme: Bizarre

3. This is a photo from the Ice Castles in New Hampshire and at night they have all of these lights that shine through the ice to illuminate them. This was bizarre to me because of all of the holes that the light was shining through. I feel like we often think of ice as a sheet but it also can deflect and change how light is emitted. There are a few different colors in this image and each is affected differently by the ice that they are surrounded by.

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Photo Observation #4

Posted on March 6, 2025 by previousstudent

1)Photo taken by me May 22nd, 2017

2)Theme: Bizarre

3)This is a photo of an actual plant that at the time was growing up out of the drain in my downstairs bathroom. When I came home from school one day my mom got excited and rushed to show me how the small plant had sprouted up out of the drain. Not only is the plant growing in such an odd place itself bizarre but I like the way that the shadows in this photo look as well, that combined with the fluorescent lighting and the way it reflects off the sink a bit gives everything a bit of a cool effect.

 

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