Lighting Observation #10

1.) April 18, 2025 – 1:58 AM – I honestly do not know, somewhere near campus

2.) A flashing light in entrance of a doorway in the middle of a rainy night.

3.) The rain had subsided, but the air still felt damp from the storm. The gray clouds still thickly covered the sky, which for some reason always makes it feel lighter out at night. Light enough to see, but still dark enough that there is an ominous presence in the air. To accompany this slightly unsettling mood, is an arched door way on a brick building. Maybe a church? Or a school? In this door way, a single light hangs above it, illuminating its dull red color. The light flashes brightly, and then dulls back down, as if it is issuing a warning. The aggressive speed at which it brightens, juxtaposed with its much slower dulling is deeply unsettling, making me feel as though I should not be there, making me too speed up my pace walking past.

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Lighting Observation #10

Friday April 21

The sun is going down (but it’s cool tones of light)

As the fire alarms of the enterprise hall start blaring, students coming from all rooms and down the stairs are seen rushing out (no one wants to pay that fee). As I come outside, I notice that it’s still light, but it’s a dark, cool, grey-toned day, it reminds me that we are sadly still not super close to summer yet.

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Light Observation #10

  1. Friday 2:15pm Calkins Dance Studio
  2. Afternoon sunlight comes through the four small windows on the wall as dancers are warming up before class. The overhead lights are off.
  3. Natural light fuels the calm motivation in the room. Without the glare of sharp fluorescents that will be turned on in a few minutes the room is cooler, more inviting. The natural light comes through in slivers, not quite encapsulating the whole room but still granting enough light to see and take class.
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Lighting Observation #10

  1. Thursday, April 19, 2025: off-campus house just outside the university.
  2. Light coming through the window of my friend’s room. There was no light other than the natural sunlight entering the room.
  3. The room is dark brown and there are no lights on. The room is covered in artificial leaves, posters, and different action figures. The light coming in through the window provides such a satisfying feeling, it looks like this lighting was artificially made. Like it’s a scene from a movie.
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Lighting Observation #10

1. April 18, 2025, 2:36PM

2. Light coming through WRHU Professional in Residence’s office window

3. I was standing just outside of the office. All of the lights inside. The Professional in Residence was out for the day, so the only light coming into the office was from the window. The natural sunlight was soft, and slightly cool, and inside the office, when it was actually bouncing off of objects, it created a more white, blue light.

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Lighting Observation #10

  1. 4/17/25 at 12:52pm
  2. A tree with pink and white flowers that I saw on my walk back from class
  3. What drew me to this tree was the way the sunlight shined down on the top, making the pink and white blossoms glow. In contrast, the lower branches rested in soft shade, creating a peaceful balance. The shadow it cast stretched across the sidewalk and grass, adding a calm beauty to the scene.
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Photo Observation #9

  1. Surreal
  2. Photo found on the internet
  3. This photo is washed in a kind of turquoise color with a darker blue vignette effect. To achieve this, I changed my perspective in the software and used a side light at 70 degrees and full brightness with a color from the “more gels” section. I also added three darker blue lights (R80 Primary Blue) to the right, left, and low to the ground and right behind the subject. They all had soft focus at 70 degrees and full brightness. There is an orange/amber lantern in the center that adds a highlight to the right side of the tree. I used one light at head height of the subject with the R15 Deep Straw gel at 10 degrees and 80% brightness.

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Photo Observation # 9

liminal spaces — Scary Things On The Screen — Everything is Scary

From Google

Surreal

To me this photo is eery yet hopeful. It seems to me an in between space. I used white back light from two different lights at full. Both are the low only coming from just above the subjects head to give the correct effect. They are on full to create the contrast between the bright white and the dark.

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Photo Observation

From the movie Lisa Frankenstein

Surreal

While the photo doesnt seem weird the movie that it’s from surely is. I chose this because the neon backlight added to the weird atmosphere. I used 7 lights, the three cyan used L116 at 14 degrees at full, the two pink bacck lights used R347 at full at 50 degrees, while the pink sidelight used R347 at 7o degrees at 75%. The amber toplight was R051 at 14 degreees at 75%, and the Cyc lights used R346 at full.

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Photo Observation 9

Sourced from Google

2) Theme: Surreal

3) When using the theme “Surreal” I chose this photograph since the lighting seemed slightly bizarre. On the surface the lighting looks normal until you start to question where the cooler light is coming from as well as the overall action of the piece. I used a daylight colored like to recreate the sunlight coming through the window and used a CTB gelled light to replicate the mysterious blue light. I then used 4300k colored lights for the seamstress’ practical lamp.

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