Light Observation #8 – Dude, Look At My Car!

Posted on March 23, 2012 by previousstudent

March 21st – 12:30AM – NAB parking lot

I was walking with Meaghan back to my car. When I hit the unlock button on my clicker, the yellow headlights illuminated in the fog.

Once again, I was helping out Meaghan with her directing scene. After a funny night of playing around with the scene, we decided to call it a night. We thought it was a wonderful idea to go to Dutch treats to get a late night snack, so we started to walk towards my car which was parked near the NAB. As I reached in my pocket, I pressed the unlock door button and the foggy air in front of us was filled with the yellow light. I immediately shouted, “Lighting moment”! I loved how the fog made the yellow light feel infinite and limitless, yet still gave a feeling that kept me alert. The problem was, that I wanted to get a picture of the lighting moment but my lights wouldn’t go off anymore. I then thought it was a better idea to turn on my car alarm at 12:30 in the morning for a photo shoot on my car in the fog. I really do have wonderful ideas. The yellow light flickered in the fog and I could see the light trail from my headlight, outward. I could see the particles midair in the light much clearer. The light reminded me of the prison spotlights. The yellow was very protruding on the eyes, like if a spotlight was on me. Anyways we went to Dutch Treats; I got a ham sandwich on wheat with mozzarella and fat free mayo. It was wonderful. And no one bothered to think twice than my car was being stolen…..

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Photo Observation #8 – Springtime for Tanner and Jersey

Posted on March 23, 2012 by previousstudent

Photo taken by Tanner Alvarez. Taken in Brielle, NJ April 20th 2011 at 5PM

Spring

I love my home. I really didn’t appreciate it as much until I went to college. Spring to me is a time of relaxation and reflection. The season takes a toll on me for the better. I constantly feel happy in the spring, opposite to the winter. It is a time for me to reflect all that I accomplished this year, and what I will accomplish next year. This is one of the things I miss the most. This is a view from my house, overlooking Debbie’s Creek. It has quite a macabre story. It is about a girl named Debbie who went out canoeing one day and mysteriously vanished. Her canoe was found in the middle of the creek. Besides the scary story, the view is breathtaking and it is very relaxing to sit near the creek, in the late afternoon, and just reflect upon the day. The light blue sky is such a perfect blend of white and blue. It gives off this calming feel that lets you exert your emotion right into the creek. The sky is reflecting in the beautiful water, but this does not give the water a blue color. The water is a light tint of green. There is so much shrubbery surrounding the water as well as foliage under the water that it takes this magnificent color and pushes it to the surface for all to see. The lighting effect in this picture reminds me of relaxation. I can picture this being the background of an intimate scene in a movie. A young couple kissing for the first time, an old man remembering his deceased family, or even a young boy wondering where his father has gone off to. When I look at this pool of water, I want to just sit back and reflect on my life. It has that effect. One of my favorite things to do in the Spring is to go canoeing into the middle of the creek, and read. This is my time. Time to build my mind and spirit. A time of replenishment. A time to just relax and wonder how I can improve as a person. This is my Spring. This is my Brielle, New Jersey

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Lighting Observation #7

Posted on March 23, 2012 by previousstudent

1) 3/20/12 – 9:30AM – Quadship Enterprise

2) When I woke up it was very foggy outside my window.

3) As I woke up to the sound of birds chirping, I rolled over and opened my eyes expecting to be greeted by a bright shining sun. To my dismay, I opened my eyes to a grey window, no shapes of buildings, no color, just grey. I couldn’t believe it, so I rubbed my eyes and looked again , still grey. I felt like Rapunzel looking out at the clouds from the highest peak of the tallest tower. The only view of the outside world I had was completely surrounded by fog. Dismal, grey fog. I felt claustrophobic, trapped inside a glass case of emotion. Luckily when I got up to investigate, I was able to make out the ground below me, and that got rid of a bit of the vertigo. That poor Rapunzel.

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Photo Observation #7

Posted on March 23, 2012 by previousstudent

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2) Christina Bracco (c) 2011

3) Spring

4) This photo was taken in Nerezine, on the island where my grandfather was born. I love this picture because even though I went just about this time last year, the weather was very cloudy all week long. From this picture, you would not even be able to tell that was the case. The color of the flowers is so vibrant that it just jumps off the page. That is the most beautiful part about Spring: the colors. Whether the sky is cloudy or sunny, the colors of the flowers in bloom, the grass, and the leaves on the trees will always stand out after the cold, colorless dismal winter.

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Photo Observation

Posted on March 23, 2012 by previousstudent

Source: taken by me, spring break 2011

Theme: Spring

This is a picture of my horse, Order of the Phoenix, munching on some grass in the top field on a lovely spring afternoon. When I think of spring, I think of my horse. The barn sort of shuts down over the winter, lessons stop and people only come to clean stalls, groom their horses, and sometimes ride in the snow. But on the first day of spring lessons start up again and the barn bustles back to life.

The sun is vibrant and warm in this picture, but there is still some shade, signaling the transition of winter to spring. We’re not completely in summer yet, but we’re getting there. Also the sunlight hits the buttercups, giving small pops of color in the picture. Yellow to me has always been a spring color so there had to be some in this picture!

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Lighting Observation #8

Posted on March 22, 2012 by previousstudent

1) Wednesday March 19th, 2012 – 11:00 p.m. – Outside the NAB

2) After Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’s rehearsal, when we all left the building, the night was overcome with a very thick cloud of fog, this made every single light outside glow, beams were pointed everywhere and spheres were created to decorate the night.

3)  The night itself was very dark, so beams of light from lamps really stood out. It was great seeing people walk into and out of the lights, like spotlights used to play a game of hide and seek.the decorated nights had narrow beams from cars that snaked through the fog. Some lamps created balls of yellow light of different sizes and at different levels like a playground outside. Lastly, the cars on the turnpike at a distance created beams of light that followed each other in a hurried fashion.

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Photo Observation #8

Posted on March 22, 2012 by previousstudent

2) Code Poet (http://www.flickr.com/photos/alphageek/233472093/)

3) Theme: Spring

4) This photograph represents everything that is the Spring season. Flowers, sunny days, clear skies, and clean air. One of the better features of this image is the perspective it is taken in. It is reminiscent of lying on the grass looking up at the sky. While the cool white light is bright, it is not painful to look at, and the contrast beween the brightly lit clouds and the deep shadows in the grass gives a sense of rest and harmony. Another great quality shown in this image is the way that the petals on the flowers are semi translucent, and light up with the sun behind it.

 

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Photo Observation #8

Posted on March 22, 2012 by previousstudent

2. By Matthew Artus http://www.sbnation.com/users/Matthew%20Artus/blog

3. Spring

4. I’m a big New York Mets fan, and I really like baseball so whenever spring rolls around, I immediately think it’s baseball season. Basketball season is getting intense, but as a kid I was always ready for Little League baseball, so that’s why I associate spring with baseball. I really like this picture because of how it combines spring flowers in the foreground and Citi Field, the Mets home ballpark, in the background. These are being lighted by a typical spring day, bringing all the elements together that I think of when I think of spring.

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Lighting Observation #8

Posted on March 22, 2012 by previousstudent

1. 3/20/12 3:30 p.m. in the hallway of my dorm building

2. Sunlight from window by stairs and the light in the ceiling of the hallway.

3. I was walking home from class and before I entered my room, a lighting moment hit me square in the face. I looked an saw a cool combination of sunlight and indoor light that made this really neat combination of light. It was like the sunlight was giving the hallway light life, and it was a very nice way to enter my room.

 

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Lighting Moment #8

Posted on March 22, 2012 by previousstudent

1.Tuesday March 20th 11:30pm Hempstead Turnpike

2. The sources were headlights, streetlights, stop lights, and store lights/advertisements which came through the fog.

3. Though I drive home every night via this route I have never noticed the amount of light surrounding me. Because it was foggy it restricted visibility to only 100 feet in front of you but the lights showed through creating a tunnel effect. It made a highway somehow more intimate but restricted and dangerous. There were very few cars on the road but those that did emerge out of the gray wall were surprising cause it was if a curtain had been pulled. This light path seem to go on forever and constantly revealing another light, and thankfully for me the next green light. My next observation was the temperature difference between all the headlights and streetlights. Though they are all made from the same basic parts they glow slightly different. This individualism is what created the path vs asylum affect. If they had all been uniform it would have been creepy as opposed to the inviting light leading me home.

 

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