Photo Observation #7

Posted on March 15, 2012 by previousstudent

2) <http://www.flickr.com/photos/alabamanightowl/5869519232/in/photostream/>

3) THEME: Portrait or Strong Central Figure

4) So I don’t like HDR photography but the lighting coming from the up-right light was too good to pass up.  I found it hard to find photos with such dynamic lighting from multiple sources—everything I found either had a rather general flat sort of daytime lighting, or were a single light source with intense shadowing.  HDR usually serves to reduce or even eliminate the more interesting shadows in a photo, but this particular composition retains distinct shape and locations of the light, partially due to the slightly foggy air.  The tree adds nice texture to the yellow light, though this is only visible on the ground, and not particularly the subject.

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Photo Observation #7

Posted on March 15, 2012 by previousstudent

2. By Erika Brooks Adickman http://idolator.com/tag/darren-criss/page/3

3. Portrait/Central Figure

4. I love Darren Criss. He’s a great performer and I’m proud to say I’ve been a fan since before he was on Glee. I chose him because I figured he would have good portraits to use for this assignment, but I found a lot of pictures of him in white lighting, and I wanted more color. Then I found this one where he was in Red lighting and it immediately caught my attention because of how different it was from his other pictures, so I chose this one because it is the most interestingly lit picture I could find of Darren Criss.

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Lighting Observation #7

Posted on March 15, 2012 by previousstudent

1. 3/12/12 11:30 a.m. in the Drama Lounge

2. Sunlight coming from outside and hitting Codee’s backpack

3. Sitting in the Drama lounge, I noticed something very peculiar. I’ve always seen Codee’s backpack as this simple blue backpack, but on this day the way the sunlight hit the backpack made the blue on her backpack very vibrant and noticeable, and it was really cool. It made me see how something plain can be made so vivid if you just add some light to it.

 

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Photo Observation

Posted on March 15, 2012 by previousstudent

2) Shani Shalgi. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1626308709187&set=t.1521240196&type=3&theater

3) Portrait or Strong Central Figure

4) this photo is from a production of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat performed at Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 2010. This is the scene where Joseph is thrown in jail and sings his heart out. the blues and deep magenta help strengthen the mood of the scene. the darker colors enhance the sadness that is jail.

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Posted on March 15, 2012 by previousstudent

1) http://www.mousebuzz.com/forum/year-million-dreams/34342-annie-leibovitz-cinderella-photo.html

2) Portrait or Strong Central Figure

3) This photograph is part of the ad series that photographer Annie Leibovitz shot for the Disney theme parks.

Though the scenery was perhaps edited (as are many things in advertisements) the lighting was still done on set.

The lighting is murky and mysterious, Cinderella is lit from the back and her right side only, casting shadows and darkness in the front of her. I feel that the lighting really captured the enchanted feeling of Cinderella; dawn is slowing rising the horizon and the mist is rising around her. Cinderella is the clear focal point of the photo, so much that it actually takes a second glance to notice the spotlight on the small glass slipper in the center of the photograph. She is down in the right hand corner of the photograph, a place the is usually the last place people look, yet the dim lighting that illuminates her dress has enough pull to draw the viewers attention.

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lighting observation #7

Posted on March 15, 2012 by previousstudent

3/14/12 around 1:30 am in my bed

I was all snuggled in bed with Mater and then I noticed the light from my alarm clock reflecting on the bottom side of the desk lamp I put on my dresser (which sits next to my bed).

This may not really seem like a lighting moment to anyone else really but I used this desk lamp as my object for the 78 project so I spent a VERY long time looking at this lamp in different types of light, but I never really saw it in this one before. I literally could not close my eyes and just stop looking at it (regardless of how much my body wanted me to). The lighting just totally changed the way I looked at this lamp. the under lighting made the lamp look angry, dark, and a little sad.

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Lighting Observation

Posted on March 15, 2012 by previousstudent

1) March 15, 2012 about 3:00pm in Breslin Hall

2)Lights coming through the blinds of an accent wall in Breslin

3) Today I was in Modern and Royston was prepping the computer to watch the German Expressionist film “Metropolis” I turned around to look at the back wall. I never noticed that there was a pale blue accent wall in this room of Breslin before, which was the first startling thing about this observation. Also, the light was streaming through the windows, making them appear dark by contrast and spilling out against the walls. I thought it was funny, as we have spent so many class periods talking about the Expressionists, and were about to watch one of their films, that a prime example of expressionistic lighting (angles and shadows) was right behind us the entire time.

The lighting also had that “film noir” feel to it, which I felt expressed the dramatic feeling of the sometimes drawn-out Modern Drama class. It was a very simple lighting, and lighting that has been done countless time before, but the fact that it so perfectly represented the mood of the room was a coincidental added bonus.

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Light Observation #7

Posted on March 14, 2012 by previousstudent

1) 3/14/12 – 8:30 pm – On the LIRR heading back to Mineola Station

2) A flashing light seen out the window of the train as it was moving

3) As I was on my way back to campus from the city, I sat on the LIRR looking out the window on the verge of falling asleep when suddenly, a light flashes. I was so confused at first. The light was so bright and quick that it looked like lightning. I instantly sat up and stared intensely out the window to see if this flash would happen again. It did. I have no idea what caused the flashes, but it continued to intrigue me as I kept staring out the window even harder to try and figure out what was making it. I still don’t know and would like to find out if anyone knows what creates the bright flashes.

 

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Light Observation

Posted on March 9, 2012 by previousstudent

It was Sunday night at around 2 in the morning when some idiot in my dorm building burned popcorn and the alarms drove us all out of the building to await the permission of the fire department to go back inside. Standing outside  in the cold, I noticed the way the emergency lights from the fire truck were flashing and lighting up the area.

In frigid air under an almost starless sky, the kind only found near big cities, a bunch of listless college students were milling about. All around them the trees were being lit up in blues and reds flashing and pulsing like strobe lights in the dark. The light hit the bare branches of the trees drawing the outlines of the empty space, making it seem deeper, darker.  Even beneath the street lamp, the colors from the emergency vehicles danced on the pole and played in the branches. As the wind blew the branches seemed to jump from place to place rather than sway under the influence of this unnatural lighting.

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Photo Observation

Posted on March 9, 2012 by previousstudent

Colorful Caves Photographs Of China_007

 

http://www.bigpicture.in/colorful-reed-flute-caves-photography-of-china/

Theme: saturated, colorful

This is a picture from the Reed Flute Caves in China. I chose this photo because I found it interesting how they had used fake lighting to make the already incredible natural phenomenon more striking. The lights help to display the interesting formations and textures of the cave, and also reflect off of the water so the cave seems even more mystical.

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