Lighting Observation #5 – Lee Moore

Posted on March 8, 2012 by previousstudent

1. 12.00AM, Thursday, March 8, Speigal Theatre during cabaret.

2. The row of lights backlighting Philip Schaffer as he read his new poems made him glow in red, yellow, and blue.

3. I love poetry at cabaret. I love the energy, the passion, and the care taken when spitting out images. If a poet is passionate, it comes through his words, his actions, and the aura he casts. Philip Schaffer, is often one of those poets. Up on the Cabaret stage, he shines, and flails, and forms his words with such love and hate and allofthefeelings, that it is impossible to not get swept up in the sound of his voice, even if you don’t catch every metaphor. The cabaret stage lets him shine in other ways too. The frontlight picks up the reds in his skin and the plaid of his shirt, but its the backlight that is really impressive. above Pip’s head is a row of alternating red, blue and yellow lights that catch his movement with flares in your cornea. The lights melt on him, stretching across his skin as he moves, hanging onto his words as tightly as the audience. Something about his performance makes the lights dance as his teeth do. In pure colorful poetry, a subtext under his.

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Posted on March 8, 2012 by previousstudent

found at http://www.ingenuestyle.com/2012/02/neon-in-menswear.html

3) Vibrant, Colorful, Saturated

4) The thing I love about this picture is not only that Brad Goreski is the focal point of it, but also that his bright orange Prada suit is such a focal point which I love.

The actual lighting of this photograph may be a generic midday wash, but his suit has enough brightness in it that it appears to be the actual light source. Your attention is immediately gravitated towards him, which is heighten by the “daily life” lighting around the group of people. There is no fancy shadows or angle of the sun, it’s just light. In the way that we see it and take for granted every day.

However, the suit reflects that daily light. If there was no lighting or even dull lighting, the suit would not look as bright. It takes good lighting to make fabrics really pop. So the light may appear simple, but it’s in fact doing it’s job. Also, most people are actually walking in the same direction as him but the fact that he stands out far more than them makes him look like he’s a fish going upstream or walking against the grain which I think looks really cool. They’re all dressed in generic dark pants and white shirt and here he is- BAM- a punch in the face.

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Photo Observation #5

Posted on March 8, 2012 by previousstudent

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2) http://bamkapowxo.tumblr.com/post/13596712059/beautiful-places-greece

3) Vibrant, Colorful, Saturated

4) This is a beautiful photo of the Greek Islands at sunset. The sky is so saturated with yellows, oranges, and pinks that it’s almost unbelievable. The warm saturated sky compliments the blue saturated roofs of the buildings. It’s just so breathtaking. I have no more words.

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Light Observation #5

Posted on March 8, 2012 by previousstudent

1) 3/3/12 – 5:44PM – Quadship Enterprise

2) As I sat on my bed by the window, the fluorescent lights were on in my room. The blinds were shut halfway down and a beam of sunlight was hitting my leg.

3) As I sat on my bed writing a paper I didn’t want to write, the fluorescent lights perfectly described my emotion: cold, drab, dreary. Then seemingly out of nowhere came this beautiful orange-pink light hitting my leg and practically glowing. I looked to the window to see the source of this beautiful light, and there was nothing. I could only see the harsh straight lines of the blinds blocking the source of my happiness. I felt like Tim Allen’s character on Home Improvement, who never sees his neighbor’s face. Wilson always gives Tim worldly advice and makes him laugh, but Tim only ever sees his eyes over the top of the fence. At the end of the day its OK that Tim never sees Wilson’s face because he provides him with the worldly advice and laughs that he needs. The same goes for this magical orange-pink light. At the end of the day it brought happiness to my drab and dreary life, so it doesn’t matter whether or not I could see the source of it.

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lighting observation 6

Posted on March 8, 2012 by previousstudent

1) 3/8/12- 7:46 pm Constitution RSR booth

2) sitting looking out the front plexi-glass window I can see the reflection of the banks of lights behind me headed toward the laundry room.

3) This lighting just kind of took me by surprise. I’ve sat here a million times and never really realized it before. there are 2 rows of 3 lights headed vertically backwards. They are in perspective and it looks like it leads to the laundry room door. It is a sort of thing i feel like would be in the Coen Brothers’ movie The Big Lebowski.

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photo observation #6?

Posted on March 8, 2012 by previousstudent

http://www.pxleyes.com/images/contests/max-color/fullsize/Spherical-Sensations–4d2f301f747d0.jpg

vibrant, colorful, saturated

I love this picture because these colorful spheres are bright, shiny, vivid colors and they have all different designs. But in the shiny ones there are reflections of trees. I love how something as unnatural as these spheres try to camouflage themselves in trees and grass.  I feel like they are trying this disguise but their shapes and colors distort the trees so try as they might these spheres will never really be natural.

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Lighting Observation 6.2 (Moonlit Jail)

Posted on March 8, 2012 by previousstudent

1) 3/6/12 – 6:55 PM – Entrance to the netherlands quad.

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: I was walking back to my room after the sun had gone down. The moon was high in the sky in the direction of the student center. The light from the moon was shining through the gate to the Netherlands and casting a shadow of the gate and bike that was locked to it.

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: I was walking home from dinner on tuesday night. It was a nice night, relatively warm and very comfortable to be outside. The sun had been down for a while and the moon was high and bright in the sky. There were no clouds in the sky and the moon was almost full. As I entered the Netherlands through the sliding doors I happened to to look to my right and notice a very interesting image being displayed infront of my eyes.

In the entrance to the Netherlands there is a large set of bared gates to allow for people to move in to the dorms easier with all of their gear. The Gates are purely metal and are formed from a series of vertical bars about 3 inches apart across the width of the gates. There was a mountain bike that had been locked to the lower 25% of the gate that lay rested against there with the front tire slightly turned to the side to allow the bike to stand up. The Moon was shining brightly through the gate and casting a very long, striped shadow across the sidewalk. A series of very close parallel lines lay on the ground only interrupted where the bike was placed. The lines ran parallel all the way to the bottom where the lines of frame of the bike filled in the open gaps of light from the fence. It was a very cool image on the ground to see the organized lines filled in at just the right areas to be put together to make the perfect image of a bike on the ground, simply created from the light of the moon.

 

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Lighting Observation 6.1 (The Circus Lights)

Posted on March 8, 2012 by previousstudent

1)  3/6/12 – 12:22 PM – Outside of student center, walking between theater and tower.

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: I was walking to class and the sun was at high noon and was very bright and unobstructed. there was a shadow cast by the student center on the sidewalk but there were blurry reflections of light from the windows of the towers all over the ground.

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: I was walking to my first afternoon class at around 12:30 on tuesday. I was rushing across the parking lot and onto the corridor between the student center theater and Alliance tower. As I passed between the two buildings, I noticed something very strange happening with the lighting around me. The sun was burning brightly, and very high in the sky. Only the tallest buildings were casting shadows. In front of me, the only building to be casting any shadows on the path in front of me was the shadow of the student center. As I approached the shadow on the ground, I thought hardly anything of it; it was just a shadow after all.

As I began to walk directly on top of the shadow on the sidewalk I realized the irregularity of the situation I was in. The sunshine was beaming off of all of the windows from Alliance and Bill Of Rights. With the angle that the two buildings were in relation to sun seemed to make the area where I was walking, the area with the shadow, the focal point for all of the reflections. The pools of light that were making it to the ground were all very unfocused but there was a clear mess of bright spots all over the shadowed sidewalk below me. As my body passed through this haystack of lights I noticed that my shadows were being cast in multiple directions. I felt as though I was in a circus surrounded by a bunch of mirrors. Like what you see in the movies when characters are watching their bodys walking all around them from the reflections of the mirrors all around them. It was a very cool feeling and one that opened my eyes up to all of the angles and sources all around me.

 

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Photo Observation #6

Posted on March 8, 2012 by previousstudent

2) Photo taken by Nic Christopher, December 2nd 2012, 3:23 PM in an alley in Boulder, CO

3) THEME: Vibrant, Colorful, Saturated

4) DESCRIPTION: This photo was taken a few years ago of one of my very close friends of him screwing around on his longboard. I took this picture Mid afternoon on a December day with just a few clouds in the sky. Unfortunately the clouds diffused some of the sunlight on my image so the shadows and emphasis is somewhat lacking. In some ways, I believe that this actually enhances this image. With the extremely colorful background and intense colors, I don’t believe that the lighting needs to be super harsh and direct. If the sun were to be shining directly onto this image, casting small shadows and adding that extra depth underneath each brick, the image would have too many elements and be too busy for it to be visually pleasing.

The composition as a whole is very interesting in this image. With the flat, yet still very bright lighting from the sun makes the vibrance of the background pop out and command the entire image. Having the background blurred behind him gives this amazing sense of movement behind him that I see enhanced by the fact that the lighting is constant and equal across the entire composition. The colorful background contrasts wonderfully with the dark colors of Heins clothing and also the fact that he is the only clear part of the image, against the smeared background behind him. What I love about this image is that despite the flat lighting, the bright wash of the lighting reflects brilliantly off of the rainbow of bricks that lay behind Hein. The wall transforms the flat lighting into a bright, brilliant, colorful, saturated and vibrant schmear of colors that livens and gives movement to the picture as a whole.

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Lighting Observation

Posted on March 8, 2012 by previousstudent

1) March 7, 2012 around 9:00 pm

In the Black Box

2) There was a light on that hit the black wall, creating a creamy circle.

3) I saw this light during a break from the first rehearsal and saw how much it looked like the moon. If you took away the mezzanine level of the NAB and focused on the dark wall and the light on the wall, it looked so much like the sky. One of the things I miss about home is the lack of light pollution. At home, unless it’s cloudy, the sky is always dark and clear. Having gone home for this past weekend, I suddenly got a pang of nostalgia for my hometown.

Also, I noted that during rehearsal when I stopped paying attention to it, yet still saw it out of the corner of my eye, it appeared to be breathing and growing in size. I thought that could be a very interesting thing to use in a lighting design, the concept of a light having life, but only when you’re not paying full attention to it.

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