Lighting Observation

Posted on February 17, 2012 by previousstudent

1) 2/17/12  12:30am on my bed

2) my colored Christmas lights hanging from my ceiling are reflecting off of the inflateable chili pepper that is also hanging from the ceiling.

3) This all happened quite by accident. i was thinking about lighting moments through my week and I looked up deep in thought an noticed how the light was reflected in the curves of the inflateable pepper. they move interestingly and create shadows in the folds. The chili pepper never is completely still, so the light is always slightly moving.

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Photo Observation

Posted on February 17, 2012 by previousstudent

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/07/10/arts/pilospan.jpg

shadow

I have always found the shadow performers very interesting. These people normally use like a giant sheet and back lighting to create different scenes and tell stories. I have always been fascinated by the ways they can use shadows to make different designs and scenes come alive.  In this picture just a difference of distance between the performers and the sheet and light can make one overpower another.

 

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Photo Observation 3

Posted on February 17, 2012 by previousstudent

2. http://www.meterdown.com/2009/06/31-interesting-selection-of-shadow-arts-pictures.html

3. Shadows

4. I love the unnatural yet natural feel of this image. The length of the shadow makes the two figures seem inhuman and yet they are doing such a human action. Furthermore the contrast between the very green grass and the darkness of the shadow is beautiful and really makes the shadow stand out. It must have been very bright out when this picture was taken.

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Photo Observation #3

Posted on February 17, 2012 by previousstudent

http://www.flickr.com/photos/heartravingbeauty/3892182260/

Theme: Shadows

I love this picture. The photographer took it while she was swinging up in the air. The sun behind her has cast angles of the swing set bars, making them seem obtuse the closer the original point is to the ground. The fact that the girl is alone makes the photo seem a little sadder in a way. Her shadow is stretched and distorted, and perhaps I’m reading far too much into it but the shadow could be a representation  about how she feels about herself and why she thinks she’s alone. Society has distorted how many young people, teenage girls especially, feel they should look and I feel that this picture could be interpreted as that.

Shadows also give an ominous feeling. Shadows are cast on the ground, but this picture makes it the forefront focus. It’s a nice change and brings to the front something we never notice trailing with us everyday.

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Lighting Observation #3

Posted on February 16, 2012 by previousstudent

1. February 16. 2012. 10:00 am, Enterprise Hall 14th floor

2. I woke up this morning and put my glasses on. My room was completely dark except for a small pocket of light coming from the windows hitting the wall next to the window and again in a small spot across the room.

3. For some reason, I woke up in a godawful mood this morning. I had a headache and snapped awake at the sound of my alarm and put of my glasses. The first thing I saw was a tiny corner of nice pale, blue light spreading slowly across the room. Even though I woke up in a very jarring way, I was instantly put at ease. Blue light to me has always been incredibly calming and usually I wake up earlier so the room is a little darker. I’ve never seen the light hit the wall that way before, so I guess I was lucky to wake up at that time. All I know is that seeing that small patch of light growing across the wall and my room was a large reason my mood was instantly changed by it.

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Photo Observation #3

Posted on February 16, 2012 by previousstudent

2. http://www.dphotojournal.com/within-shadows/ “Within Shadows” by Susan Burnstine

3. Theme: Shadows

4. I believe this photo captures shadows brilliantly. All the shadows in this photo give it a dream-like feeling, and you don’t know what’s real, what is not, and what is a shadow. The black fog gives it that overlying dream-like feeling as well, and it looks to me like a dark shadow of the clouds above, not a huge fog. Also, the people are blurred, the buildings are blurred, just like a shadow would be. That blurring effect looks like a series of shadows. One from the person or object the shadow is coming from, and then a shadow of that shadow. It is an incredible depiction of shadows in photo form.

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Lighting Observation #3

Posted on February 16, 2012 by previousstudent

1. February 16, 2012 at 9:30 p.m. In my room.

2. This thing called an IllumaStorm that my roommate owns. Its this light in a large, globe-like bulb. When you turn it on it makes the light look like electricity.

3. In my room, my roommate turned on this IllumaStorm, and it had several colors of electric looking light shooting from this black ball in the center of the instrument. We could touch the globe and the light would react to our touch, by congregating where our finger was and sending light from there. Another really cool thing my roommate did was turn on music, and the the light from the instrument reacted to the beat of the music. Throughout this whole experience, it made me realize that light had life. It moves, it reacts, it can move to a beat. It’s everywhere, and here is this lively light stored in this cool instrument my friend has.

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Light Observation #3

Posted on February 16, 2012 by previousstudent

1) Feb. 12, 2012. 2:37 pm. Student Center

2) Sunlight shining thru the upper windows of the back area

3) It was a mostly cloudy day that Tuesday. I was sitting in the Student Center with a few friends eating lunch. Then the sun peeked out through the clouds and shone onto our faces. I immediately said “lighting moment” and everyone agreed. It was an indescribable sight for the sun to peer through the gray clouds, even for a moment, and brighten up my day.

 

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Photo Observation #3

Posted on February 16, 2012 by previousstudent

 

2) http://www.streetartutopia.com/?paged=6

3) Shadows

4) This is a photo of a daytime and nighttime scene. It is an example of street art where the artist cleverly uses the shadows of the statue during the night to create art. The beauty of the shadows makes the art come alive. I love the way such simple things can be turned into something so much more beautiful and intriguing.

 

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Lighting Observations 3.2

Posted on February 16, 2012 by previousstudent

1) DATE-TIME-LOCATION: 2/11/12 – 11:53 – Just outside white “bubble” next to uslesspan on north campus.

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: I was walking to the soccer field at around noon on saturday. The sun was breaking up the clouds and reflecting off the white bubble just off the unispan by the football field.

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: My cousin was playing lacrosse at over the weekend. She goes to UCONN and lives in Philadelphia, so I hardly ever get to see her. I was very bummed when I woke up to see that the weather was not very nice and that it was so cloudy and snowy on the one day that her and my aunt and uncle were in town. Despite the cold weather and cloudy haze I put on many coats and my boots and headed out the door to go and meet them. I was walking on the North side of campus on the elevated road above the white “bubble” at the edge of campus. I was briskly walking to meet them at the field with my Starbucks sloshing around in my cup.

As I turned the corner and walked parallel to the bubble I realized that it had finally stopped snowing and it actually wasn’t that cold out. I looked up and the sun was actually starting to burn through the clouds and shine onto the sidewalk. The sky had been very dark, gray and threatening all morning. this was the first variation and contrast I had seen in the sky all day. For about the next thirty seconds the clouds continued to thin and eventually part. The intensity of the sun increased dramatically and the light shining through went from a deep gray to a warm and intense golden white. The hole in the clouds had a skewed triangular shape and was still not a huge spot in the sky. All around the spot the sky remained dark and colorless. After another fifteen seconds or so there was another break just below the first. As I looked up there were now two brilliant spots in the sky surrounded completely on all sides with the darkness of the snowy clouds. As the two spots grew to their maximum intensity my eyes shifted their focus to the bubble. this pure white mass was catching all of the yellow light in the sky and casting a blanked of golden rays across the bubble. The white of the bubble reflected all of that golden light as it was the most intense and colorful source of illumination in the sky. I was thrilled that I was looking up to see this beautiful moment of the golden parts in the sky illuminating the bubble and creating a cold and warm color contrast with each other and then I realized that the weather was perfect and just as I arrived on the field, my cousin scored the second goal of the game.

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