Photo Observation #2

Posted on February 10, 2012 by previousstudent

2) Photo By Nic Christopher. Taken 22 March 2010 at 5:30 PM in Vancouver, Canada.

3) THEME: Cold

4) DESCRIPTION: I usually find pictures and paintings of flowers and plants to have a warming and happy feeling to them however not in this image. Vancouver is a very wet and rainy place. In the spring the normal weather one would find would be clouds and rain. The lighting becomes very flat and gray. I found these flowers growing just off the beach in town and thought it was a very pretty image. When I uploaded the picture to my computer I noticed that the lighting had influenced the saturation of the greens and purples in the flowerbed to become muted and less brilliant. The very tip of the purple flower is very vibrant however it is the lighting that falls on the background that creates a colder feeling to me. The greens seem to reflect the gray tones of the sky and the rain that had fallen earlier that day. What really speaks to me in this image is the fact that such a vibrant picture has been altered by flat gray lighting to make the entire image feel cold rather than warm and spring like.

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Lighting Observation

Posted on February 10, 2012 by previousstudent

I had my lighting moment sitting in Lowe 106 for Hamlet rehearsal on 2/9. I looked over the door on the side of the room, and the light was reflecting in such a way as to create the never ending hallway effect. I looked at it for a moment, but I didn’t figure out exactly where the light was reflecting from to create this effect which was odd.

The light reflecting in the window of the door was shaped almost like an old-fashioned gas lamp, and as the image repeated itself, it seemed to create a hallway, like a secret passage into a world of the past akin to the tunnels through which the phantom leads Christine in Phantom of the Opera. It was an erie effect, considering no lights in the room are shaped in such a way as to create that particular reflection, or at least not obviously.

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Photo Ob #2

Posted on February 10, 2012 by previousstudent

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Http://www.artificialowl.net/2008/08/hashima-island-or-gunkanjima-nagasaki.html

3. This photo comes from an abandoned mining island that was shut down after the WW2 in Japan. The Japanese government now forbids anyone but occasional photographers to step foot on the island making it one of the most desolate places on earth. At it’s peak this isolated community had the most dense population on earth per square kilometer. They was a fully functioning society on this island with schools, stores, and apartment complexes. This photo portrays the now cold and lifeless area. The reason this photo comes off as cold is the slight blue tint to the light that combines with the colors of the building and surrounding to mute the entire scene. The lack of directionality gives no highlight or shadow to the picture which flattens the photo even more. The bright white light in the top left corner establishes the emotion we associate with cold, the still and stiff. If you were to be standing in this place you would almost feel the need to look over your shoulder as the moment feels loaded as if something is going to happen.

 

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Photo Observation 2

Posted on February 10, 2012 by previousstudent

2) Photo by Jim Smithson. Corbis. Photo ID: 42-27306498.

3) Cold

4) This photo shows a set of railroad tracks on a cold winter morning. The sun is rising, and the light of day is slowly but surely taking over the sky from the dark blue of the night. The hazy fog exhibited by the morning light sends chills down your spine, and you can truly feel the biting cold of a winter’s morning just by looking at this picture.

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Photo Observation

Posted on February 10, 2012 by previousstudent

This is a photo I took on a foggy morning. This photo feels cold to me. The sky is an even wash of grey-ish blue and white. The lack of a visible source for the light makes it feel colder, since light sources generally are also sources of heat. The mountains, are clearly visible in the background  and are white with dark blue shadows. And the city peeks out from under the fog as blurry silhouettes. The layers of cool colors with little variation or direction to the light make the entire scene seem frozen.

 

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Photo Observation#2 – Cold – Lee Moore

Posted on February 10, 2012 by previousstudent

2.  Aurora Borealis, Lapland, Finland.  By Martti Rikkonen

3.  Cold

4.Seeing the northern lights is in the top ten on my bucket list. Such impossibly brilliant color against the deep blue of a winter sky creates such a stunning juxtaposition of color that even photographs of it make my heart ache. This image of the northern lights and full moon above finland on a snowy night is a perfect cold photograph. The moon and stars in a midnight near purple sky cast a frigid  tint across the trees and snow. While such  bright pinks and mints of the aurora might seem an unexpected choice for cold the hue of the pink lives  toward the blue side of the color wheel and  its the green is so heavily tinted white as to lose all of its warmth. These colors, though bright, still feel distant and otherworldly. They are not comforting so much as alien and terrifying in their severity.

 

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Lighting Moment #2

Posted on February 10, 2012 by previousstudent

Date/Time/Location: February 9th 3am Farmingdale NY my back yard

Objective: The moonlight shining across the grass, furniture, and porch. There is so much light it seems almost like day light. The moon light is coming the opposite side of the house creating some shadows.

Subjective: First I should say that a lot of my emotional response comes from that most nights when I come home the back yard is only lit by the motion light, so the fact that this area is lit before I walked by the light intrigued me. It also made me notice the quality of light. That night there was a nearly full moon with no clouds in the sky allowing an even wash of light over the entire area and the space to create its shadows. As I turned the corner my first impulse was eerie since I was unsure if anyone else was there but after seeing it was only the moonlight it became the lighting that we associate with an anticipation moment. Looking in on the light something seems out of place but once you are immersed in the light as well its almost warm and inviting while keeping you on your toes. There is the slightest tint of blue in the light cooling the whole scene off and putting everything in the same color palette. Its like a screen for your eyes awaiting for the anticipated action.

 

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Light Observation #2

Posted on February 10, 2012 by previousstudent

1) February 8th, 2012 – 3:41p.m. – Bits & Bytes

2) My lighting Observation happened while looking for my next meal at Bits & Bytes. While looking around, something caught my eye, it was the meatballs from  2Mato. Not only was this tray of meatballs on display under a heat lamp, like the pasta next to it, but it was in a special, bright, deep red heat lamp.

3)The way this food was being lit was very surreal. Under the bright red light, the meatballs looked like a corny eighties film cheat to recreate the surface or mars. Why was my eye so drawn to this?  and why, when I saw it, did I right away thing, “this will be my lighting moment”? In the area that I was in nothing stood out, everything was as it always had been; the drinks were a collage of colors, the salad bar was a collage of colors, the frozen yogurt toppings were a collage of colors, and the  italian food was browns, reds, whites, and greens. Then, all of a sudden there was this big, spot in the midst of it all. A huge red area, it was so different. Looking closer at it, there were really deep shadows and this made the texture of the meat clusters so apparent and so much definition was added.

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Photo Observation #2

Posted on February 10, 2012 by previousstudent

http://stancarey.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/stan-carey-mutton-island-causeway-in-winter-fog.jpg

Theme: Cold

I think the lack of light in this picture is what really makes it feel so cold.  The fog makes the horizon disappear and no longer visible, making the viewer feel alone.  The deserted pier over water makes me think this isn’t a rainy summer night, this is winter or fall. Also the feeling of loneliness and desertion that the lack of light gives off the feeling of “cold” more than falling snow or ice ever could. Sure, everyone gets chilly when watching “The Day After Tomorrow,” but that chill that run downs your spine when you realize you are completely alone outside as twilight falls, much more cold than any ice could be.

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Lighting Observation #2

Posted on February 10, 2012 by previousstudent

1. February 9, 2011, Emily Lowe Building, 8pm

2. Light hitting the leaves on the bush outside the window.

3. During a break at Cat rehearsals tonight, I looked over at the window and saw it was completely dark outside, except for light hitting the back of the leaves, making only a small bunch of them visible. While seeing them, I immediately though of the film director Joe Wright and how he’s known for filming light through leaves. This effect could also be translated onto the stage and could be a very cool visual effect.

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