Photo Observation #2

Posted on February 19, 2025 by previousstudent

Theme: Cold

Photo: Romain Grosjean’s crash in the Bahrain 2020 Grand Prix (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ7_En2xEm4) How Romain Grosjean survived 'biggest crash' of the 21st century as chassis unveiled in London Exhibition - F1 - SPORTbible

This was taken during the 2020 Bahrain grand prix when Romain Gorsjean crashed. The car split completely in two. While one would think he died since he crashed at an estimated 67 gs, he got out, he walked out of the fire, all with some minor burns. However, after he crashed he stayed in the car for twenty eight seconds. Twenty eight seconds where no one knew if he had died or not. Which is why I think this is one of the coldest photos I’ve ever seen. While it is a fire, the backstory of this photo is not warm, which is why I consider this photo cold, just from the feeling of dread that passes over me every time I see it.

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Photo Observation #2

Posted on February 19, 2025 by previousstudent

From Severance

Theme: Cold

Four of the main characters are in an empty room, the walls are white and the carpet is green, and they only have florescent lighting over head. There is no variation in the lighting, they are all well-lit but it just leads to a flat and artificial feeling. The characters are all distanced from from each other and have shocked or angry expressions on their faces, giving an unsettling feel to the picture. The light is florescent and cool toned white, the walls are blank and white making the setting feel very cold and unwelcoming.

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Photo Observation 2

Posted on February 19, 2025 by previousstudent

2) Photographer Gregory Crewdson’s untitled work from his Beneath the Roses photo series.

3) THEME: Cold

4) DESCRIPTION: In this piece of Gregory Crewdson’s work, the photographer uses a cool, blue tinted top light to create an unnerving atmosphere to assist with telling a story losing a lover. The pockets of shadows and cooler soft light aid with separating the lost lover from the rest of the warmer house that she may have shared with her partner. The photographer wisely uses the contrast of these warmer and cooler tones to help aid the audience in getting into the depressive head space of the subject.

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Photo Observation #2

Posted on February 19, 2025 by previousstudent
  1. Photo from The Walking Dead (Season 7, Episode 1)
  2. Cold
  3. The blue tinted fog mixed with the white head beams casts a shadow towards the main villain of the season. This leads the audience to only be able to see the outline of his body. Without any warm lighting, this leaves a feeling of unknown and leaves the audience in a state of alert. I think cold lighting is something that captures your eye and keeps you in the moment.

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Photo Observation #2

Posted on February 19, 2025 by previousstudent

This is a still photo taken from MGM/Hulu’s hit television series, The Handmaid’s Tale, Season 3.

Photo theme: Cold.

A statue’s angel wings that frame June appear to signify her strength and beauty, as well as nodding to the character’s growth throughout the past seasons. However, any warm, hope-filled emotions that may arise at the sight of her success are immediately sucked out and spat back onto the floor with a besieging light. It smothers June’s symbolic achievements–washing the life out of her face and repainting with melancholy gloom, reminding the audience of her frigid reality. June’s wings would normally fly her closer to an affectionate, tender sun; instead they are weighed down, grounded by light’s bitter, icy shroud. 



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Photo observation #2

Posted on February 19, 2025 by previousstudent

  1. February 13, 2025, 11:02 am, just off campus
  2. Cold
  3. The world is wrapped in a blanket of fog, a whole road shrouded in cloud. It is piercing cold. It is a cold that seeps into your jacket, wraps around your body, entrapping you. The water particles, although not visible to the eye beyond their condensed smog, clings to you. However, as I walk down the street, there is peace. The world feels serene and calm, the clouds of ice muting the never ending traffic and hubbub of life. The light from the sun is muted and almost non-exist, the light expanding instead throughout the horizon. For once, it feels as if there is nothing more in the world then the bone-chilling cold and the never-ending cloud I am walking in.
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Photo Observation 2

Posted on February 19, 2025 by previousstudent
  1. The sidewalk in Andover, MA in February of 2018
  2. Cold
  3. Winters in Massachusetts are always horrendous, so it was no surprise that tiny pieces of ice were clinging to the branches of the green trees outside. We left our dance rehearsal around five o’clock that day, just before the sun was about to set, so any small amount of warmth that had been present earlier in the day had completely vanished. However, the ice on the trees added a nice touch to the otherwise dreary day.
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Photo Observation #2

Posted on February 19, 2025 by previousstudent

2.) My friend’s basement on New Years this year.

3.) Cold

4.) The people in this photo appear happy and the scene looks rather intimate. However, this photo is interesting to me because the lighting actually makes the photo seem rather cold. There is no natural light, making the room feel a lot more shadowed, and the only light that is in the room is coming from the LED strips along the ceiling. Their icy, blueish-white color makes the atmosphere feel much colder than if they had been set to a warmer tone color. Additionally, the LEDs only appear to span part of the back wall, the right hand wall, and the wall behind the camera. This creates a dark shadow behind the people on the left, again making the atmosphere feel much less inviting. The plastic bag in the top left corner also reflects the light from the LEDs. I don’t know that I think that makes the photo colder, but I thought it was interesting to note.

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Photo Observation #2

Posted on February 18, 2025 by previousstudent

Photo taken by me on Saturday, February 15, 2025, in Manhattan

Theme: Cold

I took this picture while walking to my next destination when I was picking up a few things this past weekend. It was extremely overcast and bleak, which, in my opinion, made it literally colder than it was. I feel like this picture is emotionally cold because of the stark, grey, industrial look of the Port Authority bus station. It feels emotionally cold and unforgiving, like some kind of hulking, metal behemoth.

 

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Light Observation #2

Posted on February 18, 2025 by previousstudent

I forgot when, sometime during the summer of 2019

The sunlight turned into a sunset over the water as my friends and I were sailing.

Sailing has always been in my family; it’s something that we used to do in Italy for my birthdays every year as a child. So there was no doubt when I had to pick a confirmation camp that I would choose one with the ability to sail. The day this was taken, our entire group was sailing together; it was peaceful, with barely any wind. Just us and the sunset as we tried to make our way through the water.

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