Beja Light Observation

Posted on February 3, 2011 by previousstudent

Date, Time, Location: Wednesday February 3rd , 2011; 7:00 AMish,  in my bed

Objective Description: more sunlight through a window with the blinds tilted at an awkward angle.

Subjective Description: I angrily awoke to the sunlight of my multiple window room. At first it was frustrating due to my lack of vision without my glasses. After I regained my eyes I looked at the sunlight against my closet doors. It was on a slanted angle with a ladder effect. Due to the spaces between the doors, the ladder effect looked more like paneling of a hardwood floor. After this I felt excited to start my day…and after a few more hours of sleep.

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Beja Light Observation

Posted on February 3, 2011 by previousstudent

Date, Time, Location: Wednesday February 2nd , 2011; 1:00 PMish,  at work (framing art gallery)

Objective Description: front entrance (composed of a glass wall), sun shining onto the wall with framed pictures.

Subjective Description: As I was eagerly and enthusiastically pretending to clean the glass on pictures, I noticed a glaring light hit the side of my eye. I turned around and had a complete lighting moment. The sunlight was shining down through the window hitting the glass on the pieces, and blinding me. As I took a closer look I could see framed boxes of yellow tinted light. It was a contrast from the dark blue carpet walls. It seemed that the light was trapped inside the frame, blurring the actual picture with harsh borders of shade on the bottom and right side. This made an exciting effect for the instant, bringing joy to my previously trapped feelings.

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Lighting Observation 1

Posted on February 3, 2011 by previousstudent

1) 2/1/11-8:00am-outside Alliance Hall

2) Outside Alliance Hall while the sun was still rising.

3) I was walking outside Alliance with a cup of coffee during “golden hour”.  Even though it was so cold outside the sun rising kept me warm.  It looked like someone opening their eye in the morning.  When seeing this is just makes it feel like it will be a good day and in a way makes you feel energized.  It brought back memories of when I was little and went into the city with my grandfather on Saturdays just driving into the eye of the day.  It also reminded me a little bit about the film Days of Heaven, this is so because the entire film was shot during Golden hour, which created its challenges but gave the film a certain look that it needed.

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2nd Light Observation Week 1

Posted on February 3, 2011 by previousstudent

1)  02/03/11 at 10:00am in a classroom in the basement of Davison

2) Sunlight down a tunnel leading from the classroom window to the surface

3) As the light from the morning sun trickled down the damp, moss green, cracked concrete of the tunnel an uneasy anxiousness began to stir inside me. I felt trapped within in a cell with nothing but harmful flourscent light and this small glimpse to the world above. Escape, at this moment, seemed impossible. The urge to feel the sun on my skin and to look at the blue sky was incredible. The distance seemed infinite.

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Photo

Posted on February 3, 2011 by previousstudent

2) This photo is by Thomas Kinkade- http://rosselli.com/images/TKinkade2.jpg

3)  COLD

4)  The bare trees express a cold feeling and the snow also helps achieve the feeling of freezing or ice.  The fog in the background also reflects a cold and still environment.  The colors are muted and have a grayish tone that also contributes to the cold feeling.  There is some lighting effects but the light is white and not yellow so it is perceived harsher, highlighting the absence of warm soft yellow sunlight.

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Lighting Observation 2

Posted on February 3, 2011 by previousstudent

1) 1/28/11- ~7:35- Statue in front of Calkins

2) Side light on eagle statue in front of Calkins with snow falling.

3) This was an interesting lighting “moment” because the side light on the statue gave it a significant 3-D appearance.  The light was slightly an uplight  which gave the statue a feeling of confidence and strength.  The statue had several crevices and therefore cast very intricate shadows and it brought a flowing type of movement to the statue.  The light seemed to get absorbed by the  statue and gave it a naturalistic look.  The light also reflected off the snow that was falling and that also highlighted movement and the fact that it was snowing.  I thought the depth that showed in the statue from the light was really cool.

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Light Observation 1 B

Posted on February 3, 2011 by previousstudent

1.) 2/3/2011- 5:40 pm- My bedroom
2.) The reflection of light onto my ceiling off the water in my turtles’ tank.
3.) An unending ripple of pale yellow light pushing through shadow charging across the ceiling. Again and again it runs, bouncing ever so slightly against the farthest edge and dissipates. After but a moment of resonance the light escapes only have a new band of light race head long into the edge. A constant kamikaze the light charges across the ceiling, almost an aurora borealis, the light shows across in a brilliant array but it is starved of color, only the pale yellow has survived such constant battering. Soon the timer will click the light off and my light show will end, but now I witness the flight of the light.

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Lighting Observation 1

Posted on February 3, 2011 by previousstudent

1) 2/2/11- ~10:45- Driving on Hempstead Turnpike

2) Objective: Four lights in a row on a building shining up on a Bank of America sign.

3)  Subjective: This was a lighting “moment” for me because I saw a lot of meaning in it.  At first the light had a mysterious effect about it because there were long drawn out shadows cast from the sign.  The other reason it looked scary is because it was a yellowish light instead of a bright white light so it appeared dimmer and more spooky.  Something that I thought was interesting was that the straight up and down vertical light made the building seem taller at the time and going back the next day I realized its actually not that tall of a building.  Also the lights were lined straight in a row and it created a column effect that really gave the feeling of authority or power.  The light was very crisp and straight which helped make the building look very modern and important as well as aesthetically pleasing to the eye.

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Photo Observation 1

Posted on February 3, 2011 by previousstudent

2.) Photo from: http://darkdex52.deviantart.com/
3.) THEME: Cold
4.) The grey/ blue quality of the light gives the image a cold, abandoned, heart broken feeling. The color is starved as though the rose has been left behind to wither and die in the snow. The sepia tones on the rose add an aged and deprived feeling to the photo while the grey light quality feels cold, and isolated. Like a love long abandoned, a wound too old to sting so fresh.

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Photo Observation – COLD

Posted on February 3, 2011 by previousstudent

Light through Ice

When the river in my hometown froze over, I took a walk on the ice with my camera and a flasslight. I shown the flashlight at an angle down into the light to accent the formations in the ice.

Theme: COLD

Besides the obvious (that this picture is of ice, and ice is cold), the blue-ish tint of the light shining through the ice promotes a cold feeling, as well as the isolated beam of light and the fact that you cannot really see the bottom of the ice.

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