single source artificial light
After many, many hours of working on a small little white model for Drama 178, I started to play around with some lighting. Finally excited after hours of work on costume designs and the making of the model, I got to move on to making an artificial sun, which was incredibly fun, trying to get the exact colour that I wanted.
March 12, 2024 – my dining room
The circular light in the dining room at room
It’s really late but I’m still up for some reason getting work done. I appreciate my dining room because it has a nice table and it’s quiet, but also the light is so bright i can see everything from my notes to the keys on my laptop. It’s so bright in here that with all the curtains shut I lose track of time and don’t realize it’s well past midnight. It’s white but not blinding so it makes it easy to forget what time it is.
Taken by EBLenses in April 2023, Roosevelt NY
Spring
Seeing a photo of lacrosse instantly brings me back to spring time, windy weather, hot afternoons, chilly mornings. Almost summer time but not quite there, the lighting in this photo is golden and I can tell what time it is just by looking at this. I can tell that it’s spring because it’s definitely past 5 and the sun is still out and shining.
1) DATE-TIME-LOCATION: 3/16/2025
2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: The lightbulb in the windowsill of my childhood home.
3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: Its my first time home in 2 months. The older I get the stranger this place feels; less and less like it belongs to me. While all so familiar, it’s not where I live anymore. Small electric candle lights line the row of windows looking over the front yard, and one of them is not like the others. The green light bulb it has stands out from the rest. It reflects off of the glass and tries to make its way through the thin curtains, adding to the strange feeling that this place isn’t quite my own anymore.
1) March 14, 2025, Hotel Room in Smithfield, RI, 10:03pm
2) Dark hotel room where the only light is the blue light coming from CJ’s computer.
3) After a long day, the lights are off. As I sit on the opposite bed I watch CJ write their lighting observation. The illuminated blue light frames their face locked in to the task at hand. Concentration is key and the moment is fleeting. In a few hours we will be back up again for a final day. The harsh color keeps us up preventing rejuvenation in the final hours of the day.
3/14/25, Rhode Island College Stage
On stage with 4 other dancers I see how the red side light shining on half of one person’s face. It highlights the bones and darkens the deeper parts of the face, like the eye and below the cheekbone. The whole face is colored red and it bleeds into the hair and white shirt. The highlights of blonde look bright red but the brown hair is almost maroon. The white shirt ripples with movement and the red light dances across the curves of the fabric.
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