Lighting Post #5

Posted on March 7, 2025 by previousstudent
  1. March 3, 2025, 2:47 pm, My House
  2. Objective:

The light shines into my kitchen, casting a bright box on the floor. The light creates rainbows around the floor.

  1. Subjective

It is the perfect time in the afternoon when the light refracting into your house is the most calming shade of light imaginable. The light shines through a window to my right, casting a rainbow spattering across my floor. There is a tranquility throughout the house, a sense of quiet that is so rarely found. It is a moment of pause, a second to breath. I pause a second, breathing in the scene. I try to take a picture. Although the picture is the same of my kitchen before me, that sense of calm, that sense of peace will never translate through a camera’s lens. There is simply the moment, the refraction of the light across my floor, the light cascading through the window, the peace.

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Lighting Observation #5

Posted on March 7, 2025 by previousstudent

1) 03/07/2025 — 10:32 pm

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: A single house light shines down from the ceiling. The light is a yellow/white light. Shadows are cast against the wall from the group of people in the room.

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: Hours have gone by in the bedroom as the group deliberates a big decision. The single light creates a blanket of atmospheric anticipation. Shadows cast against the wall moving around sticky notes. The light starts to get dimmer the longer we are in the room closing in on the deliberative decision.

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Lighting Observation #5

Posted on March 7, 2025 by previousstudent
  1.  7th of March
  2. The sun is setting, and it looks like a golden hour.
  3. As I am lying in bed, I see the sun setting from the corner of my eye. Looking out of my window, I think back to how much I’ve missed the sun looking like that, from what the winter has been to the nice golden sun.
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Lighting Observation

Posted on March 7, 2025 by previousstudent

1) 03/06/2025 8:19 pm

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: My tall lamp in my bedroom brightens the room

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: The week has been long, just like the winter. There has finally been in the break in the cold, snowy days and I’ve been greeted by the sun’s warmth. As the day is coming to an end, I sit in my small bedroom. It’s small enough to be lit by just one light bulb. The warm light almost makes me feel warm, and it brings me comfort at the end of my long days.

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Lighting Observation

Posted on March 7, 2025 by previousstudent

 

  • March 6, 2025, Studio A, Lawrence Herbert School of Communications
  • The white backdrop in studio A lit up with red, blue, and green light and an “applause” sign on
  • After one of my classes, I noticed the almost completely dark Studio A. The white backdrop in the back of the room was illuminated by red, blue, and green light. The colors mixed together in such a way that they almost created a rainbow effect, except it was missing the orange and yellow. On the left wall, there is a rectangular sign that reads “applause.” The letters are written in red, and the background they are written on is a soft yellowish-orange, white light, almost that of a soft white 60-watt light bulb. When I looked into the room, the only thing I could think of was Singin’ in the Rain and the “You Were Meant for Me” dance number, on the sound stage when Don is creating the “proper setting.”
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Lighting Observation #5

Posted on March 7, 2025 by previousstudent
  1. March 7th, My room 3:48 PM
  2. The sun comes through my window and reflects off of a bright orange blanket.
  3. After the rainy days the sun seems to shine brighter than ever today. Its stark white light is blinding, and with all of the windows uncovered in my small space, it floods the room with a harsh brightness. I closed the curtains as well as I could but a small beam of light still spills through. Instead of the bright white wash from a few seconds previous, the small beam of light reflects off of my bright orange throw blanket and casts an orange glow on the face of my housemate. As I look at the room once again I feel calmer and warmer as I realize that the whole room is now bathed in this orange glow, making me feel as if I am in the center of the bright orange sun in the best of sunsets.
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Photo Observation #5

Posted on March 7, 2025 by previousstudent

January 19th, 2024 in Athens, Greece–12:34. Taken by me. 

Theme: Spring. 

Lazy cats sat on the roof, just outside anyone’s touch but the sun. Sleeping on old plastic bags and inside broken cardboard boxes, their solace lies in a sweeping canopy of bright green. Warm and inviting amber light peeks through the web of leaves, cooking the tin waves that cradle them. Their stubbly fur becomes soft under the heat of the sun. It is in these moments that street cats receive word that the tough cold winter is finally seeing its way out.



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Lighting Observation #5

Posted on March 7, 2025 by previousstudent
  1. March 5th, 2025 in Adams Playhouse Theater–3:32PM.
  2. The lighting cues for Guys and Dolls were being run, my view came from SR wings as I was painting scenery. My work was being done on a yellow wall, which turned into a strange, greenish-hue under the bright blue lights that were hitting it. Other portions of the scenery were hit with pinker tones, which deadened the wall colors but still maintained their original saturation. The blackness of the stage floor and drapery stood out against the strangely-lit scenery.
  3. What should have remained happy pastels of yellow, green and blue instead turned into uncomfortable browns and washed out grays as fluorescent lights hit the walls. The light that obscured them was unusually happy–vivid blues and punchy pinks. The only thing that humbled the two disagreeing parties were the deep pockets of black made up by billowing curtains and creaky floorboards; it was this sea of onyx that made the disfigured pastels wash away. Among the weirdness of these soft-hued color matchings, its bottomless pit drew our eyes in and kept them hostage.



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Lighting Observation #5

Posted on March 6, 2025 by previousstudent

1.) March 4, 2025 – 8:34pm – Adams Playhouse

2.) The red and blue stage lights that create a white light on the actors, but separate again on the ground.

3.) As the actors sing out to the audience, they are illuminated by a brilliant white light. The light is soft and gentle as it washes over them, as if it were the moonlight that was actually shining on their faces. However, from the wings behind them, I can see that their shadows are not being lit up by this delicate, natural glow. Instead, it looks as though there are two of them displayed across the stage floor: a pinkish-red outline and a blue one. The sparkling effect of light from the night sky was actually created from two separate fixtures that were mixed together. The intricacies in the shadows also made the scene even prettier to look at, and it was a great example of the warm/cool 45 degree rule we learned about in class.

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Lighting Observation

Posted on March 6, 2025 by previousstudent
  1. Wednesday, March 5th, 2025, inside my car. 11:00pm
  2. The headlights of my car reflecting through the rain
  3. It was pouring more than it has the entire semester. I could barely see two feet in front of me, nevermind the road up ahead. As I sat in my car, I turned on my headlights and watched as the yellow light protruding from them appeared to be cut up and uneven. The rain cascading from the sky blurred the limited light, creating fascinating fragments of yellow among the wet, dark road ahead of me. I decided to drive slowly.
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