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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lighting observation #2

Posted on February 16, 2025 by previousstudent

February 13, 2024 at 7:20pm – Blink Fitness

The lights on the treadmill I am running on are counting the time and flashing red. All the other lights on the machine are white.

I used to be a runner, and I used to run almost everyday but with school it gets hard to manage. After my workouts, I try to get some cardio in to stay in shape, but I’ve been finding it hard to get back into it. The time is red, and I can feel it even when I close my eyes. Those lights are dicting my mood for the rest of the day. Can I run longer than I did the day before? Everytime I look at the screen I can feel the illumination almost telling me to give up and stop. Something about red that feels so ominous. The rest of the lights are yellow or white and it feels like encouragement compared to the bold red time in the middle.

 

 

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Light Observation #2

Posted on February 14, 2025 by previousstudent

February 14th, 2025 at 11:30 pm – My bedroom

The starry night projector in my room is on and I am watching it while laying in bed to help me sleep.

Tiny constellations drift lazily across my bedroom, mimicking the quiet dance of distant stars. This projector washes my walls in a deep blue imitating the galaxies. On top are green dots acting as stars. The glow is neither harsh nor overwhelming—it is delicate and calm. Beneath this artificial night sky, the atmosphere shifts. The once-familiar four walls dissolve into an endless expanse, and suddenly, my room feels limitless. The gentle motion of the projected stars creates a hypnotic trance, and reality bends just enough to help me rest.

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Light Observation 2

Posted on February 14, 2025 by previousstudent

February 14, 2024, 8:45 pm – Roosevelt Field Mall Parking Garage

Subjective Description: The LEDs of the lighting garage cast a yellow light on the grey walls and floor of the parking garage. It creates shadows and dark corners throughout the garage.

Objective Description: There is an ominous feeling as I walk towards my car. The on-going, concrete walls of the parking garage bear down around me. An occasional flickering yellow LED illuminates my pathway, casting long shadows and figures out of nothing. The lighting is dingy and ominous, the same ongoing color of the light cascading off the gray walls. The space is expansive and never ending, an unending expanse of concrete and shadows. I quicken my pace as I continue through the garage, feeling especially exposed and isolated.

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Lighting Observation #2

Posted on February 14, 2025 by previousstudent
  1. Emily Lowe Room 108, 02/07/2025, 16:45pm
  2. One light is on in the studio as golden hour approaches bathing one half of the studio in an orange, golden light.
  3. A orange pool is cast through the window panes of the studio. Watching as one dancer plies gracefully as another runs. The running dancer jumps and is caught in the last second. Much like the position of the sun the partnered moment is fleeting. Light covers the lifter’s face illuminating their skin. Everything always feels calming, like a memory in these moments of light. Golden Hour feels like going outside to play as a child and hoping your mother wouldn’t call you in for dinner. These times of play that we loose as an adult are briefly relived in a partnered dance. It’s hard to believe that in just a few minutes the world will be dark, all nostalgia forgotten.
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