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I picked this image mainly because of the shadows being projected around the room and the chaotic feeling it creates. The casing on the light acts as a sort of 360 degree gobo. It also creates a kind of trippy effect with the way the shadows are sharper toward the center of the photo and get blurry toward the edges creating what seems to me like a kind of illusion of a magnified lens when it’s really just the spherical shape of the light source.
This photo was online, from an online website called girllikear.life. They are an online store selling gobos. For me, gobos really work well to create bizarre lighting, just because you can take something and make it look really unnatural and jarring. For example, the human is this photo looks offputting with the holes in the skin made from the gobo. Also the black and white color makes it seem even more dramatic and bizarre.
Picture taken by me
I took this picture inside of a pop-up art exhibit at the ICA pre-pandemic. It was a small enclosed room with a bunch of big polka dot tubes. Additionally, the exhibit was also covered in mirrors, so you could never tell where the real tubes were and which ones were just a reflection. The whole exhibit was very trippy, and the assortment of different color lights and mirrors made it very bizarre and disorienting.
3/6 8:15pm, Outside Emily Lowe
Objective:
the bright light sconce outside the front door reflect the puddles on the steps and the falling rain outside.
Subjective:
the nightly fall of light breaks away from its shadows as the white light shines off the flooded concrete and falling droplets glimmer like speckles of falling stars from the sky that could never be shown against the dark clouds above. The air is crisp with the chill of soft pattering rain. The sight that would cause the normal passerby to sigh with frustration at the damp annoyance, made me smile with each cool drip against my jacket. Like my worries were washed away into the puddles below, left behind as I splashed them with my boots.
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I enjoyed the use of contrasting colors with the bright-lit background against the darkly lit subject. I think the bizarre nature comes from the red projection effect causing the tone to be more eerie and curious.
Bizzare
I took this photo at an art exhibit in NYC in 2021. It was bizarre to me because of the way the projections created an immersive experience for the art being displayed. There were a lot of illusions that made the viewer forget that they were inside of a box-like room with projectors.
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The faint pink light shining through the projector adds a strange effect to the photo, including the shadows that surround the woman. What makes the photo look bizarre is the long shadow arm, starting from her wrist then stretching down to the bottom of the photo. With only one light provided in the photo, there could be countless of different stories describing of what the photo could mean.
Photo taken by me
Photo Theme: Bizarre
This is a photo I took a few years ago in the Axinn Library on one of the higher floors. I was attempting to take a picture of the sunset, but due to the bright interior vs. the dark exterior, the bookshelves were reflected onto the glass, blocking the landscape below. When you first look at it, it is hard to tell what you’re looking at. I kept this photo, although it is bizarre because I liked that it showed the two scenes in one picture.
3/4/24 – 6:45 PM – Calkins 139
Objective Description: The flourescent lights in the studio were very bright in comparison to the dark outside. Even though there was only half of them on, the room was completely lit up, and the white paint on the walls reflected into the room.
Subjective Description: The lights emitted a blinding light that made me have to squint, and my pupils kept dilating and constricting, making the room very white and uncomfortable. It was like a hospital with its unyielding brightness.
3/4, 11:47 am, Adams Hall
Objective description: The sun is high in the sky, casting lots of bright light through the windows in my classroom and reflecting off of the computer screens. The glare of the sun coming off of the cars shines onto random points on the wall.
Subjective description: The overwhelming bright light hurts my eyes, considering that this is only my second class, and it makes me aware of how sleep-deprived I am. It is hard to focus on the movie on the screen because of how washed out it is from the sun. I wish we could close the blinds to dim the sunlight.
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