Lighting Observation

Posted on February 7, 2025 by previousstudent

1) February 7th, 2025, 3:17pm, my dining table

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: I am describing the late afternoon light shining into the living room window, faintly lighting the dining room table from a distance

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: Sitting at the dining room table, earlier than I normally get to, frustration and fatigue fill the air. The dining room is dimly lit by the late afternoon sun coming in from the distant living room window. The closed, tattered curtains leave a warm hue within the light. The warmth brings optimism and hope.

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Lighting Observation 1

Posted on February 7, 2025 by previousstudent

Thursday, February 6, 6:37 pm – Through my living room window

Objective Description: As nighttime falls, the world darkens an already dark and cloudy sky. Through my window, I can see a single street lamp, shining down onto the sidewalk and illuminating the telephone lines jutting off of it.

Subjective description: The world is dark outside, dampened from the ongoing storm of the day. Enshrining the world in darkness, the clouds cover the stars above, creating a claustrophobic feeling as if the whole sky is shrinking in on you. The world feels as if in slow motion, everyone existing in a trance. Everything is dulled. Yet, there is a single ray of light illuminating a small patch of the sidewalk, the light climbing its way up the light pole to shine on the wires of the telephone lines above. A question surrounds the light, asking who will enter. There is a mystique, a power that the light holds. The students who pass into the spotlight hold a strange power. The wires create an intricate design above, reflecting the light and entangling it into their branches. The branches, in their clear and distinguished lines catch the eye, the only unblurred lines in the world.

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Lighting Observation #1

Posted on February 7, 2025 by previousstudent
  1. December 15, 12:29am, Em’s Bedroom
  2. A white ceiling light that is covered with light pink jells. The ceiling is also covered with glow-in-the-dark stars.
  3. Sitting on a bean bag while watching Frozen 2 with Em, I finally noticed the blue tones on the screen were being covered by a light pink light. I then looked up and noticed the pink light coming from above me. With the small sounds from the tv, the glowing stars and pink light made the atmosphere feel calm, warm, and welcoming.
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Lighting Observation # 1

Posted on February 7, 2025 by previousstudent

My bedroom, Thursday February 6, 3:25 P.M.

Objective Description: Sunlight is coming in from the windows to the right and behind me. There is a contrasting soft light coming from my closet and the strip of LED’s on my ceiling.

Subjective Description: The world outside casts a stark bright light through the slivers of the windows not covered by the opaque tan and grey curtains drawn over them. The recent storm has transformed the sky into a bright white, overcast haze which combined with the tone of the curtains dimly illuminates the room in a cold light, the only sense of warmth coming from the yellowish light spilling out from the slightly ajar door of my small closet and the orange tinted LEDs turned down to their lowest setting. This bit of warmth the beacon of comfort shining against the stark cold, almost creating the sense that it is protecting me from the frigid world surrounding me.

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Lighting Observation #1

Posted on February 6, 2025 by previousstudent
  1. 2/5/25 – 9:52am – Davison Hall, Hofstra University
  2. The glow of the projector, as well as the light coming in through the blinds of the single window in the classroom, in my writing composition class. All other lights in the room were off.
  3. The giant, blank white screen created a sterile glow that consumed the entire room, except for the corners which remained shadowed and dull. Their darkness created a vignette around the space, as though the room had secrets which couldn’t quite be seen. It felt as though there was a constant, droning buzz within my head, as I stared forward into the endless ocean of hospitalic abyss. The only other source of light creeped through the slats in the window blinds, as if they were trying to bring in the sunlight of the early morning. But they could not. Only a few slivers of the vibrant rays of sun were able to enter the clinical environment, and even they were quickly extinguished by the artificial illumination by the overpowering machine. Light has never felt so lifeless.
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Lighting Observation #1

Posted on February 6, 2025 by previousstudent
  1. Thursday, February 6th at 3:37pm–bedroom in my shared house off campus.
  2. The light is primarily entering through the window to my right; the farther window casing barely lines up to the foot of the bed. The room is absent of artificial light that would be provided by my lamp. It is cloudy outside, having just exited a period of snow and rain, leaving a bleak, gray-blue to cover a warm glow from the sun. The existing light is poor for visibility, making it difficult to discern objects that aren’t lying directly in the path of the window.
  3. A young man sits in the absent light provided by weary weather. Its tune is dreary, which reflects in the man’s posture; back curved like a wave that will inevitably crush unto itself. His head bows in accordance. The man’s shape is just barely illuminated by the sky’s gray-blue cast, which aims to sink his surroundings in a similar recession. As he lifts his head to meet the comfortless reality that exists beyond the window, the sky takes no time to mold itself onto sallow skin– transforming the blue-green veins to a lustrous opalite hue.



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Lighting Observation #1

Posted on February 6, 2025 by previousstudent

The circle outside of Nassau and Suffolk Hall, Wednesday February 5th, 8:19 PM

Objective Description: One dorm room on the fourth floor of Nassau Hall had green LED lights. All the other windows around it had the shades drawn, so it stood out.

Subjective Description: Among the other dark windows staring back at me, the one glowing green caught my attention from a distance. Walking back in the cold, I was eager to get inside and I hurried towards the light as if it was a safe zone. It stood out in an eerie way compared to the other windows decorating the wall, which were either dark with shades drawn or dimly lit with cheap yellow dorm lights. The green square glowed in a mysterious way and I determined that whoever lived there was either a lot of fun or somebody you didn’t want to be friends with.

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Light Observation #1

Posted on February 5, 2025 by previousstudent

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 – 5:44 PM – outside of the Axinn Library

Objective Description: The Axinn Library lit up on all sides, from the ground up, as the sun sets.

Subjective Description: I stood outside of Axinn Library, talking on the phone, when I noticed the library, how it was lit, and the “backdrop.” The sky is a lighter blue, fading into a darker blue; the library is lit from the ground up, causing it to appear as if it is looming over me. It felt as if the building itself was watching me, waiting for me, calling me, in a way. It feels taller in the dark. The longer I look at it, the taller it looks. Looking at it for too long creates a pit in my stomach. It looks like a building that people go into and might never come out of.

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Light Observation 2/4/25 – Ed Carluzzo

Posted on February 5, 2025 by previousstudent

2/4/25- 4:12 pm- Lawrence Herbert School of Communication’s Writer’s Room

Objective Description: Orange sunlight hits the yellowish-green leaves of a tree outside the writer’s room window.

Subjective Description: As the day nears an end the warm orange glow from the setting sun illuminates a tall tree outside the window of my film school. The sun strikes these yellowish-green leaves with energy and warmth in such a way that the leaves themselves seem to come to life, swaying and dancing against the cold, harsh, afternoon breeze. The rest of the world slowly begins to be cloaked in darkness as one of the last visuals I see before night approaches its cold, dark, unnerving head are the individual leaves on this tall, grand, tree. The individual bright leaves struck by the warm amber sunset appear to me as lights on a Christmas tree, inviting in a sense of calm, comfort, into my heart as I stand there in a world that couldn’t feel any more dark and frigid. Only after the sun fully sets do I yearn to see that scene from nature’s own play performed once again tomorrow.

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Summer Picture

Posted on May 2, 2024 by previousstudent

This is a photo of my aunt and uncle  in Brooklyn  from two July’s ago. Lots of things about this photo scream summer to me. The sunlight peaking in through the bright green trees shows the time of year it is. The pink and summery colors of both the surrounding area and my aunts dress colors really emphasize summer. I also just love this picture it’s very summer love.

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