Lighting Observation

Date: 03/12/2024

Time: around 6:00pm

Location: Union Tpke subway station

Objective: I am waiting for the train to come. There many people around me waiting for the same thing. The cement I am standing on looks dirty, filled with chewed gum and questionable stains. Yellow strips are painted at the edges of the platforms and the columns are a muted navy. The tracks are littered with the usual trash and roaming rats. The smell of sewer in pungent and the strips of lighting are dim and warm.

Subjective:  Waiting on the platforms for the subway is visually quite grim and muddy-looking. Although I usually prefer warm dim lighting, the lighting just adds on to the uncleanliness and griminess of the station. I usually overlook this because of all the interesting people or performers that also fill up these subway stations, but on a empty day like this one the subway station seems depressing.

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Lighting Observation

Date: 3/17/23

Time: 3:11pm

Location: the Red Line on the DC Metro

Objective observation: The train has yellow lights in strips all along the edges of the ceiling, but they’re not very strong. Most of the light in the car is natural, coming in from the big windows. The sky outside is a monochromatic light gray – it was just raining – so everything is illuminated with fairly plain white light.

Subjective observation: It’s oddly pleasant for a Metro system. The abundance of natural light gives the space a clean feeling that is unusual for a train like this. Conversely, when we go through a tunnel and the ceiling lights are the only source of light, they become a sickly kind of yellow without support from the natural outside light.

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Light Moment

Date: 3/16/23

Time: 9:19 P.M.

Location: the Playhouse

Objective: two actors down center stage. there is a dark blue wash over the stage and a spot on each actor

Subjective: it’s a very calming scene. the characters sing a song about falling in love and everything is at ease

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Brennan Single Source Artificial Light Photo

 

From: My camera roll, taken March 4th 2023. Jaden leaning out a window in East Hampton, NY

 

Theme: Single Source Artificial Light

 

This photo is actually BTS from a film set I was recently working on. Our schedule was pretty tight and we had to film a daytime interior scene after sunset, and since the room had a window it came down to the lighting team to make it work. I was the Best Boy Electric, so myself and a few extra hands ran the biggest light we had out to the driveway and sent it up on a stand above the height of the window. This shot was taken a few minutes after the light had fully turned on, but before we sealed the windows and added a diffusion layer to the inside. It sure did the trick. It doesn’t quite show on camera, but the immense output from this light (and the lack of adjustment from our eyes at the time) made it seem like Jaden was glowing, and his hair looked especially angelic so we all asked him to pose while we took some pictures.

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Lighting Observation

6:57 pm outside Bits walking towards the Stu

The sun shining on the library building and casting an orange color on the stone.

The orange glow on the building reminded me of the sky during a sunset. The sunlight turned the library into a mirror, reflecting the orange sky to the West of it. The usual tan stone was a calm, beautiful orange.

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Single Source Photo Observation

Attribution: https://www.lighting-essentials.com/08-controlling-presentation-light/

Theme: Single Source Artificial Light

Description: Looking for an image of a single source artificial light reminded me of when I used to to do still life studies, most often with fruit. In this image, the apple is being lit from directly above.

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Photo Observation

Date: 3/15/23

Time: 11:10pm

I took this photo using my phone flashlight and a Dr Pepper bottle in the drounge. I used the light as footlight, casting a shadow of the bottle behind it.

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Single Source Light

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Theme: Single Source Light

Description: I keep getting stand up comedy videos recommended to me, so for a single source theme I figured I would use an actor on stage with a single spotlight creating frontlight with no horizontal angle.

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Single source artificial light

Theme: Single source artificial light

Photo from google search

This photo is a man sitting in front of a lamp, and the whole room is dark, only this lamp shines, so I think it is a good example of single source artificial light.

However, I did not come to the last class, so I’m not sure if my angle color and lighting key diagram is right or not.

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Single Source Photo

Photo taken by me on August 1st, 2019.

Theme: single source artificial light

The man in this picture was my supervisor at the summer camp where I worked, Tel Yehudah, for the summer of 2019. His name is Teague. We were on a “shmira” shift, which meant we were part of the group responsible that night for making sure campers stayed in their bunks past lights out. Part of the shmira equipment was this huge flashlight that we were supposed to use to spot and identify campers. On this particular night, for whatever reason, we had balloons. Teague pressed the industrial flashlight against the balloon and it glowed this cool neon green as seen above. I love this picture so much. The color and glow created by the flashlight combined with the balloon is so slimy and unusual and it reminds me of how much fun it was to work with Teague.

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