Photo Observation
1) Photo is from https://blog.davey.com/2017/05/why-your-tree-is-not-growing-leaves-in-spring-cherry-elm-ash/
2) THEME: Spring
3) DESCRIPTION: The earth celebrates the tree coming back to life with a nearly cloudless blue sky.
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Lighting Observation #3
1) Thursday, February 14th, around 9:30 PM, South Campus
2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: An orangey streetlight shining against a mostly-bare tree, which cast a long shadow on a wet sidewalk
3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: After a long day of classes, I was walking home when this streetlight caught my eye. What I found particularly astounding, personally, was the orange quality of this one when most of the others before had been an almost fluorescent white. The way the lights elongated the shadows of the gangly branches, with only a few desperate leaves still clinging to it, was eerily beautiful. The scene itself was, admittedly, a very stunning one, yet the image it created was one that might fill someone with dread on a nightly walk home.
Photo Observation #2
2) I took this picture on October 3rd at 11 PM on the north side of campus.
3) THEME: Shadow
4) When I took this picture, I was on a walk in the rain with the girl I was seeing at the time. We both were talking about our appreciation for photography earlier and how we liked to stop to take pictures of things we would see cross our paths. When I saw the way the light was shining from behind the trees and the way the light and shadow fell, I had to stop both of us for a moment to appreciate how beautiful it was. There are other elements, such as the way the tiny water droplets reflected the light and shadow as well, that didn’t show that well in the picture, but it still looked stunning to me.
Light Observation
Date/Time/Location: April 25th/2:00pm/Emily Lowe Hall
Objective Observation: We were having an acting class in one of the classrooms in Lowe. The class was almost over and we were waiting for the professor to announce our final project date. I was looking around and suddenly I saw there’s a beautiful shadow of the leaves of a tree outside the classroom casting on the whiteboard through the window. The leaves and the trunk of that tree were clearly seen on the whiteboard. And the shadow was moving as the tree itself moving with the wind.
Subjective Observation: It was so peaceful to see the shadow floating on the whiteboard and it also helped me with my acting scene. Because the final scene I got in that class was about a couple confessing to each other in the moonlight under a tree. The shadow I saw hopefully would help me a lot since before I had no idea where to look at in order to pretend I see the moonlight and the tree. So next time, I will have a more material object as a target to point at.
Light Observation 3
Wednesday, February 13, 2019 – Outside of Vander Poel Hall
The sun had just started to set, creating a periwinkle color in the sky. The trees were striking against this backdrop, appearing almost black in comparison. The lamppost lights had started to turn on, with one having an almost subdued neon green hue to it. Each of the main elements within what I saw seemed like the opening shot of a tragedy or horror work. Despite the fact that the colors I saw weren’t the typical dark and/or bloody lighting that is often seen within the genre, it had a ominous nature about it. The darkness of the tree seemed like a shadow that didn’t belong, almost making the whole scene appear as though it had been filtered the wrong way. However, the lamppost made you realize that the color scheme is correct, as it glowed in a eerie, underground hidden tunnel, torches along the wall, kind of way.
Shining Through Mist Onto Tree
Source: Me, October 21, 2016 in street island in front of Resident Buildings.
Theme: Single Subject, Single Light Source
Description: A single light shines on the tree from behind. The light gleams at an acute angle from most of the top of the tree. Behind the tree is a resident building, while on the lower right corner there is a shade of red. While the top of the tree is an intense yellow glow, there are small glimmers of white coming down.
To me, this tree symbolizes the how life may block the what can easily be seen in front of you. We can be so focused on what is in front of us that we forget the things that are easy to see behind it. It overgrows what should be important for your life. Despite this, we still see what is in front of us and not what else can come from the front.
Photo Observation #6
- This is a photo by Rick Anderson found at http://www.centralpark.com/guide/activities/picnics.html
- HAPPY!
- Somewhere in Central Park, a joyful and fun-filled day is coming to a close. The sun is still bright; it soaks the park-goers in a warm glow of friendship, relaxation, and happiness. Both the leaves from the trees and the balloons from the picnic are saturated with the sun’s powerful radiance that creates a map of colors across the grass. Slowly, the light is fading away, but the happiness of the day will linger when it is gone.
Lighting Observation #12: A Tree’s Bark in the Sunlight
4/25/16-10:23am-Outside the Spiegel Theater
The sunlight warmly hits the bright green leaves of this tree that looks sort of like a weeping willow but has branches hanging down with bright green spade-shaped leaves. The shadow cast on its bark reflects the spade-like shape of the leaves and only some direct sunlight comes through in varying amounts to hit the bark. Thus, the bark is illuminated with different intensities of sunlight.
The light colors the bark of the tree and accents the lines of the bark. The bark looks like it might just erupt into circular-like shapes like the shadows that gently fall onto it from the branches above. The movement of the shadows with the gentle swaying of the breeze create a dream-like feeling. The tree bark shimmers like psychedelic orbs that make the tree glow with different shades as the light and shadow change how intense the light is on the bark constantly. As the shadow and sunlight move, there is green, teal, brown, gold, grey, amber, and silver on the bark. The whiteness of the light of the sun has the greenness of the leaves and the shades of the nearby plants reflect onto the bark allowing for this rainbow. It is a creative light with its colors and intensities. Every leaf looks more like a heart than a spade with the shadow that is created by the sunlight hitting it. The lighting is artistic, it is natural, it is soft, and it is dynamic. The overall feeling of the light is one of confusion, fun, and bedazzlement. It changes between these naturalistic colors and is constantly moving like the light cannot make up its mind how to shine on the tree, but it is also fun with the varying spots of intensities and colors reflected back. This movement and change in the amount of light hitting the bark is bedazzling like a disco ball in the night. It is fun though; It’s fun in the confusion and in dazzling qualities.
Photo Observation #8: Spooky Moon
This photo was taken by me.
The theme is spooky and it fits this theme because it looks like it could be taken out of a spooky scene from a horror or Halloween film.
The lighting is white and bright like a space alien’s ship coming to abduct someone or that horridly spotless idea of the future that many films attempt to portray. The bright lighting depicted in the animated film Wall-E for inside the space ship where the lazy humans are is similar to this bright moonlight. The light is expansive causing a soft halo to surround it in the night sky. The brightness at night also is spooky because night is meant to be dark in the minds of many. This bright moonlight might peer into a window and wake people up like how the people were wakened up during the Light Riots. The light backlights the tree making it a shadowy silhouette. Moonlight has a history of spookiness with witches flying across it, cows jumping over it, and werewolf’s howling to it; this moonlit picture harkens back to this tradition with the light’s boldness and the silhouetted tree’s bareness. The white light and lingering halo of grey contrast with the night-time blackness like a mysterious power; this starkness and utter lack of an array of colors and stark would be enough to spook a child into hiding under the covers. For all a little child knows, this could be the eye of a huge monster coming to destroy it; and the power (high value) and abundance of this light makes it imposing. The dead, dark world that some might think exists in blackness comes back to life with the bright glow of the moon. However, it is not as alive as day; it is like a half-life or perhaps undead life. After all, in the total dark, one cannot see that the world does not look as alive as the day, but in partial light one can. Thus, the lighting in this picture is spooky as it is a sign that scary things might be out and since it makes things that look bright and alive during the day appear dead, creepy, and unnerving through the limited, bright, far-reaching, and contrasting with the dark surroundings white moonlight.
Light Observation #1
1) 1/29/15, 10:30pm, Lounge of Nassau Hall
2) An outdoor light that was aimed at a tree created a shadow of the branches in the snow.
3) My lighting moment was wonderful. Everyone in the lounge thought I was a weirdo when I stopped my friends to appreciate the moment I was currently having. The intricate twists and turns of the trees branches was represented so clearly in shadow on the freshly fallen snow. The snow being white and slightly illuminated by the moon, created a beautiful contrast between the light and darkness of shadow. The source of light hitting the tree also created little glimmers of sparkles in the reflections of water droplets that had turned to ice, which hung from the branches. The effect was very haunting in a way that surprised me. Yes, it was beautiful. But the chaos of the way the branches were entangled, combined with the lack of color told a sad story. It felt like death, as winter often resembles.
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