Photo Observation #5

  1. August 5th, 2025 – During a production of Spelling Bee
  2. Theme – singular artificial light
  3. This photo was taken while I was working on a production of Spelling Bee. In this scene, in order to have a supernatural look, Sam who played Jesus in the scene, was lit up by one light below and behind him. It helped make it look like he was floating and glowing.
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Lighting Moment #5

  1. Thursday, March 5th, 2026 – Looking out of my dorm window
  2. I had just finished getting ready for the day and I finally opened my blinds and looked out of the window. The rain was coming down and it was gray outside which normally feels sad, but the temperature outside was quite a bit warmer than it’s been so the warmer rain made the day feel brighter and nice. Inside felt nice and cozy.
  3. There are times when lighting will make me nostalgic. This rain felt like the rain that you get in the summer after lots of hot days. There was something about the bright gray lighting and slightly warmer temperature that even though I should be wanting hot sunny days right now, the rain felt good. It wasn’t super dark it felt more like a go outside and play in the rain kind of lighting and it made me happy. (until I got soaked walking to class of course.)
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Lighting Observation #5

1. March 6 2026, 12:38am, path between alliance hall and the student center

2. Outside my window it was pouring and looked to be slightly flooding. The lights from the student center reflected off the water on the ground, disrupted by fast ripples made by the rain.

3. This scene gave me a serene feeling. The bright light on the student center hitting the layer of water made it look almost like the moon reflecting off the ocean at night.

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5th Lighting Observation

  1. March 5th, 2026 – 7:26 Pm – On my way back to the Netherlands
  2. Rain was really coming down, of course, as soon as I got out of class, it had to be pouring, but the lamps lit the way, and the way that they reflected off the rain made it better cause it distracted me from the fact that I was walking in the pouring rain.
  3. The mood lighting was the lamps outside cause even though, like I said, it was pouring rain, the way that the raindrops reflected off the light and the sounds of the rain against my unbrella was pretty calming.
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Photo Observation #4

  1. April 25, 2025 7:11 PM, NY
  2. Bizarre
  3. I chose this picture due to how the light is hitting the moon in the ceiling. This moon was so large and a sphere, yet the way the light is hitting it, plus the light on the inside, it almost looks 2D. It is hard to capture in the image how large it was and the fact that when you entered the cathedral it looked like a flat hanging until you got closer.

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Photo Observation #4

2)I took this photo on 3/3/26 at The Shed in Manhattan

3) Bizarre

4) This is a photo from a Mitski concert I went to this week. She is an artist who plays a lot with contrasting visuals and sounds in her performances. Here, thee white spots of light give the impression of stars which make sense with the sweet song she is singing, but the large red beams read as bizarre to me because they don’t exactly fit the feeling of night sky or ethereal love in the way the music and stars do. This adds a layer to her visuals that contextualizes the love she is referring to as also the fiery passionate kind, the way that we usually associate red with love. The amount of texture on stage along with the straight beams of red and white light is automatically bizarre and fills the stage with life.

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Photo Observation 4 – Stanley Morgan

1) August 27th, 2025 – Downtown Wakefield, Massachusetts – 8:05 PM

2) Theme: Bizarre

3) I chose this photo for bizarre due to the fact of how vibrant the light reflects off of the water, especially with the grey sky present. The fountain is a beacon of bright light sprouting up from the Earth, and catches your eye from afar. The sky and rocks around the fountain are grey and muted, exemplifing how bright the light is. The warm light peeking out makes the photo complete, as you don’t notice it at first, but it adds to the contrast of the blue wonderfully.

 

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Photo Observation #4

1. February 17, 2023, 2:00pm, Rainbow Vomit

2. Bizarre

3. This was at a selfie bar. The room was dark with fiber optics coming down from the ceiling. They were all squiggly and glowing blue. As they go up towards the ceiling they look as though they are disappearing into the sky. I think the chaos of the lights go up really adds to the bizarre factor.

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Photo Observation #4

  1. 24th May, 2025 – The Crocodile, Seattle WA
  2. Theme – Bizarre
  3. This is a picture from Lyn Lapid’s Buzzkill tour that I was able to go see. The reason I chose this phot for the bizarre theme is  the way the blue and red lights are seen at their sources as right color but onstage and on the people it is a magenta color. It also reminded me about how the eye/brain cannot process red and blue at the same time  and that is pretty bizarre.
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Photo Observation- Bizarre

1) March 4th, 2026 at 11:22 pm (Movie: “Kairo”)

2) Theme: Bizarre

3) I really like to watch horror movie recaps on YouTube during my downtime and the narrator was specifically talking about this scene. When I thought of “bizarre” lighting, I thought of lighting that is so weird and surreal that your brain starts to make assumptions and messes with you. The way that the light only hits the sides of wall but you can’t really make out what is inside that shadow until it starts to get closer. I really liked this scene since it messed with my perception a bit since I did not originally see the girl in the shadow until she stepped more into the camera, therefore making “bizarre” in my opinion.

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