Cyc

I was walking around Brand park and when I saw the sky turning this amazing color all i could think about was how amazing the cyc is. I mean look at that backdrop color for the lighting. I just had a moment with myself where i thought i was going crazy because i was seeing lighting class everywhere and i just popped out my phone to take a picture of it. This picture and the mood its making and just the time of day thats showing I think is the reason why we use the cyc. Plus its not all the time that we can see this sort of color in the sky. Just once a day I guess. 

Warm lighting

I was at a bar over the weekend and one of my friends commented on how the lighting was hurting their eyes a bit. And I thought how perfect of an opportunity I had to take a picture of the warm lighting that Karyn does not approve of and I really understand why. The light was very orangey and it gave the whole room a really warm look but the place was decorated with a lot of red and there were some red lights too and it just gave the place a really dive bar feel. The lighting did half the work of setting the atmosphere, and I really got excited when I realized how the lighting in the place was really what was setting the whole mood. Thats why us using this sort of lighting, and how my first picturizarion project was lit wasn't a good idea, because this sort of lighting is not meant for us to see everything more clearly. The more I looked around the harder it was for my eyes unless I looked at my friends or the people near me because then the light didn't make everyones face look like an orange blob.

Fog

Here are two pictures of my drive earlier this week in the morning. There was a lot of fog and i just thought the lighting looked so beautiful. You can almost see in the second picture the sun piercing through the fog and making a cone shape with its light. I just that was such an amazing way to diffuse the light, almost like there was a crazy big lens in front of the sun diffusing the light. I wondered about how i would be able to make this sort of light when i saw it because it looked like such an interesting light to make for a scary scene or maybe even it could have been a way to light the last scene in Our Town when everything was a memory. I definitely thought that a fresnel would be perfect for this light if there was some mist on stage then it would definitely be a great.

I had to take a picture of how it looked after the rain to show what I was talking about in my Our Town presentation. The sky has this really wonderful clear quality about that makes it almost okay that its not raining anymore. And the sky has a slight blue tone to it because of how clear everything looks and I just love the color of after it rains. There aren't any vibrant trees, but this is the color that usually makes some of the greens and oranges really pop out, and some of the light colored tree trunks. Im sure you know what I'm talking about, after the rain or in this sort of lighting there are some plants that really pop out because the slight blue tone makes their (usually green, orange-yellow, and almost grey white) colors pop out. I probably always associate the crispness in the air with this sort of color as well, but this has to be my top 3 favorite sort of natural lighting. 

Week 10 Lighting, A film set

Sorry, I am too busy to go out and shoot new photos from the nature in these two weeks. However, I have some pictures from one of my filmmaking set. This is the lighting for a scene when a writer keeps thinking of stories and writing scripts, so he forgets  about the time.  We just used the lamp on the left side of the table, so we can light up his face.  This picture reminds me of the side light and the back light that we kept talking in the class. I feel his right shoulder is a little bit flatten because the scene is lack of back light to lit his shoulder. However, his left side body is very clear to us because the lamp shines from the left side.  Since we cannot see his right side face very clearly, the shadows on his face helps create an image of a tired writer. 

       

Mysterious Lighting

My friend and I took this photo of us walking to the buses from rehearsal earlier in the quarter. At the time I didn't really see anything besides a cool picture of us, but now I understand that part of what making it an interesting picture is the lighting.

This picture is lit by only a streetlight over by Aldrich Hall, and I purposely used my friend's shadow to hide my face because it made it more mysterious, not realizing that is a tevchnique used in lighting. Here the audience is able to connect with my friend more than me, because his face is lit better than my own. But there are also shadows on his face sculpting him and adding mystery to him as well.

On my face however, my face is split directly in half and they are unable to connect with me. This lighting might also be helpful in establishing the personalities of the characters on stage/in this photo.

It's Christmas Season!

It is almost Christmas!! I get excited this holiday season for numerous reasons. However, my favorite part about Christmas are the christmas lights. I enjoy watching how a bunch of little lights turned on at night can make everything glitz and glamour. 

I live on Balboa Island in Newport and I couldn't be more happy to see brilliantly decorated houses every day around this time. There are christmas lights everywhere!! This place is stunning to walk around during the nighttime with a Starbucks latte in hand. 

I snapped a photo of this house because it reminded me of a christmas postcard. The detailing of everything was amazing and the lights showed it all off. I recommend anyone and everyone to come visit and see these stunning designs. Soon, not only will the house be decorated but also the boats. :o !!

-A