Week 5- Good morning friends- LA

 

It's the hour before the sun is up when no creatures stir, two friends wait idly in the single source of light. They wait for the girl to animate their world, but for now, they are basking in the glow of shadowy shapes: soft orange and yellow. Thank goodness for coffee.

Week 5 - FH - Headlights at Sunset

     I was originally inspired by the way the light hues left over from the sunset silhouetted the trees and bushed; paired with glow off the stop sign from my headlights. Naturally I was driving and my quick press of a button from my shaky hand brought us hazy lines and a doubled street lamp reflection. The street lamp almost reminds me of what I did for Kelly's solo, but in a natural setting. This view also brings feelings of wander and perhaps new beginnings. 

Anna Medina-Week 5

    

I decided to continue the texture theme for this week. This picture illustrates what I understand as creating texture with the light. It's crazy that if we were looking only at the floor we would still know that there is a tree. Stepping away from the texture topic, I like that this light contrIbutes to the setting. I picture a fall afternoon, a somewhat windy day that can turn into maybe a dark night, something more scary or halloween themed. For example, if you want to set up a dark NYC alley you don't need to put a street light in, you could just project its shadow. 

 

Week 4 - texture - TA

 Clouds. It has been a while since I have seen a consistent grey and cloudy weather. The texture of them, the color, the fact that its grey yet it is not a real color. Clouds prevent sun rays. The texture of the clouds intrigue my attention and controls my mood. 

Week 4 - Bradford - Texture

 Life through rose-colored glasses,
sometimes amber.

Two-dimensional or three?

Three dimensions where

depth emerges,

perceived

or experienced?

Experienced

or felt?

Three-dimensional or four?

Texture adds texture
gives holism to rose

or amber.

Texture also disrupts.

It' was never just

the rose

or the amber.

 

WEEK 4 - Rubí Danielle - TEXTURE - The Substance of Halloween

I absolutely love Halloween and all of the artistic inspiration that comes with it. In this photo, I captured lighting that revealed texture as well as beautiful colors. The clouds were strong on this night, giving the sky weight and shape. There is more than just flat lighting over the night sky. There is also the three dimensional quality that the clouds are giving the sky. I want to reach out and touch the clouds and their surface. The lighting that you see over the front door of the house, also provides a three dimensional quality and texture as well. The neon pink accents over the purple lighting, look like scrapes and scratches across the door. Instead of it looking like a flat clean door, the neon pink accents add a rough surface quality. It reminds me of the way boulders and rocks look, it provides a similar feel and look. Halloween is a holiday with great depth, substance, and emotion, as many see it as a time to connect with the spiritual realm. This picture captures both the dark and bright side of the spooky season, and provides us with an image that we not only want to look at, but that we also want to reach out and touch. 

Week 4 - Amber Morales - Texture - Blush

This class has broadened my creativity and curiosity for natural lighting. I have always been in awe of bright and invigorating colors. However, I have come to appreciate the soft textures of the color wheel. I took this photo when I came home from school last week and I could not help but feel the soft texture of the early evening sky. As if the sky were blushing in contentment, as the final hours of the day were finally approaching. I could feel the relaxation in the pastels. As if I were floating into a world free from worry, full of zen and never ending satisfaction.

Week 4 Anna Medina- Texture

 

Light has several ways of highlighting texture. Are these the best pictures to illustrate my point? Probably not. Will you understand what I mean despite my weak explanation because you are very intelligent people? I hope so. Week 4 was a long one.

As I work on my thesis I stall by looking at my desk lamp. The crystal that protects and decorates the lightbulb has a design that offers texture, but it doesn't distort the light in any way. I add a layer of mesh to see if the reflection changes, but it doesn't, what changes is the intensity creating a sort of haze. This, in a way ads texture to the light. If I wanted a hazy feeling I might consider doing this, it reminds me of the options we have when adding different gels. 

I use a small earing to simulate a gobo. I think this is the most obvious way to add texture to light, but surprise! it also shows the dust resting on my lamp which is a real example of unwanted texture. But it helps, put light on a textured wall from the side and the texture becomes more obvious. The possibilities, as I've stated in my other blogs are endless. Thank you for joining me in this journey of texture and lighting. 

Week 4- Floofy Texture

 

This is a picture of my dog Arlo and his fluffy cowlick. At first, I considered not using this picture because it did not showcase enough light - but the assignment for this week was "texture" and this picture has lots of texture. I think, when it comes to working creatively it is sometimes useful to find inspiration in an area outside of the medium we are creating in. For example, in stage lighting you could use gobos and other effects to create the illusion of the texture of something else.  The light gives the impression of a texture even though it has no real bumps or grooves. When I look at this picture I think, "How could I recreate this texture with light?" What does this texture mean to me? I know that it is soft, but in the image it appears spiky and pointed, and there are many layers of fur and curving lines. What would a light design with this type of texture look like? 

Week 4 - Joey Navarrete-M. - The Beehive (Texture)

I find the objects in this photo aesthetically pleasing and texturally rich. The way the sun reflects one office building onto the other with its golden color is like an optical illusion. 

Often, I find office buildings intrusive and not very interesting to look at. Given its context, a structure is similar to a beehive. Its workers come in and out to do their sole job prescribed by the queen bee to keep its colony alive. Still, when I saw this glimmering gold color, it stopped me, and I appreciated its beauty. Instead of the intruding building, the beehive building becomes an art installation in the middle of the city.

week 4 - whitney - light revealing texture

 

Light dictates most, if not all, of our visual perception. The temporal texture of clouds are revealed with different hues of light. Everything is continually changing before us, as the tones sing back to us. Light informs forms. We see can see the gloss of water, the wispy fluff of water (clouds), the suspension of water, and the vast rippling landscape of a body of water. 

Light may be able to do the same for our bodily form, including the changing textures of movement?