week 6 sunlight on an greens

I went to the atrium on balboa in sandiego. I took tons of pictures of flowers but after all those beautiful shots I looked up. The best show of light I saw this week was pure sun light throught a structure. I guess it is the simplist thought of light structured through the grates of the caging that eluminated the whole place. It filtered through the grates and then filtered through these beautiful plants to give light and cast shadows on the atrium floor.The direct light brought a beautiful study of reflecting lights and shadows. In no place were these two factors the same and it brought joy and the push to explore the space given.

Week 4 - Night Lights

On an overnight bus trip home I was traveling along the wide open section of I-5 and the lights were so bright it seemed like there was a city out in the fields of agriculture. For every home and every work station along the highway a very bright light created this sphere of yellow light that I never would have noticed in the day light. The lights made a very clear mapping of the land at night, there was a yellow orange haze over the buildings that were frequently in use and giant black spaces marked the orchards and fields. Even in places where the actual lights couldn’t be seen the orange glow hung overhead and was visible from very far away. The darkness created a whole different world entirely composed of light. Unfortunately I didn't have a camera to capture the moment.

Week 6: Fluorescent Hell

I was taking a trip and had a 9 hour layover at an airport in New York. I vividly remember the seats down stairs, in front of the gates, being so uncomfortable and impossible to lay on because of the permanent bars between them. And to make matters worse was the freezing air that the A/C blasted on the seats, completely unaware that was 50 degrees outside. This was all complemented by the arctic white walls and harsh fluorescent lighting that only made me colder. As I shivered in my unbelievably thin Delta plane blanket, I cause a glimpse of something that looked so warm and inviting. Upstairs, above the Stone Rose Bar and Grill sign was a cafe with tables and chairs and behind them were large, plush lounge chairs. Everything seemed so warm up there and inviting. The lighting was so friendly and comforting I so badly wanted to sit in one of those chairs, surround myself in the warm glow of the lights, and stretch out. But to my dismay, the entire upstairs was gated off. And so I sat, in my fluorescent hell, under the cold and harsh lighting that made me miserable and feel so isolated, and glared with severe jealousy at the warm heaven above me.

Week 4/Post #2

Our very own Contemporary Arts Center!

The lighting in this picture bothers me. It is in the new building in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts between the theater enterance and the gallery entrance when you first walk into the building. This lighting would be a nice accent except for the lights that are not focused properly seen towards right center. The rest are almost in a nice, pleasing line, and then these two or three are askew and it really, really makes me unhappy. Perhaps this is because I have done lighting before, or perhaps it’s the lights themselves that are making me feel this way. I feel as though if they fixed these two lights to line up with the others, that the feeling would be one much more of warmth and pleasantness and unity. The softness of the beams create a safe feeling that can be better utilized if all the other beams were focused the same. As it is, I feel as though whoever was in charge of lighting really didn’t care about this project.

Week 4- Blog #2

I looked through my pictures to find something to use, and this one caught my eye. It's nothing special or fancy, I'm definitely no photographer, but there were a few thoughts that came to mind when I came across it. First, I thought of the moment in a movie right before it starts getting scary. You know, the young girl falls, and the scary monster, man, creature thing jumps out of nowhere and starts chasing her.

Then I started remembering the night and remembered that it had been really dark outside. I realize that a camera's flash is supposed to light up the area around it, but I didn't realize it expanded that far.

WEEK 4

This is absolutely my favorite time of the day, dusk. On this splendid day, I loved how the sun setting highlighted the beautiful shape of clouds in the sky. Had it not been for the sun, and it's glorious natural lighting, I would not have noticed the spectacular pattern of clouds.

Week 4-Hazy Day

I wanted to take a picture of one of the overcast days we've been getting here in Socal, because I find the color of the sky very interesting on these kind of days. To me, it is a MUCH cooler color...a very grey/blue. What's weird about this to me is that usually, hotter it is, the closer light comes to white/ blue colored and the cooler is it, the more red. Here you find the opposite of this theory. On overcast days the sky is super greyish. I think this is because of the clouds.

-Kelly Ruiz