Lighting Journal Entry 2

Prompt

Select an object indoors (building, bench, fountain, table, window, etc.) that you can observe at least three different times of day. Take photos of the object you are observing. Make sketches and written notations of the light’s direction, color, and texture as it strikes the object for each observation time. Upload photos, drawings, and notations to your ePortfolio.

General Observations

-The Shadow On The Object and the shadow cast by the object was different depending on the time of day.

-The Window in question with the varying levels of sunlight would be best described as backlighting

-Where the constant light from the kitchen’s light would be constant source of front lighting.

-Places where natural lighting changes over the course of the day cause the lighting to alter to appearance of the object over the course of the day. Where as places with constant light the objects appearance where not be changes by lighting over the course of the day.

Morning Observations

-The coloration of the midday look looks the most yellow.

-There is a shadow downcast upon the hair and face of the pumpkin.

-The details of the lines on the pumpkin are most clearly visible during the midday look.

Midday Observations

-The color is very washed out in the midday look; especially that of the blush on the werewolf’s pumpkin’s left cheek

-A lot of the pumpkin in cast in shadow

-The shadow cast by the Midday Observation is the biggest

-The color on the noise is most saturated in the midday observation.

Nightime Observations

-No shadow is cast by the object.

-Some details such as the stem and some of the stich lines on the pumpkin

-The pumpkins look evenly lit under nighttime lighting

-During night you can see a reflection in the window of both me taking the photo, and the pc Sean has in the apartment’s living room.

How the Look Might Be Achieved on Stage

-The nighttime looks show an instance of evenly lit look where a lot of details are concealed can be achieved by having stronger front lighting than you do back lighting. This might be able to be used as a good starting place when planning out the evenly lit stage looks needed for Studio Project 1; though observably with some tweaking to better balance all angles of the lighting and to not obscure figure details.

-The midday look might be achieved by a high level of front lighting and a medium level of back lighting and weak side lighting, top, and up lighting.

-The morning look might be achieved by a high level of front lighting and a high level of back lighting but weak side, top, and up lighting.