This is an Image of a candle wick sitting in a bunch of melted wax as it was burning. I like how the light feels very soft even though it is coming from a very vibrant candle.

The light from the flame on this candle gives off a subtle orange and yellow tint on the side of the candle holder.

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I thought this picture was a really cool example of a (unintentional) 45/45 McCandless style lighting. One side is a slightly cooler color (in this case, caused by a window with natural light instead of indoor incandescents) causing an interesting shadow effect.

For my journals this week I also wanted to try creating some subtle light. Now I’m not really sure what that means completely but I took it to be some sort of faint glow effect. What I tried is taking my LED PAR lamp and focusing it with a double convex lens. If I had the lens out it front of the lamp far you could see the individual LEDs but if I had it close the lens would combine the RGB LEDs into a white light.

This is my LED PAR lamp with my double convex lens in front. By moving the lens I can focus the beams of light. With this PAR lamp I can control the red, green and blue LEDS individually and if I shine the PAR on an object the different color lights from the LEDs mix together and create different colors.

My goal was to create nice white light and then when I focused it with the lens we could see the individual RGB LEDS creating little pools of color. Subtle?…maybe not but interesting I think so! Also when I look at this all I can think of are clowns…not really sure why but the pools of light look like polka dots to me.

This week I tried my hand at creating monochromatic Light and turning a painted figure into seemingly one color. I decided I would throw these models into my LED light box and distort the colors by changing my LEDs to red, green and blue light. But then beyond that I decided I would try the same thing with my LED PAR lamp that I have. I chose RGB because those are the base colors and I felt like creating a mixture of colors wouldn’t be beneficial in making these objects look like they were one color.

For my objects I chose a white figure, a green figure, a figure that had multiple colors, and then a figure that used metallic paints. I felt like these figures would give me a different range in colors and allow me to see how the light reflected off of them. This is them under a standard desk light.

With the red light we can see that it doesn’t take well to the white paint or the verdigris effect on the metallic figure. Although with the PAR the verdigris doesn’t light up. It looks like the red light really washes out all of the paint on the model but I can still see that the skin on the blue figure is different from the rest of the model.

With the painted figure you can see the contrast between all of the different colors of paint for both the light box and par. There must be something with the green light that doesn’t let it absorb well with the painted colors. Although the figure that was already green shines really bright under the LEDs and it looks all one color with out any shadows.

Now we take a look at the blue light! Look how bright the white figure is under this light! It reflected the blue light more then the green or red. But what’s interesting to me is how the metallic figure looks. It seems to really have brightened up under this light compared to the others. And I think it’s interesting how the top of the green figure is brighter then the rest of the model. That is not something that we haven’t seen with the other colors of the light. Its weird to me that it would reflect different because the RGB diodes in the LEDs are in almost the exact same place. Maybe it had to do with how my camera perceived the light.

This was a very interesting experiment to try to create monochromatic lighting conditions. I don’t know if it necessarily worked but it was neat to see how the different colors of light interact with the paint of the models. I did notice that the pictures of the models in my light box looked nicer but that’s because they were surrounded with light versus having just one light source with the par lamp.

Over the summer, our ME was designing one of the theatre’s smaller shows and asked me to sit in this chair to see how his cue looked on a real person instead of just the empty chair. He thought it looked really cool so he took this picture of me (after asking me to pose, haha). The camera on his phone must have had some residue on it or something, creating the blurred effect, but I still really enjoy the subtle blues of his color palette.

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These two photos show what happens under blue and green light. The white easily picks up the color of the light and other materials or colors also change. I found it funny in the blue one that the red exit signs were not easily effected.

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This past week there was an installation project in the architecture building. The one on the left is looking up through a plexi glass lens that is holding kool- aid. What I found especially interesting was that it turned the lighting fixture above it yellow. which looks very disorienting when there are ripples in the water.

The other photo was from another installation which used LED strips and a projection, their goal was to make it so you couldn’t identify which projected ball was actually red.

I have a string of these lantern lights hanging up in my room. They give off a very soft peaceful light. Each lantern is a different is a different pattern and color but all have this blue and white theme. They aren’t very bright, but they are nice to have.

This is a reflection on my TV of a candle burning. When you look at the flames straight on they are very bright but in the reflection they are a lot more subtle and have a foggy look to them.

The light was bouncing off of the yellow wall and cast a subtle yellow glow along the other wall in the PSOA complex.

The mist from the rain earlier that day accented the street lights on campus. Allowing a subtle glow from the lights. It is a lot more prominent in the photo but in person it was very subtle.

Here is a picture I took on a hike in Colorado over the summer. We started super early and got to see the sunrise. The sun shined on the hillside which created a vibrant glow on the grasses, rocks, and flowers along the trail.

Welcome to my world of China Lights! Vibrant lights in our lanterns. They are four parts to making up our lanterns, a designer, a welder, an electrician, and our fabric person. The designer lays out the drawings and blue prints and then the welder comes in and welds 1/4 inch metal rods into the design. Then our electrician comes in and wires all of the lanterns up with LEDs and gets them up and running, and finally the fabric person comes in and takes this terrible smelling glue and puts it all over the rods and they pull the fabric tight. The glue dries fast so they have to work fast. Then the final step is adding accents like gold trim and painting spots and faces.

Below you will see the Terra Cotta Warriors, The Heart Tunnel, and our Panda Wall.

It’s very hard to catch some colores of light with just an ugly telefon camera. But here is a bit of my harvest.

It’s almost Christmas again! The lights being reflected in all sorts of glassware make the effect that the lights have seem to come from more places than they do. The lights work to frame the photo, while adding flair to the photo itself.

The light of the salt crystal bathed the corner of the room in a bright pink light. The camera had trouble capturing the light visible on the walls. It created a glowing effect, one that I would expect to see above characters in a video game with a quest available.

The vivid glow of the toaster oven shines throughout the darkened kitchen. I find the photo transfixing, the burning hot heating element being the stark focus of the photo, almost asking you to stare into it.