Neon Green.

At the Perkins Restaurant entrance, there is a boarder of neon light surrounding the name. As you can see, the neon light is green, but when you're looking at the neon light itself, It looks white. The neon green is very bright and doesn't appear to be green. The light that's on the white wall behind the neon light is greener than the light itself. It very interesting how the color at the source isn't the same as the color being reflected.

Cheap Diffusion Gel.

I was playing with my flashlight today and figured out how to make a cheap diffusion gel. I took a kind of white opaque plastic bag and shined the light through it to see what would happen. My first thought was that the light wouldn't go through, but I was wrong. The foot-candles were decreased but the light was still there. the hard edges of the light were also gone. It was pretty cool to see what the plastic bag did so I took shot video to show you.

Low to High Temperature in Seconds.

I was analyzing a light turning on today at sunset. It was an entrance light of an apartment complex. As the light was turning on, it had a low temperature yellowish color and a few seconds later it turned very white. It was as if the light was heating up and got to a higher temperature color temperature in as little as three seconds. I was amazed at how fast the light changed from a low temperature color to a high temperature color. It reminded me of the day we were in the Video lighting lab and the camera was referencing the different color temperatures as white.

Black Mirror

My LCD television has a very dark screen and the plastic over it creates a reflective surface. The light from outside was absorb by the black screen but was also reflected off of the plastic. It's very interesting how the light that is reflected off the television is higher in color temperature than the light from outside. I believe, most of the incident light is absorb, and the blues, which has a shorter wavelength, escapes and creates the higher color temperature.

Bright and Intensely Soft

I have a lamp in my apartment that I only use when I'm video chatting. I don't know how it ended up in that location but It works fine. I always direct the light to my face when I'm video chatting, but it never seems to bother me. It's a very soft light, but it's also very bright. It can light up the whole room, but looking at it won't hurt your eyes. When I squint my eyes and look at the bulb, I can actually see the filament burning inside the bulb. The filament actually appears to be surrounded by a cloud of gas that lights up as well.

Little Annoying Green Light

This very small light indicator for my television can be very annoying at times. When looking at an angle this light doesn't even seem like a light. It appears to be a green dot lost in the black border of the television. Once you start look at the light straight on, it's a very intense light. I always try to sit on the left side of the television, so I don't mistakenly look at it. It makes me think I'm looking up at a shiny light after I've been knocked out for an unhealthy amount of time.

Three Shadows, One Light

There's a light fixture in my apartment that has two bulbs in it. When I look at my shadow from that light, I see three different shadows. Each are different in size and shade, but they all start from the same point. I believe the two lights create a shadow separately and the the reflector combines the two lights and creates the main darker shadow. What is interesting, is how the shadows start from the same point and spread out to their extremes. The individual lights in the fixture still manage to escape the reflector and dash out on it's own.