{"id":164,"date":"2015-09-23T23:55:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T03:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lightingdesign\/?p=164"},"modified":"2015-09-23T23:55:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T03:55:31","slug":"lots-of-clouds-over-modlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lightingdesign\/2015\/09\/23\/lots-of-clouds-over-modlin\/","title":{"rendered":"LOTS of Clouds Over Modlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking into the Modlin Courtyard from a bench outside of Jepson Theater 1:04\"20150923_130407\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The light is very diffused today, I don’t know whether that’s because it’s kind of cloudy. There’s a very soft light. There aren’t very harsh shadows to anything really. It’s a very soft white, a very dim white in the area\u00a0that’s usually sunny. In the shadow, it’s just a little darker. You can tell there’s kind of a ghost of a shadow, but there’s no real definite edge to anything. The shadows are not in a hard outline like they have been before. The colors of everything look muted and dull, the benches especially, in this dim light.<\/span><\/p>\n

After a few minutes, the lighted area became brighter. I took a second picture:\"20150923_130721\"<\/span><\/p>\n

The cloud that the sun was behind went away, and now the sun is pretty direct, so the shadows are now clear and defined and darker. There’s now a brighter white hitting the lit area and a duller white hitting the shadowed area.<\/span><\/p>\n

A little longer in, the lit area seemed to dip a little in brightness. I don’t know whether that’s because it actually did (as in some clouds went over the sun), or if my eyes are adjusting to the brightness. Just a little over a minute after this, though, it dipped even more (for real this time), and I took another picture:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"20150923_131415\"The light changed only a little bit to be a little more dull than it had been, but not as dull as the beginning. Just a minute later, the sun came back for a few seconds and then when back behind a cloud. At this point, the light was very close to how it was in the beginning. It was only a few minutes before the sun came out again:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"20150923_131435\"<\/a>It changed very fast, though, so fast that I didn’t even get to take a picture of it at its height really before it became cloudy again.<\/span><\/p>\n

Missed the sun\u00a0again!:\"20150923_131841\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The sun came, but went really quickly back to shadow, and the really quickly back to sunlight. So I tried again to catch a picture of the courtyard in the sun, again:\"20150923_131917\"<\/span><\/p>\n

I was finally able to take a picture of the sunny area, and I think it got as bright as it did in the second picture. But even after a few more seconds, the light was either tapering off or I was just getting used to the brightness of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

There looks like there’s a huge cloud coming, but I think I’m going to leave before it comes.<\/span><\/p>\n

This time I’m not getting sleepy like I had been before, but in the middle of my observation I was getting more contemplative. I’m zoning out more than before, which I guess is the more active version of sleeping. I became more sleepy and chilly later in the observation, but alert because of all the clouds that kept coming to change the light.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking into the Modlin Courtyard from a bench outside of Jepson Theater 1:04 The light is very diffused today, I don’t know whether that’s because it’s kind of cloudy. There’s a very soft light. There aren’t very harsh shadows to anything really. It’s a very soft white, a very dim …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31773],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ur-observation-assignment","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lightingdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lightingdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lightingdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lightingdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lightingdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lightingdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lightingdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lightingdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lightingdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}