Week 2: Fluorescent Lights

Over the summer, I took a quick vacation in Florida. I quickly snapped this picture to show a friend how fancy the hotel was. Looking back on it, I can't help but notice the harshness of the fluorescent lights. These LID lights seemed perfectly fine to my eye when staying in the hotel - my eyes had adjusted and accepted the abrasive greenish light as white light - but they came out looking very, well, ugly in this picture. To this day, I'm still taken aback by the difference between how you feel about the light you're in and how that light seems to an outside observer. In this picture, the lights are little circular blobs of white color with sharp edges. They aren't at all warm or inviting. I always felt like the light in this hotel were gorgeous, but that's certainly not how my camera caught it. How fascinating that our perception of light can change so drastically when we're seeing it from afar, rather than being bathed in it!