Moving away from nature after doing 4 entries, I decided to look at something manmade. My subject today is a metallic chair, much like the one I sat on while observing. It is about 5 pm, and I am sitting outside of Which Wich under the shade of the concrete overhead. The way the chair I am observing is situated, however, the sunlight hits it directly from an angle on it's left (my right) side. The chair is primarily in the shade except for the one spot of light that spans less than half of the back of the chair in height and about 2 inches in width. Here, the light reflects off the chair in a slight yellow and grey. The material of the chair, as implied by the entry, is metallic and grey. There is also some light hitting the base of the seat and reflecting back, and a subtle reflection of the light bouncing from the brick on the ground. The legs are made of a cylindric pipes on either side that were bent into arches (for arm rests) and connected to the rounded seat outlined by a similar pipe as the chair legs. It was obviously painted metallic, but it wasn't overly shiny like iron or aluminum. The actual seat of the chair also had a mesh texture made up of hundreds of tiny eyelets. From my perspective these eyelets appeared to shift in size where the curves of the chair rounded and warped. Although the chair was in the shade, each eyelet had a tiny reflective spot of specular light at the bottom. The color of the chair in these shaded areas was a cooler grey, on the blue side. Because it was in the shade, there was no stark shadow of the meshes but there was a slight indication of the leg cast shadows that diffused immediately into the shade of the area. As time passes, the spot of light disappears for a couple of minutes, but returns by the end of my observation (however, it has shifted slightly towards the direction of the base of the seat).
Here is the video I took. Again, the camera is overwhelmed by the light, and I need to figure out a way to get my camera to handle this!
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