FINAL IMAGES

FINAL IMAGES:

 These are my final set of five images, I chose two outdoor images and two photographs that were produced in the studio. I chose the top image as I liked the light trails from the cars and how the sign is shown multiple times as the camera was moved. Around the image there is a slight haze which I think brings a 'foggy' look to the image which I like and is partly the reason I chose this photograph.

The second image is my personal favourite out of my five final images.
The blue/purple colouring to the image makes the image unique and even though there is not a specific light trail to the image, there is evidence of a long exposure being used. I discarded some photographs similar as they didn't have a light trail like the other four final images but I decided to keep this one in as it was my favourite out of them all. This image was shot within a moving vehicle and the car headlights can be seen at the bottom of the photograph.

The last three images were taken in the studio and the light trails were achieved using torches.

Out of the final three my favourite is the middle image with the person on the middle with lighting around the person in the centre. I like this image because the two people creating the light trails are blurred yet the person in the middle is so clear and 'still' and looks calm.

Outdoor Shoot (Scarborough)

SCARBOROUGH SHOOT.

Images

In order to get variety into my project, I decided to go to a town/city at night to photograph the lights. I chose to go to Scarborough to take pictures of the beach as along the seafront there are decorative lights. I also chose to go into Scarborough town center to take pictures of buildings in order to experiment. 

To the right of the page there are images from the shoot that I think went well even though they are not light trails and therefore wont be used for my final images.

EVALUATION

theme
research
what went well what didnt etc
400 word article (as though it was for someone who didnt know what longE was)

article
genre
discuss the images
artists
important aspects - lighting, aperture, shutter, composition
tips for new photographers

Images (to develop)

IMAGES TO DEVELOP.

This set of images are the photographs I picked as some of the best.
I have decided to discard the images that were shot in Scarborough town (the images of the theatre and seafront) as even though they are an example of long exposure, they don't show a light trail.

STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY:
The studio photography produced some of my favourite images out of all the photographs I took. I like the visual effect of seeing the people within the image as I feel it brings depth to the work.


BOKEH LIGHTING:
There are a few images which have an example of Bokeh.

Bokeh is:  the visual quality of the out-of-focus areas of a photographic image, especially as rendered by a particular lens

The images that use this technique are also some of my favourite images and like the Scarborough shoot are an example of long exposure however not an example of light trails and therefore will not make my final images.

 

Diptychs and Triptychs

Diptychs and triptychs are a way of presenting images that have been constructed to create some type of relationship between the photographs.


Diptychs 
Diptychs are a set of two images manipulated together to show a relationship. In the diptych shown below the connection is between the horizontal line of the lights. In the image to the left, the car lights are shown going towards the right of the page which leads onto the second image as the lights from the city are more towards the left of the photograph. In order to achieve the correlation I had to manipulate the photograph by flipping the image using Photoshop, this allows the image as a whole to flow better.

Triptychs
Triptychs have the same concepts as diptychs however instead of using two images, a set of three separate photographs are shown together to show a relationship between all three.
In the images below we can see all three images have different light trails created by the people you can see in the background.
I like the set of images because I like the progression of heights or positioning of the people in the triptych. The highest positioning is the image to the left and it progresses to the photograph to the right.
All three images show the people creating the light trails however they don't show the persons face which is what they all have in common.  

Artist Research

Long exposure
 

Michael Bosanko

Bosanko discovered light painting by accident, Michael says “the moon formed part of the scene, but the camera shake caused the moon to make a streak. My curious mind clipped the camera from the tripod and, hand held, I attempted to “write” my partner’s name using nothing but the moonshine and the movement of the camera in my hand, and I had success. As soon as I returned home, I adopted the same principles but with torches, and I’ve been hooked ever since.”

I have found the work of Michael Bosanko and believe his work will be very influential to the work I want to achieve. This particular image looks like an image I have created during my experimental photography (second image down - pre edit) in which I took photographs of cars as they traveled past at high speed. I like the lighting of this particular image from Bosanko as the hills/cliffs in the background are extremely dark and light sources are the main points of focus. 






Jason D. Page 

“Light Painting is its own art form, just as drawing is a

n art form or painting is an art form. Calling light painting a photographic technique would be the same thing as calling painting a canvas technique. I am a light painter.” (Jason D. Page)

I like the work of Jason D. Page because I like the shapes he creates, I will be taking the images as inspiration for my own work and trying to create something similar using lighting and a long exposure.