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.
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
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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.
