Thursday 26 February 2015

Shoot 4 - Light Drawing - Work Diary

For my first time ever doing something like this I think it turned out pretty damn good, it took me a few attempts to get the settings right on my camera as I had to shoot in manual mode and make it as dark as possible so the glw sticks stood out but I managed it eventually.

 This is one of the photo that I took during this shoot, I think this is one of the best especially with the way that the hair of the person I had helping me is glowing with the light trails swirling around his head.

This one is another photo that I thought was came out pretty well especially with the blue clashing with the orange and both of them contrasting with the black background.

To progress I could attempt to use people within the photos as well as trying the same thing but outside rather than in a studio.  Although for my next shoot wheather dependent I will revisit shadows either in the studio or on location and attempt to get something along the lines of disembodiment.

Monday 23 February 2015

Research Log

Michael Bosanko - http://www.michaelbosanko.com

Michael Bosanko is a british photographer who discovered 'light graffiti' by accident but quickly adopted it and developed his own style of work.

Patrick Rochon - http://www.patrickrochon.com

Rochon is a photography who specialises in light drawing in a variety of ways for a lots of different things from advertisement to just doing it for fun.  He also does some with a ring of cameras around a model in the dark for some light drawings to create a 360 degree looped video of that piece which I think is pretty cool.


















Ryan Warnberg and Michelle McSwain - https://www.flickr.com/photos/m--r--i

These two are a pair of photographers who work together to create a collective of work and are aptly named 'Light Bomber' they create some diverse and unique pieces of work.












Lucy Shires - http://www.lucyshiresphotography.co.uk/gallery/texture/

Lucy Shires is a photographer who focuses a lot on the different normal and creative uses of light within photography.  I think that her texture section of work is pretty amazing and they all have a unique and interesting touch to them which I have never seen anywhere else, although her work covers several topics including; line, shape, colour and shadows.












Ian Brumpton - http://www.ianbrumpton.com

Ian Brumpton is a London based, newcastle-on-tyne, photographer who specialises in black and white street photograpy.  Although most of his work is in black and white it still covers quite a broad spectrum of theme/topics and could be interpreted in many ways.

Richard Vantielcke - http://www.ludimaginary.net

Vantieckle is a French photographer who is well known for his 'Urban Lifestyle' photographs.  Although his work spans a large section of topics/themes a lot of them focus heavily upon shadows and silhouettes.  I like his work as he has a knack for capturing things that are probably seen everyday but in a unique and artistic way.

Darren Pearson - http://www.dariustwin.com

Darren Pearson, also known as Darius Twin, is a photographer who has been light painting since 2008, his work is similar to that of Michael Bosanko although Person mainly works with a white torch using different coloured lights to colour the background or in these two cases the lights of a city rather than using different coloured lights to draw.














Jason Lau - http://www.jasonlauphotography.com

Jason Lau is a photographer who mainly shoots in black and white or with a muted colour scheme, I classified his work as creative use of light as i like the way in which he use the light to emphasise certain features or key aspects of his subjects be they human or otherwise.

















Juliet Ferguson is a British photographer who does work on a variety of topics, the one I like most is her section of work called shadow and light in which she focuses on shadows cast by natural light as opposed to artificial light.


















Rosie Hardy - http://www.rosiehardy.com/1144-home

Rosie Hardy is a Manchester based photographer who's work focuses mainly on colour, form and shadows.  Her work is known to have deeper or split meanings behind each photo.


















Jai Maisel - http://www.jaymaisel.com/recent-work/

Jai Maisel is an American photographer and graphic designer who is well known for his use of colour and light/shadows.  I like his work as his subject topic varies from people to architecture rather than just being one particular thing, and throughout all of his work his understanding of form and colour is obvious.












Antonin Fourneau - http://www.aec.at/aeblog/en/2014/08/28/water-light-graffiti-wasser-macht-licht/

Fourneau is most famous for his work involving light painting graffiti which involves a series of water activated LEDs arranged on a board which he then uses water to 'paint' onto to create his pieces of work.

Michael Taylor - http://www.michaeltaylorphoto.com/#/light_trace/light_trace

Michael Taylor is an Irish photographer who mainly uses EL (electro luminescent) wire or fairy lights which he wraps around his models or incorporates into their clothing to create light trails while taking long exposure photographs.







Eric Staller creates light drawing within his work, the two examples here are from his 'Studio Work' section despite them obviously being outdoors.  A trait of his work seems to be to use what is already there to create some of his fantastic pieces of work by simply adding light trail to the photo.












Hannu Huthamo - http://www.hannuhuhtamo.com

Huhtamo is a Finnish photographer who is most famous for her complex and large scale light sculptures which are usually very colourful and fairly abstract.












Trevor Williams - http://tdubphoto.com/portfolios/light-painting/

Trevor Williams light drawing photography is typically fairly colourful and a few are relatively complex.












Brian Hart - http://lightpaintingphotography.com/light-painting-artist/featured-artist-2/brian-hart/

Brian Hart is a photographer who has developed a style of line drawing through light drawing, which is instantly recognisable as his work as it is highly unique.  He uses several long exposure shot for each piece of his work some of which can take longer than 20 minute to complete.












Jeremy Jackson - http://lightpaintingphotography.com/light-painting-artist/featured-artist-2/jeremy-jackson/

Jeremy Jackson, also known as 'TACKYSHACK', is a light painting photographer with a highly unique and interesting style of work and uses 35mm film as well as digital cameras and produces bright, colourful and fun pieces that usually have quite a lot going on within the frame.












Ian Hobson - http://www.lightpainting.org.uk

Ian Hobson is yet another light painting photographer who create a lot of highly abstract work using an array of custom made tool that he designed and created himself.  His works spans a few topics/ideas and he even has a whole section dedicated to spirals.










Richard Kempton - http://www.fireworkphotography.co.uk/index.html

Kempton is essentially a light drawing photographer who focuses on using fireworks as his medium, and produces some very good pieces of work that fit the term 'creative use of light' for some obvious reasons.

Image Bank






These first six photographs are all examples of fantastic location light drawings, all of this place photographs shown something that technically only actually exists/existed within these photos.  I really like the first one as it takes inspiration from a classic and iconic game that everyone knows and loves and also clearly shows colour and lines.






 These next five photographs are all examples of studio light drawings or at least light drawings done in dark places with no other light source to show the background and/or foreground.  I quite like the second from last one as it just shows the silhouette of the person standing there posing with all of the lights behind them.







These next six photographs are all examples of silhouettes used within photography, these are created by having the light source behind the subject of the photograph.  I quite like what can be achieved through this as it focuses on the shape of the subject/s without any detail to distract the eye.  I quite like the third photo as the subject is not entirely black, parts of the dress are translucent.







These next five photos are examples of shadows within photography this is similar to silhouettes but the light source is usually to one side of the subject with the subjects shadow being cast over the rest of the photo, this also focuses a lightly bit on shape but can also portray things like form.  I think the last one in this section is pretty cool as it is a collection of letters and their collective shadows create the shape of someones face, to me it seems like some editing was used to accomplish this although I could be wrong.





These next four photographs I have found on the internet are examples of shadows that are being cast onto a person rather than being cast onto other objects.  I like this as the shadows cast can be pretty much any shape meaning that you can use them to highlight particular parts of a photograph while keeping the rest in the dark.  I quite like the first photo within this section as the pattern of the shadow is really interesting in places and is slightly psychedelic, while portraying several formal elements including line, form and shape.







These final six photographs are examples of form in some way even when it is not blatantly obvious, like the second one although there are not dark shadows there is still some darker areas on the models neck and underside of her legs as well as the front of her body while her back is lit up.