Discussion

I decided to do 'Creative use of Light' pretty much as soon as I saw what the five different starting points were, purely because this seemed like the broadest and the most interesting as it could be interpreted in an almost infinite amount of different ways.

After developing my mind map for creative use of light and looked into it a bit at different photographers and the different areas that I had stated in my mind map, I was interested in looking at light graffiti in more detail and trying my hand at it myself.  I found many light graffiti photographer all with their own style like Michael Bosanko who uses different coloured lights along with a slow shutter speed to construct his drawings.

I like the idea of light graffiti as it seems fairly simple to do and it is possibly to draw/create pretty much any shape or pattern and I also like the fact that the only evidence of it ever happening is the photographs that are being taken it exist only with that specific moment.  I also like the way that some photographers also colour the back and fore grounds as well as using different coloured light for the drawing itself like the photo below.

As well as light graffiti I am interested at looking at shadow, silhouettes and form which all kind of come under the same bracket as they involve similar uses of lighting just with slightly different positions  with the lights, camera and model/object in relation to each other. For silhouettes the model or object  has to be between the camera and the light where as for form the light has to be coming from one side or at least just a singular angle to properly work.  With shadows the positioning of the lights, model/object and the camera isn't really that important as if there is light as long as it is not at a too dramatic angle things will still cast shadows.  Although I don't really think I will try anything quite as complicated as some of these look her are some examples of the three (2 silhouettes, 2 shadows, 2 form)