Photographer Research - Darren Pearson

Darren Pearson is another Light photographer who has been light painting since 2008, he got inspiration from a photo he saw of Pablo Picasso creating a light daring called 'Picasso Draws A Centar'.  His work is quite varied in designed and composition although it is fairly consistent in style and technique which is a kind of rough line drawing format,  Pearson does use other colours of light but seemingly only to colour the surrounding area generally only using white for the drawings themselves.

This image is quite colourful and vibrant depicting a drummer and a guitarist playing together.  The bright lights used to colour the back and fore grounds make it seem like the two figures are on a stage or something, like they are performing to the viewers of the photograph.  I feel that in some places the red light is a bit too intense and drowns out the white light of the drawing in places like the speaker bottom right and the drum set.

This photograph makes it look like this city has some kind of predatory night stalker made of pure light, I really like the placement of this one as it somehow makes it seem more realistic.  The composition with the larger space in front of the creature makes it seem like it is looking at something or someone that is out of frame and therefore not seen by viewers.

This one looks quite good even though it goes back to the more basic side of light drawing taking a picture in a really dark place without a flash,  I like the way that the patch of floor underneath the drawing is visible and gives the dinosaur figure the appearance of floating due to the reflection.

I like the look of this photograph and I think the composition is really good especially the choice of background, the lit up city spread out behind the figure gives the sky a gradient lighting effect and whether this was planned or not I feel it adds to the photo and almost makes it look like the angel figure is reaching for the sky.

I found inspiration within persons work with the way that he uses a variety of different and creative backgrounds that I have not seen used within other peoples work, it is visible that some of the backgrounds are more experimental then others s they don't all effectively work.

In summary I like the way that Pearson uses large landscapes with lots of lights as some of his backgrounds and the way that he only uses white for the drawings but colours the backgrounds in some of his work rather than leaving them plain.