Photographs. Digital, SLR and Photoshop experiments

Running water, edited in photoshop.

Still life, edited in Photoshop

Buried in dirt

The army in position

Light shining on the floor when it's raining

Three of these photos were taken with my Olympus Digital Camera (Small) and there was no flash. The picture of the Skull was taken by a Canon Digital Camera (Large) and therefore managed to get a clearer and more detailed shot. The light that has been captured on the last photo, was hard to get because of the flash that I have on my digital camera so I had to cover the flash up so that I got this effect because otherwise I would have gotten the street lit up.  I like this picture because the picture shows the streetlight from above that's shining on the floor with a nice spotlight.

Looking to the light

Plain look, Doll look

Evil grin

These two photos were taken by a SLR Camera with a roll of 24 and these two pictures stood out to me because they used a great contrast in light and with the bottom photo, I think that the light really brought out the details in her face.
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Party light

This edit of the party that I went to is really interesting because it makes it look like everyone is smoking when really they weren't. Although, I also think it doesn't look much like a real light painting so I think that if I was to re-do this photo I would use a different pathway to create a different light technique.

Skull light

This skull picture is really effective with the different hue on the background Layer to give the purple a chance to come to the surface and be brighter than the background. I quite like this picture and the effect that is given and if given a chance, I would most likely change the colour that I used around the picture.

Symmetrical Abstraction 

I really like this effect that has been given because the white in the middle of the picture looks like it's a pure white spotlight shining and giving out a shadow to the rest of picture which is blue. This is something that I followed a tutorial to do in my own time and I am quite pleased with the outcome that I received.

Pablo Picasso Analysis, AS Photography

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, draughtsman and a Sculptor. Picasso is one of the most recognized figures of 20^th-Century art and he is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles that are portrayed in his work. Among famous works of his, are the Proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) and Guernica (1937). He is not mainly known for his light paintings but they are also part his artwork. This work doesn’t fit in with the time that Picasso was in because it was a new/ more modern thing for photographers to do back during his time, but he was experimenting and exploring different ways of art/ photography.

The work seems to be at page size A4 but this could have come out differently if Picasso had worked to smaller sizes/ the size of the paper that had been given.  The process that was involved here was using a type of light pen to create certain effects given by the light pen he was using and the colour of the pen was white. I feel that the paintings with light weren’t structured because Picasso, in the pictures, look like he’s just experimenting making all sorts of lines join up together. But also, two of his photos could represent 1) an animal (e.g. a cow) and 2) a face that’s done without turning the light on and off.

This sort of work could be either landscape or portrait but the work of Picasso seems to be done as a landscape because there is loads of room either side of Picasso, showing the background and more space for him to create different effects for photographs. The only person that is involved in these photos is Picasso himself, showing what he is creating and how he’s creating it, with the aid of a slow shutter speed and a white laser pen.

I don’t know what to feel about Pablo’s work because it doesn’t look appealing for me, but it’s interesting in the way that he’s been able to create pictures with light because I thought that when using a sow shutter speed you still have to be quick because you may think that you will have long time to create a picture but the time goes quickly but this also depends on what sort of camera you have because different cameras have different versions of shutter speeds.

 

Joseph Holmes: Natural Light AS Photography

Holmes has been photographing wild landscapes, generally in colour for thirty-eight years. He is a native of California and holds a degree in the conservation of Natural Resources from UC Berkeley. Joseph Holmes is a self-described omnologist (he studies everything). He uses nature for his photography and his work looks really well set out because he is using every day natural items with natural sunlight which gives a nice effect to his work depending on the sort of time of day and what sort of season it is, e.g. Summer, Winter, Midnight, Daytime. The work that is being shown on his website, is of all modern day just during different seasons and of different items so it’s not all historical. This work may have been made recently or a few years ago but it is definitely in the 21^st centaury.

The size of the picture depends on what he is taking a photograph of because some of his photographs are really close up to the subject but some of the photographs are really far out and distanced so there isn’t a set distance/ size for his photographs because there are different aspects to what he is taking a photo of.  There is a sense of space in the photographs and when looking at the photos, you think you are actually looking at the spaces in front of you so you are feeling that you are seeing it for yourself instead of being the viewer from outside the picture.  The colours used in the photographs are ones of brightness as the weather used is rather bright because it depends on the season but Holmes has also made Winter look bright because of the lighting that either he has used or using the natural light that has been provided by the weather itself.

Some of his work are portraits and some of them are landscapes because it once more depends on the subject that he is taking a photograph of because some of the things that he has taken photographs of were close-ups of certain natural objects and some were of full landscapes.

I feel that Joseph Holmes’ work is amazing to look at because his work inspires me to go out and use natural lighting to capture certain lighting because natural lighting may be difficult to find when using an SLR camera, but when found, the lighting gives a certain effects and can different meanings to different aspects of the photograph itself.

Joseph Holmes

Mindmap of Light AS Photography

This is my mindmap on light and it's what I found out about on light and since there is many different types of light to do, E.g. Natural, Man-Made. Also, I have listed a range of photographers who used light for their photography projects to do with light and I have looked at them and they have got a range of good and interesting work to look at.

Moodboard of Light AS Photography

One - Light Graffiti (Eric Castro)

Two - My bike (Habi)

Three - Sola

Four - Astronaut (Eipoles) 

Five - Michael Bosanko

Six - Unknown

Seven - Ryan Warnberg and Michelle McSwain

Eight -  Unknown

Nine - Unknown

Ten - Lightning found on google.

During this project,  we will be looking at different types of lighting and seeing how different lighting styles give of different effects depending on the object that is being photographed. Also, we will be exploring the use of long shutter speed, allowing more time for us to create certain effects with different light and giving us a little more freedom to explore and experiment with lights. We will start by exploring photogram projections and cyanotypes. I am looking forward to exploring this project because light can be useful and give a lot of different effects and I will be able to experiment with different lighting and ways of using small/ big lights to create different effects.