Light Painting Final Edit

These are the best of the various light painting photos I have taken. Over the course of the series, the "tracing" method turned out to be the most successful. These photos were taken by moving a flashlight or headlamp along the subject with the light on. It created the effect of illuminating the subject in addition to creating trails of light similar to a neon sign. Not only were they easy enough to understand (and less obscure than some of my other photos), these photos were interesting to look at as well as creative. If I had more time, I would try to work other colored lights into the pictures. I wonder if they would be too distracting or compliment the photo quite nicely.

November 22, 2013

November 22, 2013

November 22, 2013

December 10, 2013

December 10, 2013

November 22, 2013

More Wöllert Inspired Photos

Wöllert Inspired Photos

This week we were tasked with taking photos based on the style of one of the photographers we were supposed to study the previous week. My photos are based on the style of Jan Wöllert. Wöllert was a German photographer who made many light paintings. In order to replicate his style, I had to do a few things. First, I had to take photos in a dark environment. Specifically, I shot in a dark garage. Second, I had to adjust the aperture and shutter speed so the sensor would have the longest time exposed (without being overpowered). Lastly, I had to make whatever I made with the light an interesting subject. There was a lot of experimenting. Here are my first attempts...

Avedon Portraits

This week, we started by watching a movie on Richard Avedon. While we watched the film, we analyzed the style and nature of the photos he took. His style for portraits included a plain white background, black and white filters, relatively close shot, and a sense of "honest intimacy" between the subject and the camera. This was an interesting project that came to a rocky start, especially trying to find a large enough white setting. I ended spending quite a bit of time on Adobe Photoshop trying to edit out wall blemishes, windows, and picture frames in order for all the attention to be focused on the subject.

Microworlds 2

This week were revisited the original microworlds assignment and I spent more time on Photshop...

Microworlds

This week, we had to take pictures of "microworlds". Microworlds are pictures with small figurines as the focus and made to seem larger. This involved us using super close focus settings such as macro when we took our photos. Overall, it was pretty fun arranging little figurines into different scenarios with various book backgrounds. 

Rule of Thirds

This mission was on the rule of thirds. Supposedly, if you lay a "tic-tac-toe" like grid on their photo, 3 by 3, and have the subject lay across a line, the photo would be more interesting and appealing. The photo would be especially appealing if you had edges and borders of the objects close to the intersecting points of the grids as well.

Depth Staging

This week, we had to accentuate the foreground and background in a technique call "Depth Staging". This created the problem of finding the right distance to focus on the background and blur the foreground, or vice versa. Although this was hard the first day, it became easier the second.

I added this last photo since I realized I forgot a 6th image...

Repitition

This week we were tasked with taking photos that included repetition. In addition to repetition, these photos were also supposed to capture depth using repetition. This wasn't too hard since once I found a repeating series, all I had to do was find a good angle for it. During editing, we were also assigned to switch all our photos to black and white again. Although I prefer not to filter my photos this way, it accentuates the repetitive qualities of the photos.

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