Project Three: Light, Final Images

Shoot 3

After the last shoot I thought I'd try using different coloured lights to show the difference in photos in the series and to also make it more interesting. I tested to see what would work better: white light with some colour, white light and the same amount of coloured light, or just coloured light. I settled on an even amount and used different colours for each object. I was happy with this shoot and think that I will be able to make a final series from it.

Shoot 2

Initially I was happy with this shoot and thought that i would have been able to choose my final images from it. But when I looked over it again i found that the images were, good, but repetitive. I think that i achieved the look i was after in this shoot but now i just need to make photos that will work in a series rather than just on their own.

Reasearch: Mondrian

I am using Piet Mondrian as inspiration for my project and in particular this series of tree paintings. They show his progression into abstraction but also how he still manages to show the subjects form.

Research: Gestalt Psychology

Gestalt Psychology is the theory of the human mind seeing and organizing shapes to see whole forms that might actually not be there.

 In this picture on the left the only objects that are actually there are 3 circles with pieces taken out of them. But our mind tells us that there is a triangle in the middle.









In this image on the right a three dimensional shape can be seen even though there is no such thing there.






This is what i hope to achieve with my series. I will try to photograph everyday objects that we recognize easily and then I plan to 'Light paint' behind them, but use less and less light until we can no longer recognize them.

First Shoot: Experimenting with light drawing

This is my first shoot, I found my favourite photos were the ones that created silhouettes by scribbling the light behind an object. This gave me the idea of making a series of photos to see how little amount of light we need to recognise an object and at what point the object disappears to us and it just looks like a bunch of lines. 

Project Three: Light

Thoughts:
Originally I was thinking of two different approaches to this project. To either play and experiment with light drawing/painting by using small L.E.D’s and long exposure or to capture the bending of light by photographing reflections in concave/convex mirrors and refraction of light through water. Instantly when i thought of photographing mirrors the cover of Pearl Jam's 'Rearview Mirror' came to mind. I really like the aesthetic of this photo and it could have been a good shot to base my project on. However, I decided not to go with idea for three reasons. 1) I wasn't sure if i would be able to find a big enough variety of surfaces and objects to photograph, 2) I heard a couple of people talking in the lecture that had the same idea.. 3) the thought of light painting was just too interesting to resist.

Proposal: Light Drawing/painting
I want to experiment with light drawing/painting by using the same technique we used in the group studio. Using a long exposure time on a camera and using small L.E.D lights to draw in lines on the photograph. I would like to try taking this beyond just making cool pictures with lights.