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.

Final Photo Choices

Shoot Four

Shoot 3

In this shoot I tried to make my photos a little more abstract with the blur and motion of the lights but i found that in most of the photos it just ended up being distracting.

Artist Precedent: Tony Howell

I know that these style of photos are and obvious choice for night time photography and almost cliche' but i do feel that they portray my idea nicely. I think that using light is a good way of showing movement which in turn is a good way pf showing the pace of life. It's almost like these people are to busy with them selves that they don't even have time to stay in a photograph.

Shoot two

In this shoot I experimented with keeping the camera stationary and also tried having some movement when taking a photo to show the warping of lights. I think some of these are starting to show that the environment around us determines how we perceive time.