Digital light Paintings

Digital Light Paintings

The light paintings below were created by using my 14 mega pixel Fujifilm JX530 digital camera. I had it on the Night Tripod setting which allowed a maximum shutter speed of 5 seconds. This meant that the drawings had to be simple shapes as they had to be quickly drawn. I experimented with using a torch to created the different shapes. I then went onto using two torches and placing pieces of tissue paper over the light so that it created different colours. 

The image below was edited in Photoshop. the first photo I took was the halo shot, and the second was one wing. To make sure that the wings were the same I only took one picture then loaded them into Photoshop and duplicated the wing image so that I had two, I then flipped it and selected the overlay mode so that they were both visible. I set the mode of the halo image to overlay as well so that the final image looked like an angel.

These were created by setting my digital camera to night(tripod). Using this setting it allows me to take an image with a slow shutter speed. I put my camera on a tripod, turned off all the lights in the room, pressed the shutter and drew the image. It was hard to draw actual pictures using the digital camera as I didn't have long to draw an image because the shutter exposure was too short and could not be adjusted any further.

Glow Doodle Light Drawings

Glow Doodle Light Drawings

 Light drawings are created using a photographic technique whereby exposures are made, usually at night or in a dark room, by moving a hand-held light source or moving the camera. Light paintings can be traced back as far as 1914 when Frank Gilbert and his wife used small lights and the open shutter of a camera to track the motion of manufacturing and clerical workers. 
Light paintings can also be done interactively by using a webcam. Whilst the images are being drawn, it can be viewed on the monitor or a video projector. For the images below I used a webcam to capture the painted images. These images were created by pointing a light source towards the camera whilst moving the light. I used two different light sources to create the images below. 

For these images below I directed the light source at the object not towards the webcam. I moved position so that there was a repeat pattern of the object on screen.

My Photography

Goodbye summer... Hello winter 

SLR Photography

SLR Photography 
I captured some still life shots using my SLR camera. I set up a small scene area with a variety of objects and used a lamp to create the lighting on the different objects. I tried to use objects that were metal so that the light would reflect off the objects.

First I done a test strip of my contact sheet to see what settings I need to set the enlarger to to make a contact sheet.

I set the contrast filter on 5, the aperture on the enlarger to f8 and the timer to 4 seconds. 

I then chose some the best compositions to use to make a perfect print with. I found the grain for every negative I chose, I then set my contrast filter to 5, enlarger aperture on f8 and made a test strip of this image. Once it had been developed I decided on how long I needed to expose it to the paper for.

Still Life Digital Photography

Digital Photography

This is a print I like the least because i think that the composition itself is weak in the sense that there is not much lighting on the objects and does not fully relate to the theme of light. 

This is one of my favourite compositions. The angle of the light creates dark shadows and reflective light  off of the objects. 

This is another one of my favourite compositions because I like the way the objects all link together.  The surfaces of the taps and the anchor are so different that they work well together, Its a comparison between old and new. 

These are some of the images that I took experimenting with the theme of light. I changed the position of the lighting on the different objects to create areas of light and dark through the shadows. I used my digital camera take these still life shots. I changed the arrangement of the objects to create different interesting compositions using the same objects.