long exposure photography

These photos used a similar method to the light painting, using a long exposure, but instead of torches, we used a series of flashes to capture the pictures. To get the movement, we all swapped places and moved around, so each time the flash went off, The camera captured everybody in a different position.

 In these two (above), we used both flashes and torches, so both the torch light and all the people would come out in the photograph. The top one of my favourites, because Paige stayed still for more than one flash, so is fairly solid, which contrasts to the busy background, where everything is difficult to make out. We then worked in pairs, to experiment with different ways of creating interesting long exposure photographs.

Light painting

Light painting is a method that uses long exposure photography and torches to create an image.

 We used torches to draw around people, then scribble around them , to create silhouettes. I enjoyed this, but it was difficult to get  the whole silhouette, because if the torch was not pointing at the camera, it did not record the light, so doing the lower parts we had to crouch down.

To make this picture, I used a torch to draw Alex. I like the final image, because of the movement and continuous line, but it was a very strange thing to do, because you cant see what you have drawn until you look on the camera. I think it looks like there are two people in the picture.

We worked in pairs, one modelling and one drawing, then swapped over. I think all of the different styles of figure are very interesting, and when I put them all together it was very obvious that different torches had been used, to create the different coloured drawings.