Thursday, 17 November 2016

Practise photos 17/11/16

Focusing more on my original research with Gjon Mili, I tried to see if I could re-create some of his images. To no surprise it's a lot harder than it looks, Using long exposure on the Canon 11000D and with the help of My sister and two torches, I created these.
 Using a small torch in my sisters hand and a larger torch off to the side, I asked her to do a figure of 8, I wanted the light on the side so you could see her,  however after some thought we decided to but the light behind me and face it up to the ceiling.
 Using a strobe effect on the torch and facing it behind her we created this image, I moved slightly so i could create the double effect.
Again another practise with the torch on the side this time with the smaller torch doing a circle.
 In complete darkness and the torch on the bottom of her face in a circle motion to create this sinister effect.










This image is with the strobe effect in my sisters hand facing the ceiling and a slight movement on the camera I created this
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  1. Unknown17 November 2016 at 11:07

    the last 1 👌🏻

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  2. aparisio19 November 2016 at 09:07

    I think these experiments are interesting and especially because they feel playful and you are trying to figure out how to do something difficult, so good on you! Not there yet though. Like you I absolutely love the image of Picasso you showed in your first photographic post and I can see that this is an inspiration for you. What Gjon Mili has managed with his many years of experience and (and probably as many years experimentation) is to obtain an in focus image of Picasso’s face and good exposure.

    I think this has a lot of potential – did you talk to Peter Renn about this idea? Technically it might be difficult to achieve but Peter is the person who could suggest the best way to go about it. I imagine its a mixture of long time exposure for the drawing in light and and flash to fix the sharpness and exposure on the face. If you want to keep the background dark then you need to have the flash light at an angle so it doesn’t hit the background and/ or keep the background a long way away from your subject. Peter could give you more precise advice. This might mean booking a night time slot in B32 to use the flash set up here in the UCA. Alternatively you could work outside at night. It get s dark by 4.30 so you could see Paul Corcoran about using the portable flash unit from stores with an extension lead and experiment on Monday night at the UCA.
    USE A TRIPOD FOR THIS TYPE OF WORK - ESSENTIAL

    Thinking about this point the images which are working towards this are the first, third and fourth images. The first is rather lovely as abstract images, the second would work better if the circles of light surrounded your sisters face rather than obscured it, and the fourth is quite ghostlike. But you need to work towards better exposure and better focus on your sisters face. Keeping the background dark is good though.

    You could email Peter Renn at prenn@ucreative.ac.uk with links to the Gjon Mili research and your latest experiments explaining what you are trying to do and asking for some technical advice. Then you would still have time to work on this idea some more. Keep going this is exactly what I was hoping for – students going way out of their comfort zone. You will learn loads from doing this,

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