Exam Paper:
Artificial Lighting
Photographers use artificial lighting to illuminate their subject in various ways and for different reasons. For her series Alina, Bettina von Zwehl used randomly fired flash lighting to create a feeling of intensity and an element of surprise in her portraits. Walead Beshty used a darkroom enlarger to make abstract colour photograms of folded paper sculptures. In the project The Black Country by Richars Billingham, urban environments appear mysterious when illuminated with streetlights. Investigate appropriate sources and produce your own response to Artificial lighting.
Still or Moving Figures
Many photographers and filmmakers have explored the movement of stillness of the human figure. The film Koyaanisqatsi features the use of time-lapse and slow motion to speed up or slow down the action of commuters. Jacques Henri Lartigue used planning as a technique to record friends and family members walking, running and jumping. In his series Persons Unknown, Tom Hunter used long exposures to photograph stationary figures sitting or standing in domestic settings. Helena Almedia photographs herself performing everyday movements, often focusing on specific parts of the body. Investigate appropriate sources and produce your own response to Still or moving figures.
Definitions:
Artificial lighting - it is light produced by electrical components are created by someone, a light source that it not naturally there.
Flash lighting - normally set up in a studio or on a camera which helps get the right colour exposure.
Darkroom - a room for developing photos
Abstract colour - does not have physical construct, more shown through thoughts
Movement - objects moving across the frame which can create motion blur.
Time-lapse - a film that has been sped up, can be an hour long clip sped up into a few minuets.
Slow motion - a film that has been slowed down.
Long exposures - the shutter on the camera is left open for longer, allowing more light to enter the camera.
Approaches and Techniques:
Artificial Lighting
- Projectors
- Phone lights/ torches
- Fairy Lights
- Studio Lights
Mindmap:
Artificial Lighting
Still or Moving Figures
Mood Board:
Artificial Lighting
Still or Moving Figures
Artists:
Artificial Lighting
Walead Beshty
I like Beshty's work because its very abstract and unlike anything that I've seen before. I could use a style similar to this to portray how I am experimenting with different techniques to demonstrate artificial light. Also, this technique could help me in a later shoot because I wanted to take photos of people using a projector and I could take photos like this and put them through the projector, therefore everything shown will be mostly my work. In my opinion, I like this type of abstract photography because it allows your mind
Richars Billingham
