UNIT 1 - MOVEMENT - AO1 - Denis Smith - Ball of light

So who am I looking at today? What Kind of photography do they do?

Today I am looking at a photographer called Denis Smith source, denis experiments with 'light painting' a type of long exposure photography. in this form creates stunning visual works specifically his ball of light pieces

How is it done?

it may seem technical (which to a degree it is) but to create the ball all you have to do is get a light on the end of some rope, spin it around then rotate your body around creating a sphere of light. often his work is shot in rural areas to create themes of isolation. I'm guessing the photos were taken with a shutter speed between 15" to 30" with a low ISO value of around 100 this is so that the photos can be taken in daylight. the photographer could also use a high F/stop value to combat the bright light and create a high depth of field however it is apparent that this is not the case.

what I like about the photographers images

I like the technical side of things, how Denis has taken quite a lot of these images in broad day light and been able to pull off an interesting shot. also the locations, framing and lighting combine to create stunning shots. Here are some examples of his work.

The side project

So on tuesday the 13th of october one of my two Art teachers (Mcabe) assigned me and my fellow photographers a task. To stich two photos together using photoshop. thinking of what to do I searched the internet and my archives to find photos that may have some relevence in the matter. Frustrated by the lack of suggestions from the internet I decided to go into pattern stuff I found an example I liked

To create this I downloaded this pattern of the internet then layed it over the photograph (bottom left) then used the magic wand tool

to quick select parts of the pattern and deleting them creating the photograph shown below: