3D Hybrids Etude 3

For my third study I would like to look into light art/photograph. There seems to be a photography theme going on here!!
I found the idea whilst looking at resources for the second study and I found some of the art work extremely fascinating.
I am going to find a series of studies and web-sites with relevance to this project to show what can be done with light art.

To explain for those that don't know what light art is, it is a photo or series of stills. The person in the photo is usually in the dark, the photographer sets the the camera on to a really slow shutter speed, as you would do when taking photos in the dark with no flash, then the person in the photo make shapes/pictures with torches, laser lights or LED's.

My aim for this etude is to produce at least one interesting photos using light.

Below are some examples:-


Photo courtesy of http://lightdoodles.com/images/picasso.jpg

A picture by Picasso of a centaur. Picasso saw light photographs by Gjon Mili and it inspired him to produce his own. Gjon Mili took the photo and Picasso obviously chose the subject matter. The interesting thing in this piece is that it is not in the dark and it has been changed to black and white therefore changing the whole feel of the picture.

One of the most interesting light artist groups that I found on my travels was that of PikaPika, they are a Japanese group of artists and they took light drawing to the next level by making a series of still photos in such a way to appear as moving animated shapes. Here is a single shot examples of their work.


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2282/1994138549_a6653c2657.jpg?v=0


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2392/1994976684_9186412c4c.jpg

The other point to make about this idea of changing the shutter speed on a camera is the you can also get interesting effects without light as the main focal point, I have attached three photos from a holiday that created some interesting results, one of which is a light source picture.