Monday, 3 October 2011

Long Exposures

The following images are from a set of photographs I took to investigate the art of 'light graffiti', something that I have never really done before. 

The photograph below shows the first photograph that I took, I had an educated guess of 1"3 second - f5 - ISO100. It turned out that 1"3 of a second was not enough time to move the light on the other side of the camera to the desired shape.


I then changed the shutter speed to 2" which enabled me to get the below image, but I still didn't have enough time to make the desired shape.


I then changed the shutter speed to 3"2 and this was sufficient to make a flower like shape using an LED torch.


I then decided to be a bit more creative, I shone the torch around a persons body as if to make the body stand out, I like the way that this photograph turned out because the light from the torch even lights up the persons features.

8" - f5 - ISO100


I then wanted to see if I put the light in the middle of two people that both of the people would be illuminated. I think it works because you can work out the subjects faces.

4" - f5 - ISO100


I then realised that after experimenting with changing the shutter speed to suit that to make what i first set out to achieve, a flower shape, that I needed to use a shutter speed of 5".

5" - f5 - ISO100



5" - f5 - ISO100



4" - f5 - ISO100


This is one of my favourite photographs from the shoot because of the light that illuminates the persons face and legs.

Overall I really enjoyed experimenting with slow shutter speeds and I would like to go out and take some more of these photographs, probably with a more interesting scene such as the inner city at night time to try and capture movement of lights. I would also like to try and photograph some daylight slow shutter speed photographs. I will upload more photographs similar to that of the above soon!

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