WHATS UNUSUAL LIGHTING?
Unusual lighting is when you use lighting in puzzling situations such as, in the night or in the dark. You have to guarantee that your camera is entirely straight and still, so a tripod may be necessary in order to achieve this or you could simply use your self-timer to avoid shaking the camera which will lead to an unfocused image.
WHAT IS LONG EXPOSURE?
In photography, long exposure is when you use a long duration shutter speed to abruptly capture the motionless elements of images while blurring the moving elements. The path of moving light sources become visible. When a scene includes both, still and moving subjects, a slow shutter speed can cause captivating and remarkable effects and this is what I have done. Long exposures are easiest to achieve in low light circumstances but can also be done in bright light using neutral density filters or specifically designed cameras. Long exposure photography is frequently used in a night time location in order to produce a near daytime result in the image.
lichtfaktor
Lichtfaktor– a gathering of light painting artists, performers, photographers and media artists who continuously pioneer into new areas of expression and at the creative lab there are elements fluctuating from light painting, photography, media art installations and interactive media performances amalgamating into stimulating performances. Lichtfaktor is a collection of multi-talented entities based in Cologne, Germany.
The group’s light writing style is seriously influenced by their backgrounds as street and graffiti artist. They are well known for their graffiti light painting style as well as their numerous stops animation light painting films. Lichtfaktor has shaped animations for commercial clients. They find creativeness in graffiti, street art and in other light painting work. Lichtfaktor says that they appreciate the contrast from using different light sources to create their images making the picture attention-grabbing.
Benjamin von Wong
Benjamin Von Wong was a 25-year-old Chinese Canadian who’s been to thirteen different schools in three different countries, in three different languages. He was raised in a loving family that supposed that experiencing the world was crucial, he had the chance to try all sorts of things, from playing violin for0 years, to achieving a black belt in taekwondo, to graduating from Mining Engineering. He picked up quite a few hobbies, from parkour to bartending, painting to paintball. Photography is one of the more current hobbies that he selected, that happened to stick with him for a longer time.
Benjamin Von Wong has become known for his remarkable photography. His hyper-realistic art style grabs viewers’ attention in a mixture of special effects and innovative ideas. Benjamin’s background in engineering gives him a unique edge for creative problem solving, where technical challenges become friendly competition. Fuelled by his passion to connect people, Benjamin has an attraction for discovering unique talent. In the fall of 2007, he was working in a gold mine in the middle of the deserts of Nevada, and a girl broke up with him. He figured that if he didn’t find a new hobby he’d go mad. He decided that he wanted to study how to take photographs of the stars, so he purchased himself, his first point and shoot, which was in November 2007.
Benjamin’s main camera which he has been using for the last two years has been his trusty Nikon D700. He says that he still remembers switching from a D300 to the full frame sensor of the D700, he said that it was mind blowing. Von Wong looks forward to one day having a medium format, but for now he just received his D800E.occasionally, he will also use a D7000 for that extra 1.5x crop factor but for now the D7000 is his main video camera.
He gets his stimulus from life, from the world, from meeting people, from the people around him. Benjamin contemplates the fantasy and grand aspect comes from never having grown up, from still seeing the world with heroes and villains, but it’s certainly those whom he meets in life that stimulate him and also move him.
Bill Henson
Bill Henson is an unrealistic explorer of dusk regions, between nature and sophistication, youth and adulthood, male and female. His photographs are aesthetically representations that keep the traditions of romantic writings and painting.
Bill Henson’s well-designed, formal photographs, resemble nothing so much as Flemish still-life, infrequently has colour photography taken so deeply the furred texture of night time.
Bill Henson is amongst the top contemporary artists from Australia who is well-known for a jumpy and powerful photographic tactic both cinematic and painterly. Henson’s capability of adding noticeable differences between dark and light is influenced from the great painters of Europe. Overall, he uses the approaches of bokeh and chiaroscuro to brighten the forms in his photography. His images are memorable, challenging and pretty. His works are staged representations where by the subjects’ bodies and faces are either shadowed or blurred.
Henson’s work has been exhibited in many international and national galleries, including the Venice Biennale, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, The Speed Art Museum in Brisbane, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, London’s Photographers’ Gallery, etc. His intentions are to exhibit his photography after every two years in Australia and do three overseas shows each year.
Linage Yue
Liang Yue was born in Shanghai in 1979. She graduated from the Shanghai Art Academy in 2001. Today she lives and works in Shanghai. Recent exhibitions include Liang Yue, Intermittent, Shanghai, Beijing, and Beijing 2016. In LIANG Yue’s works, either photos or videos, the daily is always taken as emphasis. She uses the easy-to-get materials with her severe art talents, discovering and seizing the daily routines, and concerning for the life in city to staring at scenery in the nature.
She made the Morse code series in Beijing during China’s recent, and on going, economic boom. Part of a superior body of work called Several Dusks, the photographs were taken throughout the sand storms that blow in from the desert. Alongside with the full of atmosphere pollution of the city, the sand forms a grey-yellow neutral that evens out awareness and plays with the responsiveness of time.
This fake dusk suggests an imaginary, affected twilight as a personal reply to a quickly changing environment. This sets the scene for the artist’s deserted study of the abandoned city. In setting of sudden growth in the economy and built-up improvement, the series suggests the stillness and quietness of a twilight daydream. Written to accompany the exhibition Twilight.
Long Exposure Shoot/Unusual Lighting
We took a trip down to Tower Bridge to capture some long exposure and unusual lighting images. During the night, the buildings around Central London, like offices and shopping centers, etc, were profound to be beaming with lights. This shoot involved the idea of having the camera shutter open for a longer time, in order to produce the long exposure effects, this then allows you to take a longer time, so you can capture the image.
CANARY WHARF…..LIGHT SHOW
This was my other light shoot I had completed, which was based on a light show, in Canary Wharf. Here, there was an array of different colored lights being translated through different shapes, objects and buildings. It was truly fascinating as it seemed surreal as to where the power of light could lead ones imagination.
The winter lights illuminated throughout Canary Wharf, by angels, floating poetry, and glowing graffiti. Some of the pieces on show, expressed, Angels of Freedom, Luma Paint and Digital Skin, etc.
The Angels Of Freedom, contained, a deep and strong message which had discouraged discrimination through interaction. There were 5 really large wings with white halos and attracted visitors to interact with the theme. They had interacted, by standing under the halo, and many captured themselves as they were truly fascinated. With the digital skin, it had created compositions of bright colors and patterns. The luma Paint Light Graffiti, had transformed any object in to a live painting canvas.
Focus.Before.Flash 