For
this section I wanted to embrace darkness and how I could use very little light
to enhance such images, given that we were using long shutter times. I also tried to embrace the aspect of
blurring and “smearing” of images to attempt to create art and abstract rather
than typical photos that simply captured distorted, but otherwise recognizable,
images. I selected 2 photos for my
recipe. For both photos I used my Iphone
5S, operating system 7.0.2. The first is a self-portrait in which
I have my arm up over my head. I used an
app called “Long Expo”. I set the
exposure to “low light” and adjusted the shutter speed to 4 seconds. I made sure the light level in the room was
low and then switched the cam in my phone to “selfie” mode. I took several photos with different poses
and varied the length of shutter exposure.
For this photo I had the lens open for just over 1 second and shifted my
pose only slightly, which created the ghost-like image around my body. The darkness of the room combined with the
extended light exposure cast an “erie” tone across the whole photo which made the
whole thing feel “undead”. In the second
photo, I went out onto my deck at night.
Using the same app, I selected “light trail” as the setting and adjusted
the shutter speed to manual. Holding the
phone as still as possible I opened the lens and let it stay open for what must
have been about 5 seconds, while I watched what little light there was spill
into the photo. The result was a photo
that was very “painting” like. With both
photos I did not do any post photo production, other than a slight bit of
cropping for each, just to center the images the way I wanted them to be
framed. I was really trying to use the
long exposure time to create art and visual imagery more than just distorted
photos of otherwise ordinary things. I
wanted to try to embrace more muted and dull tones and allow the light to do
the work as opposed to the color.
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