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Night:
Photo 1 - Cecil
extending your shutter speed
What happens at night? Where do things disappear to when they are hidden by the absence of light? What is revealed if you look closer and longer?
Richard Avedon talks about how his father taught him the power of light in making a photograph by using a magnifying glass to burn a leaf from the light of the sun and how he then went to the beach with a negative of his sister taped to his arm and came home, peeling it off seeing the sunburn of his sister, knowing that being a photographer and playing with light meant playing with fire.
Sketchbook
Create a sketchbook page that creatively explores things that could only be captured at night or could only be documented with long shutter speeds. Start with the wild and outlandish. Consider what happens only at night, consider the mood created visually by your sketchbook page. Consider how night or low-light photography can create drama, suspense, or dynamism in photography. (These are not necessarily what you will photograph, just to get you to think nocturnally)
In your group take turns making photographs that play with extended shutter speeds and low-light photography. Consider light source, movement You must have at least one of each of the following: -panning by moving the camera -frozen action using a strobe -blurred action by moving the subject or light source -shadows as a main compositional component
Homework
Shoot a roll of 24 images that explore the use of extended shutter speed in order to: capture images in low-light, capture images showing blurred action or movement of subject or light, explore compositionally the presence of shadows, explore compositionally the presence of your photograph’s light source
Photo 1 - Cecil
extending your shutter speed
What happens at night? Where do things disappear to when they are hidden by the absence of light? What is revealed if you look closer and longer?
Richard Avedon talks about how his father taught him the power of light in making a photograph by using a magnifying glass to burn a leaf from the light of the sun and how he then went to the beach with a negative of his sister taped to his arm and came home, peeling it off seeing the sunburn of his sister, knowing that being a photographer and playing with light meant playing with fire.
Sketchbook
Create a sketchbook page that creatively explores things that could only be captured at night or could only be documented with long shutter speeds. Start with the wild and outlandish. Consider what happens only at night, consider the mood created visually by your sketchbook page. Consider how night or low-light photography can create drama, suspense, or dynamism in photography. (These are not necessarily what you will photograph, just to get you to think nocturnally)
In your group take turns making photographs that play with extended shutter speeds and low-light photography. Consider light source, movement You must have at least one of each of the following: -panning by moving the camera -frozen action using a strobe -blurred action by moving the subject or light source -shadows as a main compositional component
Homework
Shoot a roll of 24 images that explore the use of extended shutter speed in order to: capture images in low-light, capture images showing blurred action or movement of subject or light, explore compositionally the presence of shadows, explore compositionally the presence of your photograph’s light source
