It’s that time! Since I’m taking a bit of a break from my studies, I thought I’d put up some more pictures. These have been sitting on the server for a while but until now I haven’t had a chance to do anything with them. So, without further interruption me, here are my photos for my assignment to use LIGHT as the subject.
Golden Fields
This was the image I printed as my large print for the assignment; it was taken just as the sun was coming over a building by the fountain on North Campus before my class started (I was almost late, but this was worth it!). I love how the light caught the grass and illuminated it while the fountain in the background is still dark. The lens flare is neat, too 🙂
Mixed Signals 1
This was a fun idea (but it took a while to get!). This was another one of my prints for this critique and it went over really well. I like having both signals in the frame and how you can see both sides of the closer one are illuminated. Getting the timing to get this shot took a while, but it turned out pretty well.
Streaks
This was fun, and thankfully there was a decent amount of traffic the night I was shooting! Just set up the camera and wait for some cars :). I love the car that turned and produced the little starburst in the middle-left of the frame when it was facing the camera head-on. You can even see the tops of the cars and not just the headlights!
Temporary Graffiti
These kinds of shots are just plain fun, because you can draw pretty much anything you want with a laser pointer! I like the way this came out, because it looks like she happened to come across this glowing graffiti (when in reality she was the one that wrote it!). The green makes it a lot easier to see, too. (Critique print!)
Mixed Signals 2
Another tricky one to time, but it paid off nicely. This was actually the 2nd try for an image like this (the first one was a signal across the street and it was so bright and small that there was no detail). This was also a print for the critique.
Illuminations
This shot is by Elbel Field, looking south towards Revelli Hall. I liked the way the street lamps light up the yellow leaves/seed pods of the trees along the road.
Water Light
I loved the way the sun was illuminating the water as the fountain shot up. It made it so bright and more interesting to me.
Patterns on the Wall
I loved the was the light was coming through the glass fixture and creating the patters on this wall, especially the curves in combination with the square “panels”.
Crime Scene
My professor really liked this one. This is Chellie laying flat on Elbel Field, and I traced around her with my laser pointer while the shutter was open. It’s like the crime scene photos with the tape, except here the tape is green!
Super-50
Another shot from Elbel Field, this time of the painted 50 traced out with the laser pointer. I wanted to do the block-M but a) it was too big to get a good angle on and b) a green block-M is just wrong haha.
Upside-Down Signals
So this was the first shot I tried to get of a signal with both parts illuminated, but obviously the signal got washed out. The fun thing is, a little down and left from the signal you can actually see the pictograms from the signal illuminated and upside-down! I think it was from a reflection inside my lens, and I think it looks kinda neat 🙂
Fields of Fire
My final picture is of burners on my stove. I lit the back burner (I was already cooking macaroni and cheese with the front burner) and tried to focus on the front burner. The auto-focus on my camera ended up getting the back burner instead, but I didn’t change to manual and do it myself; I liked the sharper detail in the back but having to look through the front burner to see it.
And that’s all I have! My narrative assignment is also up on the server already but I’ll have to find the time to make another post because it’s time to get back to school work and my programming assignment. Happy shooting, everyone!
Tags: laser pointer, light, long shutter, night, stoplight
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