Light graffiti, also known as light painting, takes what you think you know about graffiti andturns it on its head. This ephemeral approach to art and expression uses the movement of light to create incredible images and is created on the streets, in nature, and in studios by artists whose creative impulses transcend traditional media. Unlikeprojection bombing,light graffiti is sometimes produced as performance art, and sometimes just to capture it with photography and video, but either way it makes for some incredible viewing. These ten artists producing light graffiti and light painting represent some of the most amazing talent in a growing (and increasingly strange) field of art.
Light writingis a form of stop motion animation wherein still images captured using the technique known aslight paintingare put in sequence thereby creating the optical illusion of movement for the viewer.
You will need to find two locations for this assignment, 1 indoor and 1 outdoor.
You will end with a total of five final photographs. At least two in each location (3 in one, 2 in the other)
For your outdoor assignments: Find an interesting location away from your own backyard. It should be somewhere that is dark, although it may have some light (remember that your shutter will be open for a long time so it can't be that bright).
For all assignments: Make sure that you think about positioning your models/objects along the Z axis.
Assignment 1:
Create a composition by highlighting details within the frame of the camera with the flashlight.
Include 2 people, or a person and an object. One (or both) of these things should be 'altered with light'. You can use light to make them transparent, drawn on or around them with light, or have them draw in the air with light.
Assignment 2:
1. Create a 3D drawing in air using a laser pointer, LED, or LED flashlight. Try and re-create a space in your house (or other dark indoor location) with objects and 'things' created out of light. Remember that things closer to the camera should appear drawn bigger than things away from the camera.
Assignment 3:
One person in your photograph is painted in a number of different locations in the same photograph. This should include some suggestions of difference - emotions, positions, etc.
Assignment 4:
Abstraction. Using lights, create an abstract composition. YES- this may have realistic elements in it (people, objects, etc).
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