#lookingforlight

Night Photography ISO 100, Shutter Speed 15″, F/8, Focal 25mm.

Afternoon Photography ISO 100, Shutter Speed 1/30″, F/8, Focal 55mm.

Afternoon Photography 2. ISO 100, Shutter Speed 5″, F/22, Focal 18mm.

Morning Photography. ISO 100, Shutter Speed 5″, F/22, Focal 18mm.

Contact Sheet.

Evaluation.

final images as a triptych

also I would like to show the same images but in version b&w.

Contact sheets

Evaluation

This project called “Looking for LIght - a Journey”. At the begining I decide to devide my project into 3 parts. The first part was looking for light in my area when the sun shinning highest. The second part was my flat. And the third was looking the light in my area when the sun was low. The first part was done around 11.00 /12.00 and the third part around 4 p.m.. We should took 50 pictures I took about 200 images. Maybe its becouse I’ve spent almost all day on it. I tried to capture the light in different points of view. I try to capture the light from every position (top,bottom, right, left). good that before this task we had lesson about viewpoitn in photography. I think it help me.

I wanted to created mystery in my images.  My triptych shows a small strory. I start with something small after it goes into something bigger and then disappeared in the dark.  I hope I succeeded. I was happy with this project. I try ussing different techniques in this project. I post my favourite images in two version becouse I like this two version, was difficul to me choose one. 

The challange was to do a triptych becouse never create triptych. Thanks to Google I found a tutorial and with the help of Lightroom I completed this task. I got a new skill. 

Camera settings:

Contact Sheet

My Three Final Photos

Evalutation

Contact Sheet 

Evaluation 

When given the task brief “Looking for Light A Journey” I took immediate inspiration from one of the photos by Todd Hido used as an example in the brief. The photo featured a room of a house without any furniture, very bare, with the warm light of a sun rise or sunset filling the back wall stuck in my mind. Looking at the image I felt a sense of something missing and absence about it. The absence of people, existence, furniture and life and the wonder as to the cause of the absence.

I wanted to find a space where I could capture this mood as well as capture a similar light coming through the window. A feeling of warmth, cold, history, emptiness and abandonment. Also I wanted to capture depth and detail in the images using long exposures with the lens focal setting at a medium or high f number. The location I found was an abandoned farming croft house tucked away in the hills behind Dingwall. I came across this croft house a few years ago while on a little walk. The condition of the croft was pretty interesting as it was still fairly intact, showing signs of its former inhabitation. It even still had old wall paper clinging onto the walls in the living room. But there were still large signs of deterioration within, wallpaper rotting, floor boards missing, back wall in the kitchen area partially collapsed. But it still felt like it could have been inhabited within living memory.

 The first image I had set was of the fireplace in the living area. I arrived around 3pm as the sun was about to set under the hills to the west. Golden light was pouring through the south facing window and on to the fireplace.  Rather appt for the fireplace to vast in the warm glow. I set my camera on a tripod in the back corner of the living room. Lens focal length set to f/ 8, ISO 100 and exposure length between 2 and 3 seconds. I took several versions, some in landscape and some in portrait. Very pleased with the final results and would need very minimal adjustments in post-production optimizations.

Second images I wanted to have a colder, lonelier feel. This featured the door of the living room leading out to the corridor and the boarded-up front entrance to the croft with light peering in between the door panels.  Camera still on the tripod, repositioned next to the front wall of the living room facing out into the corridor. Camera settings still the same as before to capture the deteriorate details of the house.

Third and final images was to be an exterior image looking towards the croft. By this time the sun had gone down, darkness was creeping in. I wanted this image to look like the ghosts of the past still inhabited by having light emanating from the living room. I set up and torch in the fireplace and a large candle in the window. This shot was still rather tricky to achieve as I only had the one lens with me and I had to move away a fair distance to fit it into the frame. Camera settings were the same, but this image required a bit more optimizing in post to get the atmosphere I really desired with the warm orange light coming out of the living room window.

 I am very happy with what I was able to achieve with this shoot. I think the colours are rich, the images are dripping with a moody atmosphere, the light in each one gives off a different vibe.  

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” - Terry Pratchet

“There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.” - Leonard Cohen

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” - Martin Luther King 

“Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness we will discover the infinite power of our light.”- Brene Brown

“Looking for light” exploring is very important at photography as far as I can see. I can surely accept the fact that light is actually most important thing regarding photography. There are also more very important things in photography such as: equipment and knowledge that you know about it, understanding of exposure and depth of field, use of different POV, thinking about composition etc. Post production is an essential skill for a digital photographer in these days too but light is crucial.

  Looks like, we photographers are slaves to light. Without it we can’t do our work. 

 Where to begin to looking for light? Simple. Outside. The are endless lighting opportunities waiting for us outside. That journey experience of “light looking” was very important, interesting and challenging for me. The journey I have started - “looking for light” - going to be very long and exciting experience as there is so many different aspects of lighting everywhere around us to use, buy, try and explore.

  I have find some intrigue things to show on my photographs. We can see some windows shadows from my living room dropping on the wall, a line of light passing through the blinds beside the watch hanged up on the wall. Shadows of mint plant falling on the kitchen’s cupboard, flowers seen through wee square in kitchen’s blinds, flowers at the window with day light source applied. Two abandoned wooden doors covered with frost from different POV. Some light painting scenes on the roads, someone’s frosted car roof and frost covered plants lighted up with sun light. Some shadows on the grass. Healthy salad preparation. Living room blinds from different POV, some more flowers and a wee cactus at the kitchen’s window at different time of the day. Some weird street light source at foggy night seems to be coming from behind the building going through it at the same time.

 I am pretty satisfied with the photographs I have taken for this task. Nice effect of lighting and shadows on most of the images presented on contact sheet. I could use more of POV to shoot my photos from different perspectives. 

 We can see how light and shadows are creating mood in these images. It is interesting for me to explore how different light sources are crucial in photography. There are many ways to use light and show its use in different ways on photographs. I find very useful looking at light and verifying how it affects on what is going to be shown on image. 

  Three final images displayed in triptych...

6th May 2020

Today i took a walk along the Ash fields in Carmyle, my journey starts off at the Garages behind my house which then leads on to the bushes beside the Ashy i mostly took pictures of plants and branches and other objects that had a small amount of sunlight bouncing off them some plastic objects such as bottles had sunlight reflecting off them

The journey then ends at the old pit road leading up to the former Kenmuir Coalfields. 

These are my final edited Looking for light shots, in this task there had to be some sort of story shown within the images therefore i wanted to show the light throughout the day to dark.