Light and Dark (final photos)

For my final photos I wanted to look at artificial lighting, I explored this by doing primary research as well as secondary research as I explored this aspect of light and dark using my camera. My secondary research included researching different photographers who photograph artificial light, I decided to focus mainly on the work by Rut Blees Luxemburg and the images labelled 'Caliban Towers', a German photographer whose technique is to take images at night, mostly exploring the urban landscape. What I liked most about her work is the simplicity of the photos and also the hue/saturation of them as they have a slight orange/yellow tint to them which I think creates quite a warm feel. Figures 1 and 2 show some of Blees Luxemburg's work.

Figure 2

Figure 1

I explored Blees Luxemburg's style of these towers but I then continued to further my experiments by taking pictures of other objects within this light and dark topic. My photographs in the style of Rut Blees Luxemburg can be found below along with some others as I continued to develop my idea further.

I really like the three images here as although they are of a similar concept, they look different (especially the third one). I enjoyed taking these photos as I felt it helped me learn new camera skills as I haven't done a photo shoot in the dark before so it allowed me to experiment with finding the right shutter speed, aperture and ISO in order to capture a clear final outcome.





















































All these photographs show exterior lighting in an urban landscape, I also furthered this to explore interior lighting. I have chosen my favourite image to show here and also an edit I competed using Photoshop where I manipulated the same image four times and changed the hue/saturation to create different coloured effects. I used these tools to overcome a challenge faced with my original idea as at first I wanted to use different coloured light bulbs, however I was unable to get them.

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