Painting with light is the manipulation of moving lights and the camera’s shutter speed.
I enjoyed this photo the most as we tried a little to hard making a happy face after a few failed attempts. The two color does give the lights a unique look, although it does make it obvious that it was done with two people with different colored lights. This was my favorite photo because of how creative it was to make it.
I like this photograph because it looks simple yet interesting all together. Painting with light is extending the exposure so the camera captures the light for a longer period of time. Good shot, Paul’s team did well on this.
Printing with light uses a long exposure to draw an image with light over time in the frame. This photo is effective because the picture was made using flash lights and seems to be dramatic with the black background. Using a narrow aperture creates a wide range of death of field.
 Our group used used three colors of light to depict a tree in the ocean. The apeture was set on F4″ for capturing the light.
I chose this image because I think it is a great example of painting with light. My group and I used one of our hands and used the red light to make it seem like he is shooting something from his finger. To get this shot we used the strobe light as well which is how we are able to see his hand.
Painting with light is using a long exposure to draw an image with light into the frame. The long exposure is needed because it gives more time for the light to hit the frame.
This photo is the best of the bunch, because this was given an acceptable exposure rate (about 6-10 seconds) for me to spell out my nickname, and it breaks the pattern of darkness to light.
In order to get the letters to show properly, we had to write the F and the D backwards so they will be corrected after the image is taken. It took three of us to make the word come to life. One person doing the F, one doing the D, and one person doing the two o’s.
Describe the technical process of painting with light in your own words.
Post your favorite photo shot by your group with a short description of what makes it a good photo.
I really love this photo the pure darkness makes the colors of the flowers stand out…this is a great example of side lighting…it gave a soft feel to the flowers..i love how the flowers compliment one another.
I visited the Patrick Faigenbaum: Kolkata/Calcutta Aperture Gallery. “Kolkata/Calcutta is the portrait of a city with two faces and two sides: historical and contemporary”(Jean-Francois Chevrier). It is a small city in India formerly colonized by the British Empire. When I first walked in I felt like the space was spacious, it was very welcoming. It didn’t feel intimidating or geared towards one particular audience. It was really simple with light grey flores and white walls to complement it, what I loved most was the reading area with the couches which made the gallery warmer and more inviting, they had lots of books ranging in different subjects, it was there both to purchase or just to quietly sit down, read, and enjoy. The design of the Gallery was quite simple, there were about 37 images for the Kolkata/Calcuta Gallery and these photographs were nicely spaced out so the viewer could appreciate each individual piece of work. Patrick Faigenbaum is a well known contemporary photographer based in paris, he worked in residence at the Villa Medici of French academy and worked at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris since 2000. He spent some time in the city of Kolkata/Calcutta ranging from 2011-2014, capturing life as it happened. These photographs weren’t separated into particular categories but viewing the overall exhibit I could see that the he focused on topics involving everyday life such as their citylife, streetlife, transportation, music, family, election and also some black and grey photos. I would say his audience are people who love to travel and also appreciate culture and want to see how other people live around the world but can only take such a trip through his photography.
The subject matter of the exhibit ranged from embroidery artists, children parents as well as street workers, farmers, musicians. He captured people as they mastered their craft spent time with their children in fields. He showed a group of men gathered and watching tv in a neighborhood, things that people often take for granted. Women selling corn on the streets, fetching water from wells. He even showed a group of people with their hands gathered with their ID’s ready to vote. He captured his subjects cleaning the streets, doing things they loved making music or posing with instruments. One photograph was during Lakshmi Puja which is the festival devoted to Lakshmi Immersion of the goddess’s effigy, Babu Ghat. Another one was a simple photo of a man enjoying his afternoon nap which I related very well to . There was a lot of culture, and tradition captured, mainly simplicity in life. Nothing was fancy, there wasn’t a lot of cars, technology, nightlife, corporate workers everything was simple and ordinary. Nothing was fancy.
My Favorite photo in the Gallery was of a group of people harvesting rice, which was a medium shot taken at eye level, using the rule of thirds. There was negative space and pattern, the pattern was broken with the people who were harvesting the rice. This photograph was interesting to me because I had never seen rice being harvested and it’s one of the most popular foods in every culture that we take for granted and never stop and think of how it is produced and what labor goes into it. The people looked comfortable and you could tell they’d been doing it for some time.
This Exhibit was enjoyable as well as informative. It didn’t exactly have and emotional impact it was more of appreciation and just seeing how it is to live in a society that is a little less advanced and still maintains tradition at the same time doing whatever it takes to get through each and every day.
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