Painting With Light

Shutter Speed: 15"
Aperture: f/4.0

 In my first photograph, I captured if someone were shooting the ball in the right corner pocket by banking the cue ball and then hitting the target. I placed the camera in a position where you can see possible ways to get balls into the pocket. By doing this,you can see the route the cue ball takes to get a ball in.

Shutter Speed: 15"

Aperture: f/13

In my second photograph, I captured my Foosball table, where the ball is moving throughout the field. I like calling this 'Fools Ball' since the movement of the ball goes back and forth between the players and there is no goal, yet. I like how the light in this photograph looks like a ball because the rays following the light look like the motion of a kick.

The experimentation part of this unit is greatly displayed through painting with light. Over the last four weeks, I have attempted to paint with light in various ways. With different sized sparklers and flashlights that are thick and thin, coloured or that I covered with bubble wrap paper I had fun seeing what I could do. First, this assignment  seemed very simple to me, but after thinking of ideas of what I could paint I found there is a fine line between something really cheesy and brilliant. The challenge for me what that, I didn't want to paint a picture that is predictable. After hours of countless ideas, I came up with the idea of movement. Instead of a motion blur with people I can create movement through light -where our eyes follow.

 All photographs taken with a  Canon Rebel XSi Camera

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EFS 18-55mm Lens