Ex 4.2 Artificial Light – next steps

Ex 4.2 Artificial Light – next steps

The images I have shown in my previous post for this exercise go some way to achieving my personal objective “to gain a better understanding of the technical aspects of photographing in these conditions and to examine those elements of the final images which might be used to produce a series which do indeed capture the ‘beauty of artificial light’”. However I do not think they are as well developed as they might be and there is now scope for further work to use the characteristics of the street lighting more imaginatively. As they stand they are images made by the artificial light of the streets, but I do not think I have addressed “the beauty of artificial light” in these images. It is this aspect that I believe I need to do more work on to develop these as a series for submission for assignment 4.

I would like to try and capture more of the interaction between the light and water, as I have highlighted previously. In a similar way, the reflection of lights from different surfaces creates interesting patterns, unique to the night time. Detail from this image shows the sort of effect that I would like to explore further in another shoot.

The reflections of the street lights in different colours on the parked cars gives an almost abstract feel to this.

The pools of different types of light on the ground here make patterns which could be the subject for further exploration.

These effects are reminiscent of the images of London in Rut Blees Luxemburg’s “Liebeslied: My Suicides” (Luxemberg and Duttman, 2000). It is this type of image I would like to develop more in future shoots.