Project 1
Setup 1 Christmas tree
The tree was created with a toy lightsaber, swung back and forth in increasingly wide movements; we shone a torch through cardboard templates to make fairy lights and other festive shapes. Try to visualise the design from the camera’s position, and bear in mind that the brightness of a light source and how long you leave it on for will determine how bright it appears in the image – so a weak torch left on for five seconds might give the same illumination as a bright LED switched on for a second.
Kit needed: Light wand, templates, torch, bike light for flashing dots.
Exposure: 306 secs, f/8, ISO100
Setup 2 silhouette
Anything that gets between the light source and the camera will block the light and leave a dark patch in the frame, and you can use this to your advantage to create a silhouette. Simply ask a friend to stand in the scene and then paint behind them during the exposure – they’ll need to stay as still as possible throughout. To create this Rudolph the reindeer shape we made a pair of cardboard antlers, and we finished off the effect by shining a red light in the centre of the face to create the famous red nose.
Kit needed: Extra person, torches,light wands, cardboard antlers.
Exposure: 134 secs, f/8, ISO100
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