Context:
This light painting picture was made by Patrick Rochon who has been a solo light painter since 1992, but has done collaborations. He has been a part of groups for live performances where he and other friends created 'Light Warriors Tokyo', 'Boa' and 'Liquid Vision'. I think that this photo relates to the theme of portraiture photography. This is because the main focus of the picture is the woman's face, as it is a headshot photo.
Meaning:
To further my understanding of what genre of art has been used, I looked on this website, which tells me that it is a portrait picture: http://www.patrickrochon.com/archives/category/portrait. I don't think that this photo has a particular subject as the position of the woman and the use of colours and light painting doesn't symbolise anything. However the use of the direction of the lines of light allow the picture to look serious as it follows the direction she is looking in.
Aesthetics:
This photo was made clearly by using a digital camera, with no flash as that would prevent the bright colours from showing on the photo. I believe that 8 seconds was used to take the picture, where the woman was exposed for 4 seconds to begin with, and for an additional 4 seconds Patrick drew lines in the air using different coloured light pens, in front and behind the woman's face. The reason why I think that the woman's face was exposed for a longer amount of time compared to the light pens is because her face is clear and 'bright' whereas the colours from the light pens are quite faint. The use of a range of exposure times creates a good effect as it shows what the main focus of the photo is; the face.
Personal Response:
I like the way that the wavy lines allow us to 'relate' to the woman in a way; it evokes a serious emotion because of the way that the direction of lines links to the direction she is looking in.
My Patrick Rochon inspired work:
In this lesson we experimented with another form of light, using pictures on IPADs. We each took a picture of ourselves using an IPAD and a particular effect using the colours; blue, red, yellow, green and orange. We used this effect in particular to give a wide range of colours in our pictures, which allow it to look more interesting. For each picture we used 8 seconds and and aperture F5.8 on a digital SLR, and moved the IPAD in different directions around the person modelling. We did this (in groups) to add to our experimentation so we can pick a type of light photography to present in our final project.
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Painting behind the object, using a range of speed to move the IPAD around
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Random painting, keeping the IPAD still 4 times for 0.5 seconds each
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'Random' painting
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| Painting around the outline of the object |
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