Coloured lights experimentation of Big Man Brad @ Chesterfield College

 Today, after looking into the practice of photographic 'happennings' (organised photographic subjects) i have conducted a 'happening' of my own using my class mate, Brad, and using the studio in college. I experimented with different coloured filters on the lights (blue, red, yellow) to create different colours of lights reflected onto the object i have used, a ladder, and my human subject, Brad. What was really interesting about this work was that i realised the potential of shadows that had revealed themselves in the photos, i managed to find that by adjusting where the beam of light is shone you can create multiple shadows. For this set of photos i used a Nikon D200 camera, with a slow shutter speed. In some of these photos i have edited them in Photoshop, i used the curves tool to alter the image slightly.



(bottom, center)The light is only from one angle, i used a red filter to create thihs effect. How the red has made Brad's face the same colour is what i am interested in for my project. (top right) i have used two sources of light, blue and red to create this half and half picture, the two colour have mixed to create a slight shade of purple in the centre of the face. (top left) this is photo looking at the effect of shadows, i managed to angle the lights to create a double shadow which was reall amazing to behold.



This photo i concentrated on the coloured light hitting a inaminate object which is the ladder. The shadows that it gives off seems to melt onto the wall.