research assignment 1

location photographer

eric staller is a light photographer and has been one now for 30 years, he is a revolutionary to this style of art. he is one of the best because he had such a long time to perfect his skills in this art form. not only dose he do light art but he also creates elaborate status and objects that change colour and move, from giant floating Lilly pap pool toys to cars completely covered with light bulbs and Even fish bowl helmets. he is so appealing to me because he produces fantastic light photography and his sculptures are exquizeet and he gets amazing photos of them. Every photo shoot that he dose is interesting he manages to capture amazing elements of design in shapes and sizes.

alot of his photos have a really serial situations to them almost dream like. A quote from eric off his website “ They will approach with an amused or bemused expression and ask "why? what does it mean?" The simple answer is that I don't know. It's a mystery where my ideas come from. It is the idea that initially appears the most absurd that I am ultimately compelled to build. The idea that makes me laugh and say "where the hell did THAT come from?!" is the one that becomes an obsession over the coming months”. the lighting in all of his photos changes dramatically from image to image from it being very dark at night with bright colours to bright colourful day time with dark shadows. With the help of the dark mysterious colours it reinforce the idea of it being so serial and strange.most of his shots are around cities near buildings.

the shot is of the sun setting over new york city with the “bubble boat” drifting around. He would have had to use a wide angle lens with a tripod because of the lack of light around the bridge and all other surroundings so he would have had to use a slower shutter speed

this image is a cross of road lighten up by sparklers, this effect is caused by a slower shutter speed and sparklers strapped down in a Evan row. It looks like there is a little additional light from street lights, this is evident because if you looks closely at the sign post in the corner there is a shadow.

This image is of a bridge in the city at night with frames of a cube rigged with lights. He would of used a wide angle lens with a slow shutter speed. he would have created the effect of the cubes by make a frame of a cube and rigging it with lights around the frame and then by turning the lights on and off it would leave a imprint of the cube

this is a image of people rideing a tandom bike with clear plastic ball wired with lights all threw them. he would of used a slower shutter speed beacuse there is a large amount of light reflecting from the wall which is lighting the scean

the "light mobile" is one eric stallers most famous works. The car has had holes drilled all threw panels and then lights have been insterted in them and the lights where conected to a computer for synchronisation. The people in the back ground are well lit from the car and the street lights. but still again he has used a slower shutter speed this is evident beacuse there is some motion blurr in the people

this is a image of a bike frame with a cage of lights surounding it. the person inside is illuminated with a seperate light on the handle and the suroundings is lightend up by the cage on the outside.