Art 151 News: Bulb Assignment #5

Anacrisina Morales (Bulb assignment -camera moves- Spring 2007)

Joseph Galli (Bulb assignment -camera stands still- Spring 2007)

Remember that when you press down on the bulb feature, your camera’s shutter remains open until you release it (by removing your finger from the shutter trip). Some cameras have a lock you can use to keep the bulb open while you run around and paint with light…

There are many ways to utilize the painting with light idea. You should make these pictures either at night outside, or in a darkened room inside. I would like to see two versions, one with the camera stationary and one with the camera moving.

For the stationary version, set up the camera on a tripod or solid object, if your camera does not lock in the bulb position, get a friend to help or go with a very long exposure (5 seconds or whatever your meter might say the ambient light is). Walk into the scene and flash (with a small hand strobe or a flashlight) objects or people in that scene. If the scene is dark enough, you can leave the shutter open long enough to light much of the scene. Be careful of exposure- overexposing could ruin the affect.

The second part of the assignment requires moving the camera. Hold the camera shutter open on bulb and walk around in a dark room or outside and flash in something. In other words, you could open the shutter on a city or street scene outside keeping your finger on bulb, cover the lens move the camera and either shoot some other scene (on top of the old one) or flash in something into the scene.

Experiment with these ideas and see what you can come up with. I would like to see your subject matter transcend daily existence and become fantasy, poetry and down right strange!

For this Bulb assignment, I want 2 folders: one "camera moves" and one "camera still" place 3 final shots in each folder.