Recently I have been looking at the photographer Gjon Mili. I have been looking at the light drawing photos he took of Pablo Picasso which look like this. 

I really really liked the look of these photos so I decided to try to do some my self.








I had read online that the way to catch them is to have the shutter speed very slow. also to mess around with the ISO to see what produces the best images.

for my photos I had the ISO set at 100, the aperture at f/3.4 and the shutter speed I changed through out the photos that I took

Here is on of the first photos that I took I

actually think it has went quite well   
I really like the bright green colour against the black background. I really like the shapes that the light creates.  

after this attempt I decided I would try and draw a picture with the light and this is what came out, for this one I changed the the shutter speed time to 15 which was very very long but I think it works just as well.
 Hopefully you can tell what I was trying to draw.

  After this I decided to try and write my name but it was pretty hard because I had to join up all the writing but also try and not over lap letters which was very hard.











 
I then decide I would take a photo of the light going horizontally cross the picture like the one on the left. 

Then i would take a photo of the light going vertically up and down on the picture like the one on the left. 










After I took both the photos I put them on Photoshop and put them both together which i think works quite well.

I also on this one with parallel diagonal lines in both corners which I think also works quite well. I really don't know why I like it maybe its just the colour.  












Here is an other picture i used a different setting on the light and i think it looks great. It looks really furry and i love the bright colours in it.

Erik Johansson

Erik Johansson

I have been looking at artists on the internet and have found this guy. his stuff is literally unreal. The images that he creates are very surreal. here is an example of his work -> 

  

below i have posted a video this video shows exactly how he makes his work and how difficult it is 

Messing With Photos on Photoshop

 Last Wednesday I went out taking photos. While I was out I saw an electrical pylon. I really like the shapes that the metal bars created when they crossed over each other. I also liked the colour of the clouds in the back ground of the photo because they contrast well with the colour of the metal bars.    

After I had messed around with the photo on Iphoto for a while I decided to mess around with it on Photoshop. I wanted to make it colourful. So I decided I would make the bars black and the random  shapes different colours..
 I think this idea has worked well and has created a really abstract piece of photography.

After that I took a picture of me, Hope and Martin on the Mac's webcam.

I then put it on Photoshop and created this improvement of us all.
I used the liquify tool on Photoshop to distort the faces, which makes it very scary and also very surreal. I really like it the i have made the smiles look very creepy.

 I then decided to further edit it and turn my self into a zombie, which actually went a lot better than I thought it would have. I mostly used the paint tool to do the mouth, eyes and shadows in the face. I then used the liquify tool to distort the t-shirt and make it look like there were tares in it which I think worked really well. After that i realized that the image still looked bare so decided I would add gun and make it look like it was shooting at me. To make the gun I drew it out on to a piece of paper then I scanned it into the computer then coloured and edited it.

I got the picture of the bullet of the internet which I then pasted onto the picture.    
 After this I decided to add some lettering into it.
Firstly i made it a light gray colour. I didn't really like the look of it plain so I painted with a dark red blood colour in places whitch i think works really well.

over all i think that messing around with these photos on Photoshop has helped me a lot, not just with my photography unit but also with my narrative image making. It has helped me increase my Photoshop skills.