Art Movement: Futurism

Lorenzo


The shows the use of a slow shutter speed blurs the people and the lamp posts. Thus creating into big bright rays of light. The photograph denotes a man looking into the distance and his body fading out . This could connote maybe the man looking and maybe reminiscing from a time before that was not good for him. Another connotation that could be made from this picture is maybe a person looking at a loved one that maybe has passed away and they could be seen as a supernatural person. The faded technique is very apparent in this photo as the lights are blurred and in the photo. The setting of a Italian little city that is known for its long bright lampposts enhances the faded person to a point where we can see a ray of light going through him. I believe he did it in this setting to give the faded man a appropriate setting to show the viewer maybe a sadness if the photo connotes the loss of a lost one. I believe the setting Lorenzo used is 1/8 shutter speed to get a clear photo for the background and be able to detect the persons figure and be able to see some facial features as well. He would have needed a tripod to get the background so clear that the rays coming from the lamp posts are not too big but are still circles of light. However the people that are down the street are not as visible thus meaning they must be on a lower shutter speed  to the main model.

Steve Price

This photo uses the slow shutter technique to make the flowing water going down the cascade turn into a milky image. The photo connotes a water stream that is a pale white colour that has been created through the way of the slow shutter, by draining the blue colour and stretching the white spray that created when the water hits the rocks. This embraces the nature and associates its self to futurism as it embraces nature and a slow shutter technique. The technique he also used custom settings to make the photo possible.  He must have used a tripod to get that crisp clear detail. If it had slightly moved then the detail will be lost. I believe gives a futurist theme to one off natures in my opinion coolest ways of nature, a cascade. and this expands and enhances the beauty and changes the liquid into a vapour looking cloud.

Recreating

I plan to recreate this at night in the city. The location for this I want to have lights in the background to enhances the faded model. I want the location to be a dark midnight setting in the city to enhance a bright objects with bright lights. I chose to go to the top of the Cheesegraiter car park in town at 9 o'clock at night and i took my tripod and took some photos using multiple settings.

I changed my ISO to 400 to allow my picture to be visible but also seem dark and in keeping with the theme. I kept changing my shutter speed to give myself that blur effect. I used a self timer for 5 seconds and when it was going to take the photo i moved from point to point to get that blur effect. The photos i preferred was the photos where i walked at a moderate pace to get that slight blur. Another method i did was the use of my Iphone's torch to make rays of light. I wanted to do rays of light to give my own little twist on this recreation to make it urban futurist. I realised that when i used the torch my body became nearly invisible and just left a solo ray of light which i liked but was not completely what i wanted. I took around 25 photos and was there for about 1hr and a half just changing the settings and changing the movements.

My last photo i took was my favourite one and the one i wanted to use and edit. I like this photo so much because my figure is clearly seen but however my body is faded because at the time this photo was taken i was walking away, it gets me slightly turning to my left. I also liked this photo as the lights in the building behind are bright and vivd and i belived i could enhance my figure and the lights. I believe it is linked to the photo I'm trying to recreate and gives a urban style top it which I like a lot.

After taking my photos and choosing my one I wanted to edit. I wanted to give my own twist on my recreation to enhance the lights in the building. I watched a video on how to use the Splash technique in photoshop to put certain parts of my photo in black and white and the other parts in my photo in colour. I was told using a video I found on the internet to add a black white layer on top of my background and use my eraser tool to get rid of the black and white filter on these certain parts. I chose to do this on the building to make the lights stand out and become a main feature in my photo. Also I erased the model so there figure stands out and is more clear. I this also to enhance the meaning that the buildings in the world are important and light up the world that can be seen as boring, hence the black and white which can connote a bland world, and how we are fading into the boring setting.

Completed Futurism Recreation