Today I took part in a workshop looking at objects in time. In the workshop I used stroboscopic photography. Stroboscopic photography is a series of high intensity flashes, over a long exposure time. The results from producing photographs this way is a motion blur effect (as seen below). Every time a flash is let off the camera captures the models movement at the time of the flash, so over a two second exposure the model is captured moving multiple times. Stroboscopic Photography will set off a minimum of 10 flashes per second, creating the illusion that the model is moving through the photograph.

For this workshop I wanted to look at movement in both the model and objects. For this shoot I got my model to spin around with a long scarf during the time the camera made the exposure. The results I captured show the model moving through the photograph and give the illusion of moving image opposed to a still image. I was happy with the result I gained from the first half of the shoot, but I wanted to try something different for the second half of the shoot. Since researching Gjon Mili I loved the effect he created with his photograph of Picasso drawing a vase using just light. To create the same effect I used the flashlight from my phone, I increased the exposure on the camera to ten seconds, then started drawing while the stroboscopic flash system was going off.

The camera captured every movement I made with the flashlight, creating a light drawing. Me and the group I was working with then decided to make a group shot. To do this we all stood in front of the camera while the flash was going off, we then moved out of the way of the camera as soon as the flashes stopped. Then one person in my group then drew with a phone light in the position we were all standing in. The results from this shot are below with the rest of my images from the workshop. Overall I really enjoyed the workshop, I loved having the opportunity to work with such an advanced studio set up.