Painting with light.

For the painting with light assignment we were assigned to groups by our instructor and worked together to make some neat shots. The group consisted of Erin Hendry Christina Manolis and Lillian Kelly.

After being run over and chopped up by a tractor one stormy night in 1832, the young girl's ghost returns every dark and stormy night to seek her revenge on anyone who crosses her path. Many people have ventured out to this farm to see if the story is really true. Nobody has ever heard from any of them again.-Erin Hendry

My group member Erin Hendry used this anecdote for her blog so I decided to use it for mine as well. Erin also played our ghost.

When we first arrived on the scene we saw this old tractor and we knew that we had to incorporate it into our shot. First we experimented using flashlights and strobes to illuminate the scene. As the night wore on we decided to forget flashlights and use only strobes. There is a total of 8 strobe flashes that took 66 seconds to make. We used f8 to keep the foreground and background in focus as much as possible.

This is another shot we made using the strobes. I like this shot because it is simple and the lighting is nice. I dislike this shot because their is no subject and it is kind of boring. A good example of lighting though.

We wanted to keep it scary for Halloween so here is another shot we tried to pull off. Erin is again our ghost.

We could not find a lighting set up or angle that we all agreed on so we decided to move on after making a few shots.

This is an original shot out of the camera but I did not like the composition. It is too loose. I decided to use photoshop to move the elements closer together.

I changed the composition but I am still not satisfied with the shot.