Ephemeral_10

A brilliant artists friend, Lynne Snowden recently created an installation at the Leeds Metroplitan gallary/studio which I photographed for her.

She projected a number of video projections on top each other and then a live model (Briony) captured in real time on video and projected on top as well. A number of different lights and overhead projectors were used to cast shadoes. The whole thing was about invoking the ephemeral presence of 'fairy's.

This is the 5th of a number of images that I'm hoping to post.

This one is a snapshot of the amazing colours and shadows fleetingly created as Briony moved about

I found the photography immense fun but really difficult. I had various different light sources to cope with. Low light conditions almost like a film theatre and the gorgeous Briony flitting about - being very fairy like.

In order to cope with this I upped the ISO to 800, and kept the apperture at about f6 to try and get a reasonable depth of field from whatever distance and keep the apperture big enough to allow a reasonable shutter speed, which hovered around 1/30 or 1/40 most of the time. I attempted to use the tripod, but this proved restrictive in getting any kind of interesting framing with all the movement going on.

Any suggestions about how I could have managed better are most welcome, shooting, framing, camera settings anything!

Thanks for looking.

DAV

Title:	Ephemeral_10
Username:	davart
Uploaded:	5 Jul 2007 - 6:53 PM
Camera:	Canon EOS 20D
Lens:	Canon EFS 17-85mm
Recording media:	JPEG (digital)
Tags:	Art, Colour, Dance, Ephemeral, Flash / lighting, General, Perform, Photo journalism, Shadows, Theatre
Votes:	2