Ephemeral_7

A brilliant artists friend, Lynne Snowden recently created an installation at the Leeds Metroplitan gallary/studio.

What she did was amazing, a number of video projections on top each other and then a live model (Briony - an artist in her own right) captured real time on video and projected on top as well. Also included were a number of different lights and overhead projectors casting icredible shadows. The whole thing was about invoking the ephemeral presence of 'fairy's.

I was asked to document the whole thing with photographs. This is the first of a number of images that I'm hoping to post.

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 to get 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!

Anyway thanks for looking.

DAV

Title:	Ephemeral_7
Username:	davart
Uploaded:	1 Jul 2007 - 8:16 PM
Camera:	Canon EOS 20D
Lens:	EFS 17 - 85mm
Recording media:	JPEG (digital)
Tags:	Art, Colour, Ephemeral, Fairy, Low light, Nude / glamour, Photo journalism, Portraits / people
Votes:	5