Night Prowler - Lucy Yeates

 

Night Prowler - Jessica Holler

    For my concept I wanted to create a chaotic scene inspired by insanity and intrusive thoughts. The spiraling red background symbolizes a tangled and overwhelming mess of thoughts inside people’s heads. The overwhelming frustration from these pressures is pushing the subject to hysteria until they reach an eventual breaking point. The fragmented faces of the subject are blurred and morphed together, screaming and grabbing onto their throat, implying the subject is wildly throwing their head around in panic. Through distortion, movement, and color contrast I wanted my piece to be a reflection on how overwhelming emotions can distort perception or make you feel like you are losing control.

    All of the components in my piece were original photos that I took at home. For the background I made light trails in a dark room with a phone flashlight, then recolored them and overlapped multiple of them to create the busy effect that I wanted. I used my roommate as the subject and used a variety of blur filters and tools to blend the angles together.

Night Prowler - Jackson Wells

 

For my assignment I tried to find a strong contrast between my subject and the background. I wanted to have a distorted subject, as if he was being electrocuted. I took a few different takes, from different locations to get the final result. 

Night Prowler -- George Stern

 

Night Prowler -- George Stern

Seraphim's Exposure

My concept started with the inspiration of Harold Eugene Edgerton's long exposure work. And in the process my girlfriend posed in front of a strobe light and camera set for long exposure. We tried different poses to express movement, but as we played around more with the medium, fairy or angel like images became the most visually interesting imagery we were producing. I have always been interested in Seraphim, higher dimensional beings, reminiscent of our forms but so eerily detached. Taking her initial image and flipping it distorts the perception of the human form, pushed further with eyes, sourced from a close up shot of me in the same room. I collaged these together as a form we melt together. The photographing process will also very vulnerable, and I thought I would lean into this, putting the collaged creature into a setting of vulnerability. At the moment of initial touch of a celestial planet. I wanted to invoke a sense of grace and mystery. The image is sourced directly from NASA, complimenting the blue eyes often described in texts of the old testament. I went through and added the most detail at the point of contact. A waving form of energy, and atmosphere bending at the touch. So often objects thought to be solid are displayed as completely at the whim of higher dimensional beings in media. A sense of warping and bending to will is displayed in the waves emanating from a single touch. I went back in and added an ethereal glow, and highlighted specific stars to further create a diversion from the night sky we know, and dive into a space detached from human touch. 

NASA Space Image: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/milky-way-views

Night Prowler - Michelle Sobolewski

 

For this project I aimed to explore the theme of "the release of energy" through long exposure photography. For this I used 2 different light sources- a handheld light bar and a cluster of string lights- in a variety of photos, moving them around in different ways to achieve different effects. I also took some photos of myself in the long exposure to see how to capture some of that released energy through a person. Switching between my camera and my iphone also gave an interesting look as some of the pictures used look more smooth (the string lights) and some look more choppy and segmented (the self portrait). These photos were taken in an empty room I often find myself working on projects in, though it cannot be seen clearly in the final edit. 

All photos used are my own.

DreamEscape - Jacob Taylor

 

The goal of DreamEscape is to convey to the viewer a sense of whimsy and alarm that someone such as myself has depression and anxiety, experiences when they dream during sleep. To accomplish this, I created a dreamscape that was set at night, filled with cool colors, fog, and an unidentifiable figure on the left third of the frame. I placed myself in the lower right third with most of the landscape ahead of my figure. I am sporting a sun hat and backpack to signify I am going on a journey. The painted light strokes can symbolize the whimsy of creation, but can just as easily represent the butterfly sensation of anxiety and nausea, the "knotted stomach." All of the images that compose this composition were photographed by me for this specific assignment. The metallic sculpture is the "Il Grande Disco" on Bank of America Plaza, and the fountains were photographed in uptown as well. The rest of the images were taken at my house. The light streaks come from a halloween black light. I used a variety of shutter speeds from .5" to 10+" seconds. Fortunately, I had a fog machine on hand to a misty, cold quality to compliment the cool colors. I wanted to play with blending modes to mesh layers together, and I feel like I did a decent job with that, but I want to learn more about how multiple blending modes with differently lit layers interact with each other so I'm making decisions in the camera to get a better outcome in photoshop.

Night Prowler - Jordin Lopez

 

For this project, I really wanted to do something that it's seen a lot for night photography but also have that feeling of night photography usually has. My idea was to use buildings with lights in their windows at night and then fill them with subways pictures. There is a level of voyeurism to this. I wanted to create the illusion of nothing is different, so unless you really look into the work that one would notice the difference. This idea stemmed from one night at my partners house and how so many people were looking into his windows of his apartment. There is a sense of lack of privacy that large cities and buildings have that with the addition of public transport, it follows through creating this idea of city life, people are just a drop in the sea. Nothing gained, nothing earned. 


I started this edit with pictures of a office building in uptown. I was honestly very lucky that this building still had her lights on. From there, I inserted my own images as well as some images of pexel to create these moments of movement. I color corrected quite a bit of things as well as messing with perspective to get the angels on the windows right. One of the challenging things was getting pictures that would fit within these controlled spaces. Whereas, yes, I can manipulate any image into a spot if I really wanted to, but it would lack the organic feeling I was trying to achieve here. 


pexel links: 

https://www.pexels.com/photo/people-in-a-subway-photographed-from-the-outside-17301775/
https://www.pexels.com/photo/people-sitting-inside-a-bus-using-cellphones-8164001/
https://www.pexels.com/photo/people-sitting-in-a-subway-19086018/

https://www.pexels.com/photo/subway-train-in-motion-9390058/