Kim Ballinger - Night Prowler

 

For this project I took a photo of me outside so there would be a soft  outline of the trees to create a non-distractive background that is outdoors and not restrictive, giving the feeling of being free. This created an environment with the night sky serving as a very subtle backdrop giving focus to the colors and lights. 

I used two lights, one red and one white. I photographed and played with various movements of the lights and settled on the ones that I liked the most. I then paired them together with numerous color filters creating a colorful display of movement and light.

The initial picture I took of me is with the red light and aimed towards myself slightly to create a cast off light onto my face and clothes. I ultimately decided to adjust it to a turquoise blue because I felt it fit the final composite better.

I wanted to present the idea of having something in the palm of your hand and being in control of it. As if you created it, it's yours, and only you decide what it does or what it means. The colors are moving fast but yet somehow soothing. Although they are vivid in comparison to the dark background, they work together to create an overall atmosphere of feeling transfixed to the motion.

Ashley Dinning - Night Prowler

 

My concept for this project was to create a haunted Halloween village using some of the decorations I have that I typically use for Halloween. I took photos of each part of the village separately to allow for more freedom in composition. I also incorporated candles shaped like pumpkins to match the other pumpkins in the project. For the three main pumpkins, I used light-up plastic jack-o'-lanterns. I wanted the lights in the sky to resemble the Northern Lights, so I used glowsticks to create different effects in the sky. All of these photographs were taken by me.

Night Prowler - Jennie Keophaphone

 

My concept for this project was to take all my photos at the airport overlook in Charlotte. I wanted to experiment with a lot of the light sources I found there such at light posts, planes, and the view of the airport and incorporated those into this composition. I took all these photos separately at different exposures and depth of fields to have more flexibility in the final outcome. While capturing my photos, I wanted to keep in mind the idea or movement and warmth while also making something vaguely nostalgic, as the airport overlook was a place I went to a lot as a kid. To push the idea of movement and warmth, I asked my friend more help to flick a lighter and overlapped another image of that to make it more dynamic. As I felt that the light behind the plane, almost looked like a sparked lighter. I also had her use a flash light and circle around in different ways to create the light trail in the background. Additionally, while capturing my photos I used a high ISO for my camera settings as I was taking pictures in the dark resulting in a grainier look in some of my images. So I decided to push that look even further and did a layer mask of one of the grainiest pictures I had over the entire composition. Which I also felt like created another element of subtle movement when looked at up close. All photographs were taken by me, no generative AI was used.

Nightprowler -- Meg Neal

For my project I wanted to create a dreamscape out of a mundane everyday task. I chose dishwashing as I have a large metal kitchen sink, that I thought would reflect the lights well. I filled the sink with various dishes (cups, silverware, etc), plastic gloves both empty and filled with water, waterproof color changing LEDS and glow sticks. I turned off any overhead lights and took photos of this including long exposure of water running into the sink and put my phone into a plastic bag to get some underwater shots. I then used a long string of glow sticks and took photos of it while i moved it around to create swirls and loops of color.  I sorted through the photos and combined a choice few of them to make the final product. I positioned the gloves to make it look like hands washing dishes in water, but also kept the composition somewhat abstract to make it seem dreamlike. 

 

Night Prowler - Emily Buie

    Love Tower was created in my aunts field in Denver, NC with four of my family members and some glow sticks. At first I was just experimenting with them running in the field and seeing how my camera did with the exposures, however it didn't seem to have much of a concept. Eventually my dad starting doing circles back to back in the same motion and I got the most wonderful, crisp shape in one shot. Once I learned about that technique I tried to get the lights to create words, however it was too much movement for my camera, so I recommended them doing hearts. None of the shots had all four of them doing a complete heart, but with the multiple photos I took I was able to combine about 6 different images to create the four hearts. The photos of them running around the field eventually came in handy for the background lights and making the composition more interesting. Out of all of the glow sticks (9) my dad was the only one to have a green one, and he only had one, so instead of making a heart he just kind of ran around the whole time, which is where the green rings and trail to the energy tower come from. Being this was my family the hearts are a symbol of love, and it is being illuminated strongly through light and energy. 

Night Prowler - Ashley Legassie

 

My concept for this composition was to create the faces of pumpkins using light. Originally, I tried sparklers to make the facial features but it wasn't quite there. For the final composition, I used a glow ring that flashed blue and red. I also used the glow ring to make the lines of the light around the pumpkins to create movement. I used many blending modes and adjustment layers to make the coloring more consistent. All images I took and I didn't use any generative AI. 

Night Prowler - Liz Garcia

For this project, I wanted to explore using different colored lights and light reflections on my dark brown (technically considered red) Doberman. Considering the fact that he's super photogenic (yes, my opinion is biased) shooting this was probably the most fun I've had with any project in this class. I also loved how the use of a color-changing wand created so many shadows and highlights on his face. I explored layering images over one another and playing with different blending modes to push forward the narrative of movement. Dobermans are very high-energy breeds and mine is no exception to that, he has the goofiest personality and is always funny and fun to be around, so I knew from the start that I wanted to make my composite a very fun and dynamic one. I also played a lot with the saturation of each individual layer to see how bright I could get those colors from my original images to transform them to either be brighter or to tone down the color so as to not overpower the other colors on the image. My biggest struggle with this project was getting my model to stay still long enough for me to be able to get a clear image of him in the dark since he is already a pretty dark dog, after copious amounts of cheese and turkey bribing I was able to get the best shots. I also played with a couple different exposures on my phone to get the best or most dynamic images possible, this was also a little bit of a struggle for me personally, using my phone to shoot all of my images. I shot all of my images between the hours of 6 and 9 pm in my kitchen and used my phone mounted on a tripod.