Night Prowler- love for ukraine

 

 Night Prowler - Adrienne Ray

This composition is made from images I took at the UniverSoul Circus. There was a lot of movement around me and on stage, so it wasn't the best place to get high-quality exposures. I combined various images of dancers with LED wings to make it look like fairies dancing around the woman. Both performances had a very magical and dreamy feel so I wanted to capture that. The setting is meant to be obscure but still appear under the stars. 

Midnight Breeze- Christi Montes

 

I had several ideas for this project; however, I went with the idea of fluidity and night vision. First, I took a self-portrait and used LED lights in the water. Then I thought this wasn't the most brilliant idea. I used a blue light to refine the image while being in a bathtub. I tried to add movement within the water to make it seem like I was "floating." I also tried using other lights with the blue light however, this didn't turn out the way I had hoped. During spring break, I experienced some nightlife. I then went on to take pictures and decided to overlap them to create more motion. Night vision creates almost a sense of curiosity.

The Love We Feel - Zoe Turner Night Prowler

 

For this project, I knew I wanted to do something with one of my dogs, light trails, and the stars. Sadly, my first idea flopped because my neighbors had their back porch light on, but ultimately it worked out for the better. I ended up going in the woods behind my house and running around with my Itzy light ring while my dog, Cider, was not amused enough to participate in the running; he just sat with my keychain version of the light ring.  I want my piece to evoke feelings of the vibrant relationship humans have with their pets. 

The main base of the piece are long 20-30 second exposures of the light ring on rainbow mode. Cider stayed surprisingly still during this so you get an obvious dog in the corner, as well as my legs while I moved light over him. The background is one of many long exposures of the night sky to capture a lot of stars. This one is in the same space as the light trail images so the trees are what were actually in the background of my focal point images. I also used one of my favorite night sky images as an overlay to add more of the stars. 

In photoshop, I used linear light dodge for the blending mode for the two visible light trails, and then hue for the third that adds color and texture into the background. It took quite a bit of trial and error actually to get the blending modes to work in harmony and look good against one another, which was surprising. 

Feminine Power- Jazmine Chance

Night Prowler: Feminine Power

So for this project, I decided to do the parking lot near East Deck because at night, I would consider that space to be very threatening and uneasy even though it's so close to campus. Even though it's a very public space, I think that the area should be something to play with when it comes to the rest of my composition. As far as my take on the project, I wanted to create a narrative by playing around with the idea of Woman's History Month by visually showcasing the comparison of the stereotypes of calling women weak and powerless to where we are now which are empowering, motivational, independent, and inspiring. There consists of two figures, one that sits on the ground and the one that's standing closer to the foreground to emphasize the idea that we as women can still have this empowering idea of self-respect and strength within the aspects of the stereotypes we still sometimes face today.

Night Prowler-Nikole McCahill

 For this assignment I wanted to do something fun and more on the whimsical, magical, and imagination side. I felt this was appropriate because in the process of taking these photos our task was to capture the things we normally don't see in photos or with our human eye. I wanted to use this to my advantage and make something more make believe. So I decided to use my flash light as if it were a bubble blowing wand. To create the bubbles I did many different exposures and in the end uses 4 different exposures. To create the bubble pop I just increased the speed at which I moved the light during the exposure. As I was taking my exposures I noticed that the faster I moved the less the camera captured and the slower I moved the more it captured. So I took this knowledge and used it to manipulate my results and in doing so I got a bubble popping effect. To retouch my images I used the color picker and the paint brush tool in areas such as where the current bubble I'm blowing connects to the wand so it creates the effect that the bubble is stretching and slowly being blown off the wand. All of these photos were taking in my bathroom midday and I simply masked out myself and all the bubbles I photographed. After bringing them into photoshop I used a color balance filters and changed the colors of the bubbles to make it seem more magical and make believe. As a finishing touch I added the glow from the bubbles using their corresponding color on to my face to make it look more realistic.

Night Prowler - Kim B

 

For my project I took photos in three different places. Outside from my balcony I took shots of the trees illuminated by the moonlight. The wind had them swaying a little too so that added the feel of movement when I placed the photos together, Next I used a string light with some white bulbs to create the inner circles. Lastly, I used a laser pointer and had it swing in a circle while I took photos from below. 

While this project didn't turn out exactly how I planned, overall it captures my mindset rather well since I was all over the place and it reflects my dealing with my mental health. I imagined looking up to the night sky through the trees and seeing soft colors. It is a mix of chaotic and yet also calm. We can see through the dark if we focus on the light.

Night Prowler - Hang Le

 

For this project, I knew I wanted to focus on motion and the incorporation of light with the outdoors. After spending half of my spring break backpacking in Pisgah National Forest, I was inspired by a “campfire” we made out of our Nalgene bottles and headlamps. I was truly fascinated by the colors and this sparked my idea. Additionally, one out of the seven Leave No Trace principles is to minimize campfire impacts which led to my insirpiation of this project. I used some laser lighting I had at home and explored those colors. 

"Falling" - Brianne Schriever (Night Prowler)

For this project I knew I wanted to focus on the motion and incorporation of light in a dynamic way while indoors. After spending part of my spring break in Atlanta and visiting the botanical gardens, I was inspired by the flowers beginning to bloom for spring. This inspiration sparked the concept of making it appear as if the flowers are falling with some of them having a trail of light to follow them. Using a silk sheet, fresh flowers, glow sticks and only the light from a dimmed color changing lamp, I would wave the flowers in front of the frame and hold them still at the end to have multiple photos of them and their motion blur. For a couple of them I held the glow stick with the flower to add to the motion blur and for others it was taken separately to be edited in later. 

 

Night Prowler - Julien Pozo

 

For this night project, I wanted to definitely focus on a multi-exposure piece, where I take different shots of different exposures and lighting angles, and mesh them together through masks. The first image mainly consists of that. And I thought it'd be fun to do some car stuff in particular because it's quite a common method of exposing or shooting cars in some advertisements and what not.

Additionally, I tried to "emulate" a shot to make it seem like it was shot at night, but more "studio-feeling." And that's where the second shot comes in, where it's definitely not as "legit" as the other might be but I thought it'd be fun to do nonetheless, especially since it challenges my photoshop skills.

The exposures for the first image most stayed at 2.5 seconds, while I angled the light differently throughout different parts of the image and masked accordingly to how I wanted it too look. I definitely gained some inspiration from the architectural photographer we saw a week ago.

"Bathe in Light" Night Prowler - Troy Vong Nguyen

 

For this project, I decided to work with glow-sticks in the location of my parent's bathroom late at night. As I was taking multiple exposures of the glow-sticks whether they were in motion or within the water, I noticed some of the shapes that were captured could be manipulated into elements that are associated with water such as fishes, boats, and waterfalls. The process almost felt nostalgic as it took me back to my childhood of playing with glow-sticks in the dark and pretending I was at sea while in the bathtub. With that, I decided to composite the photo that was reminiscent of my childhood and the creativity that sparked from imagination with colorful long exposures with floating elements as the space is illuminated with numerous lights.

Night Prowler- Madyson Young

 

For my project I really wanted to incorporate my dog into it because I love my pup. Given that he is a guard dog, I was thinking of him guarding the land at night because where I live, it can be pitch black so I always feel much better when my dog isn't barking like a maniac in the middle of the night, he is very much my security system. I took several long exposure photos of him at night when we were playing with his ball, my boyfriend held up his ball while I captured this picture and luckily he remained still. I combined several pictures I got of the stars to make them more visible and just to add more stars to the sky then I added a gradient to it. I forgot to add this to the GIF but there were originally houses and trees in the background  so I disregarded those and added the trees and gave the overall picture a little blue glow.   

"Jedi Training" Night Prowler -Emily Furr

 

For this projec,t my mind immediately went to Starwars and lightsabers. I asked my friend Haelle to be my model and to bring her lightsaber to downtown Kannapolis. From there I had her move about the frame and do the few tricks she knew. From time to time she would change the color of her saber.

Most of my exposure times were about 1" so I could capture the light movement. I had my meld stand as still as possible while she did her tricks so she would be sharper than the saber light.

Celestial Garden- Jonah Sanderson

 

For this project, I was inspired by Chinese lanterns and fireworks. I used one of my photographs from the Chinese Lantern Festival in Cary from December 2023 to begin with a mystical, nighttime focal point. In Chinese mythology, the snake is a symbol of the gods and represents natural elements of wind, rain, and electricity and the snake goddess Nuwa is known as the creator of humanity. I explored the Botanical Gardens on campus at night and composited two locations using long exposure that would contribute to the composition and elements of life/myth. I then photographed light streaks using sparklers in a 1-3 second exposure because I wanted to retain a firework/explosive energy in the composition. 

Astigmatism — Savannah DeMao

This piece is purely inspired by my terrible eyesight. I have a glass hand decoration in my bedroom and I'm a big fan of ambient lighting, so I have multiple sunset lamps that shine onto a disco ball in my room. It leaves the room pretty dark, but mystically illuminated. When the disco ball spins, theres a slight moment where it catches the glass hand making it glow. I've noticed its beauty not in clarity, but when I'm not wearing my glasses. In this moment to my naked eye theres a flash and flare of streaming colors. This piece is inspired by what I see in that moment. 

In this composition I layered three long exposure photos that shot of my glass hand backlit by a sunset lamp. I shot the photos at around midnight, my room gets lots of sunlight during the day, but theres little light to be seen anywhere at night, even from outside. I needed my room to be as dark as possible. It took me a lot of trial and error to get the lighting just right, lighting the hand both directly and indirectly. My process was a bit interesting, as my subject was still. I zoomed in and out with the lens during exposure, sometimes moving the entire camera a little to get broken trails. 

Night Prowler-Dominique Rodriguez

The location for this project was my room. I took this photo around 3 in the afternoon because my room doesn't ever have direct sunlight, and I wanted to expose the subject (myself). I waited till about seven at night to take the longer exposures. I took many long exposures experimenting with different lights, but I have six different exposures of light trails for this composition. The settings I had for the light trails were an iso 100, a shutter speed of 4 seconds, f / 4, and a focal length of 24 mm. The process was quite comical, for the light trails were very experimental; as for the still shot of myself, I wanted to have more of a sad mood. For compositing it in Photoshop, I used multiple layer blending modes and adjustments to get to the final composition. For the concept, I decided to do a self-portrait expressing what my spring break was like trying to take a break from school work to relax, but my mind wouldn't turn off no matter what I did, especially with the BFA Exhibition coming next month. I wanted the light trails to resemble the weight and the thoughts in my mind running a million miles per hour. While I sit in my bed, contemplating on trying to relax, and not able to relax, or to get work done and get burned out.

 

Night Prowler - Voigt

 

For this night prowler project, I wanted to focus on the literal concept of "painting with light." To capture the various colored curved lighting patterns, in addition to the white light, I had a family member put three different color plastics (red, yellow, blue) on top of my iPhone flashlight and paint huge arches over the driveway. These were 30 second exposures each, using an ISO of 100 and aperture of 8. I then had them take a 4 second exposure of me holding a paintbrush, pretending to paint light into the night sky. They used my iPhone flashlight to paint light over me during the exposure. Finally, I took a picture of the bright green moss, during the day, and blended it into the driveway to create a softness and lightness to the scene. Overall, this was a really fun project, and it was fun to experiment with long exposures!