Gjon Mili was an Albanian-American photographer best known for his work published in LIFE which he photographed artists such as Pablo Picasso. he used light painting for his photographs. he was the first photographer do use electronic flash and stroboscopic light in his images. his light paintings were made with a small electric light in a darkened room; in effect, the images vanished as soon as they were made. Mili took his photographs in a darkened room, using two cameras, one for side view, another for front view. By leaving the shutters open, he caught the light streaks swirling through space.
he focused taking pictures of dancing his most famous image was the one of picasso as u will see above. The photographic effect was created by opening the camera’s shutter while Picasso was in the dark. The light disappears but the camera still captured the light in the images. he used light painting to make doubles of people that he was taking pictures of it make a interesting affect.
this was group work, I wasn't here for the lesson but i think it was independent work so they didn't really know what they were dong like it wasn't explained properly. the pictures above either turned out very dark or you couldn't really see the coloured lights in the photos. i think the images from today turned out better because people knew what they were doing and even though i wasn't here for the last one today i was doing the camera in my group and i think our light painting turned out decent.
we went into the studio and set up the camera. we were all in groups of about 4 and the first group took most of the lesson trying to get a decent picture and set up the camera perfectly for the light painting. even though i wasn't in the 1st group i think i learnt quite a lot from them, taking the pictures. when it was finally my groups turn to use the camera i was doing the lights first but i forgot to turn the light off when i stood out the frame so there was a line from where i had moved. for the photo i took i wanted to create lines coming out of the models hands because i thought it would look good, it turned out good but it could have been better. you can see the model and the light but the the focus of the image isn't directly in the centre of the photo. The camera settings we used were Fstop 8, exposer for 18 seconds and the ISO 100.