While carrying out these light experiments, I was interested to look at how the light changed the face and the way the shadows can change the shape or look of a portrait. Because the disco lights use colour, this also intensifies the contrast change and shadows that appear and disappear in each photo. Each colour creates a different atmosphere, Blue light creating a cold atmosphere and red light creating a warm atmosphere.
William Eggleston was a keen user of colour in his photos, with a documentary approach to his photos; taking pictures as they appeared. Here my images are much more composed, but you begin to understand how he was so fascinated by colour. This image proving that even slight changed in colour can transform an image. He did this with the environement, sunsets being nature's prime example of colour changing its surroundings.
Here I have produced a stop frame animation which shows the movement of light across the face using an automated disco ball. The light spins and rotates around the room which randomly lights up various parts of the face. This is visually interesting to see slowed down, seeing each frame separately forces the viewer to pay more attention to what the image is showing; in comparison to dismissing the images value when played at high speed as a video.
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