Tag: light photography

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — David Gilliver

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David Gilliver graduated from the Fine Art Photography (BA Hons) course at the Glasgow School of Art in 2001.

Gilliver specializes in long-exposure photography (the art of ‘Light Painting’) as well as macro photography (the ‘Little People’ and Toy series).Light Paintings are created using a very long exposure time and are created at night when it is very dark.

The nature of the long exposure allows the artist time to walk into the shot while it is being photographed.

He then moves around portable light devices to create the colors and shapes you see ‘frozen’ into each image.As long as he keeps moving around during each long exposure and avoids illuminating himself, he remains completely invisible in the photograph.“My light painting work is all about shape, form and color existing (or not truly existing?) in space,” Gilliver shares.“I love the fact these forms aren’t tangible like typical sculptures are, but they are in essence light sculptures that exist in space, made only visible through the magic of long exposure photography.”

More of David Gilliver’s photography can be found  at https://davidgilliver.com/.

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Vitor Schietti

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Vitor Schietti was born in Brazil in 1986, and has a degree in Social Communication through the University of Brasilia.In Schietti’s Impermanent Sculptures, thick treetops and branches are swollen with light that appears to drip down in incandescent rays.Each photograph frames the nighttime scenes in a dreamy, energetic manner as the glowing beams both outline and obscure the existing landscapes.Schietti worked with fireworks and long-exposure photography to illuminate the branches and stems of trees in his native Brazil.The photos are a mixture of in-camera light painting, and a bit of post-processing that can combine up to 12 shots into a final image. The series is the result of several years of research on long exposure photography, and the usage of ND filters was vital to find a perfect balance between the fading twilight and the brightness of the fireworks.

“By creating these images, which I refer to as Impermanent Sculptures, I draw the viewers attention to abstract concepts taking place in real environments. Concepts to be interpreted and explored freely by whomever this work reaches,” Schietti says. “To paint with light in a three-dimensional space is to bring one’s thoughts from unconscious realms and ancient symbols into existence and turn them into something intriguing, yet beautiful and integrated with the landscape.”More of Vitor Schietti‘s amazing photography can be found at https://schiettifotografia.com/ and https://theinspirationgrid.com/impermanent-sculptures-photos-by-vitor-schietti/.