While in B&Q looking for a security light I decided to photograph a few of their light shades. iPhone and Hipstamatic. This was my favourite of the series.
Peter Bargh
Sights & Sounds
December 11th, 2011
Photo365 – Day 345 – Light Shades
December 3rd, 2011
Photo365 – Day 337 – Passage of light
Another passage of light from the sun. This time through one window onto a kitchen cupboard. The light is so contrasty at this time of the year.
December 2nd, 2011
Photo365 – Day 336 – Paper cuts
A sheet of A 4 paper cut into five strips and placed on top of another and lit from above left. It’s a bit of an optical illusion. No paper was folded. Each of the five strips were taped at one end and placed on their edge so they were about 1.5in high. Some didn’t touch the base all the way along so let light through underneath. This created subtle tonal changes and the effect you see here.
July 30th, 2011
Photo365 – Day 211 – light shade
I’ve had a busy day so no time for any interesting photography so this is a quick iphone snap of a ceiling light shade shot from below.
February 8th, 2011
Photo365 – Day 39 – shadowplay
A glorious day today, low winter sun streaming through the windows and through some internal patterned door glass. This lead to shadows and light shaped on the wall.
I took a few photos and then started playing around with the shapes, by adjusting the angle of the door so the light rays lengthened. I also noticed that a shadow of the camera was appearing just below the pattern, so I moved it to a lower position and held my hand spanned out in front to make a more interesting shadow. Light was also catching the lens of my reading glasses and threw even more light and shade to the wall.
This is the result of a carefully positioned head, door and hand. My Photo365 project is making me go off in experimental directions that I left behind many years ago and I’m thoroughly enjoying the revitalised abstract creativity. I hope you do too.