I've always said I wanted to get more into sci-fi but never quite knew where to start.
The genres I love the most are fantasy and horror. This goes for all forms of media: books, tv shows, animes, cartoons, video games, and music. These forms intersect with sci-fi on occasion, but I haven't actively sought out sci-fi as an individual genre. One of the biggest franchises in sci-fi I have gotten involved in has been Star Wars which has a huge fan base. Outside that though, I've wanted to consume more sci-fi but have yet to branch out.
With that being said, my last project for my New Media in Art class is heavily inspired by Science Fiction. I wanted to experiment with blurry images and the smearing of light. I wanted the pictures to be super dark and exposed for long periods of time. I've worked with exposure time before back in my photography summer school class when I was 15. It was fun but I never played around with it as much as I would have liked. This was my chance to experiment and see what kinds of images I could get.
I achieved two things with these images: light smudging and double exposure. To get both of these looks, I would often change the exposure to be super low; in the negatives. I would then take the picture and turn the camera violently to the side. Sometimes I would tilt the camera up or down too. The point was for the camera to capture two different directions of the same general location of the subject. It was a fascinating discovery and made for some really cool images like Portals pt.1 and Portals pt.2. Another really cool camera movement I would do was draw triangles, circles, or squares with the camera. I would snap the picture (still with a low exposure) and then move the camera in the shape I wanted. This technique worked best when I had some isolated light sources in the image. This can be seen in the picture Testing Ray Gun.
I wanted these images to have an unsettling feel to them, and I would say that was achieved. Both my subject, Nina Broberg, and I were able to achieve this sense of unease through these images. I would also say, the added tone of an alien invasion also makes the images really eerie. All in all, I'm super proud of this project. It's something I have made into a book and would love to get published in the near future too. I'll attach here a link to my Flickr if you'd like to check out the entire collection!
I really like your photo book!! That's sooooo cool! It is a entire complete story. I also love your photo with long exposure, which looks really interesting.
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