In a few weeks time my son will start studying GCSE photography.
In two years time he will have more qualifications in photography than I will.
For this week's post I wanted to portray the student overtaking
the master and what better way to do it then messing about in the spare room
once again and pretending to be characters from Star Wars?
I really must stop taking pictures upstairs and start
concentrating on decorating.
Not just yet though.
A sequence of 40 pictures taken with the Monochrom, played about
with in Bridge and Silver Efex and then several hours applying glowing
lightsabers to each shot using very simple Photoshop techniques.
I've made a short video of this sequence but I am having difficulty attaching it to this blog post.
Please feel free to check it out over at YouTube...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcWyIFTQjH8
Influences:
Real Life:
A conversation with Paride, who suggested (after racking his brain
about video
production) that I should experiment and have some fun.
Converastions with Tom and Debbie about science fiction films and
wanting to own lightsabers.
Being a child in the 70s, running around the playground with my
mates acting out space battles and wishing our parents had been cool enough to
call us Luke or Han
College trips to London and gravitating towards the MOMI (Museum
of Moving Image)
Films:
George Lucas' Star Wars
Fritz Lang's Metropolis (I really need to watch this again soon)
Animators:
The Brothers Quay
Photographers:
Eadweard Muybridge
The Student Becomes The Master
Copyright: Clayton Bastiani
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