Movement artist research

I started of my research by looking at Rachel Neville.

                           She photographs dancers and this is perfect for a movement project.

I love the surreal feel to this photograph. It is really full of movement, which is hard to capture considering it is a still picture and not a video.

Dancers are full of movement, it's a great idea to try some shots out with different settings. You could do some with long exposer so that there are several dancers as they jump and leap around or you could just capture them in midair. I think she has a great eye for these sort of photos. I really like the way she captures them and fills them full of life and energy. I am thinking about asking some of the dancers in our college if I can have ago at capturing them in mid dance.

Then I went on to Michael Israel.

He is a fine arts artist and has a rather unusual way of doing it.

These are some of his work, and this is how he does it:

There are videos on Youtube of him in concert painting on stage. He does it by running and jumping around on stage, full of movement which is then embedded into his work as he does it. I really like his work and the way he does it. I think it is a very different it clearly works for him very well.

Then I looked at Eric Staller, I chose him because we have been playing with lights and that is something he is famous for.

He paints with light, here is some of his work:

I really like these pictures because there is a lot of thought and planning gone into them and they have worked out really well. Some of them are simple yet effective. I think one or two of my final images will be light painting photos because I really enjoy creating them and seeing them come to life.

I then started to look at fashion with movement.

I looked on deviantART and found a few people who had some great pictures.

I found this artist (Never-let-me-go) and I really like their work. I think it is very energetic and full of movement, I think these pieces of work were for her final project and they are very good. I like how they are in full focus as a posed to them being blurred and in motion, but they are captured and held still in time, but you can still see that they are full of movement.

This work was done by (eco-girl) and I really really like it. I love the way that the dress is in mid air. I will be attempting to try and get some pictures like these because we have the dancers if we can photograph them while they are in a lesson.

These are some of the photos I took.

I made another gif because I took then continuously as they were dancing and they fit really well.

I will be using this as one of my final images.

Here are some other photos I took:

Some turned out really blurry and others like these were great. I had the camera set at Aperture: 5.6, Stutter speed: 25/30's os a second and the ISO at 400.

I like how I focused on this one girl and caught her mid pose in the shot above. I think it makes her look like a ballerina.