I posted about a project I thought about yesterday and have taken some photos that have played around with some ideas I have had, some are more successful than others….
2.59-3.00
I took a load of photos of the clock in my bedroom on a long exposure time, trying to get an image of time ticking by, I think this one is the best of the bunch although I’m sure I can do better…maybe a shorter exposure time? I wanted to capture a feeling of clock watching and feeling time going by but still being awake to witness it as this is what happens when I can’t sleep, minutes drag by and eventually turn into hours and I am aware of every second of it.
Restless
This was taken on a 2 min shutter speed. I wanted to capture the restlessness that insomnia leaves you with. The photo shows my movement (albeit as a big glow!) and how I would move around in bed when experiencing a sleepless episode. I really like this photo and am not sure I would want to change anything in it. It may be interesting to do several of these kind of images, maybe using a film camera as I did have a couple of technical difficulties (one being I wanted to record my movement over night but my camera didn’t have a setting that I could use to keep the shutter open all night…)
Waiting #1
There are moments when I have one of my insomnia attack where I try to settle down and get as comfortable as possible and just lie there waiting for sleep to come…this image tries to depict that. I used my mobile phone as a light source as I didn’t want anything as harsh as a bulb to light the image. I think that the use of mobile phone lighting has worked well (I have also lightened the image using Photoshop) as it gives a directed light that is quite soft and doesn’t light the background at all. It seems like the darkness is enveloping the subject more. I’m not totally happy with the mobile phone being on view in the photo.
Waiting #2
Another version of the above. I think this photo is much better than the above as you can not see the mobile phone (as much…) in the image. I have, again, brightened this in Photoshop and also cropped it. I am also happier as this image seems less grainy and more in focus and clear. I still think there is a lot to work on within this image and maybe I can do a re-shoot or play around with the images taken a bit more.
Click to view slideshow.This is a compilation of all the photos I took, including the pre-photoshop images and the ones I took when setting up for the ideas that I had.
All photos shot with my Pentax K2000 DSLR
