FLOWER POWER – part three

Cont… Even more long exposure experiments made while working on my ‘Mirror Mirror’ project. multi-vision multi personality multi mirror.

FLOWER POWER – part two

Cont… Here are some more long exposure experiments made while working on my ‘Mirror Mirror’ project. I really like the freaky psychological way that these ones turned out!

FLOWER POWER – part one

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been working on 3 films for 3 different studio classes, for one of them I’ve been filming myself getting ready, from fresh outa the shower to made up in full makeup. My intention for the project (after I’ve edited it all together) is to install it to look like a bathroom mirror itself in the gallery, as a commentary on beauty conventions, makeup rituals and the ways in which women inhabit this way of being.

To work on these projects I’ve been borrowing a Cannon (+ tripod & fancy time lapse programs) from school, and ooohhhhmygod it’s so much fun! I’d set up a floral theme for the ‘mirror’ video to farther emphasize the feminine quality of the project, and it ended up being a super cool effect in so many other ways too. Here are some of photos I’ve taken in between filming, while just playing around. (most are long exposures, fancy!)

Dancing in a sea of colours.

I took these long exposure photographs of the beautiful belly dancers, performing at the Fuego (Fire) art show at the Performing Arts center in Regina, on May 17th.

I like to think they resemble paintings.

Seeing Double Double

Here are some long exposure photographs I took with my digital camera a few weeks ago. I’ve found that the light from street lamps is perfect for creating this sort of effect. The whole process of it really exhilarating, there’s a lot of trial and error to get interesting alignments and each photo takes about 30 seconds to process. I probably spent close to an hour sitting on the ground. These are the coolest of the bunch: