Level 4 Space and Place - Bethany Corbett

This shoot was a bit spontaneous. I had no real idea of what i was going to shoot, and just thought i'd experiment there and come up with a new way of playing with light. I feel it was important for me to do this rather than just be inspired by other photographers as it allows my own creativity to shine in my work. Initially, me and my boyfriend who played the part of my assistant tried to do some spiral looking designs in front of Old Knobbley, however they didn't come out as planned. The images looked like straight lines rather than a spiral. In the top image, there is a hint of a spiral but you can see the human figure inside of it. We probably could have kept trying but I just wasn't feeling the idea, so we moved on. Next, we tried light painting. I have seen this technique used many times on the internet and decided to give it a go. Photography means 'painting with light' and this is quite literally doing that. The torch was shone on the tree with...

Tito Mouraz creates a series called 'The House of the Seven Women' investigates the world of magic and witchcraft. It's based around a house in Portugal, where the photographer comes from, that is rumoured to be haunted by seven sisters. It's believed that one of these sisters is a witch and when full moon came they would all dress in white dresses and fly to a chestnut tree to 'roost', and seduce men who walked by. The images by Mouraz shows all these rumoured aspects and creates a mysterious yet magical feeling. Mouraz said ‘In The House of the Seven Ladies, chatting, getting to know what it was like before me, listening and imagining were as important as the act of photographing,’, which I can understand because I too felt it was important to understand the cultural and historical importance of what I was shooting before I actually went to shoot. He started taking portraits because  "they have always lived here and are attached to the land just like ...

This shoot was very much inspired by Takihiro Sato, who uses flashflights aimed directly into the camera to create these bursts of light around a tree. I did this with my boyfriend so we could get the most amount of bursts in one image. I used a 30 second timer and turned our phone torches on and off around the trunk of the tree. I used two wide angle lenses, one FX and one DX lens. The DX lens allowed for the edge of the lens to be shown in the frame, recreating how some of Sato's images are made and appear. I wanted to take more images but I was feeling ill and then it started to thunder and lightening, and I wasn't very comfortable with being in the middle of a forest while there was lightening. I do really like how all of the images turned out, I wasn't expecting for it to actually work. I then combined the images to make the images have more of the bursts and feel more full and busy rather than sparse; I decided to experimen...

Vitor Schietti is a Brazilian born photographer. He travels around the world taking images, and his most well known work would perhaps be 'Impermanent Sculptures' , where her experimented with fireworks and long exposures to create images appearing as if time has frozen and the light is tangible; hence the title. His images often stack up to 12 images to create one. Schietti says "The series is the result of several years of research on long exposure photography, and the usage of ND filters was vital to find a perfect balance between the fading twilight and the brightness of the fireworks."  The twilight blue of the sky works really well with the pale yellow/orange colour of the fireworks, as they're opposite colours on the colour wheel and the darkness of the sky makes sure the fireworks are the main centre of attention, while still allowing for the background to be seen to give the image more context for the viewer. The light illuminates the tree and appe...

The tree of life is a very well known and refereed to tree in mythology and religion, all having different significances depending on beliefs. In Celtic Times Celts were people who were very connected to the nature around them, they had a connection with the Earth. The Tree Of Life was a "tangible part of everyday existence." They created the 'Tree of Life Knot' - an image of a tree with branches and roots forming a circle around said tree. The circle makes the tree the centre of the depiction, as trees were the centre of their lives and all that happened. "Celts realised that the absence of greenery would be the absence of life itself." Celtic mythology then then progressed this into a more otherworldly meaning; the roots and the branches were no longer connected with the roots and instead were reaching up to the top of the diagram, reaching the realm of the gods. The roots grounded the tree the the human world. The tree being the centre is...