DEVELOPMENT SHOOT 2 - BOKEH 2

DEVELOPMENT SHOOT 2 - bokeh 2.

SHOOT PLAN:

Material: canon 60d camera

Where: Wetlands Centre in Llanelli on a sunny day

When: mid afternoon

Models: a girl


Aims: As mentioned on the previous shoot I wanted to refine the images obtained by creating the bokeh effect with the reflection of the sun on the water. My idea was to create somehow abstract images that would represent memory and dreams in a more abstract way, not so much by showing what could be fragments of memory, but rather by carrying characteristics of memory itself.  I liked how delicate the first images seemed, so I was looking to create something along those lines, illustrating how fragile and fleeting memories can be, especially the memories of a dream when you just woke up in the morning.

RESULTS:

There is both a feeling of both delicacy and intricacy in many of the images.  At the same time, the circles of confusion seem nearly textured, as if they were bubbles one could reach and touch. In most of the photographs the source of light was the sun shining on the water. On the last ones, the circles of confusion result from the sun shining on some plants. I particularly like the more abstract results, in  which all we can see is the circles, often agglomerated together, and sometimes a few thin tree branches or leaves. They are very harmonic, nearly meditative.

I also tried to create some images in which we could see part of the image covered in circles and then to have some sort of presence, human or animal showing up in between circles. This didn’t work much with the birds though, as it was really hard to find the right distance between the light shining and the birds, and in the end it just feels the birds are wrongly unfocused.   The ones with the girl work better, as I could control the distances.