DEVELOPMENT SHOOT 3 - BOKEH 3

SHOOT PLAN:

Material: canon 60d camera, a string of solar charged fairy lights.

Where: My back garden

When: end of the afternoon, when it starts to get slightly darker.

Aims: I wanted to explore a bit further the results I had obtained in my first bokeh shoot when I placed some Christmas lights in the foreground and photographed the foliage outside my window, creating an effect in which the circles of confusion appear over the natural forms instead of being in the background. I wasn’t exactly looking for a specific atmosphere, I just wanted to understand where this could lead me, this time using white fairy lights.

RESULTS:

The results were quite interesting in some of the images. I particularly like the ones in which the photo was made against the bare tree branches. The fairy lights create a somehow artificial effect. The circles in there seem a bit out of place, as if their presence was a bit absurd over the branches and that reminds of the fact that memory often gathers unlikely information together, we remember two things that in our memory have a correlation, but logically we can’t understand the connection. The same happens in dreams. At the same time these same images seem both slightly distorted and layered and this symbolizes well the way memory can occur in our minds: hazy, juxtaposed, fragmented.

The images with the circles over the green were not so successful as they are just too abstract, without any definition to create a bit of tension  and depth in them.