Some much needed inspriation..

Admiral Huddy · 17 Mar 2016 at 15:22

I'm completely stumped.. I have three pictures to produce that each represent Lights, Camera, Action.

Does anyone have any simple yet effective ideas?

Thanks

Andy90 · 17 Mar 2016 at 17:13

How about a static tripod shot of say a Fairground ride at night and all lit up (lights).

Then set up a Film Camera (35mm or even better a TLR) on a tripod in front of the same fairground ride and take a picture of the image through the back of the 35mm camera or TLR screen, including the camera. You should end up with an upside down image. That's the Camera shot.

Lastly From the same Tripod location mount your digital camera and set up a slow shutter speed, wait for the fairground ride to start moving and take a shot. Everything static will remain static whilst the whirling lights will blur into light trails. That's your action shot.

stuman · 17 Mar 2016 at 17:37

car lights.

speed camera.

camera flashing at speeder. (or a cop car with lights on)

AHarvey · 17 Mar 2016 at 21:05

Do you mean you have 3 photos and the first needs to be lights, second camera and third action, or that each of the 3 photos must represent all three of the subjects?

Columbo · 17 Mar 2016 at 23:47

Some ideas,

Lights:
A well lit night scene somewhere e.g a bridge, marina, city scape. Use long exposure with small aperture F11-F16 to get the lights to give a star effect and this will ensure that the lights become a prominent feature in the shot.

Camera:
Buy a vintage and broken film camera for pennies stick it in an interesting scene and snap it. Use various compositions and exposures to get the effect you want and process it sensibly. Or if you buy a working one stick some film in it

Action:
A bit harder this one.
Action shots can be very easy to accomplish however interesting action scenes are a lot harder. Action can represent anything, think of something that would be interesting to see frozen in motion by a high shutter speed (water, wildlife or a facial expressions perhaps?)

Admiral Huddy · 18 Mar 2016 at 09:37

AHarvey said:
Do you mean you have 3 photos and the first needs to be lights, second camera and third action, or that each of the 3 photos must represent all three of the subjects?

I think so yes..

It's the camera one that's throwing me.. Take a picture of a camera.

Some interesting ideas thanks

I like the idea that Columbo suggested with the old camera.

munge · 19 Mar 2016 at 00:12

Does there need to be a common link between them?

And thinking on from the old camera theme, I'm thinking of trying to catch an image of a camera obscura, perhaps trying to catch the projected image (which is obviously inverted) with the camera obscura with the objective in the background?? (Does wine contain hallucinogens???)