By Peter Maddern
Light painting photography involves the use of moving light before a camera set with a slow shutter speed. The result can often be a stunning formation of swirls and figures that no individual could have predicted watching its production. However, ensuring great outcomes can often confound even the most agile of exponents especially when done before a live audience.
Media Flea and Laugh Anon’s Light, Camera Action show takes us through such productions often incorporating members of the audience and incorporating mood music along the way. The show is slick and enthusiastically hosted but the results were often a little underwhelming – there just seemed too much ambient light that always gave the outcomes a lack of starkness between the light and the dark. Still, you can’t have everything in a show like this.
The other criticism was to eschew very early on the technical aspects of the process. Maybe reflecting my interest in photography which got me to the show in the first place, the relationship between the how and what is produced could have beefed up the show and through providing a better understanding of the difficulties of the process overcome any disappointments with the results. Dropping those aspects in favour of what was perceived as being more audience friendly subject matter like Darth Vader and Hogwarts derogated from it all.
What can’t be criticised was the cupcakes provided upon the departure – delicious.
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