This is my attempt at recreating the effect Bill viola has
done with water movement.
(as shown in the image below) As you can see the patterns of
water movement reflected from the light which I spoke about during the swimming
pool shoot are much more recognisable due to the edit used to enhance this
image.
To create the same effect as Bill Viola I created a copycat
image of my subject jumping into the water, this creates the movement of oxygen
bubbles around them. The only difference being that my subject jumped in facing
forwards and now I see that Bill Viola's subject looks like they more likely
fell into the pool with their back facing the camera. I did however ask my
subject to allow they're limbs to become limp to create the right effect.
The editing done in Photoshop is the decrease of brightness
and the enhancing of contrast. I have also tampered with the colouring slightly
to enhance the blue water effect. This makes the bubbles and lighting within
the image show up more vividly making it a much stronger image. As my image
wasn't taken on a camera of such high quality as Bill Viola's the image is
slightly more blurred and is harder to see through the darkness of the pool
even with the similar edit.
I'm really pleased with my recreation and using the
materials available to me I feel it worked really successfully.
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