I experimented with silhouette work inspired by Kara Walker in my work and attempted to do so in the dark room in our university.
I ran into some issues when attempting to document the silhouettes. To create the silhouette was much more difficult than I thought it would be. It had to have a strong enough light behind it, be close enough to the wall and all at the same time as taking the picture.
Since I didn’t have four hands I have to do a lot of setting up and working on timing in order to achieve any semblance of a silhouette.
Another issue I found was that my flash kept going off, blurring out the silhouette completely from the pictures as there wasn’t enough lighting in the room to stop the flash automatically going off each time. Because of this I had to switch cameras and finally could take the pictures.
The picture quality isn’t amazing due to the difficulties that arose during the experiment but it was interesting to see the cutout as a silhouette and to experiment with what the light could look like shining on the cut out and through it also.
