Hockey Mask And Laser Time, and Lola's Idea Of Comfort

Sometimes you see a picture that gives you the inspiration to try something new. For me, one such shot was taken by Polish photographer Dariusz Majgier, which can be seen on Flickr here.

Dariusz Majgier has an extensive portfolio of work in a variety of styles, and his experimentation with a laser pen gave me the idea to try it myself, using something fairly unusual as a subject - an old style hockey goalie mask. Setting up in the Shoot Studio at the Uni, I suspended the mask from a lighting clamp and lit it using only an LED light and a laser pen, in a variety of combinations. This one, inspired by Majgier, was done by setting a ten second exposure and repeatedly flicking the laser pen across the mask:



Shining the laser pen into the back of the mask gave me this:



The inclusion of the LED light gave me different results:




The shots were taken using a remote control to minimise camera shake, and this allowed me to sneak in a quick self portrait during the shoot!



The full set of shots can be seen on Flickr here.

Regular readers will be more than aware of my two most frequent models - Lola and Lucy! This week, I clicked a shot of Lola sitting in one of the most potentially uncomfortable positions I've ever seen her in:



She seems to find it comfy though, so who am I to argue?!