When taking photos of my test tube for both my fine art and my photography projects I decided to also video them. I was originally going to video them with a blank background, but the sunlight was casting shadows on the wall where I was stationed and so I decided to incorporate it into the video by positioning the test tube so that the sun would shine through the tube. I think that the result is very striking, I enjoy the contrast that this gives the video. I also like that the video doesn’t seem t be moving as you watch it, but in fact the shadows on the backdrop and the particles in the test tube are moving very slowly, and the tube looks completely different at the end of the video compared to at the beginning.

I later used screen captures such as this for my darkroom photography.

As the sun soon set, I then used the artificial studio lighting to video the other test tubes.

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Above are screenshots from the beginning of each of the videos of the ten test tubes. In order to solve the problem of the video jumping around as I changed the test tube, I used a blank piece of white paper to make an infinity backdrop, then drew an ‘x’ on it to mark where I would place the test tube. I also put the camera on a tripod so that it would be stationary throughout the videos.

I think that the lighting in the videos could have been brighter, however there was no other studio lighting available when I was filming.