Project 1: Levitation / floating photography ENTRY 1

I spent the first week and a few days of my time finding new inspirations, ideas, and possibilities for project 1 of my advanced photography course. 

After a while of browsing through the internet, flipping through photo magazines, and watching behind the scenes photoshoots from successful photographers, I decided to settle with levitation and floating photography.

Levitation photography, according to my understanding, is the type of photography in which the subject and the setting was photographed separately and then photoshopped together to make it look as though the subject was actually floating on air.

Here are some of the photos that inspired me:

(“The Harmony of Lost Things” by Brooke Shaden)

(“Stirring Dust” by Brooke Shaden)

Here's a tutorial on levitation photography by http://www.quitecurious.com/dreaming-of-flying/

Unlike Levitation photography, floating photography requires the subject to truly interact with the environment while jumping. The photographer then photographs the subject with a high shutter speed setting, thus creating an allusion of the subject actually walking on air.

Here are some of the photos that inspired me:

("Levitating Girl" by Natsuma Hayashi)

(By David Dean)

Here's a video on floating photography:

The unknown, however, is that people tend to overlap levitation with floating so I'm not quite sure if whether they are the same thing but photographed with different techniques, or if they're actually vastly different.

I haven't started photographing yet because composition is one of my most nervous area, so as of now, I'm just continuing to read tips on how to photograph better composition.