Bragaglia Brothers Emulation

As an emulation of the Bragaglia Brothers Style of Photography, I set up a studio with a black screen and a flash and began to take photos of my model. I set the camera to an extremely long shutter speed of around 10 seconds, setting the ISO to its lowest exposure, insuring that the images would stay dark enough for the image to work. While taking the photographs I needed to use a flash to light up my models face as they moved in the dark, therefore I had to manually operate the flash. This was because my model needed to move while the studio was dark and be still during the flash, making it so that as they moved and the flash illuminated them the slow shutter of the camera would capture each position they moved to all in one image. I then proceeded to Photoshop to add a black and white effects layer over the images to make them seem a little more true to the artists style. With one specific image of the male model, I added a motion blur effect within Photoshop, this was to add a sense of motion to the image and also to yet again reflect the artists style.

I am happy with the results I got from these images, I used my own method of using a succession of flashes rather than the continuous movement and motion blur of the Bragalia Brothers method.

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