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Glitch Aurora

An aurora of aesthetic vibration

How could one possibly define the signal-to-noise ratio of beauty itself? How could an instant of sublime aesthetic contemplation be broken into incoherent pieces, when time itself stops on a whim, both timeless and eternal, of aesthetic vibration?

how could one possibly define the signal-to-noise ratio of beauty itself?

If Beauty dwells in the platonic world of pure mathematical perfection – an aurora of primary colors and eternal geometries – where could then noise or an abrupt unbundled stream of glitches come from, to cruelly deprive us of its complete apprehension? Why?

But wait, as long as there is Art, we can still close our eyes and and just for a split second imagine what it would be like to live in a world free of any noise, at any ratio…

A world free of any noise, at any ratio…

The painterly depiction above could serve as the aesthetic basis for this creative portrait-photography project. Fully executed at our Galacpic Studio in southwest Montreal, the series comprises a number of instants that seek to play around the concept of signal-to-noise-ratio in relation to the aesthetic, platonic world.

For the technically curious, the full lighting setup consisted of 3 Godox speedlights mounted on a beauty dish as key light, and two parabolic modifiers hair lights plus one extra umbrella to fill from close to floor level. The camera body used was a Fujifilm X-T3, and the Fujinon 90mm F2 was the lens of choice for most of the pictures. The whole shoot was done tethered to Capture 1, which greatly helped simplify the capture and review process.

In regards to the postproduction, the background was created and rendered in-house and then composited along with the raw plates using industry-standard compositing and image editing tools. Truly a blend of the timeless art of capturing photons on a camera obscura, along with really the latest, state-of-the-art digital techniques.