My proposal inspiration

This single shot shown in the second lecture of light is a large reason for thinking up my proposal. I am worried how original my work though and whether I can explain the originality of my proposal in my pictures. That will be a major task for this project.

Andre Kertesz,




I was inspired by the shapes of the fork and bowl when looked through the medium of photography. The light plays on them highlighting the form and design of them that we take for granted. We simply see them as an something to hold and eat food with. I am also surprised how shadows and greyscale help convey the form, curves and design which makes this photo so captivating.Fork, paris, gelatin silver print, 1928

Proposal

It's hard to explain what exactly I want to show in these photos but I am still exploring my concept.

I would like to explore ultimately our relationship with food and how it comes packaged and where we serve it. I want to focus using light on the shapes that are most commonly related to food (storage and consumption terms). As I looked in my pantry, I found that the most common shape of packaging are in square boxes and that the 'curve' shape is most common for the places we hold food. I want the way I light these objects eg. bowls, glasses boxes etc. to highlight the shape and to an extent hide the function but still create the effect that the relationship between the objects have something to do with food.

This also shows a contrast between the straight line and curve.

Project 3 - Light - Ideas for proposal

- Looking at the effect of light within an object projecting out, and a different light on to the object

                - Look at the effect on different textured objects

                - Contrasting lines - straight vs. curvy

Herbert List

 - Look at the effect of light on an actual source of light eg. Lamp

                - Manipulation

                - make it look not like a lamp but still capture its function of producing light

                - Aspect of irony = play with how we can easily recognise a lamp or the source of light and the way it looks. I could use another source of light to change te way we recognise a lamp.

- Focus on the shadows produced from the objects eg. Lamps. The shadows from different varying shapes of  lamps will re-structure the way we see the recogniseable representation of a lamp.

Werner Bischof    Trent Parke

- How light can change the way the object looks by manipulation the light to only show for example the outline and not the detail. Because the whole look of the object could be how we recognise it.
                 - A loss of detail can be the result of the light shining out of the object

Reni Burri Raymond Depardon

- Show a 'before' and 'after' of natural pieces of the environment that we all can recognise eg. flowers, leaves, plants etc.

- The shapes that are produced when light is placed in the object or on it can become more of the focus than the object itself. How does light change our perception of the object through where it guides our focus on the object. ( plus on how things look differently between night and day because of the use of unnatural light)

Paul Fusco

- Light only reveals certain aspects of the object - masking the functionality. Making the point that without the point of function the object might become unrecogniseable.

- Use of greyscale to show the focusses easily, light is represented easily by the colour white, where the light is coming from, highlight or take away detail

- What happens to light in the presence of other sources of light.

Chris Steele-Perkins

- Back to the lamp idea (studio). Base around the fact that lamps don't just produce a 'stream' of light that is straight or cicular. It may create a shape that we stereotypically associate with light produced form a lamp. I could look at the shape of light produced from different designs of lamps or lights. Changing the perspective we have on being able to easily recognise a lamp when we see one. I could do a continuum of lights which produce the most recogniseable shapes of light to the least recogniseable.

- The effect of night and street lamps

Jonas Bedenskin



- Mask out what is light, and keep the figures of what is blocking it

Mark Power

               

Contact sheets

New order of final photos

Final Images (in first try order) and evaluation

I really like how this photo shows boldly the aspect of process and time. It is very busy and quite an 'eyeful' full of motion and action which draws interest to the photo. I like the strong straight lines and framing but I think I should crop the wood part off the bottom and don't quite like the shadow from the trees but unfortunately there's nothing I can do about that becuase I have had a lot of lighting problems for this project.

I like the composition and structure of this photo but I don't like the hard lighting in it. Unfortunately due to many problems with lighting I cannot change this, and had to go with the best I had. I also like the gradual angle the figures create which adds to the straightness and tight framing this photo has.

My favourite most successful aspect of this photo is the way I have framed the subject and considered the rule of thirds. I haven't cut the photo in half diagonally and I have managed to place the focus on the movement of the feet and make sure there are no distractions in the background. The only thing I don't like but was unavoidable was the angle the post is on on the right side of the photo, but the post on the left is straight so it must be just uneven ground

I think this is a successful photo but unfortunately it does seem a bit dark compared to all the others because of the shade. I love the spacing of the figures and composition, and it was more valuble for me to pick the shot with no distractions in the background. I would have also preferred the flying fox to be yellow which would have also helped with brighting it up but that was impossible.

This photograph is successful because it shows a new style to shoe movement. I have changed the opacity of the layers to show the figure climbing down the ladder. I like the framing and the wide angle used which really focusses on the clean horizontal lines and the feet climbing down. It is a little rough with the photoshopping though but a bit of it helps support the idea of motion.

Change in proposal

Through a series of five photos I will be exploring the use of time through the way we used our school playgrounds. I will convey the use and the aspect of time through the processes in which we use the aparatuses.
These photos also will express the enjoyment and satisfaction 'of getting to the other side' and of playing around on the various things you find in playgrounds. The emotions you feel from seeing these photos are supported by the use of bright stark sunny lighting, clean well executed framing and the use of colour - especially the yellow colour of the structures. My figure will also show in some areas a hint of enjoyment through playing on the structures, although her movements through time are the main focus.
Whilst taking the multiple images to show the process I am focussing on the movement the figure makes and emphasises the motions through using long and short shutter speeds and sometimes a mixture of both. This will help support the general focus of time and process of movement through and on the objects in the playground.