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Light drawing

Project 3 first shoot

Project 3 Research

Research for this project was not as easy as the other projects as it was far more restricted in subject. I First like the look of Gerald Walsh who uses light drawing but after deciding on what My project was going to be like I changed my precidents who photographed in the way that I plan to. I then found Ryan bush. His work which ive looked at uses a lot of relections and repetition in photography and in the series that I liked most he used a lot of patterns which is something i was looking into. I dont plan to emulate or copy his work but use it as a starting point for my photography and after finding him it has pushed me into the right direction.

Due to copyright I cant copy the images but Ill put up a link
http://www.ryanbushphotography.com/#

Project 3 Proposal

Ok project 3. LIGHT. Ive chosen to go down the path of the 4 objects photographed twice and transforming them with light. My objects are going to be all transparent or translucent and using the reflections and refractions to explore my chosen objects and come up with compositions. I started with using an old glass bottle and explored that in a studio environment. my other object Ive started my project with was a glass filled with water and upon seeing what the photos look like I decided to incorporate patterns into my project. My other objects are going to include a pattern in some way, wether it be on the object or arrangement. for my next shoot Ill explore these two objects again and two more which I am still undecided upon.

Project 2 evaluation

After finishing and handing it in I am quite dissapointed with my project. It needs refinement as it doesnt show what I wanted tit to and it doesnt communicate my desired objective. It needs more work but now that its handed in all I can do now is make a start and a better project for project 3

project 2 Clip

 

My project, a stop motion video is focused on as time goes on the understanding of creativity and the abstract changes and the role imagination plays in a person’s creative development. In the beginning, as a toddler the imagination can see anything it wants in simple constructs. An aeroplane can be made out of a box .But as time goes on the understanding of structure grows, the imagination is somewhat lost and creations become more literal. Eventually drawings and creations are fully literal, a person is a person, a car is a car and the imagination of the abstract is lost. A child would not understand the works of Picaso or any other artist who used abstract forms. But again as time goes on there is a change in the understanding of abstract. Faces and structures can be found by looking and feeling. Abstract art begins to make sense again. The Faces at the end are to portray the sadness, confusion and happiness at different times in a person’s creative development.

Lab

Cliche  . . . I know

Time influences

Ive been looking up other stopmotion videos and the thing I like most in them is a consistent rhythm and a flow throughout the video. as Im doing a stop motion video I wont have photographers as my main influences but Ill use videos and music. Heres a couple of videos that inspired my origonal idea of using lego and stopmotion as my medium. In the star wars video the thing I like about that is the fun the individual lego pieces are having as they roll around which is something I plan to emulate in my video. In the 8bit one the thing I like most about it is its sheer brilliance and perfection. I dont plan to be as perfect as that but its what inspired me to use this medium

Time

Ok so I have decided what I will be shooting with lego. Ive chosen to focus it around construction and growth. Spread over time with lego should work quite nicely. I plan to involve several different styles and things the legos going to do  such as growing as a flower or a plant and then snake the classic arcade game. Im going to have it growing over time so it starts as a few bricks that grows into a huge pile of lego that consumes everything.

Lab

Project 2: Time

Time, the second to last frontier. Ive been a bit lost with this project at points due to there deing just so many different ideas and ways to do this project. I have decided to do a stop motion video featuring none other than lego. I wont be using it as a set but the whole lego as a seething mass of entropy. Ill start by deciding what I want the lego to do then Ill make film strip for it. then when I HAVE my lego Ill start shooting.

Evaluation

Overall Im  quite happy with my project. Ive learned a lot about photography and Ive come up with some good images. I feel as though I not only learned some level of technical skill but I have also learned to communicate through an image which is something I have needed in erlier projects. I think that mytheme as 2 contrasting childhoods comes through strongly. I paid particular attention to what i had within the frame and excluding was just as important as including. I learnt a lot about lighting and tone in this project which is what led me to presenting the way I did in 2 contrasting childhoods.
Looking forward to project 2

Final images

3rd and 4th shoot contacts

2nd shoot contacts

reflections

After my 3rd and during my fourth shoot I decided to change my focus to showing the playground in two ways. one that evokes what I had planned to (neglect, loneliness blah blah blah) and then contrasting that with the exact opposite. Should be interesting.

My mini world

chosen images

Here are my chosen images of my second shoot

Precident artists

Ok so my idea behind my project is to shoot playgrounds in a way that evokes to put it bluntly a miserable childhood. Ive chosen to focus upon a playground that is overgrown and weathered in newtown. I hope to produce photographs that exude loneliness and neglect.

The artists I have chosen as my precidents are as follows

Lise Sarfati

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Although she almost always uses people in her photos and they are the main focus, they give off the emotions that I want to with my work and I endeavour to reproduce the emotional qualities she has.

144 Panorama and contact sheet