DSDN144 - Project 3 - Light - Proposal

Light Architecture

For my light  project i have come up with a concept i call "Light Architecture". I will investigate a variety of different locations and using the technique of light graffiti on a slow shutter speed setting i will attempt to draw into the frame with light how the space could potentially be used. Will involve drawing in structures and objects in an attempt to satire the surrounding setting or create a whole new setting within the frame. 

DSDN144 - Project 2 - Final Handin

With this series I want to explore the relationship between time and place. Attempting investigative photography I will try to show and explore how people interact with certain places over time. I will shoot places that invoke basic human interaction such and transitory spaces and objects that people readily and subconsciously interact with. By using a time lapse set up over an hour I should be able to obtain a decent variety of images, this will hopefully show some consistent paths that people interact with. Also by using slow shutter speeds I will be able to exaggerate these paths by giving peoples appearance a phantom like glow.

I feel I have been largely unsuccessful with achieving the desired aesthetic I set myself at the beginning of this project, however, I believe the bi-product of this failure has been some very interesting images. The fist problem I ran into was the over exposure of my first set of images when I was shooting slow shutter speeds during the day. By using a pinhole lens I though I could reduce the aperture enough to allow for the slow shutter speeds I was using. My second shoot using the pinhole lens gave a correct amount of exposure but nothing was in focus. I then decided to do a shoot at night. This allowed me to use slow shutter speeds without over exposing the images. I set up time lapses in 5 different spots for and hour each. The problem I ran into then was the lack of people walking into frame due to the time I was shooting. The lack of people was an un accounted for, but unavoidable circumstance for my shoot, and through this I was unable to obtain my desired aesthetic of a frame full of ghostly figures. Although with the pictures of people I did take I was able to layer them on top of each other in Photoshop and create four subtle but haunting images of an hour frozen into one frame. I then chose to greyscale all the images. This was purely a replication of my precedence’s chronophotogray work, part of the aesthetic I was trying to replicate.  

 

DSDN144 - Project 2 - Contact Sheet - Final Shoot

DSDN144 - Project 2 - Contact Sheet - Pinhole Shoot

As you can see above, i was unable to achieve a good point of focus using the pinhole lens. I know will have to re-shoot everything at night to compensate for the long shutter speeds i will be using.

DSDN144 - Project 2 - Precedence - Justin Quinnel

Justin Quinnel has experimented with pinhole photography over the last decade and has capture many images including the ones above. I will attempt to use pinhole photography for my series as i will be using low shutter speeds during the day. Due to the amount of light coming onto the sensor during the day i need to use a small aperture to compensate for the long shutter times. Pinhole lens will be perfect for this and i will attempt to create one using an old body cap of my camera.

DSDN144 - Project 2 - Precedence - Henri Cartier-Bresson

Candid photography, such as Carter - Bresson's work above is part of the aesthetic i will need to reflect in my own work. It has the ability to stay true to the scientific nature of how people intereract with space naturally, with out interference of the camera. In order to document natural foot traffic over time the shots will have to be almost candid, as if they people being photographed dont or wont know they are on film.  

DSDN 144 - Project 2 - Precedence - Etienne-Jules Marey

This photo, titled "chronophotographic studies
of a run" was taken from one of Etienne-Jules Marey's scientic works on the physiology of the human body. Marey was a physiologist as opposed to a photographer and used these photos as scientific evidence of how the human body works in motion. I find this asthetic interesting and i will attempt to replicate the documentation process in the way i present my photogaphic series. 

DSDN144 - Project 2 - Precedence -Eadweard Muybridge

A series of frame by frame step sequences depicting motion by Eadweard Muybridge, a British photographer best known for pioneering "Animal Locomotion" as displayed in the third picture. I find his works to be a derived form of chronophotography as similar outcome is achieved in terms of displaying motion over time. This is a very two dimensional method, however i feel it has many aspects i can attempt to derive in my own work such as the use of grey scale, silhouettes and annotations to display the images as formal and scientific works. 

Dsdn144 - Project 2 - Precedence - Alexey Titarenko

Alexey Titarenko has composed a series of photos set in his hometown of St Petersberg during the early 1990s during a depression caused by the fall of communism in Russia. He sought to convey the immense sadness and unrest amoung the city using ghostly images and "attempt(ed) to show events that occurred not only here, but throughout the country - the changes, the catastrophies, and the human tragedies, which have swept this city and the people of this land.” By using similar methods i hope to be able to convey the emotions of peoples interaction with space over time in Wellington, and possible use greyscale to enhance this. 

Dsdn144 - Project 2 - Revised Proposal

Revised Proposal - Time

In failing to develop any strong ideas through the technique of stop motion i have changed my proposal for this project. Chromatography has caught my interest and through viewing Alexey Titarenko's work, i manifested an idea using this technique. I will investigate peoples interaction with certain places by setting up multiple time lapse. Then using all these images i will layer them on top of one another and to gauge the most frequent changes within the frame. This will hopefully give an interesting understanding of how the public has interacted with this space over the period of the time lapse.

Dsdn 144 - Project 2 - Stop Motion Concept

For my stop motion i am attempting to explore different methods of time keeping. I have used a time lapse of a candle as part of my final stop motion piece.

Dsdn 144 - Project 2 - Stop Motion Contact Sheets

DSDN144 - Project 2 - Stop Motion Precedence/Inspiration

Stop Motion Using Candles

This clip is by the YouTube producer "Brusspup" and is an experimentation with candles and stop motion. I am looking at integrating candles into my stop motion piece and i found the use of fire to be an interesting aesthetic. I feel this clip would have been more effective contrasting itself against darkness or even just a black background. I will continue to investigate this aesthetic through different precedence. 

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG127HdhWZQ

144 - Project 2 - Time - Proposal

I am looking to explore the way time can be easily represented using just shapes through the medium of stop motion. Because the concept of time, and its 12 divisions has been indoctrinated in us from such an early age, i propose that by using an animation of the most basic symbols, i can communicate a visual sense of time passing. I will investigate several animated symbols that convey this idea within the time restriction. For a basic concept of this idea i have made a quick and rough stop motion using 14 triangle cut-outs. I will en devour to vastly improve my stop motion skills for my final presentation but i feel this effectively communicates my concept. Rough Stop Motion Concept

144 - Weekly Task - Slow/Fast Shutter Speed Comparison Image