Final Shoot and Evaluation.

This is the link to my final shoots contact list.

http://issuu.com/josieb/docs/final_shoot-_light_dsdn

This project seemed to be the one that I struggled with the most. A lack of decision making at the start of the project showed me that later on in the project development was harder to explore with deadlines quickly coming along. If i was to do this project again i would definitely pick a camera effect a lot better, discover the pro's and con's of this aspect, so that i am readily prepared for each photo shoot. This is evident in my final collection, because of the lack of judgement and decision making earlier on. The collection i feel is a little disfunctional and have no flow too it. This is because i was learning as i was shooting. Although this is not a bad thing, it is just visibly portrayed in my images.

More Bokeh Research

These are just some of the images that i found and that helped inspire me to create my final collection.

This project has definitely been my hardest due to the switching around of ideas, however i learnt a lot from this technique and have captured a few images within this collection that i would never of been able to before. These are just some images that through out my learning in photography i hope to excel and create even better than these ones i found.

Bokeh and Precedent Two.

"In photography, bokeh (Originally  /ˈboʊkɛ/,^[1]  /ˈboʊkeɪ/ boh-kay — also sometimes heard as  /ˈboʊkə/ boh-kə,^[2] Japanese: [boke]) is the blur,^[3][4] or the aesthetic quality of the blur,^[5][6][7] in out-of-focus areas of an image. Bokeh has been defined as "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light".^[8] However, differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring that is unpleasant or distracting—"good" and "bad" bokeh, respectively.^[3] Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field. Photographers sometimes deliberately use ashallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions.

Bokeh is often most visible around small background highlights, such as specular reflections and light sources, which is why it is often associated with such areas.^[3] However, bokeh is not limited to highlights; blur occurs in all out-of-focus regions of the image." - (Wikipedia)

This is my idea that is a combination of the previous stencil idea. It involves the same sort of effects and i hope that is will be a more simpler way to explore this photography idea. After contacting richard he also sent me this link to understanding this idea and concept a little better. This you-tube video then became my final precedent.

Precedent Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPcdWxhLwoA

Second Photo shoot.

This is the very small contact sheet for the second shoot there is hardly any shots as i knew that it wasn't going to work about approx 15 photo's so learnt and developed from the experience and was time to think of ways to improve it. Aim is to do a wee google search for ideas that are similar to this one however don't involve a tricky stencil.

Link for second shoot: http://issuu.com/josieb/docs/2nd_shoot_-_light

The Big Fail.

I created a stencil to add to the effect of each photo.  Following the instructions from one of my precedents i created my very own star stencil. (the picture below)

However when it came down to taking the photo's the pictures ended up looking like this instead.. I'm unsure as to why this happened, perhaps the aperture was wrong or the stencil was too big for the lense. In conclusion this effect would be fantastic if it worked, however it didn't so now i need to think of a better way to create the same sort of effect.

HDR task

Manual.

We combined 3 photo's and manually merged each other to create this image above. Each one we chose the best aspects to create this overall picture that you wont necessarily get with one shot. I worked on this weekly task again with Daisy Cox.

Auto.

This is the automative version of the weekly task. It looks extremely different compared to the manual one i did. I think I was a little too tame when it came to reaching the pictures full potential.

city lights at night.

An idea that i am thinking about exploring further. It is a combination of the the contrasting darker surroundings and the bright manufactured lights that really capture my interest. I hope to make a stencil in order to create such a shape. Just like the precedant below, that was shown to use during class.

Precedent One.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBjoonaWQAA&feature=player_embedded

A video that we watched in our tutorial created a new idea for this project. I enjoyed the effects that this activity portrays on each photograph. Instead of waiting for it to rain and capturing light through a waterdrop it is a way to capture a locations light in a different angle.

I think this idea for the project is the one that i hope to develop further. I know it is completely opposite to my initial idea. However i tried to develop this idea further, yet failed as it became quite a mundane idea to inforce upon a single item. Plus i have previously completed a project similar. So time for a challenge!

Research Research Research.

Looking Back.

In my first year of design. I designed an object that i absolutely hated. However when it came down to photographing it, it completely changed the composition and characteristics about the object. It was a fragile plastic form that i had no real relevance to anything. However when photographed it changed into an elegant almost architectural form. This is my inspiration. I hope to find object that have nothing special about it. however with the use of light and composition i hope to change the objects form to something amazing.

Researching.

First shoot.

Objects from my tool box. Captured in a way that hopefully isn't recognisable. The ink pottle was the hardest as it didn't have many aspects to it that i could change or capture differently. Being a circular object creates it to be quite simple and restricting when it comes to its photography.

The Wire cutters were my favorite, because of the bulky and symmetrical presence there were a few different ways of capturing them in an obscure manor. Also playing with the shadow would be another thing that could enhance the confusion when looking at an object. It could create another line to draw the eye to and leave the brain guessing of what the form actually is. More light is necessary for the next shoot. Even other sorts of lights, colours, textures can enhance the objects ability to transform to something different.

Honestly this shoot was done quite quickly and not to my full potential but it got the ball rolling on my idea and now it leaves room for development and critique, to improve my rough idea further.


http://issuu.com/josieb/docs/first_shoot

Weekly tasks.- Light painting.

For this weeks task i worked together with Daisy Cox, A girl from my class in order to gain the best outcome for this task. we both came up with the idea and was a lot easier to capture our idea with two people. She was able to direct me while I drew the image. Her are some of our attempts. It was great fun and we even did a few just for fun!

Proposal

Light project. Initial idea is to capture an object in an unrecognisable way. With the help of light directed the attention and using an up-close aspect to the object can create and architectural aspect. Hopefully i am able to create a small nano object into a larger structure, that will leave the viewer guessing what it is.

Instead of finding a range of random objects that I think will photograph well. Instead i was considering to choose a specific location, such as my desk, kitchen items, or things you'd find in your car. Then capture a range of photographs that are just of the object just seen in a different way to create the everyday mundane object into an object that has structure, architecture and a surprising characteristic about it.

I hope to develop this idea further through the shoots that I take within the next few weeks. This is just a basic proposal that has alot of room for development. I'm just not sure which way that idea will develop into.

Final layout of Time project

My 24 hours time frame for the one location I chose in Wellington. I felt that the composition worked well together and it was a unique bus stop, with plenty of character. I tried to capture the continuous traffic throughout the day and night by starting it at night and then to day back to night. This represents to continuous circle of time throught this location. People may see this area only during the day however with this contrasting timeline it shows the development of the location throughout time, that is naturally shaped by sunlight, sunsets and sunrise.

Reflection.
I am happy with my work however I feel that I could of done it slightly better with the transition between sunset and sunrise and also, capture better images of people waiting at the bus stop, rather than cars driving past or people walking down the street. I think my choice of location could of been slightly better aswell, for example a busier bus stop, that had a reliable morning rush hour of pedestrians and then also the 5 o'clock bus ride home. That emphasised the journey of everyday life throughout time.

This is a characteristic bus stop that is shaped throghout the 24hour time limit however it would be even better if there were more photo's that emphasise the transitions throught the timeline.

Some of my final shoot images. There were too many to upload all of the them, approx 400 in total. So i noarrowed them down to about 50.
http://issuu.com/josieb/docs/final_shoot

Bus stop composition.

Reasearching different ways to capture a bus stop and the people in it without having to write a word. Peoples body postions effectively speak louder than words. Throughout waiting people usually keep their mind active with phones, ipods, books or even just their own thoughts thorughout this project i hope to capture that moment. letting it be an accessory to this time based project and not a proiority. I can't forget that this project is about the time of the day  aswell as the time spent at a bus stop.

These images below are just some of the images i have been looking at to base my ideas off.

Bus stop photography- 3rd May.

So choosing a place is fundemental to this project. The time of day needs reflect its emphasises on the place and express to the viweres the unique characteristics about the location chosen.

After googling bus stop photography i found out that this mundane waiting area that a large ratio of us spend time in can actually be portrayed as uniquely designed environments around the world.

So at 6:30am i set off on a mission to find Wellingtons finest bus stop, that expresses character individuality and unique aura to the capital city. And hopefully i found it. I now need to stalk this area 24/7 (without being creep) to capture the unique characteristics of this stop.

Stumbled upon Precedent 4. - 2nd May.

This website is from a French photographer Richard Vantielcke. He has a sense of conceptual and narrative photography. In particular his collection of Night photography spoke to me the most. His understanding of form and perception is defined fantastically. He has the lights, shadows and human existence all in balance with the commercially structured surrounding.

To relate this piece of research to my photography, i hope to capture the same sort of forms throughout my shoots. The bus stop frames speak strongly to me. The narrate not only what is occurring but also how the person is feeling, while waiting for the bus to take them to their next destination.

Take a look for yourself.

http://www.ludimaginary.net/night-photography-11-0.html

Researching. -2nd May

Trying to apply my reflective concept to this time based photography project to create a different dimension to it's juxtaposition and mise-en-scene. Hopefully i would like to create a series of pictures that capture the loaction over a period of time.
If it isn't a 24hour time frame, perhaps it could be a few days that will express the true characteristics of the area through the portrayal of time.
It would hopefully capture the variety of weather, traffic, day and night contrasted, to enlighten a series of pictures that unconsciously show a place throughout time.

I want it to include some sort of reflection, if it isn't water, then perhaps windows, mirrors or even car reflections.

Here are just a few of the ideas i found on the internet that is continuously inspiring my thoughts and inspiration.

Rough first shoot in my final concept idea.

This is my first photo shoot of capturing time out of my bedroom window. I have displayed it in the concept i'm hoping to present my final shoot. However i will select a more specific location as the picture needs more emphasise maybe on one specific location or place so that you can see the diverse change of time over 24 hours. Perhaps a location that is constantly changing during the day and throughout the nightlife environment.

This is the link to my first shoots contact sheet.

http://issuu.com/josieb/docs/first_shoot-_time

timeline based idea & 2nd weekly task

Instead of a timeline looking like the below picture i hope to create a photographic version by photo-shopping the pictures together to create one long horizontal timeline, or even story that can portray one area over a 24hour period of time. However keeping the same structure as a normal timeline i will set up the camera in the same position and aline it in the same position on the page.

Eventually i could even photoshop them into the initial panorama and let the time based aspect shine through the original photo, by the use of light. showing the contrast of time over a particular scene.
I will do this in photoshop with the use of masks and overlaying effects.

Weekly task 2. The before and after shots of my mornings everyday routine.

Precedent Three.

Elliott Erwitt was born in Paris in 1928. However he spent the majority of his life in New york. Carring his Rolleiflex camera with him. "It is about reacting with what you see, hopefully without proception. You can find pictures anywhere. It is simply a matter of noticing things and organising them. you just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and human comedy."

Elliott joined magnum photo's in 1953.He then went on to be the president of magnum photography for three years. Finally turning his attention to film and continues to produce several noted documentaries.

The later part of Elliott's collection I found the most interesting, his quiry oultook on a situation brought a different way of looking at a situation. None of which look planned they are all just reflection of the everyday captured in the perfect moment which enables the audience to gather a humorous output on the picture. I hope to convey this idea in my up and coming project. Focusing on our unplanned ability to flow into a mundane routine which is comfortable for each of us.

Precedent Two.

Pieter Hugo.
Was born in 1976 in Johannesberg, He now lives in Cape town.
2001 was his first exhibition about New South African Art within the JAK Gallery, London. Since he has recieved a number of awards from his fast growing collections. Within one of his collections i looked at called 'Permanent Error', he has a strong message that is mutually understood without dipicting the pictures apart. However he also uses his photographic skill to engage in the emphasise of each photo to determine the idea of perment error. Each individual shot is centered in the image and has no expression, reaction or feeling to what is occuring behind them. This is a significant part to Pieter's collection which understates the everyday life that other cultures would consider mayhem or a stressful and dangerous environment. However to the people captured it seems like the mundane, everyday aspect in time.

check out his work:

http://www.pieterhugo.com/

Proposal and week one tasks.

Capturing the moment in time is an aspect photographers have been able to achieve for years. I hope to discover more than just one moment within this project, capturing the nature of time throughout my photography. Expressing the unseen change that potentially we disreguard everyday yet it stood right infront of our eyes.

Time is a continuous circle that as people we base our whole day, month and life around. It causes us to create routines and repetition and i hope to capture these through out my photography timeline. Observing and recording is going to be a main aspect to this piece. I want to set up a camera and just watch and wait as life and time pass us by light will exaggerate the different stages throughout this process and will hopefully encourage the normalised routines of peoples lives. I am thinking about either finding a location that will enhance these routines within a 24 hours timeline, e.g. the streets of Wellington, however this idea has a bit of room for movement and thought so perhaps this location may change after my first shoot.

I hope to present my photography in a timeline format that will me made up of a number of photo's of the same area, however over different times of the day and night so that i can express to the viewers the routines and everyday actions of people.

Weekly tasks- A fast shutter speed and a slow shutter speed.
Taken my first weekly activities at home back in christchurch. My first image is capturing my dog diving into the waves. The second is the slower shutter speed of the lights on New Brighton pier.

Precedent One.

Phillippe Halsman.

 "Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot make them drop the mask, at least for a moment, so he can capture on his film their real, undistorted personality and character. "

He used a film in order to capture the person's true characteristics and the moment that feel speaks to us and reflects who they are as a person. He has that eye for seeing the moment in time that should be visualised to the audience. Consciously placing his models into the envirnoment where an event may occur.

I found him on the magnum website:

http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.PhotographerDetail_VPage&l1=0&pid=2K7O3R13NV_6&nm=Philippe%20Halsman

I hope to take the exaggerated aspects of Phillippe's work and deliever the same results in mine. Not the exaggerated extent but still have captured a unique moment that maybe the everyday eye would of glanced past or even forgotten. This time assignment could be viewed as a documentary, recording the unseen and forgotten.

Assignment Two: Time

Final photo essay

These are my final images that I selected for the my photo essay! I didn't do enough editing thats for sure however i feel like i was able to capture the reflections of Wellington City well throughout these shoots combined. If i was to do it again. Iw ould try and compact the amount of final images i have in order to convey a stronger message.