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.