Final outcome

To choose my final image I looked over all of the edits that I have done which have been posted in the previous two posts. Having used the same eight base photographs for each of the experiments, I then produced eight different sets of experiments using different viewfinder layers.  I put all of the experiments together and first decided which of the base images (being the one involving a part of the body) to see which one worked the best. Having decided on that I then needed to choose which of the viewfinder layers over the top of the image worked best, gave the best impact and looked effective. Here is the image that I have chosen to use as my final outcome.

After deciding of this images I needed to refine it a little, it needed a little bit of touching up as the numbers across the bottom were a little bit grainy so I have sharpened them to make them stand out a bit more using the clone tool I covered up any areas around the numbers that have gone a little bit discoloured. After the touch ups that I did, the whole piece looked better than before.

I think this piece works well as my final outcome, I feel I have managed to get across the point I wanted, that we have become that reliable and dependent of cameras that they have started to be like our second set of eyes. This piece suggests that due to the layering, how I have used the bottom image of someone completing the task of putting money into a machine, I have taken that image from their point of view, showing what they are seeing from their eyes, I think this helps the outcome a lot, if the viewpoint was different, it would of changed the outcome completely. I then took a photograph of what I could see through the viewfinder of my camera, showing the battery life, the Shutter Speed, the f-stop - aperture and the ISO.  To get the viewfinder grid, I found an image on the internet. I feel that by putting all of these layers together I have been able to produce a successful piece that I feel shares my point about cameras.

more experiments..

After looking over the experiments that I have posted in the previous post I wanted to mess about a bit with the top few layers on each of the images, mainly focusing on the layers that make up the viewfinder and the settings on the camera, I want to change things around a little, taking different bits from different images and layering them together to make something that is a little bit more interesting; as some the the viewfinder and settings layers on the images below are a little simple and nothing much is happening within them. So I thought that I could benefit from experimenting as I don't really have anything to loose really, its just some more experimentation exploring the different outcomes.

Here are the different experiments that I have produced;

viewfinder 1;

 

Viewfinder 2; 

 

Viewfinder 3;

Viewfinder 4;

Having done a wide variety of experiments, I feel that I have got to a good point for this assignment. I am definitely going to choose one of the experiments that I have produced over the past few days as my final piece, some of the images behind the viewfinder layer of the image' are more interesting and effective than others; there are eight different images all consisting of different things, but all have  the same thing in common - a body part being an arm, hands, legs. I need to look over all of the experiments that I have produced and I think decided which viewfinder layer looks the most effective and has the best impact and gets across the point in which I am saying, and then decide which of the images work best.

experimenting

Over the past few days I have been experimenting a lot with the ideas that I have working towards my final image for this 'cyborg' themes assignment. Having come to the decision that I want to use the viewfinder of a camera as the top layer to my images - as what I am trying to show is how we have become so reliable on the technology of cameras and the fact that photographs are starting to take over pretty much everything that occurs on a daily basis. I personally love photography, however I don't think it is such a good thing that cameras have become this popular so fast, it seems like everybody has a camera no matter what, they are used for such a wide variety of things as well, I sometimes wonder what it was like many years ago when there was no such thing as a camera, did people view things differently knowing that they couldn't capture it, it was something they could only view the once, and forever have the memory of it.

I thought about the different about the different types of images I could use to create layers to my images, however after looking at the few experiments that I have produced in the previous two post's, more so the last post; I don't feel that layering different images together makes the outcome very interesting, it just makes them look a bit odd to look at and something doesn't seem to look right within them. I decided to back track a little on that point and decided to go out and take some of my own photographs around my local environment, taking photographs that include some part of the body doing a task - keeping in mind the cyborg theme and the fact that I have to use some part of the body and something that is technology related within my work.

I have produced a variety of different experiments using eight images of my own; as well as using different types of view finders showing the focus squares, the ISO and the aperture amongst other things simply to see the different effects that could be created with each one and the type of impact they produce. The experiments that I have produced are below;

Viewfinder 1;

Viewfinder 2;

Viewfinder 3;

Viewfinder 4;

I'm not sure at this point if I am going to develop on one of these experiments - as i'm not too sure what else I could do the them as I feel like they are all getting the point in which I want to express across already, or if I am going to produce a new piece, either way, I am very pleased with the point I am at now, considering a week ago I was doing something so different and I wasn't really sure on the direction I was going in, I feel I have made good progress and feel I am now able to successfully show my views through these images.