I still don't feel that these experiments are that good and they still need a lot of work, I need to get some images that are going to piece together really well to get the best outcome I can.
Thursday, 1 March 2012
new edits..
Here are two new edits that I have produced using the same technique that I foduced on in the previous post of using the view finder as the initial layer of the image
I still don't feel that these experiments are that good and they still need a lot of work, I need to get some images that are going to piece together really well to get the best outcome I can.
I still don't feel that these experiments are that good and they still need a lot of work, I need to get some images that are going to piece together really well to get the best outcome I can.
new ideas
From the feedback I got a few days ago I wanted to experiment with a suggestion made by my tutor about this experiment:
I don't really like this experiment, I wasn't really too sure on the direction that I was going in with it and it was pretty much just a starting point for me to get across my initial ideas. There were some suggestions made that maybe I should carry on with the idea of half the human body sitting on a tripod, making them like a manikin and they are being controlled by the camera, as well as the connection with the fashion/model side of it how they are pretty much controlled and told what to do. However this wasn't really something that I was interested in, nor was it something that I felt I could successfully achieve as it wasn't really something I could put my heart into as I couldnt grasp the idea very well. So I decided to go ahead and take some of the things mentioned such as the tripod and body and apply it to somthing else to make it a bit more of my own and something that I had though of. Here is the experiment I produced;
When I finished this experiment I did quite like it, but the more I looked at it, I realised that it just wasn't working, nor would it work if i carried on experimenting with it; it was just not portraying and saying what I wanted it to. For this edit I basically took a tripod and placed it into the image that I found in the internet, I then layered the top half of a womens body onto the image sitting on top of the tripod and then made her look a little bit like a camera by giving her a lens for an eye and placing some of the buttons that you would find on the back of a camera onto her body. Like you can see, it really doesn't look very good and it is a bit missleading in saying we have become so relyable on cameras and they are like our second set of eyes; it's being a bit too literal by having the lens as an eye and I don't feel it works.
It was at this point that I had the chat with my class mate (which I mentioned in the previous post). I took a lot from this very brief talk, it was more about finding a better way of showing that cameras are like our second set of eyes through the piece that I want to produce. Which is where the suggestion of using the view finder somewhere in the piece, as when we look through the view finder on our cameras we see things such as the spot AF area, different AF points, if the camera is in Manual or Automatic focus, the shutter speed, ISO, aperture and the exposure meter, this seemed like a good and interesting way of showing my thought of how cameras have become such a big part of us.
Below are the initial experiments that I have produced using this idea, the were just quick experimented to get down the first few ideas that came into my head after I had this conversation.
I an very pleased with these experiments; they have a better way of showing the camera as our eyes through the first layer of the photograph, rather than looking at a person who has parts of the camera edited onto their body. These experiments send a better and clearer message to the viewer and is a bit more direct and to the point than before. I am going to carry of experimenting with this to see what different things I can produce and I will hopefully be able to produce a good and successful final piece at the end of the experimental process.
I don't really like this experiment, I wasn't really too sure on the direction that I was going in with it and it was pretty much just a starting point for me to get across my initial ideas. There were some suggestions made that maybe I should carry on with the idea of half the human body sitting on a tripod, making them like a manikin and they are being controlled by the camera, as well as the connection with the fashion/model side of it how they are pretty much controlled and told what to do. However this wasn't really something that I was interested in, nor was it something that I felt I could successfully achieve as it wasn't really something I could put my heart into as I couldnt grasp the idea very well. So I decided to go ahead and take some of the things mentioned such as the tripod and body and apply it to somthing else to make it a bit more of my own and something that I had though of. Here is the experiment I produced;
When I finished this experiment I did quite like it, but the more I looked at it, I realised that it just wasn't working, nor would it work if i carried on experimenting with it; it was just not portraying and saying what I wanted it to. For this edit I basically took a tripod and placed it into the image that I found in the internet, I then layered the top half of a womens body onto the image sitting on top of the tripod and then made her look a little bit like a camera by giving her a lens for an eye and placing some of the buttons that you would find on the back of a camera onto her body. Like you can see, it really doesn't look very good and it is a bit missleading in saying we have become so relyable on cameras and they are like our second set of eyes; it's being a bit too literal by having the lens as an eye and I don't feel it works.
It was at this point that I had the chat with my class mate (which I mentioned in the previous post). I took a lot from this very brief talk, it was more about finding a better way of showing that cameras are like our second set of eyes through the piece that I want to produce. Which is where the suggestion of using the view finder somewhere in the piece, as when we look through the view finder on our cameras we see things such as the spot AF area, different AF points, if the camera is in Manual or Automatic focus, the shutter speed, ISO, aperture and the exposure meter, this seemed like a good and interesting way of showing my thought of how cameras have become such a big part of us.
Below are the initial experiments that I have produced using this idea, the were just quick experimented to get down the first few ideas that came into my head after I had this conversation.
I an very pleased with these experiments; they have a better way of showing the camera as our eyes through the first layer of the photograph, rather than looking at a person who has parts of the camera edited onto their body. These experiments send a better and clearer message to the viewer and is a bit more direct and to the point than before. I am going to carry of experimenting with this to see what different things I can produce and I will hopefully be able to produce a good and successful final piece at the end of the experimental process.
more feedback..
I found the feedback session this week both very confusing and helpful. Having shown the experiments which are in the previous post, the direction I want to go in was understood, yet wasn't really obvious and definable within my experiments. My class mates and tutor suggested a few different ways I could approach the experimenting stage, things such as backtracking and going back to using a tripod as legs, making the person like a manikin, there were also a few other suggestions as to where I could go with it, but during the session I actually found myself very lost and confused, there were so many different things going through my head and as stupid as it sounds, I was trying to make sense of everything that had just been suggested to me yet I was totally unable to.
I decided to switch off to it for a few hours and stop thinking about it in the hope that I could come up with some ideas for what to do next. Which is exactly what happened, I was able to make total sense of everything that night - I guess my brain was just a bit overloaded with information; even though it didn't seem like much was said.
I also spoke to one of my class mates the next day as she had suggested something to me, yet again I couldn't make full sense of it. Once I had spoken to her about it, everything made total sense and my ideas started to fall into place. The thing that she had suggested was that I could maybe look at using what we see when looking through the view finder of a camera as the eyes of the person within the piece that I was going to produce, making it obvious that what I am trying to show is how we have become so much like cameras, the have become a necessity and they are like our second set of eyes.
Taking all of this advice in I decided to go off and experiment with my ideas a little more... the outcomes that I produce will follow.
I decided to switch off to it for a few hours and stop thinking about it in the hope that I could come up with some ideas for what to do next. Which is exactly what happened, I was able to make total sense of everything that night - I guess my brain was just a bit overloaded with information; even though it didn't seem like much was said.
I also spoke to one of my class mates the next day as she had suggested something to me, yet again I couldn't make full sense of it. Once I had spoken to her about it, everything made total sense and my ideas started to fall into place. The thing that she had suggested was that I could maybe look at using what we see when looking through the view finder of a camera as the eyes of the person within the piece that I was going to produce, making it obvious that what I am trying to show is how we have become so much like cameras, the have become a necessity and they are like our second set of eyes.
Taking all of this advice in I decided to go off and experiment with my ideas a little more... the outcomes that I produce will follow.
Monday, 27 February 2012
experiments..
From the feedback I got a few weeks ago, where it was suggested that I just went off and did some more experimenting with making people like cameras, I have produced the above experiments. It was suggested that not only should I look at putting camera parts onto people, but also going about it the other way around and placing body parts onto a camera. I experimented with that idea on the first experiment; I thought the outcome was quite interesting and different yet it didn't really work with what I want to show within my work. So I went back to experimenting with different parts of the camera body on people's bodies - shown in five of the experiments above. I feel that the bottom two experiments are the most successful out of the five as I started to get a better direction and found it a bit easier to place the pieces together. However I still feel that there is something missing from them, so it is something that I need to experiment with a lot more.
Friday, 24 February 2012
a bit about my idea...
Like I have mentioned previously I am looking at the way in which cameras have become a big part of out lives, they are used every single day of our lives in one way or another, with things varying from CCTV to studio work, cameras have become a necessity to us, they are like an extension to our own bodies.
"Now, according to Samsung, 2.5 billion people around the globe have a digital camera" - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/magazine-16483509
I want to focus on how we - as humans, have taken a strong liking to cameras and how they are now such a big part of us, we use cameras for many different reasons, personal photographs of things such as families, parties, and special occasions. For work purposes like studio work, events and landscape photographs are amongst a few. Camera are like our second nature and we rely on them to a certain extent, we use them to capture our memories, to keep them fresh in out minds.
Therefore for this project I am going to look at how cameras have become part of us, using both photographs of people and of cameras, by cut and pasting, blending and merging I intend to produce numerous experiments exploring this theme.
"Now, according to Samsung, 2.5 billion people around the globe have a digital camera" - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/magazine-16483509
(images taken from Google)
I want to focus on how we - as humans, have taken a strong liking to cameras and how they are now such a big part of us, we use cameras for many different reasons, personal photographs of things such as families, parties, and special occasions. For work purposes like studio work, events and landscape photographs are amongst a few. Camera are like our second nature and we rely on them to a certain extent, we use them to capture our memories, to keep them fresh in out minds.
Therefore for this project I am going to look at how cameras have become part of us, using both photographs of people and of cameras, by cut and pasting, blending and merging I intend to produce numerous experiments exploring this theme.
Thursday, 23 February 2012
feedback..
A few days ago we had a feedback session in which I explained the ideas that I have so far and the direction in which I want to go in, as well as showing the initial experiments that I have produced exploring these ideas (shown in the post below).
Thankfully people understood the ideas that I had, however I still have a lot of work to do to get to a point where my experiments are successfully enough to portray my idea of how cameras have taken over our bodies and are now like our second set of eyes.
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Thankfully people understood the ideas that I had, however I still have a lot of work to do to get to a point where my experiments are successfully enough to portray my idea of how cameras have taken over our bodies and are now like our second set of eyes.
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Monday, 20 February 2012
Experiments...
So going from the ideas that I have in my head from the bits of research that I have done over the past week I produced two different pieces, one using the cut and paste technique and the other on photoshop so I could start to blend the objects together a bit more making them look like one piece.
Cut and Paste
Photoshop edit
I got some good feedback for these pieces - saying that the direction in which I am going in is good and the initial experiments are effective in showing what I want to show, yet they are still missing something.
I want to try experimenting with a few different things;
firstly I need to produce a wider variety of experiments exploring the theme. I want to maybe focus more on one are of the body, maybe the face focusing on including some areas of the camera into the face and making the connection that way. Also maybe including human body parts onto a camera and exploring the things I can produce that way. Also taking bigger body parts such as an arm and replacing it with something such as a tripod to see the different variety of experiments that I can produce whilst exploring the idea of how cameras have become such a big part of our lives and how we maybe take them for granted most of the time.
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