The 7 images that I initially narrowed my photographs down to are below. Each one represents an interest or a part of my life. All of them link on from the previous one. For example in the telescope reflection you can see a girl wearing the dress that appears in the next photograph. After presenting my images to my peers and tutors it was suggested that the last photo in the series felt a bit constructed and that it might be nice to have the final photo with me in it, to reveal that I was telling the story of my life. After taking this information on board I came up with the idea of taking the final photo of my self at work, considering this is where I spend most of my time when I'm not at uni. Next I needed to think about what the most appropriate way to present these images is. I decided that a gif would be best as it enable me to control the pace of the photos and if I were to lay them out on a contact sheet it would not necessarily make sense and the order might be confused by some people.
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The use of shadows within photography is an interesting one. They can be used to highlight certain aspects of an image and hide others. Large shadows can seem quite intimidating especially when you can not see the source of them, this is something that horror films make use of. Sometimes not seeing the 'bad guy' is more scary (fear of the unknown).
Once I had decided on my topic (reflections that show the story of my life I wanted to take loads of photographs in everything reflective I could find in my house. The reason behind constructing these photos in my house is that it is where some of my happiest memories are.
I wanted to see if it was possible to change the meaning or look of an image by cutting up a photograph and piecing is back together. I took a photo of a section of my living room and began to test this theory. I also tried editing the scale of certain object within the photo to make them stand out more. The result to me looks like a stack of boxes and is a bit hectic, something which can sometimes be true of family life. We had another workshop in which we were given some old photographs and had to alter them in some way. I enjoyed this because it allowed my to physically edit the photos in a way in which I had not done before. Below are some of the method that I tried: After physically manipulating some of the images I wanted to try and digitally manipulate them. Perspective can be used within photography to highlight certain aspects, such as the importance of a particular object. Looking up at an object or person shows that they are important and powerful where as looking head on at an object or person shows that you are on an equal level. In a similar way if you are looking at something through what appears to be someone else's perspective you will feel more connected to the photograph. This is one of the things that I wanted to trial within my project. I wanted to show different aspects of my life through my perspective, one of the ways I thought of doing this was through the use of mirrors and reflections. I came across an photographer called Guido Gutierrez Ruiz who captures city life using the reflections created by puddles, below are some of his photos. I also found a photographer called Gavin Hammond who has done a simmer photo series to this but has captured the essence of London within a series of photographs. One of the things that draws me into his photos is the fact that the reflection is the right way up and the real image is upside down. Richard Avedon: Starting off as a fashion photographer he based his photographs on people and showing their accomplishments and personalities within the images. This could fit in nicely with some of the suggested topics for this project for example telling the story of a person by following their journey in a day. Or even a series of staged images that show different interests of the person in question. Cindy Sherman: Similar to Avedon's photographs, she focuses on capturing the personalities of her subjects. I like her photos because they are expressive and not obvious examples of personality traits. This unexpectedness could be something that I could focus on within my story. I also wanted to look at some photographers that take photographs in the context of a story. One of the things I looked into was wedding photographers, they take a series of photographs to tell the story of someones wedding day. Below are some examples of wedding photographers that I thought did this well. David Jones: Ellie Gillard: Adam Johnson: Initially I wanted to follow the 'day in my life' topic, in which I took photographs every half an hour. However I don't really do anything that could work in the context of a story. I then toyed with the idea of a simple vs a complex narrative. For example making a cup of tea vs telling the story of someones imagination.
To begin this project we were given the task of creating a narrative within six images. In pairs we were given a word to illustrate. The word my team was given was division. We began by brainstorming ideas, one of which was to use a bar of chocolate to show division. We drew out a storyboard and began to work out how we wanted each photo to be set up. Initially we wanted to use a friendship group within the images to show them dividing the chocolate amongst themselves but it resonated more closely with words such as sharing. It was suggested to us that we try to simplify the photos down to the core elements. We removed the idea of the friends and just took photos of the chocolate. This worked much better and people were able to guess the word immediately.
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