In Progress Crit FINAL PROJECT

Ideas on presenting? Mounting? Suggestions? Comments?

Blog Prompt 25

Write a detailed description of your “motivations” for your final self-proposed project. Why are you interested in this subject? What do you want to convey? How do you want viewers to respond? Why are you inspired to make these images/this project? Do you want to evoke emotions in viewers? Shock viewers? Make them laugh? Make them think? Inform them? Reveal something about how you see the world? Reveal something about yourself, a person, a place, a feeling, a memory, a moment in time?


For this project I wanted to capture motion. I really like the photography of Chip Forelli, but after trying and trying to get something close to his, I have decided that his pictures take a lot of planning I just don't have time or money to plan something like that. Enter the Shutter Zoom technique. While my images will not be exactly as soft and dreamlike as Forelli's there will be a feeling of movement still. 


Forelli's images are my entire inspiration for this, and his images always look so smooth, they almost look drawn or painted. So I want the viewer to feel the same way about these images, but at the same time I want them to understand that it is being created with a camera. I will be photographing people, but I don't care if the people are smiling, or straight-faced. 

Blog Prompt 24

A. Pick two images from any of the “constructed reality” photographers presented in class or linked on the assignment sheet. Describe how you could recreate these two images on a “smaller scale”.

a. Steph Goralnick 

This one is interesting to me, because Goralnick chose to pixelate herself, and keep everything else in focus. To recreate this one, i would set my camera behind a mirror so that I would be able to see the LCD screen, because the picture of the man would have to be lined up pretty good.... then I would pixelate in photoshop...

 

This one I would recreate in a pretty similar way as the original, because it is a pretty easy picture to recreate. Maybe I would have someone looking like they were doing a hand stand. 

B. Describe your plans for your self-proposed final project (if the plan is the same as before, paste it here again and give a bit more detail). During the final critique for Assignment #5, you will discuss/present these ideas to the class.

b. For my final project I am going to play with the zoom lens to create a radial motion blur such as below:

I was going to photograph objects at first, but i didnt think it would be interesting enough, so I think Im going to photograph people and just play with the shutter zoom aesthetic. I hope to use good lighting for all of my pictures, so that I can get more contrast out of my images, without making them look too grainy.... I think that the high contrast would make them look more interesting....

Final Project Presentation

I have way too many ideas for this, and i'm just trying to think of what would be possible to do given the time frame and conditions.... Anyway, this is one of my ideas, along the lines of constructed realism. I like this look because it looks like the bike is falling into the sky.... I would basically take several objects, and make them look like they would be falling out of the sky...

I really like the idea of playing with gravity, so maybe even doing a couple pictures like the one below:

Yet another idea I had was to play around with Motion Blur the way Chip Forelli does. He is one of my favorite photographers that we researched in class. His images take a lot of time and planning though...