Time and The Image.

Time and the image.

I chose this as my final image for this image lab. This was for many reasons, for example I thought the composition was eye catching, not having the main focal point in the centre but slightly off set unlike in the other shot. Looking at the image also gave me think of connotations of wildness and rawness. I visualised a Lion roaring and the streaks of light coming from the side were its whiskers and the faint shadows of light on the top its ears.

This image is meant to symbolise movement and the rigidness of the choices we make which determine these movements.

I enjoyed this project as I like working digitally and work which is colourful, to me is more inviting and appeals to me more as an artist.

Time and the Image.

I've always liked the idea of long exposures in images especially those which are full of colour. I think they create a kind of abstractness that instantly appeals to an audience as they are made to look for details within the image trying to work out what things are by their lines and colours.

At first I attempted to take a few photos that were inspired by Alexey Titarenko's work I had seen.

30 second exposure.

I went to the christmas markets with the narrative of getting ready for christmas as that is what the buzz of this time of year is for.

Although I like this idea it just wasn't as appealing to me as I had expected so chose to move to a new idea.

I used 6 glow sticks and a torch to create abstract eye catching images on the basis of long exposures.

My favourite glow stick image.

My favourite torch image.

Duane Michals

The House I Once Called Home.

Some of the series' and singular images within this book I feel reflects time; past and present.

The image above reflects what I mean by this. The faded double negative used in this image creates a sense of a memory or of time that has past. I like this idea of being able to see how a certain place was before and after. 

Alexey Titarenko

Taken from "City of Shadows" series.

This photo shows another concept of time. The idea of photos with long exposures are appealing to me and this is the route I want to go down for my own 'time' image.

I like the way this photo shows the sheer scale of what is going on at time. I feel that it is a better representation of the business of the moment that Titarenko is trying to capture.

Image Process continued..

The finished product.

Once all of our pieces were complete we printed them onto A3 lustre paper in order for them to be hung and displayed in the gallery.

We moved away from hanging with nails and bulldog clips. I think this was a good choice as I feel they were too big and overpowering for the size and delicacy of the work.

Hanging with glass headed pins.

We hung the pieces at eye level with 10cm around each piece in order for the different concepts not to interfere with each other.

In context.

It was interesting to see different artists and photographs that have different influence on people within the group as the majority were different and allowed us to be introduced to new projects we may have never seen before.

Second wall.

I think this project was the most successful so far in terms of hanging and worked well together in the space provided.

Image Processes

For this image lab topic we were told that we had to choose a photographer who's work we had seen in an exhibition that was appealing to us and we liked for certain reasons and write about this photo.

We were told to write about the Image itself such as Name, Author and size. The process of the image, how it was created (what camera, paper etc.) and the context of the image.

Image process template.

I chose an image that I had seen at the Brighton Photo Biennial 2012. It was by photographer Tony Bowen.

5952: East Sussex - Regret.

I had to email him to find out the details I needed about this particular series of work as there was little to no information on the internet as he is only a local Brighton photographer.

Copy of the email to Tony.

I felt the questions in the email above were relevant to the piece of work that I wanted to create and in understanding the reasons behind the way he did things for this project.

Tony Bowen's Website.

Doing this image lab enabled me to find out new process that photographers go through in order to get their desired effect. It also allowed me to see the thought process into not only the process of the production of the photos but also what went on afterwards. 

Layering continued...

Re-arranging the prints.

We took our images and put them into photoshop where we were aiming to create 2-3 large scale prints consisting of a collage of all our prints.
We had problems creating a perfect collage as some of the pieces weren't originally made A2 size.

Printing our large scale prints.

Once the pieces were printed we had to carefully role them to hang them in our exhibition area.

Improving our Hanging skills.

This mean't improving our skills from the previous hangings. I think we managed to work better as a group when hanging this collection and felt it was the best we had done. Although there were still a few mistakes made they weren't as noticeable and were nothing compared to those we had made in the past. 

The Final Product.