Wednesday, 13 July 2011

Final Work Part 1

In today's lesson, I processed the film that I took over the weekend with the film camera.
After processing I attempted printing my contact print so that I could see what all the pictures I had taken would look like. I found the majority of my crucial pictures had come out blurry. I was puzzled at why this had happened because for all of them I had gotten a green light and adjusted the focus.  
I found it that it was because I shot my photos in the drama studio and the lighting there isn't very good, this forced me to use a slow shutter speed (less than 1/60 of a second). In result of using the slow shutter speed while holding the camera it allowed time to record the shaking of my hand leading in blurry pictures.
I decided to not re-take my final pictures in today's session because I didn't have my props and I would have to improvise which wouldn't have the same effect.
So for the rest of the lesson I took test shots as i they were my real pictures on a digital camera. And I signed out a camera to take for a couple of days and then return and process.
Below is the new and improved version of the sin greed:

Next week I hope to finish all work on the installation art and print my picture to mount on the 3d installation. 

Wednesday, 6 July 2011

Installation Art And Planning Final Work

In today's lesson, I began to make my piece of installation art in which I would later on mount my final photos on to.
I took a modern spin on the crown of thorns and made it out of chicken wire, nails, bolts, other random metal, plastic leaves and berries. I researched about the crown of thorns and found out that all the elements incorporated into it are symbolic of christianity. For example the red berries represent Jesus's blood.
Making the crown of thorns took quite a long time so I thought it would be a good idea not to take my final work yet (on film camera) and instead do it during the week.
I began to plan for my final work and this included taking test shots
Here is a test shot I took to help with my final work:
I took the photo to show the sin pride. I liked the fine art photgraphy approach of subtlty so I applied to my own. This represents pride in the way that it is vaguely symmterical symbolic of how we try to immitate others.

Next week I hope to mount and polish up my final work, this will include developing and print my photos.