The Lens of Katie - DSDN144

While going into this project I had some initial ideas of what sort of concept I wanted to follow, I didn't really have a solid path. I'm really happy with how my concept turned out in the end, and how the series displayed it. It challenged me to try something a little different, and I had to focus to try create images that emphasised the subject feature whilst still showing the rest of the person and how they presented themselves when I was photographing that feature. If I had had slightly more time I may have been able to present a series with even stronger images.

Output: The purpose I intend for this series is to challenge how use light and photography to document ourselves – at the end of the day, we are human and we have flaws. We should present ourselves as who we are as a whole, not for our features.

From Lost Boys of Sudan (2001).

Project 3 Final Shoot Contact Sheet

Edits of some potential photos for Project 3. I used a greyscale and high-contrast editing aesthetic so you very much focus on the focal point. I'm looking at using light to strongly focus on a physical attribute that each subject does not like, a change from the traditional "focus on the nice features".

Second Shoot

My attempt at creating an HDR image, both manually using the image fixing technique (top image) and automatically in Photoshop giving off the HDR "special effect".

Light painting exercise.

In this project, "light", I'd like to create a series to show the relationship between light and the human body. I'm interested in exploring using light to portray people how they would like to be seen - think of it as "your best side" or your "strong traits" - focus photographing these using light as a guide for the eye.

Just took a few shots tonight playing around with my concept for Project 3. I found that the torch produced a very blue-like light which was very unnatural. I guess this could be edited but the candlelight proved to be far more natural and produced far superior shapes and shadows around the face.

Music credit: "Like We Did (Windows Down)" by The Maine, from the album Pioneer. (C) Action Theory Records, 2011. No copyright infringement intended.

I found that this project brief was easier to work with than Space was, as I felt it was not as confining as time can be anything you make of it. I had plenty of ideas brewing in my head, and feel that the brief can encourage a wide variety of creativity and I’m looking forward to what everyone else has presented.

The stop motion that I have created for this project, “When We Were Young”, is trying to capture the essence of youth and how it feels to be young and free. I expressed this through a “day in the life” type format showing two friends enjoying a day at the park together. This is mainly taken from their point of view, with one friend capturing what she sees of the other friend. The idea is to capture a moment in time in these girl’s lives where they feel young together.

Wade Wave, 2004.

Weekly task - two photos taken almost identically but at different times.