Diana Adriano : Week 2: Lens based media

Lens Based Media

Photography

Photography means drawing with light. It can be broken down into 3 general categories. The first is Light Drawing where the light source can be seen by the camera during long exposure. The second category is Kinetic Light Painting where the lights in the scene generally remain stationary while the camera itself is moved about during a long exposure to create color and design within the frame. The third category is Light Painting in where the light is selectively illuminate into parts of a scene during a long exposure.

Distortion

In photography, there are two types of distortions; optical and perspective. Both result in some kind of deformation of images- some lightly and others very noticeably. Optical distortion is caused by the optical design of lenses (and is therefore often called "lens distortion"), perspective distortion is caused by the position of the camera relative to the subject or by the position of the subject within the image frame.

Golden Ratio

The golden ratio is a number that can by found by taking a line or another shape and dividing it into two parts. When a line or shape is divided into two parts based on the golden ratio, it will be divided in a way that if you divided the length of the longest section by the length of the smallest section, it would be equal to the original length of the shape divided by the longest section.

The golden ratio is perfectly balanced making it pleasing to the human eye. The reason for this, the golden ration crosses from math over into art. The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper are both paintings that use golden ratio. In photography, the golden ratio can be use to identify the main subject while still leading the viewer's eye through the entire image.

4th Dimension

Time

Essential qualities of photography

Pattern
Symmetry
Texture
Line
Shape
Form
Folor
Depth of Field

Difference between shape and form

Shape is 2 dimension
Form is 3 dimension.

Depth of Field

Distance of focus between the nearest and the furthest object in an image.

Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas is a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. Was regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism and preferred to be called a realist. He is identified with the subject of the dance, and over half his works depict dances. These display his mastery in the depiction of movement, as do his racecourse subjects and female nudes.
Degas is famous as a painter of ballet dancers, and the theme of the dance class or rehearsal was one of the preoccupation of his later career.

Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge was the man who famously proved a horse can fly. By adapting the latest technology, he proved his theory by getting a galloping horse to trigger the shutters of cameras. The experiment proved indisputably for the first time what no eye has previously seen- that a horse lifts all four hooves off the ground at one point in the action of running. He invented the zoopraxiscope, a method of projecting animated versions of his photographs as short moving sequences, which anticipated subsequent developments in the history of cinema.

The Lumiere Brothers

Lumiere brothers, French inventors and pioneer manufacturers of photographic equipment who devised an early motion-picture camera and projector called the Cineatographe.

Nan Goldin

Robert Mapplethorpe

Framing the World

Photography

Its a process of drawing with light. It's a picture made using a camera in which an image is focused on to light sensitive material and then made visible and permanent by chemical reaction. It's a thing of a thing.

Don Mccullin
"Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures."

Illse Bing

Man Ray

William Eggleston
William Eggleston's photographs monumentalize everyday subject matter, such as motel rooms and storefronts, in eccentric, refined compositions. Each is potentially carrying beauty and mystery . He is someone who looks where no one doesn't bother to look.

Rankin

Bill Brandt
Brandt's photographs are relatively forward. He did not adopt the unusual viewpoints of some modernist photographers. His social documentary photographs is formal clarity often achieved in the darkroom, by cropping under the enlarger and by emphasizing tonal contrasts in printing.
Brandt also used montage, combining portions of two negatives in one print.

Formal qualities

Pattern

With our surroundings, we went and explore places where we can possibly find pattern around us. I tried to look where nobody look and decided to ignore patterned clothing such as polka dots dress, strips t-shirt and skirts and instead, decided to choose ones where no one will think it's a pattern. In my case, I have chosen to take an image of the smallest pattern that is recorded on a sofa however, the camera that I used wasn't able to capture it clearly therefore i had to abandon it and look for something else. I found some quite interesting pattern around my College such as the pattern forming from stuck of chairs creating a repeatedly rectangular shapes.

Symmetry/Asymmetry

Searching for objects or living object that looks like it could be a symmetry or asymmetry example was quite difficult as I have think if the object in front of me could be a symmetry or asymmetry example. I found an arrow pointing upwards and downwards from the elevator but i thought that this arrow is quite obvious therefore I have decided not to choose it as my final example. I found this image up on a wall from a classroom showing the letter "V" by the door in between rooms that's dark and bright. The bright room reflected the "v" letter to the dark room making 'v' looking like its 'k'.I found this rather unusual and it's somewhere no one will look at it. I took the chance and grab it before someone does.

IMAGE OF JUMP

I wanted to try the idea of portraying an image of what's about to happen or what has already happen and used this image of my brother back when we were at a museum and found this display where we thought we could do something fun with it. Therefore, we had my brother position next to frame of the display and bend down as though he is about to jump on the pool. If I were to re-take this photo of'jump' I would think about my lighting next time just to add this extra effect of it being outside on a sunny day and you are on the pool cooling down.

Framing a world- Film

Produce a magical short film no more than 3 edits and consider the following:

Location
Character
Action

Produce a single shot short film and consider the following:

The Reveal
Blocking
Framing

In a group of six, we had decided to use a paper boat as the props for our magic short film. The idea was to create a 3D boat out of a paper and creating the object as a drawing version on to a piece of paper. The idea that I had for the drawing of the boat was to have the exact same proportion as the 3D boat to create this illusion of it coming to life.
As of for the location of the scene, we chose the river Thames where actual real life boats do past by. As a group, we had problems getting the 3D boat in place with the real boat that is moving. The reason being is the use a stick as another prop to have the boat moving and the location we have chosen has barriers therefore our movement is very limited. How we have done this 'magical' short film is not how I expected it as an outcome. What I had in mind doesn't involve moving boats or including a real version. My idea for this task was simple and it is to have a 3D version prepared and stand by and also a drawing version in where we will then cut out then have the 3D version which we have created pop out from the cut out piece creating this illusion of it coming to life.
I was able to share this idea to the group but I just wished that I had only explain it properly.
The idea is inspired by Zack King who produces magnificent work of turning a mere drawing of a cat to real life version. However, this idea didn't go as plan as I wasn't able to explain to the group what it is that I had in mind.
Furthermore, the work we had produced turned out alright as the group was able to participate and give out their idea making it easier for everyone to know what we are doing.

Framing a world- Animation

Metamorphisis

The ability to facialite chnage from one form into another without edit.

Jan Svankmajer

- Bring everything to life

- Imagination is subversive

- Imagination is the biggest gift humanity

Create a 1 second (25 frame) animated transition and present as a looping GIF (Graphic Interchange Form) using 6 A4 sheets of papers.

This task is where I got all excited because it is my first time ever I am going to attempt producing my very own GIF animation. My partner and I had this idea in the beginning where we will have an egg dropping down from the sky where it will hit the ground and crack. The egg will crack and a chick will pop out. As it tries to get out it will slowly turn into an elephant, an elephant with a big giant ears with the ability of flying, just like dumbo. However, as the task is based on metamorphosis, our idea is not something where something is turning into something unexpected, for example, a man turning into a bug. Therefore, my partner and I decided that we will keep the idea of an egg falling down the sky and cracking but instead of having dumbo coming out of the egg, we would have a fireworks launching and bursting turning into a flower. Before coming up with this new idea, we both struggled as to how we are going to illustrate this idea as we are given only 6 blank sheet of papers to work with and drawing of the egg falling and cracking already took up the 3 whole pages therefore, we had to fast forward our idea jumping to a fireworks exploding into a flower. If we are given another chance to create a GIF animation, I would personally think about my idea first then start thinking about how is this related to metamorphosis then from there, will I start my illustration of my idea. In conclusion, my partner and I really loved the work we have produced and found it quite funny as our work from paper is now moving creating this story of a fallen egg turning into a flower. Even though our idea was not the best out of the lot, to ourselves, we think it's the best.