For the final project I tried to find a similar characteristic between all of the past photographs I had taken for each of the projects. And it seems that all of them have a touch of mystery, and darkness. But I'm not sure how to make a project out of mystery and darkness that is still cohesive and that makes sense to me. I've been thinking about setting up different scenes to tell a story, but that's not really something that appeals to me. I like finding pure moments in nature that I can capture with my camera. So I've decided that I want to make my final project about light, and our relationship as humans to light and how light can invoke different emotions. Also, the relationship between natural sunlight, and man-made light sources.
I've also been trying to come up with how I'll display these images. I want them to be large. Because most of them will be "landscape" portraits. But I was thinking of using the transparency paper, and printing all of the images on one giant sheet. From there I want to construct some sort of make-shift lamp. Either by using an existing lamp and fastening the sheet of pictures onto it almost like a lamp shade. I'm not sure how this will all work as of yet, I'm working on the lamp structure now, and trying to figure out the best way to display the pictures.
I'm not sure if any of this even makes sense yet, but I'm hoping once I finish taking all the pictures that everything will sort itself out.
Hi Brie! I am intrigued! I enjoy that you will both capture/represent light and create light for presentation. I think this will create an interesting play between representation / reality.
ReplyDeleteArtist Man Ray believed that light was the essence of photography, and would make images without a camera using only light...you can view some of these here
We do not have transparency that large, only 8x 10 sheets. You could print on single sheets and combine them into a larger image though...Remind me next week and I will show you what the transparencies look like when printed.