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y chosen theme is relationships. I have chosen this theme because I want to explore how photography can show the relationship between objects and people and how they interact with each other. To research this theme, I will look at photographers and how they photographed people and objects. I will also look at how objects and people interact and try to recreate those relationships using a camera. I intend to carry out photoshoots involving how objects interact with each other to create something new or display something that is otherwise hidden. I will also photograph people and try to convey how those relationships affect them. I will use photographers such as Ebru Sidar who uses black and white to make very high contrast photographs with deep blacks and blown out whites. I like this style because it gives a more obscure look to otherwise ordinary pictures. I will use Photoshop to digitally edit and manipulate the photographs I take whether I am distorting the image to give it a completely new look or just enhancing it to make it look better. I will also use photographic film to take photographic which can be developed in the darkroom to give a unique looking picture every time. In this project, I want to explore and learn how objects and people interact with each other, then, using photography, I will convey how those emotions and effects they have on one another. I see my final format as being digitally edited and manipulated photographs that I have distorted or enhanced in photoshop. Although most of my photographs will be captured digitally, I will also use film to take some pictures so I continue with my theme of analogue formats.
(Left) his photograph shows the relationship between a persons hand and the keyboard of a computer. I could explore this relationship in my work by photographing the different relationships between people and different objects that we interact with on a day-to-day basis - such as phones, computers, etc.
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(Left) or this photograph, I used a picture disc record (Abbey Road to be precise) and played it on my turntable, I then used a long exposure to blur the image. This shows the relationship between motion and the playing of the record. I develop this idea of relationship between motion by capturing other movements with a long exposure - such as running or moving cars at night.
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(Below) n this picture, I show three different methods of listening music. From left to right the technology gets newer from a record to cassette to CD and finally to an iPod. I could show this relationship in my work by photographing different mediums of music reproduction - such as a turntable and LP, or earphones plugged into an iPod.
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(Right) his picture is of a small instant film photograph in a frame. The obvious relationship in the picture is between the two people in the small photograph, but there is also a relationship between the shapes - there are squares and rectangles that grow out in incraments. I could expand upon this relationship between shapes in my work, as relationships between people.
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(Below) his photograph shows my film camera on top of an old photography box with the words “handle with care� on the top. The relationship in the picture is between the camera and the box because everything need for the camera to take photographs is in the box
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(Left) he relationship in this picture shown with a camera and a cassette of black & white film is to display how two objects that are useless on their own can combine to make something quite amazing - in this case, capturing light. I could use this in my work by putting two objects that work together next to each other to show the same relationship.
(Right) n this photograph, I placed a blank cassette on a blank labelled record. It shows the realtionship between the two analogue mediums which don’t have listed songs on them (the cassette has a title but it is actually wrong). I could use this relationship between the two objects in my photographs to show a blanks canvas - an incomplete work.
T (Below) or this photograph, I put three different analogue technologies together. There are strips of 35mm film, a cassette and a 12 inch record which are all non-digital ways of capturing information - sound and light in this case. This common analogue theme is what the relationship is between the objects in this picture.
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(Right) his picture is of a photograph I took with black & white film of the Bundestag (vv) in Berlin. I placed a lighter on top of the picture to show the relationship between the German flag on the lighter and the German house of parliament. I could use this idea to show relationships between other objects and thier country of origin or inspiration.
(Below) his photograph is of the cartridge and stylus of my record player. It shows the relationship and the importance of the tiny stylus moving along the grooves in the record to create a loud and dynamic sound from such a microscopic place. This idea could be developed to show how other small objects affect their environments so much.
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his photograph by HansChristan Schink called A20 Peenebrucke Jarmen is of a road which is cutting through the hills. It shows how man-made structures affect and interact with a natural environments. The picture is quite striking because it looks like it would be an otherwise peaceful valley but has had a road rip through it and completely bocks the valley from the angle the photograph was taken, completely changing the environment and how one views the photograph. It displays the relationships between man-made structures and nature: how man cuts through nature like scars.
have tried to interpret this photograph by finding another place where nature is cut through with a man-made structure. I found a railway bridge which cuts through a forest, matching the same style of the photograph. Like in Schink’s the bridge cuts through woodland and although it is not as striking as going through a mountain range, it is clear what and where the structure is slicing through.
My interpritaion Hans-Christian Schink’s A20 Peenebrucke Jarmen
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he photographer Steven Pippin experimented with taking photographs using washing machines to get a circle photograph instead of the conventional rectangle. The photograph is taken from inside a washing machine looking out into the room. Because of the shape of the window on the washing machine, the imagine is slightly warped like a fish-eye lens. The glass has some dirt on it which makes the photograph more interesting instead of just being a circle picture of a room through a washing machine. The relationship Pippin has shown in the photograph is between photography and not using the conventional rectangle for a picture like what is normally use - not just in images, but also for television, computers, books etc.
Steven Pippin’s use of washing machines
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or my interpretation, I used an old film camera instead of a washing machine to get the circle affect. Although there is no fish-eye look to the photograph, because it is a lens the image is flipped upside down which gives it a different look that still adds something interesting to the photograph instead of just the circle being the focus. In Pippin’s image, there is dirt on the window to the washing machine, since I did not have this on the lens, instead I kept part of the feeding mechanism for the film in the picture to make it more interesting.
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his display by Dough Aitkin uses photographs printed on large a acrylic word which relate to what is in the picture. The word is 3D and backlit by LEDs to make the photograph shine through, which allows it to stand out from the plain wall it is mounted on. The word in Aitkin’s work is ‘free’ which relates to the picture inside the letters. The photograph itself is very colourful and bright with contrasts against the plain black wall which it is mounted on, helping it to pop out from its surroundings.
My interpritaion Doug Aitkin’s use of alternate formats
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o show the relationship between the different landscapes in these four different photographs, Doug Aitkin combined them by joining up the edges of the horizon to make a kite shape. The colours in each picture also combine to make the different images flow together better, bringing the whole piece into one. Aitkin also used mostly water (other than the bottom right photograph which is ice) to make the point in the middle of the kite where everything combines to bring all of the landscapes and environments into one.
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n my interpretation, I didn’t want to use flat landscapes, instead I used trees lines which made a much smaller kite in the middle and one that doesn’t line up as well as Aitkin’s, but I think it looks nice. I also didn’t have a consistent colour in each of the four photographs, rather, I used four different looking skies that I took over time to create a kite of multicoloured clouds as oppose to single coloured water. I also think the clouds have a better relationship with each other than the water because although the colours are mismatch, the different formations show the diversity of clouds and how the way light hits them can change how the appear completely.
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Doug Aitkin’s use of alternate formats
or my interpretation, I did not have any large, LED light, acrylic letters that I could mount to a wall to I made the letters in Photoshop and then tried to make it look as close to real as possible. The photograph I chose to use was a close up of the cartridge and stylus from my record player. I decided to use the word ‘phono’ because it is the signal the produced by stylus moving along the grooves of the record which becomes the music/sound that comes out of the speakers. To make the word look like it is mounted to the wall, I took a photograph of some skirting board in my house and put the text on it, matching the colour and lighting as closely as possible. To make the text look 3D, I just duplicated the layer and offset it slightly to mimic a light source coming from the top right.
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Ed Ruscha’s use of words over photographs
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or my interpretation, I wanted to fix the photographs up a bit. The picture opposite to each other hold the relationship but the ones horizontally next to them do not. The top left and bottom right both of woodland (like in Aitkin’s version) and were photographed digitally. Whereas the top right and bottom left are both of landmarks in Windsor (the castle and the copper horse) and were taken on expired photographic film to make the colours slightly distorted. Because of these differences it makes the kite in the middle have different sized sides where only the oppose photographs are the same size. This shows a relationship between the pictures but if their kite sides line up, they will lose their other similarities.
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his is another image by Doug Aitkin that uses four photographs to make a kite by joining up the edges of each picture. This version uses photographs of woodland and clearings to create the kite with the main colour in the piece being green because of the trees and grass. Above the ground in each picture, the tree line is also combined to create a background to the kite and give the overall image more depth and detail instead of just the ground being the main focus.
My interpritaion Doug Aitkin’s use of alternate formats
y interpretation for this photograph used text of a picture as well but instead of using a picture of the sky, I used an object and then words that related to it. I used a photograph of a close-up of the tone arm on my record player with the tiny stylus as the main focus of the image. The relationship between the words and the picture refer to the switching on of the record player. The words, “turn on, tune in, drop out” is an phrase from the anti-war movement throughout the late-60s, early-70s but I have used it here to say turn on the record player, tune your mind into the music, and drop out to immerse yourself in the music.
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his photograph by Ed Ruscha again shows a relationship between words and a backdrop image. In this case, the words “pay nothing until April” are over a photograph of snow capped mountains. I think the relationship he is trying to show is the escapism that the words and the picture combine to create. He is not paying his dues until another time and instead escaping to the emptiness of the mountains.
or my interpretation, I used a photograph of a massive cumulonimbus cloud with the words “I am significant” on top of it. I did this because the enormous cloud makes you feel very small and insignificant while the bold words try to battle that feeling with their intrusive size and font. I am trying to convey how small we are, but how we are not insignificant in our own little world.
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Ed Ruscha’s use of words over photographs
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his drawing by Ed Ruscha which is based off one of his photographs is of a petrol station in Flagstaff, Arizona in America. It shows a relationship between the geometry of the building and the colours of the “standard” sign and the petrol pumps. The lines of the building all line up; the roof and the sigh create a straight line down diagonally and the pillars holding the sign up create a straight line parallel to the petrol pumps. The vivid red of the sign and the petrol pumps create a nice contrast to the white and greys of the building as well as to the plain blue sky.
Ed Ruscha’s Flagstaff, Arizona
n my interpretation, I wanted to focus more on the relationships between the parallel lines and geometry in the photograph instead of lots of vivid colours. Most of the lines are in the arael which go in a many different directions. It is also meant to be taking the place of the “standard” sign as the main subject of the photograph because of how it works in the roof in a similar way to the sign.
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or my first photo shoot, I wanted to capture the relationships between different objects; objects and a persons hand; analogue relationships (photographic film and records); and how motion works with an object to create something. My first set of photographs focus on the relationship between my camera, a camera box and the photographic film which work together to capture light and create a photograph. The next set of photographs I took show the relationship between different objects. For example, between four Apple devices (iPod Touch, two iPod Nanos and an iPhone) and three variations of computers (a new laptop, an old laptop and a mouse representing a desktop). I also showed how the human hand interacts with different objects, such as keyboards, a mouse and a phone, to perform tasks in our day-to-day lives. Lastly, I wanted to show the relationship between objects and motion. I showed this by taking long exposures of a picture disc record on my turn table to blur the image printed on the LP, displaying motion. I had the tone arm down to show how the record miving under the stylus creates the traction over the grooveds of the record, thus creating sound.
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hese photographs from this photo shoot have been colour corrected so they look better than the original image. I did not do much digital manipulation for this photo shoot because I wanted to focus more on the objects themselves instead of creating distractions with excessive editing in Photoshop. One photograph I did manipulate what the picture of the two laptops and mouse (shown here at the bottom) because the desk wasn’t big enough so I extended the wood in Photoshop so it filled the frame.
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or this photo shoot, I wanted to capture the images needed to interpret different artists while still using my own style. I took the artists’ ideas and altered them slightly in order to make them appear different and have a different meaning behind them while keeping the relationship in the photographs the same.
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ost of my artists interpretations did not take a huge amount of editing, some involved just a bit of colour correction and adding large text to the picture. But my interpretations of Doug Aitkin’s work took a lot more editing, getting the angles right in the first couple of pictures so they made a kite took a bit of time and getting the text in the ‘phono’ to look 3D took some finesse. But overall, other than a bit of colour correction, I did not do a huge amount of digital editing for these photographs.
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or this photo shoot, I used 35mm black and white film to take all of the pictures. I used film in order to get a high contrast in my images and by using a high aperture, I could also get a low depth-of-field. I also used a ghosting technique in one of my images to overlay and combine two images by rewinding the film just enough to re-expose the same part of the film. When I did this, I photographed my record player, rewound the film, and photographed some record sleeves that I had laid on the floor. By using this ghosting technique, I can show the relationship between two objects that have actually been combined into one photograph.
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did not do any digital editing for my photographs taken with film in order to keep the pure analogue look - although I had to photograph them pictures to get them on the eMag.
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chose this theme because it has more possibilities than you would expect - relationships between objects and the environment instead of just between people. I have explored this theme by looking at how analogue technologies (and digital technologies, although not as much) relate to each other to record sound or light and replay that information. I have learned that this theme can be very diverse if you explore it in areas that may not be traditional but are still relevant it and give a similar end result.
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couple of photographers I chose to explore were Ed Ruscha and Doug Aitkin. Both of these artist showed how the theme of relationships can be stretched very far to where just text can be placed on a photograph which vaguely relates to what the text says. Other influences in my work have been old technologies (such as photographic film and records) and more specifically, analogue technologies which I think capture more life than their digital counterparts.
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he photo shoots I have completed so far focus largely on analogue technologies as well as some digital. The photographs relate to my theme because I have either edited (manually and digitally) or composed the photographs so the objects in them show a relationship between each other. I have used wide aperture settings on my camera to get a low depth-of-field and I have used a mixture of digital and film photography to put a bit of variety into my work. I have used various techniques to develop my theme. I have done a lot of digital editing to combine photographs to clearly show relationships. I would refine these techniques by using a wider variety of camera angles and settings to get more varied shots - especially with film since I cannot edit those photographs to improve them. I would like to take film photography further but to do this I think I will need a better camera which has a changeable lens so I can be more diverse in the photographs I take.
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am going to take digital editing as well as film photography further to develop my theme because the film gives a nice look and related to other analogue technologies and the digital editing as a wide range of possibilities that I can explore. I can make use of my photographers research by using text on some of my images to show a relationship, or make a shape (such as a kite) out of pictures I have taken. I need to develop my film photo shoot further because I would like to have more diversity in the types of photographs I take with the black and white film. When displaying my final outcome, I am going to have it in a frame but have it slightly 3D (parts of it will be raised with foam board) to give it a subtle look while still having something interesting to look at when it is viewed up close.
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n this photo shoot, I decided to photograph different objects related to analogue sound reproduction as well as objects that use analogue and digital technologies to record a medium (sound and light). My first set of photographs in this photo shoot were of small details in my cassette player and record player. I tried to capture the parts of these objects that reproduce the sound - such as the cartridge on the record player or the part that holds the cassette on the cassette player. I then photographed the records and cassettes themselves to try and get as much detail in that object that actually holds the sound. I used five different cassette types and a few different records in order to get a variety of label designs. Later on in the photo shoot I captured the large album art on the sleeves of 12” LPs which I will use in a digital edit to combine the artwork with the object use to store the music itself. For the final part of the photo shoot, I photographed multiple different objects which all relate to recording either sound of light as an analogue or digital format. I took a lot of pictures because I wanted to combine all of them into one image with will show the relationship in the type of waveform. For the analogue technologies, I used a cassette, a 7” single, a film camera, a roll of black and white film and a photograph that had been taken with film. For the digital technologies, I used a CD, an iPod and a small, point and shoot digital camera.
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n this photo shoot, I did a lot more digital manipulation to combine the many different photographs I took. I focused a lot on the relationship between different analogue technologies as well as some on the album artwork and the many cassettes I photographed. I wanted to focus a lot on the small details in these edits to make them look the best they could be. For example, I replaced the title (and changed ‘stereo’ to ‘mono’) on the cassette which is combined with a record player to match that of the LP. Although I focused more on the analogue technologies and put most of my time into getting those edits just right, I did make one digital relationship in Photoshop (seen bottom right) using the CD and iPod I photographed I showed the relationship by having a digital waveform pass through the two objects - like with analogue waveforms in the analogue edits.
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n this photo shoot, I did not have any clear ideas as to what I wanted to photograph so instead I tried to recreate the look of photographic film using Photoshop to create the high-contrast and, for the black and white images, a lack of colour. For a few of the images (notably the top left) I used a 50mm lens with f/1.8 to get as lower depth of field as I possibly could. All of the photographs here went through a lot of colour correction to make it look as if it had been taken on photographic film except from the last one. Although there was not a huge amount of colour correction for this last picture, there was a lot of editing none-the-less to get the right back ground I wanted to the small framed image. For this background I went back to my album art pictures where I used a part of the Led Zeppelin IV artwork to get the look I wanted (my wall is florescent green which didn’t really work for the look I was going for). The relationship I wanted to show in this photograph, other than between the two people in the small instant film picture inside the frame, was the increasing size in rectangle shapes. The rectangles in the photograph expand out from the small picture in the centre, to the frame and finally to the whole image being rectangular.
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or this technique, I used one photographed and cropped in it places to make each new part look like a different picture. I focused on corners and details in the photograph that you would not usually look at to make each crop seem very different, showing that very small detail in a photograph is different.
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or these photographs, I rotated the pictures to give them a repeating look. In the first set of photographs, I cropped the images into just rectangles then flipped the three duplicate images on its side, upside-down, and then both sideways and upside-down to make it look like a set of mirrors. For the second set of photographs, I cropped them into sets of polygons and then connected them up to make it look like a beehive of keyboard keys.
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his technique uses repetition of one image to give the photograph a strange and different look. By repeating small sections of the same picture and reducing the opacity, it allows the repeats to blend into the picture more without it looking too random or excessive.
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or this technique, I used the text wrap function around a photograph. This could show the relationship between the words wrapped around the picture and the picture itself. For example, I could have one thousand word describing what is in the photograph which it surrounds (a picture is worth a thousand words) to give the image context and show a relationship between the words and the photograph.
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Ebru Sidar’s photographs
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hese photographs by Ebru Sidar use techniques that I would like to explore in my work. She creates a look and feeling to her photographs that make the images look interesting and unique. The high contrast, grain and black and white makes the pictures look like they were taken on old photographic film, this combined with the low depth-of-field gives each photograph a new look. Despite the subjects in these photographs are very simple (trees and landscapes) the pictures look very interesting because of the techniques used to enhance and manipulate the pictures make them more than just an image of a tree and they become beautiful black and white pieces of art. The best way to get this look will be to use black and white film with a wide aperture lens (50mm with an f-number of f/1.8 will work well). Some photographs I took with my film camera are pictured below. The camera I took these photographs with, however, does not have a detachable lens and only an aperture of f/2.8 so the depth-of-field is not as low as I would have liked but the contrast in the photographs is sufficient.
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his technique of double-exposures once again uses photographic film (colour works well in specific situations, but I prefer the divercity of black and white for this technique). To get this ‘ghosting’ look I took a photograph of half exposure, I then advanced the film before rewinding it just enough to put the same section of film back into place. I took another half-exposure shot to combine the two images I just took. Although this look is easily recreateable in Photoshop, it means the images have been combined digitally, whereas this method combines them chemically which I think is nicer. The way to get the best results with this method of double-exposure is to take one high contrast image and then a lower contrast image, however, my example does not follow this but still came out quite well. I took a picture of my record player, and then of some 12” LP sleeves to show the relationship between the two objects. In the ghosted photograph, you can see the carterage and the platter of the turntable.
Here, the turntable can be clearly seen against the albumart.
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his possible idea uses a top-down view of a record player which is made out of a series of photographs which all relate to analogue technologies (which records are) in some way or another. The background of the record player is made of pictures all taken on black and white photographic film which have been randomly placed. The tone arm of the record player is made of just one black and white photograph which is a close up of a cartridge and stylus. Finally, the platter of the record player is made up of colour photographs which have been digitally manipulated or enhanced. I chose to have only this part of the piece with colour because it represents the record and the sound produced by the record - the true centre of attention. The relationship I am trying to show in this idea for a final piece is how the different photographs all work together to create one object. Also, all of the photographs relate to analogue waveforms in some way, the black and white pictures taken on 35mm film are analogue image and the digitally edited and manipulated photographs have been edited to relate to analogue as well.
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or my other possible idea, I made an analogue waveform out of colour photographs which all depict some sort of analogue technology. The background to the wave is a black and white photograph of a cassette player (which uses analogue signals to produce sound) which contrasts the colours of the wave pattern. I used the relationship between the photographs in the piece which all use analogue waveforms. The photographs all show an analogue technology (cassettes and records) and so the way the produce and record information is in the same waveform as the shape that they make up. This relationship between the different photographs makes for an interesting looking final piece because of it simplicity while also maintaining a level of complexity once you look closer at it and think about the relationships behind it.
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irst, I drew out a top-down view of a record player which would be the layout of my final piece. I then cut out the foam board to the appropriate size of the parts of the record player that I wanted elevated (the platter, tone arm and the parts around the counter-weight). Pictured here is the plater cut out at 7� in diameter to match a 7� single next to the drawing of the record player.
he platter of the turntable was the only part to contain colour (although some of these photographs were taken with colour film, most of them have been digitally captured and edited) because that is where the sound is sourced from, creating the wonderful world of music. I Also cut out drips from other colour photographs and positioned them to simulate the motion of the spinning turntable.
o get the correct sized cut-outs in the foam board, I marked out where I would cut using a craft knife through the paper. Pictured here is the cartridge before I cut it out.
ictured here is how I cut out the drips for the platter.
fter I had cut out the foam board, I started to work on the base of the turntable and what would be the background to the piece as a whole. I only used black and white photographs taken with photographic film on this part of the piece (some of which I had developed myself) so all the colours would match, contrasting the rest of the record player.
y final outcome once it had been framed.
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his is what my final piece looked like once I had framed it. Because the glass was about 3/4 of an inch away from the piece, it was able to fit into the frame nicely without touching it. The relationship I was trying to show in the piece was between the photographs which all relate to analogue technologies in some way or another. All of the background images were taken using black and white photographic film (which is analogue) and the rest of the photographs on the platter and tone arm were either taken with colour film or relate in some way to analogue technologies - mostly records. Another relationship I was trying to show in the piece was how the different photographs work together to create an object (a record player) and especially how the black and white pictures contrast the colour ones which represent the music in the disc. I used some of my photographer’s research in my final piece with the use of words. On the platter of the record player, I cut out the word “phono� which is the signal produced by the record moving against the stylus which eventually comes out of the speakers as sound. I did this to show the relationship between the record and the stylus in the cartridge while also adding something more interesting to the final piece. Areas I could have improved on is the photographs in the disc. The drips are not cut out well and the photograph in the centre that is mean to be the label does not work well with the piece as a whole. I also think the colours of the photographs are not vibrant enough and so do not stand out from the black and white pictures in the background as much as I would have liked.
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(Left) or this scan, I used an old film camera, a couple of old glass drink bottles and a 7” single. I put the camera lens down against the scanner to use the very low depth-of-field of the scanner to get the lens all in focus but have the rest of the camera out of focus. I did this to make the scan look as if it is looking up through a table instead of a top-down view. This look it quite hard to achieve with a camera unless you have a large glass table, but even then it will not look right because of the higher depth-of-field that cameras have - as well as the glare the glass will produce. I used these objects because I wanted it to look like the image could be looking up through any table at these very normal objects. The relationship shown in this scan is between the objects. Although the items are quite old (7” singles and film cameras aren’t very popular anymore), they are all ordinary objects that would be found on tables, maybe not so often now, but in the past. So this scan is like looking up through a table in the late 1960s and the objects in the scan help to convey this look.
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(Above) n this scan, I placed my film camera lens down so the part of the camera that is touching the scanner is in focus but the main body of the camera is not. As the scanner moved across the screen, I moved the camera to the other side and had it positioned up right. This gives the illusion that there are two identical cameras on the scanner. The relationship I was trying to show with this scan was between the two cameras shown because they are clones and so there is actually only one camera, but by moving it during the scan, I made it seem like there are two.
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(Left) hen I did this scan, I to have the relationship between the objects and their composition to tell a story instead of just being randomly placed items. I used a picture with the words “thinking of you” written on it to have it look as if a person is away but the viewer of the scan doesn’t know where, leaving a lot to the imagination. The batch of roses and rose petals around the photograph add to the atmosphere of the scan, it adds something and make the scan more interesting. As a backdrop I used a bit of cow skin pattern fur so the background wouldn’t just be the plain white scanner which would detract from the other objects in the image. The relationship I was trying to show with this scan was how the objects work together to tell a story and make the viewer think about what they are looking at.
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(Right) or this scan, I just used the items that were in my pocket - keys, phone and card wallet. I used these objects because they are relatively boring and ordinary so to make the scan more interesting, I moved my phone as it scanned to distort it and turn a standard looking ground of items into something that is more interesting to look at. Although distorting my phone was an interesting idea and is probably the main focus of that scan, it is not the relationship in the image. Instead, I was trying to show the relationship between the objects themselves. I wanted to simply show what I carry around with me on a day-to-day basis through school.