DAY 26

DAY 26

Photo workshop using the D80 with the zoom was so good. I really started experimenting with the aperture trying to get the macro effect. And today was the first time using raw and found the picture so much easier to manipulate how I wanted in post-production. I also wanted to try out an idea I’ve had for a while just never got round to doing it. I’ve done 360 wide-angle images where the camera points out but wanted to see if it was possible pointing into an object. So I set up the object (yellow boot) by hanging it from the roof and photographed around. Coming to edit it I realized I needed to take much more pictures because I was looking at it from a circular (or bubble) view point and it needed to be tailored to the surface area so each curve flattened out. So in the end the image started to take away depth rather than add it, which has been the main focus of most of these workshops. The overall image is probably too high contrast but I did that so the background was black and just made it easier. I could see myself trying this technique again … but maybe as a sculptural practice so with my research project apply the same idea so cut the pages to form many viewpoints of an object creating a liquid like exploded view. I think the main influence today was taken from the composition introduction and lecture where the old paintings showed many perspectives.