I have finally finished the written part of the final digital photo assignment. A translated (long..) short-version follows:
In this assignment I have worked with the consepts of perspective and perception. I want to question what we see and what we experience in relation to how things are, or how others see and experience the same phenomenon. To give a new dimension to my earlier works with buildings and facades, I chose human emotions for this assignment. The results consists of five images, where the shadow and the model has a different pose.
All photos are taken at home in my living room. Parquet floors were hidden under white fabric to neutralize the background and to bring out the shadows. I have used a halogen work light and my Panasonic DMC-TZ10 compact camera for the photo shoot. In addition to me and the model, I had help to hold the light, which proved to be time-saving, as the light constantly had to be adjusted to get as clear and independent a shadow as possible. After using time to find out how I could get both shadow and model clear on the pictures, I found it was best to focus on one at a time. The downside of this was that I later in the process, of putting together the images, missed a few postures in either shadow or model.
Initially I planned to work with "opposite" feelings in the model and the shadow, but I came to the conclusion that this was not necessary to bring out my point. I decided the important thing was to have distinct different feelings posed. I especially like the apparent angle between floor and wall in the shadows, creating depth and space in the images even after cutting away all the background. In the picture with the "jumping shadow" the feeling of space is not as clear, despite the angle between wall and ceiling in the shadow. This makes it, in my opinion, the weakest picture in the series.
I focused on the consept in this photo series, and wanted the pictures to be as simple and clean as possible. All images are converted to black / white and the contrast is increased. No other changes are made to the original. The shadow and the model is cut and pasted on a white background, placed in "natural" relation to each other. As conceptual art, I think the pictures have a purity and a simplicity about them. The cutout is coarse and simple, which reinforces the conceptual and prevents the aesthetics taking over for the idea. I am inspired by Bernd and Hilla Becker and the simplicity and clarity that is in their pictures. Even if our ideas are very different, I wanted to take advantage of this perceived simplicity and clarity of my project.
I have done almost no aesthetic considerations in this assignment. The only conscious one is the choice of having the image with the jumping shadow in the series. Despite the fact that this was my least liked picture, I wanted to include this to get a balance with the image of the jumping model.The selection of pictures for the series can thus be said to be partly aesthetically based, while the images themselves are not. Conceptualism has been a very exciting and new way of working, and I hope to do it more.
The photos are thought printed on 50 x 70 cm aluminum plates. I want the pictures to have a certain size in order to clarify the position and the contrast between the model and shadow.
The series of pictures is made to remind us that what we see is not always what we see ....
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