Week 5- Hanging Pinhole Exhibtion

We began by spraying the wet collodian glass plates with matte black spray paint keeping it in the same direction so the coverage was even. These would normally have been put on black velvet but spray paint is quicker  cheaper and easier.

Once they had dried me and a few others continued on from where the last group left off. They had used the lazer level to make sure the plates would be even. We then proceed to measure out the gaps where the nails would go in the others rows and nail them in. I then put the plate in carefully between he nails and resting it on the lower ones. We looked at how secure it was and hit the nails on the side in or out where required.

This is a slight overview of the exhibition:

An artist that I like who does pinhole is Jo pabcock who can be found here: http://jobabcock.com

He makes a pinhole out of an object such as a candle box and will then photograph candles with the pinhole camera. I think this is a very cool concept to his work and takes alot of skill to perfect.

Week 4- 360 Degree Photography & Digital Studio Copying

An artist that although does not use a pinhole camera fits in well with pinhole photography is Sam Taylor wood as she produces 360 degree images within her body of work. A good example of this is a piece called ' Looking Out' which is shown below, it is done by c type colour medium. It is not as big as most of her work being only 50cm x 60cm.

 

In the afternoon we did studio copying using the canon 5D. Here is how we set the lighting up to take the photographs:

As you can see this is a fairly basic set up using 2 light boxes for natural lighting with a board on the floor to put the small objects and camera above to capture the photograph. We then used a light meter to check the lighting was correct. 

The objects were meant to be objects which represented yourself which was hard to doing as most of things that are important to me are back at home. Below are my final studio copies ready to use in a later workshop.

Necklace- Sentimental value as was a family members 

Ipod- represents my love for music and also showed it was the cover as i shows my love for cats.

Hand Cream- An essential that i could not leave the house without. 

Jersey Stamp- A little bit of insight of where I live.

My converses- Something I wear often.

Charm Bracelet- Each charm is individual and shows lots of information about a person the more charms collected. 

Sources:

Book: Sam Taylor Wood, Fondazione Prada

Journal Portfolio No.35

Week 2- Staged & Pinhole Photography

During week 2 we looked at staged photography and experimented with our own pinhole cameras. Staged photography takes planning and is well thought out and constructed.

A prime example of this type of work is the work of a photographer called Jeff Wall. Wall is a Canadian photographer who became well established in the 1970's and is best known for his large scale colour transparencies which he mounted in a light box hung on the wall. This approach gives a cinema screen glow and a 3D dimension to his work. Below is an example of his work title 'Passerby- 1996'


This photograph can be interperated in many ways by the viewers depending on how they view the world. Some could view it as a photograph of luck taken as two people talk pass one another and nothing more however a different view is that it was purposily taken at night and that the man in the right hand corner is planning on hurting the other passerby. either of these views of it could be true however you can tell it is staged as there is a cleardark and light side of then photograph which would never have happened in natrual lighting. The lightings creates contrast in the image which emphasises the atmosphere making it even more deliberate.

In the afternoon we then did a workshop on pinhole photography in which we made our own pinhole camera using a bin. In this web link are steps and a guide on how to make a pinhole camera:
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Make-A-Pinhole-Camera/?ALLSTEPS

 Negative result of this exercise:

 Positive result: