My final Piece

For my final Piece I have chosen one of my Joiners at a local river, I feel it has the most character of any of the other shots that I have taken. The sharp edges of the picture reflect the work of artists in the cubist movement. Also the way in which I have taken some of the shots in a time lapse fashion has taught me more about “Shutter Priority” and “Aperture Priority”.

This is a quote from an interview with David Hockney taken from the BBC website

"You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era."

(source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/johntusainterview/hockney_transcript.shtml )

To me this sums up the inspiration and for some part the main reason in which I enjoy photography, the idea that you could capture a moment in time using chemicals and once captured that moment would never be the same again.

My conclusions

In this post I would like to outline all the things that I feel I’ve learned, and achieved. Firstly I feel in that learning the initial link between cubism and cubist movements I have gained a better understanding in the way that Photo montages work. Also the work of Hockney has been a direct influence on my final piece for this project.

Commenting on my Joiners

On the post below as you can see I have gone to three more locations and taken shots of an area for a photomontage or Joiner.

One of the locations that I have used is the same location in which David Hockney took his joiner Photographs with the old women at Bolton Abbey. I have made an attempt to take a similar montage (although I’m well aware it doesn’t come close to the artists work) I thought it would be nice to take a montage in the same area.

The other two locations are of a local bridge and a view of the river surrounding the abbey. I feel that these pieces are more attempts that needed work. For example I feel that the piece using the river as the scene works to an extent. However it only really uses three or four photographs to make the joiner. Other joiners that I have been looking at usually use a lot more to create a bigger area of space.

The other Joiner using the bridge as the location uses more shots. But I feel the light settings do not work as well. Some of the shots in the scene are darker and some are lighter, for a single shot to be viewed on it’s on this wouldn’t really make too much of a difference. However when shots like this is layered up they don’t really match and appear that they have been taken on totally separate days.

Other Joiners I have taken

My Joiners

This is probably my favourite piece that I have made on the project. I feel that the piece has a nice layout to it and a really abstract feel. I have used shots from a very wide viewing angle (which would be more than the human eye could see even in peripheral vision). I have also included a figure in the lower left hand side which gives the scene a sense of realism.

Other things that I would like to point out are the way in which the water shots have been taken. Upon first starting the piece I used my camera with a slow shutter speed, this is to give the water a cloudy time lapsed effect. However for the rest of the scene I found that this would be inappropriate so I decided on using a standard shutter speed. This means that for some of scene the water is cloudy however on others the water looks sharper and more in focus.

My Joiners

My Joiners