Hands

With the new equipment I have I decided to experiment with some different ways of positions of hands to see what compositions I could come up with.






With the new equipment I have purchased the photographs have turned out a lot better. I tried different compositions as well as trying small thing such as including jewelry and not including it. I will need to decided when I properly set up a photo shoot with a lot of different ages whether I want them to be wearing the jewelry.
So far i like just the one palm composition as I think this will look more interesting on print. I will be able to chose which one for my interim project so I can see how they will look A2 size.

Flick Book History

- Flick books started in the end 19th century and early 20th century
- compared to the Magic Book or Blow book which gave the impression of illusion
- " The flip book looks like a small notebook – originally stapled, mostly bound today- that you hold in one hand while you flip over the pages with the thumb of the other hand, either from front to back or from back to front. Pictures (See animation ) or drawings give the illusion of motion, slower or faster depending on the speed."
- Can be from as little to over 100 pages but normally only 30 pages long
- Mostly used by children
- Used a lot by Disney
- 1880's, the use of different separate pictures came to light to create a series of events grow
- 1886 an Englishman Arthur Melville registered a patent named " The Living Picture Book"
- 3 rd April 1897, two Englishmen, John O'Neill and Robert McNally patented flip books now realised with photographs:

"He figures may illustrate a prize fight, a cock fight, a wrestling match, a skirt dance, skipping, a drinking bout, or the like, the subjects in this respect being practically unlimited. The respective movements of the figures are represented or imitated to a nicety by the rapid slipping of the leaves through the fingers, which has the effect of producing an optical illusion as perfect as it is amusing and interesting"

- Spread at the end of 19th century especially named living pictures or living book
- 7 th May to 21 st August 2005 took place in Düsseldorf Kunsthalle the first major exhibition devoted to flip books called “Daumenkino.





http://www.flipbook.info/history.php

Flip Book Research

Here are some examples of Flip books that I found useful to produce my own.

Apple

I really enjoyed watching this video as it gave me some idea that I could actually experiment with one piece of fruit rather than a bowl of fruit. The change is obviously more noticeable but yet it in this video it is very subtle due to the way it has been made. It is very consistent with the lighting and the composition and also flows a lot more than any of the other time lapse videos I have found. This is more along the lines of what I would like to finally produce to be projected as a screen based outcome.

Time Lapse 2

This is another time lapse to do with the rotting of fruit and vegetables. I really like the mixture of colours by using vegetables as well so I may incorporate this when shooting my project.
This is however done over the period of 74 days which I can not do due to other commitments which would stop me from taking photographs at the same time everyday so I am hoping to do it over a three week period.



This video does give me so idea of what type of music fits the mood of the piece and what type of music I can possibly use.

Time Lapse

When researching Time Lapse for the still life fruit piece I found a couple of examples to help to produce my time lapse.



This piece gives me a general idea of how to produce it but it is not in anyway consistent enough for what I would like to do such as the lighting is constantly changing. However it does give the basic idea of what I would like to achieve with further practice and work.

Book

Once of our out comes is meant to be a photo book, so I have decided to change this slightly by making my Jigsaw idea in to a flip book which will show the motion of the Jigsaw being built. It is also a lot more interactive so that people can just walk by and pick it up.

This website shows a way of how to make one.

Flip Book:
http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=10953&pq-locale=en_US&_requestid=4767

Bechers

- Bernd & Hilda Becher
- Began taking portraits of modern industrial buildings in old factory sites in 1959
- he two artists first collaborated in 1959 and they married in 1961
- They began working as freelance photographers, concentrating on industrial photography.
- In 1991, the artists won the leone d’oro award for sculpture at the venice biennale. this was possible because in 1969, the artists had called the architectural subject matter of their photographs, ‘anonymous sculpture’
- Photographed blast furnaces, cooling towers, gasometers, water towers, lime kilns, compressors, factory halls, head-frames of mine shafts
- industrial structures have been a fountain of passion for the german spouses Becher who have photographed them for over 40 years.
- "Black-and-white images are all taken in the same way: a front and profile angle provide a clear and objective documentation of each structure, the building is placed in the centre of the frame and isolated from its environment. the mass of photos are made coherent through categorisation into typologies, revealing the vast diversity of objects all with the same purpose. non-identical, yet uniform"
- The idiosyncratic differences and similarities become fascinating

"By the mid-1960s the Bechers had also settled on a preferred presentational mode: the grid. Groupings of prints, each print measuring sixteen by twelve inches or smaller, either framed discretely or encased within a single large frame, facilitate direct, immediate comparison between motifs, which are arrayed without hierarchy, according to type, function, and/or material."








http://www.designboom.com/history/becher.html
http://www.diacenter.org/exhibitions/introduction/76

Still Life

I have started to look at artists paintings of still life work to give me some ideas for lighting, compositions and colour.

James Peale




James Peale was an American who specialised in still life paintings. His paintings became recognised in the late 1800's and early 1900's.