Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Project 4: Junkanoo (Light Abstractions)

For this project I wanted to do something more abstract, so I listened to this type of music (Junkanoo), and took note of what basically made it up. Bright colors were obviously important, as well as a chaotic and unpredictable rhythm. It also seemed to be highly experimental, with no real rules or guidelines. It's full of spontaneity. I thought that light could show color, rhythm, and spontaneous changes well, so I decided to make a series of photographs by just abstracting light in an experimental way. Except for the bright colors, none of these photos have been changed from how they were originally taken.







Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Transition Step (UNFINISHED)

Here is my redone Transition step so far, to give you an idea of what direction I was going in and progress.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Triptych



Here is the "Mechanical" and "Natural" Steps of my Triptych, though I'm upset to admit I would have all three steps to post had I backed up my files. The Transition step was finished two days ago, but earlier I opened it in Photoshop to change the file to a Jpeg, along with the mechanical phase, and somehow ended up saving the mechanical step over the transition step. Once I realized what had happened it was too late and I was ofcourse very very angry with myself for not creating a backup file or at least posting it on here sooner. Hours of work gone in a second. So now I'm working on doing it over, but ofcourse I can't recreate exactly what I did before and to me what is recreated so far doesn't look nearly as good as the original. I'd have to say I'm most bitter about the fact that I spent the longest period of time on that step, out of the three. I'm not making excuses though, it was my own fault. I am currently working on the transition step, and hope to have it finished and submitted by Wednesday afternoon. Until then, I will post what I have so far before class.

About the pieces, on the "Mechanical" step I was going for a cold, lifeless, desolate feel, which is why I chose the bluish tint. And ofcourse the "Natural" step was the opposite, so I was trying to convey life and warmth. They're both pretty spacious on purpose, because I didn't want to crowd either of them. The transition piece was done the same way.