Worlds between the void MA Photography Project
Photography, in essence, is the capturing of light in any given subject (painting with light); whether it be a landscape scene, a seascape or a scene shot as a commercial image to sell bathroom suites. If you look closer, there are images within the image - another reflective surface, glass, ice, water, metallic object etc. These reflective surfaces are the ‘Worlds between the Void’.
These hidden images offer a fascinating alternative photographic scene with altered viewpoints, textures, distortions and tones.These images, like fungi hunting, require many days of searching, looking, investigating before they reveal themselves to the photographer and careful planning is required to capture them.
After almost 30 years of being aware of these alternative images it has only been in recent years that they can be fully introduced to the world with technical advances in digital image technology and the ability to enlarge images whilst retaining pixel sharpness, definition and reduction of noise. Such a task was only possible in science fiction. When I was a young photographer in the 80’s and 90’s I was intrigued by the film “Blade Runner” (1982) staring a fresh faced ‘Harrison Ford’ as a futuristic detective chasing a human repicant (played by Rutger Hauer) who happened upon a single photograph removed from a crime scene. The photograph was scanned in to an advance computer activated by voice commands. The detective proceeded to instruct the computer to magnify the scene up to 800x magnification and discovered a perfect microscopic image of the assailant within a tiny reflection in the image – a truly amazing prediction to what is easily achieved today!
The aim of the project is to bring the hidden elements that lay inside photographic scenes to the audience and encourage a closer investigation and engagement to photography. I believe that we have all become too familiar with photographic images – many people take them for granted – view them with little comment or critique – spoiled by the overwhelming number of images offered to them! This study also aims to explain about image technology and how far it has come with the technical enhancement of the pixel.
The finished work will display the single original scene along with displays of the hidden “worlds between the void” engaging the ‘juxtaposition’ in close proximatey. The audience is encouraged to investigate to establish a coherent answer to the purpose of the images and the origins of these alternative images. The technical methods and evidencing required to present these ‘Worlds between the Void’ are as follows:
CAPTURE:
High resolution RAW files processed up tp 50 MP for final manipulation using photoshop.
Final images enhanced using Fractal Maths for pixel rendering using Genuine Fractals.
Macro Photography techniques – shift lense methods for avoiding camera reflections.
Infra Red light spectrum: Specially adapted Nikon for capture
DISPLAY:
Conventional photographic prints as montage, sliced, mondrain format (mounted).
Lenticular prints of related photographic scenes in 4 moving viewpoints (Lenticular techniques offer splicing of images thus enabling each scene to be viewed from different angles).
Final presentation includes HD video of finished works set to original soundtrack composed by myself using a guitar synthesiser offering a unique soundscape backdrop to each of the finished works.
The aim of the project is to bring the hidden elements that lay inside photographic scenes to the audience and encourage a closer investigation and engagement to photography. I believe that we have all become too familiar with photographic images – many people take them for granted – view them with little comment or critique – spoiled by the overwhelming number of images offered to them! This study also aims to explain about image technology and how far it has come with the technical enhancement of the pixel.
The finished work will display the single original scene along with displays of the hidden “worlds between the void” engaging the ‘juxtaposition’ in close proximatey. The audience is encouraged to investigate to establish a coherent answer to the purpose of the images and the origins of these alternative images. The technical methods and evidencing required to present these ‘Worlds between the Void’ are as follows:
CAPTURE:
High resolution RAW files processed up tp 50 MP for final manipulation using photoshop.
Final images enhanced using Fractal Maths for pixel rendering using Genuine Fractals.
Macro Photography techniques – shift lense methods for avoiding camera reflections.
Infra Red light spectrum: Specially adapted Nikon for capture
DISPLAY:
Conventional photographic prints as montage, sliced, mondrain format (mounted).
Lenticular prints of related photographic scenes in 4 moving viewpoints (Lenticular techniques offer splicing of images thus enabling each scene to be viewed from different angles).
Final presentation includes HD video of finished works set to original soundtrack composed by myself using a guitar synthesiser offering a unique soundscape backdrop to each of the finished works.
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