Another week, another project! Now to explore the use of time in photography. That can range be from shutter speed, to taking a picture of a clock. The point of this experiment is to use a digital camera, but what it is, is down to us.. so mobile phones, web-cams, point and shoot cameras, DSLR's etc! You may think suggestions of mobile phones is ridiculous, but then there's the challenge of understanding that cameras limitations and working with it, to create something you're proud of!
In class we watched a clip of 'A Picture of Britain' another BBC documentary, this episode was 'The Midlands' and included the artists:
They had a task to take pictures using a mobile phone with a 2mp camera, a basic point and shoot digital camera, and a medium format digital Hasselblad. Each had one of the cameras, and to see how they came to grips with it and learn how to work with what they had was quite interesting!
So ideas at the moment?!?! Well, i did think about doing something with the camera obscura again, possibly filming it? Maybe use my webcam to photograph it? But not sure if that'll work in the dark or if theres a way around it... Will have to explore further!
One thing i did find was this extract from Mary Warner Marien's book, Photography: A Cultural History which explains a little where photography and the obscura originated :)
One thing i did find was this extract from Mary Warner Marien's book, Photography: A Cultural History which explains a little where photography and the obscura originated :)
Sources:
'A Picture of Britain: The midlands'. 2006 [TV]. BBC4. 25 April. 20:30
Warner Marien, Mary. Photography: A Cultural History, page 6. 2010. (3rd edition.) London, Laurence King.
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