Masters of Illusions

This video related to this project because it talks about making a 2D piece of art 3D. In photography, especially when you are looking space. Artists have been looking for ways to bring perspective into their artwork, and once it was discovered it changed the art world completely. The artist was now able to bring the viewer into the piece of art, which made the viewer able to engage in the artwork more. With this project we are looking at space and how perspective can play into that. I know in my collage there are many times that perspective is used especially when looking at the road and how it becomes smaller the farther it goes back. Now I don’t believe that this video played with the time aspect of the project it definite played with the space aspect but I do think that it was a little long to get the point across. 

Project Summary

This was a project that focused on the idea of time and space and how they relate with each other. The process to show this is that we are to find a subject that shows a progression of time but also shows a distinct space. Then we were to take 75-100 photos and put them together to make a collage.

What I loved about this project was that it was a photography assignment and anything photography related I love. Also I had the opportunity to do photography collages in high school, but on a much smaller scale. I love that there is a time lapse or a wide range of space that needs to be captured and the collage style allows this to happen.

What I learned during this project was that sometimes you come up with amazing ideas but if there are no tests done, then you will never know if it actually will work until it is too late. I remembered having a great idea that I tried to put into action but because I did not do tests of it, I learned very quickly that it was not going to work and I wasted my time trying to make this one work when I should have just stuck to the idea that I ended up going with.

I was the most difficult to me was that if you do almost graph out the area that you are taking the pictures on there is going to be a hole that is difficult to cover up. Also putting together a 100-image collage is not the easiest thing to put together with tape and rubber cement.

If I could do anything differently in this project it would be to do more tests in the beginning because there were a lot more ideas that I had that I did not peruse that I think would have turned out really nicely but because I did not do the tests I didn’t even know if they would have worked.

Overall I loved this project and at the end of it all I love the way my collage turned out and I did have fun working on the project even if I got rubber cement smeared on my arm, honked at on multiple occasions and now know the picture lady at Walgreens on a first name basis.

Camera Lucida

What I absolutely loved about this reading is that it explains the simplicity of photography and how in the beginning of photography there was not editing and changing the lighting; a photograph was what it was. This however was the beauty of it, the way that the silver in the film was able to capture the perfection of the scene at had and then translate it to a picture makes it beautiful. The original film pictures were able to capture a moment in time that can never again be relived except for in the size of the photograph. Barthes explains that in one photo that he was in he could not remember that moment when it was taken but he knows that he was there because the picture cannot lie. This is the complete opposite of how photography is now, because with the help of Photoshop any person that has the knowledge to move around Photoshop can add any person that they want into any photo.  Another aspect that I loved was that there is simplicity in the subject of the photo that does not exist in the digital world. Barthes was telling that when photography first came out it was pictures of people and simple scenes not artist trying to play around with different techniques. Although I do love this reading and what it stands for, I am not sure that it pertains to the project at hand, this reading talks about the beginning of photography, and we are using digital photography and then on top of that we are focusing on time and space not on the simplicity of photography. Also I know that I am using color photography and the traditional film photography was all black and white. So although it was interesting to read it does not exactly relate to the aspect of photography that we are using.