Love/not photo1 dyp/triptic

as these images were shot on my SLR i had to redo the calculations for a dyptic, as well as doing on for a triptic to create them using the first images from my love/not photoshoots. The photos were as followed:

 

The only triptic i chose to do with these images was this one, showing the different stages of 'picking' while this does look rather nice, it doesnt really make a statement on the superstition, it mearly, and obviously shows the leaves being picked. Also with this idea with repetition within these images, that unlike the images of the pavement  while looking similar also dont need to be identical, my comment here would be that because they have moved slightly and the position of the camera has moved it looks slightly off, not off enough to look like its ment to be, but just about enough to be noticed.

 Here i wanted to change from the idea of an identical repetition, instead using one image of the bunch of flowers to be the 'loveme' as if to say the flowers were recieved as a sign of affection. while the second image is a contrast in a sence that the first image had a range of colours and textures and looks rather busy and the second image is just a small pile of crushed up dry leaves, to suggest the death of the flower and to show the section of the 'loves me not'

 Here i wanted the images to be similar with a slight difference, the 'loves you' part are the petals and leaves from the rose as they were alive, while the second part contrasts that as the dead dried leaves and petals. It shows a contrast while still being related together. the fact that the images are not 100% identical in focal length doesnt really matter here as the images are of different objects.

Finally this image was more just a play with the idea, using the dead leaves still to repesent the 'loves me not' selection with the heart suggesting love made from the leaves of a big daisy (typically the flower used for this) 

As  i stated before, theses images while not the best do work rather well as multiple images, it does make me think that i'm not really making the statement. I need to think of creating a less obvious way to show this. Its not really what i would view as a good representation as its rather literal, unless i look at the idea of giving of flowers? 

love/not photos1

With these images i just wanted to experiment to get an idea of what i wanted to do with these images or where i wanna take the idea of 'he loves me, he loves me not' and here are the images i ended up with, with the idea based around showing a relationship to love, showing the petals being removed, and dead/alive to represent the idea of a good or bad outcome. none of these images jump out to me but some are btter then others. and it will also allow me to experiment with dyptics abit more and how it will affect the images and the feel given to the audience. 

 

'He loves me/he loves me not'

This saying reminded me very much of sophie calles Exquisite pain to some extent with the comparison to two, one good, one bad or in calles case, before and after.

This is more an old wives tale rather then superstition. 

There always has been a link between flowers and love, romance and roses ect. As the old wives tale goes, you are to pick the petals of a plant and alternatively each one will mean if a love interest 'loves me' or 'loves me not' and as your left with a final petal that one corrisponds to if he does/doesnt love you ect. For this i didnt have much of an idea and jsut really got a bunch of flowers and decided to experiment which what imagery i would associate with the saying.

Dyptics crack/back photos 1

Here i was experimenting with the idea of multiple images and dyptics, in my notebook i have worked out the size of the 'canvus' to have two images side by side. I wanted to try them side by side, in a difference of mannors to experiment with the look of the images and the impact it has on its presentation. 

Heres a screenshot of how i created the structure of the dyptics using guides and rulers to measure out the different sections.  i thought i would include this as im not really used to creating multiple images and grids. its not something ive done alot of in the past. I also made sure that the left section fitted with the left shoe image and the right with the right shoe image as it were.

 

The first one i did i created using an equal boarder around each of the sides of the images. it created a very uniformed structure and looked very  well uniformed.  I also used images that are very similar types of pavement to create a look as if the image fits together. It almost looke like one image continued over two canves as it were.  This looks very straight forward and very well selected.

The second trial of the dyptics i did i used the same sized boarder around the edges but tripled the space in the middle to which is gives more space between the images. While this may work with other images, the idea that it almost sepourates the two images more, with a bigger distance, unlike the first you dont really get the idea that the  image is one split over two, and while that maybe good for other dyptics, i dont really think it gels as well as the previous image. Again here i use two images taken on the same surface which seems to fit so well.

This dyptic, i went back to the original use of the central partition and experimented adding a segment at the bottom, for if i wanted to add text or to give it a more polaroid theme. while i am still uncertain whether or not i want to experiement with the idea of using text in my work so far but may look into this later. i do like the idea, even if its just for a small experiment, and the space at the bottom is perfect for adding text, either typed or hand written.

The final images is going back to the original equal surround set up, however here i decided to try two images that the flooring dont really match to create a more jarring match.While this gives a different look and feel to the images compaired to the similar pairings of the other dypts however i actually like the look as it makes the images look more fractured and focuses more in on the lines in the images and the effects they create, i expesh like the contrast in this one between the single line in the left image to the over complicated patterns created by the lines in the right image.

'crack/back' photos 1

I went out and took some photos while walking of my shoes on cracks or seams of pavements as it fell/happened. this was only a small percent of what i actually stepped on. 

I tried to repeat the process so alot of the images are very similar with only the lighting (dependent on the location) as well as the floor itself. I like this idea that there is a constant against the veriable and it adds dimention to the images. And while they are simple images, im sure they will be more powerful as dyptics or grids, after all the idea i am trying to portray is that there are cracks/broken pavements/roads everywhere that it would be impossible to miss. I also tried to capture a selection of different paths, playing with the idea of lines and texture in the images. I also wanted to try and get alternative feet 'left' then a 'right' because i feel if it was all the same foot it would look weird? unless thats what i was going for?! while the quality is not to bad i'd like to reshoot with my slr, or even just a compact with a higher resolution and better sensor then my phone. I'd also like to experiemtn with maybe different shoes, different weather (rain on the floor, dry, frost, snow?) to see how that effects the images.

i think my next experiment will be to see how it looks as a group of images setting it up as a dyptic certacy of photoshop!

Step on a crack break your mothers back

This is a mix between an old wives tale and a superstitiona and this is another superstition that i had ideas for.

the idea of stepping on a crack in the pavement can cause your mothers back to be broken is highly impossible. believe it or not, the original myth of stepping on cracks didn’t have to do with breaking a mother’s back at all. Instead, it was more meaningful to children, as a warning of sorts. As to how effective this warning was, I can’t say. It originated some time in the 20th century and went a little something like this: when children walked over the cracks in the sidewalk they would meet up with these bears on a street corner. Once met, the bears would commence eating the children alive.over time this superstition morphed into the rhyme we know today: “step on a crack, break your mother’s back”. No one seems to agree on why it changed into this, perhaps just because it rhymed. Some say though, that in the last couple decades the superstition changed so that for every crack that was stepped on, it would correspond to the number of bones that would be broken in your mother’s body.

The idea that bones in the body will be broken due to something as simple as walking on a crack in the road. Its near impossible to walk normally and dodge the seams of the pavements but with the roads and pavements as it is its near impossible to walk anywhere without loosing track of all the seams and breaksin the pavements that you step on. 

As a little experiment i did a little tally while i was out and i just gave up countingin the end. The amount was stupid. I took a small video clip on my phone to start off with, its nothing amazing but its something to kick-start me.

 

My next idea is to create a grid or a  sequence, i said before that i wanted to encorperate dyptics or tyrptics or even multiples grids into this work and so i want to experiment with this idea, i think dyptics of photos of feet on cracks would work well... one left and one right? but i will experiment with this later.