Time-lapse photography
is a cinematography technique where the rate at which film frames are captured
is much lower than that at which the sequence will be played back. In
using this technique, I am manipulating time.Objects and events that would normally
take minutes, days, hours, or months can be viewed to completion in seconds.
My time-lapse recording comprises 1200 frames taken over a
period of about 40 minutes. When replayed, the viewer experiences the activity
in a period of just 2 minutes. I chose to take numerous frames per activity
and, on playback the time lapse photos could almost be a video taken in
real-time. I took the oppourtunity to chose a topic in which the subject interacts very closely with their immediate enviroment, in effect a timelapse version of an enviromental portrait.
Scanography is the process of capturing
digitised images of objects for the purpose of creating printable art using a
flatbed scanner.
For my images, I experimented with my hands,
first over laying them on bubble wrap andcling film, and then moving them as the scanner passed over the flatbed.
I also scanned my head, which revealed interesting textures and highlights, and
other objects including an etched glass, and CDs.
Light painting is a photographic technique in which
exposures are made by moving a hand-held light source while taking a long
exposure photograph, either to illuminate a subject or to shine a point of
light directly at the camera, or by moving the camera itself during exposure.
For this series of images I placed my camera on a tripod
and set it for a long shutter speed. I then used the torch on my phone to trace
shapes such as my laptop, a freehand heart and the letter F. I also
experimented with other light sources such as a set of fairy lights.
