The Beginning and the End of the Panorama

So I finally finished the panorama after slaving away. 

Possibly if I continue with this, or if I have enough time, I might do a transition from the wilderness to the city. 

Or another idea was to cut up the images into slits and have a sequence between the wilderness and the urban landscape.

I was thinking of presenting this as a screen piece. I took an image from Time Out website of a gallery space called 'Screen Space'

I tried to paste my own image into other gallery spaces, but i couldn't really get the angle right ect. so I just gave up. 

A space I was considering was the Ian Potter Gallery at Melbourne University.

Beginnings of the Panomrama

So my first attempt in class was unsuccessful since I would decrease the size of the image, then make it larger again on another photoshop document which made the image blurry and lot's of quality and detail was lost. 

So from learning from that initial mistake I joined these first two images. 

Joining them together and using the eraser tool to blur the line to finish with:

So then I continued by joining the multiple photos taken at a 360 and have gotten up to around 4 or 5 images into one image

I still need to join the remaining images to create the full 360 view, but hopefully that won't be too far off and  I can start experimenting with this idea.

Working Through The Ideas

So my idea is to create a proposal for an installation in a city square. 

I want to create the illusion that the person is encapsulated in a different space than the place that they just came from.

My friend inspired me when she talked about her trip to America. The feeling she got when she ventured into central park, as if the city had disappeared and she had been transported somewhere else. 

Click to see Sourced Images

I have to think about how tall and how wide the installation will be. 

It would have to be above the average height so the viewer is immersed in the landscape.

To achieve the same atmosphere as Fredrick McCubbin's 'The Pioneer', 1904

Click to see Sourced Images

If I do separate panels or create one long image to wrap around. I'm not sure if there should be two separate semi circles that go around each other so when the viewer is in the middle of the work they've been transported out of the city into the wilderness.

All the Thyme in the World Part III

Yes once again another shoot of the same boot, but I think it may not be going so well, the boot I mean. 

I'm trying to add more items to reveal more of the identity of the previous owner of the boot and who they are/were. 

I didn't go into the studio this time, just in my house so you can kind of see my piano in the background.

I also tried a new set of objects. The items are from various childhoods and a photo of a baby. I'm not sure if I'll continue with this or where I'll go if I continue with them

All the Thyme in the World Part II

First shoot in the studio wasn't so much of a success, still learning the parts of the studio but I think my second a attempt was much more successful than the first, so that's the one I'll post!

I used light painting to light the areas I wanted lit, and I used different torches to light in different shots. Not sure if I prefer to not show the torch in the shot.

Plan to do more still life work using different objects and light sources. To be continued..... 

Project 2 in Digital Imaging

At first, I was going to create a montage of photos to create one final image made up of overlapping photos, however I came up with a new idea. I wanted to create the feeling of being in another space in a completely different setting. To have an installation where the photos seem to be wrapping around the viewer to feel as though they've been taken to another place. 

Attempted Sketch

I thought I'd start with a setting of a trail near my house. I did make some mistakes with the ISO settings on my camera but next time I'll choose a different setting and take more time to set up and choose the correct camera settings.

Hopefully I'll be able to crop the photos correctly so they overlap and create one long image that can be wrapped around on it's self to create and enclosed space.

All the Thyme in the World

For my photography class I have created a 'herb boot', since for our project we can choose to photograph objects in the studio. I chose to create this boot to give it a new life that it needed. 

Who said you can't buy time?

Its one of my Dad's old gardening boots which has been collecting a number of spidery residents. Also it brings me back to gardening with my Mum, where we would use my Dad's ratty old shoes to plant daffodil bulbs during the Autumn. 

It was a little too early for daffodil bulbs so I decided on herbs because of the smell of the thyme and the use of the herbs after I've finished using it for my project.