A time line of perception

I have displayed my images like this as they create a time line for the viewer to see how the images were put together by others. The idea is that each 'timeline' creates a story all using the same images which changes the perception of which we see the story that has been created. I think this way of showing the pictures is fun and still easy to see. When deciding how to display the images I wanted to ensure that they were close together and this shows especially well with the 9th image along as there are 3 of the same image consecutively going downwards. This is similar with a couple of the other images also. Perception changed from person to person and here it is obviously that even by changing the order of images a whole new idea or story in a time line order has emerged.

The Game Begins

I created my game of snap by printing off 10 pairs of pictures. I then cut them up to separate them so my participants could re order them. One by one I asked them to put the images in whatever order they saw fit, whether this be a pair or a trio or a larger set of images. I got some intriguing replies that has changes the way I have perceived my pairs that were first created. I wanted to have a variety of people to create the pairs/ groupings so the perception of the pairs would hold some significance as I could generalise them to many people.

I firstly asked a teacher to put the pairs together. Obviously his perception of how the images should sit would be different to that of a student or younger person. He put most of the pairs exactly how I put them. As he was doing it thought he did sit and ponder over a couple of images and where to put them. He told me that he was putting them together purely by composition and not by colour or any other elements.

This set was done by a year 9 girl. She literally look the grouping idea to an extreme and created almost a montage of images. She sat for a long time before placing the images together that meant that although it took her a long time to create her final grouping it does show a lot of thought. Her large amount of grouping was down to the fact that she said hse wanted to create a story of the images as they all fitted together one way or another she said.

This set was paired by a year 9 student. He paired the images quickly but they are very different to the original pairings of mine. He said he was focusing more on the colour of the images and how people matched and the environment matched.

This grouping was a a 6th form student. She got worried that how she grouped the images would not be right, although there was no right or wrong answer when doing this. She created an interesting group of images  with a seeming middle group and outside groups around it. She told me she was looking primarily at the people in the images and how she would see them in everyday life. Her pairings are quite busy.

This grouping was done by a 6th form student. He paired the images much like the original pairings, however still changed some with creating the groupings of 3. The 3's are interesting as they seem to be the pair with an added extra on the end that adds to the style of the image.

This pairing was made by a year 11 student. He paired the image in larger groups which seemed to created a sort of montage, even thought they were not close together. His justification behind the images was that by looking at the environment he could create a story in his mind of how these people could potentially meet. This again creates a sort of story style.

This set was created by a 6th former. Her take on the images was that they all sat in pairs and there was no other grouping for them. She spent again a long time deciding which images went in pairs and has created a seemingly pretty straight forward conventional set of images, however her pairings are the most different to the original set.

This experiment enabled myself to see how others had different views to the way in which I have paired my images. 

Contributing Ideas

As I was doing the images of people I realised that really they are just performing everyday tasks that actually seem to be quite boring. The images are not styled to deal with any particular concept or idea they are just there. With this in mind I came across the project called 'Exactitudes' the mundane of my images corresponds well with the creativity found in this project.

From this I have decided to make my images fun. To create a sense of meaning the these 'boring everyday tasks' so I going to create a game from them. I have researched potential games to create and I think a game of Snap or Picture Pairs will be my best bet. The creation of the simple game will reveal if others see my images how I do, and if they make the same decisions in placing them together. This may create a higher sense of purpose to the images and start questioning other people's judgement.

A quiet beach

With relation to my previous posts with pairing images together I visited the beach to see if I could capture some more interesting pairs of people, or objects. It happened to be a very quiet afternoon at the beach so the amount of people around was sparse however the people that were there seemed to be very isolated in their own worlds.

I find this image particularly quirky with the style of the two images. The way in which the two men and talking intensely with the two older people in the second photo seeming to be listening to the conversation from afar.

This image is also quirky in the composition. The fact that the men are pretty similar in height and build already makes the image a pair, but they way they are walking does so also. The colour of the older man on the right also corresponds well with the green beach hut behind him.

As well as visiting Bournemout Beach I also visited Southbourne Beach on a much more pleasant afternoon, although the age range of people there was not very varied. I took many images to try to capture the ideal afternoon for an older person.

When photographing I did notice that there were many people out with their dogs. Obviously owners of dogs have this task of taking them for walks and the beach that particular day seemed the perfect place.

I found this man very amusing. As I first walked down he was awake in his sun chair just inside his beach hut and gave me a bit of a glare when he saw my camera so I decided not to get too close. However on my return he was fast asleep so I got a very fun image of him asleep. I think these 3 images perticularly work well together as the left and right image seem to follow on from one another with the joining of the beach huts.

Hair and Makeup has begun

I took some pictures on my day at Rock Challenge. This is a dance competition which always includes fantastic hair and makeup so I tried to capture some of this going on. It was interesting how people sat and seemed deep in thought as they were getting their hair done even thought so much was going on around them.

Both the girls seem to be unaware of what is actually going on to their hair is this because they are prepared for what is going to happen or is it because they cant move out of the position they are in?

These two images are quite amusing. I was going around after the hair and makeup had been done to try to capture some of the finished pieces. I asked these two people to get their picture and the expression they have given is very different. On the left the girl seems to be posed according to her character almost, with a solemn look on her face where as the bee has a fun look, just like a buzzing bee.

children+art

I visited the 'developing nicely' exhibition that my work was displayed in at Poole lighthouse for a talk with some year 5 children from a local primary school about our work and why photography is important. I really enjoyed getting a perspective on my work by the children as it seemed to add branches to my work and leave much room for improvement after what they had said. The way they look and perceive images is completely different to how the adults at the exhibition prior to that day saw my images and they rest of the images displayed. As well as this, the way the children used the exhibition space was more of a playground and I tried to capture this through a few images.

I put these two images together as they seem to be quite significant. The way in which the girls are pushing the wall could be interprated in different ways, do they like the images they are seeing? Are they attempting to create a response to the images? Have they taken notice of the images? Are they just messing about? The second image shows the boys looking at the photo, they are extremely close to the image which is different to how adults would look at pictures as usually they take a step back rather than look so close up. Why are they so close? Does it change the way they percieve the image being so close?

This image is also quite entertaining as the girls picked this image as their 'favourite picture' out of all the images on show that day. When I asked them why, I recieved answers such as 'this shows the man fighting back' 'the swear words are very bad' ( reference to the image that was above this photograph). 'The riots were important to us too'. The way in which the girls are standing in front of the picture is interesting as if the men turned around would their expressions be similar?

response to the arcade

After looking at the arcade and the types of people there I realised that really anyone can get caught out, young or old. It a crazy thing that can make you loose your money or gain an awful lot. Back home I tried to create something that would show what a continuous loosing gambler may look like over time. Portraits were the main focus throughout my coursework and I used technical lighting skills to create different styles of images. When creating my visual response I was well aware of other addictions that are current among the population for example: smoking, binge drinking, drug abuse to name a few.


This image has been edited by simply adding in the images behind and carefully rubbing through to the top image. I think this first experiment has turned out quite well however if I create another one it would need to look a bit more professional, however I do like the way the roughness makes it seem very busy and uneasy with the facial expression. It is obviously very
exaggerated is the style as the face has a very strong expression that perhaps may make it seem a bit gimmicky.



This second image has been less obviously edited. I have just desaturated the image and taken out a lot of contrast also lightened up the image after doing the other editing. I think this has worked well as the style of the image is very cold seems very stern. The smoke also adds movement to the image to create some more emotion. This image has not got such a heavily gimmicky style as the one above but seems to have a more stylistic finish to it.