Dani.: March 2011

Tuesday, 22 March 2011

FINAL IMAGES - Assignment One: SPACE

Main Objectives/ Themes

My main objectives for this assignment followed along these main themes…

Perspective. I wanted to show a different point of view. Not many people regularly see from behind a bar out to the crowd, as opposed to looking in. It’s a small insight into a bartender’s world. I also like how even less see it when all the customers are gone and there is only a used up space left, needing a good clean.

Distortion. The slight fisheye effect to the lens just gives the images an extra visual effect that ties in well with the placement of the camera- giving the feeling that there is someone watching, due to visual links to security camera footage. I also really like how the lens has given the bar a delicate curve (it is actually dead straight); it gives the images a slightly intoxicated effect.

Seen/ Unseen. I could have made my images lighter and easier to see, but I chose not to. A lot of people go to a bar or a club to get away and lose themselves for a night and I wanted to illustrate that in my images. I also like how, the more you look, the more you will see - especially with the big crowd photo. Everyone is either deep in their conversations or alcohol glaze (or both) and are completely oblivious to many of the people around them. This seems to dissect the image into different tiny moments in time, and the movement, body language and facial expressions of the people within them.

Glare. More so a visual effect than a theme, I worked with the glare of the coloured lights and the strong reflection on shiny surfaces instead of against them. I knew that with the low light, this was bound to happen. But instead of seeing it as a problem, I embraced it as an effect. I like how the lighting has effected the colouring so significantly, it adds real drama to the images and works well with the look and colour palette I was going for. I also really like all the reflection, like on the glasses and the stainless steel bar top – it speaks of a bar. Everything is always shiny, everything is always clean and this helps to show that.

Red. For me, red screams night and a colour for darkness. So instead of desaturating my images slightly and evening out the colour tone, I decided to accentuate it. Red speaks of the underground, the nightclubs, the bars, the concerts. It symbolises passion, lust, sin, sex, blood, anger, love.. strong feelings you seem to find floating around the air at venues such as these. So I kept the saturated look and opted for the drama. x