#time space light

[jsitarz]

1st attempts at Time - Space - Light project. Not very pleased with them. Annoyed with my lack of control over ISO, which ruined most of them. I like the frames anyhow.

[frankieprincipe]

Fragmenting time and space.

[ellentaskerphotography]

Project evaluation

[ellentaskerphotography]

Final images fully edited and ready to be laid out.

[ellentaskerphotography]

Shoot 3

Further exploration of the space from different angles and viewpoints. I felt it would be a good idea to do one more shoot after the editing session and take on the feedback given within the session even though I did already have a lot of material to work with the session really solidified my concept and the narrative that is being portrayed through the images, and therefore I wanted to do one more shoot and see if with this new information would it change how I viewed the buildings, how I shot them, the viewpoint I chose and what buildings I actually chose to photograph.

From reviewing the images I've chosen to use a selection of images from both shoots 2 and 3, as I feel there are images from both that are very successful and work well in terms of both aesthetics and concept. 

[ellentaskerphotography]

Editing/Curating exercise -

Within workshop today we were given a selection of someone else's work and then had to edit and layout 5-9 of their images. These were the images chosen from my original group of around 20. - I fully agreed with the selection made which was very reassuring.

It was a very interesting and helpful exercise, it allowed me to see how another person viewed my work and how they would go about laying it out. the layout was the thing I found most interesting mostly due to the fact I have a tendency to layout my work within a grid format - it definitely gave me something to think about and lead me to realise that maybe I need to play around with layout in general in terms of all the work I do instead of doing what I first think of or what I would ‘usually’ do, as there can be a much better outcome with a little exploration.

[ellentaskerphotography]

Through exploration within Lightroom, I found my images to be most effective in black and white. I didn't find colour to be necessary it was actually more of a distraction than anything.

[ellentaskerphotography]

Why Liverpool Street?

When thinking of a place that would provide me with the right subject matter to fit with my concept Liverpool Street seemed to be the most fitting. It also allowed me to really see the reality of the never-ending building within the city as I had visited Liverpool Street two years previously during A-levels to obtain source material for an art project. It allowed me to see how the place had grown and how much the space had changed.

It confirmed my assumptions of the fast-paced never-ending building and complete lack of space, both architecturally and physically. Physically having people everywhere, being surrounded, the feeling of chaos and overpopulation. I want to convey this feeling through my images using architecture as the subject matter. 

I think the lack of space also can be related back to ‘thinking space’ the overwhelming nature of the city can be extremely tiring, often leaving the mind a little clouded and confused and therefore leaving people to feel not only physically but mentally exhausted. 

I also discovered that those photos I had taken two years ago will never be able to be recreated in a sense as that view doesn't exist anymore (shown in the images above - the top image being the one taken two years ago). This was something that on first thought I viewed as being kind of ‘cool’ however, on deeper reflection I found it rather baffling and unsettling - the relentless never-ending growth of the city.

Whilst exploring and shooting I was looking for patterns and shapes within the subject matter trying to find some order in the chaos. The mass of glass was something I hadn't even thought about before exploring the space and therefore in turn reflections were something hugely apparent. I found them to add to the suffocating nature of the spaces it gave a sense of seeing double. 

I found there to be an almost natural collage when looked at from the right viewpoint. Whilst shooting I explored different viewpoints some more zoomed in, filling the frame and allowing barely any (sometimes none at all) negative space within the images. In a sense creating a parallel to the physical and mental lack of space. I also shot from low viewpoints to convey the idea of the buildings have power over us, smothering us, intimidating us.