Photographer Research: Corriette Schoenaerts

Love the set ups in these, I appreciate that photography isn't the content of the work, just the output - or a way of containing/communicating content.

Using NEF files / Experimenting with shapes

I placed some little paper platonic solid models I made on a lightbox as an experiment with scale and light. Taking photos in RAW format allowed me to edit the exposure and contrast of the picture, creating a more accurate version of the kind of photos i wanted to produce. Although these are obviously hand made paper-models, I feel these photographs create an illusion of size and also hid the imperfections on the models that were more tricky to glue together.

Projector Experiment

I played with the light from my flatmate's projector, frantically moving a thin object like a stick or a pen close to the projectors lens broke up the light and caused some pretty weird results. I used a high shutter speed and played with the aperture setting until I only really captured the light from the projector, they don't look that great but it helped me get to grips with these particular settings.

Photographer Research

Georges Rousse's work is really inspiring, he plays with the idea of the illusion of reality in photography, the fact that the camera only captures one particular angle gives his work a dynamic that appears manipulated post-production. However if you were to approach these in real life, it would be very clear that these are all physically painted within the interiors. This would work well for some of my physical design work, and would definitely be interested in producing work that would only function successfully if photographed.

Photographer Research

I liked the way these had been set up, much of the work Christian Hagemanns photographs could be installations/pieces in themselves. However, photography allows a controlled space for him to output his imagery, and I appreciate that these were set-up for the purpose of being captured by camera. This interests me because I plan to make something to be photographed, rather than work in a kind of reportage style context.

Photographer Research

These are photos by a friend of mine who usually produces illustration and collage orientated work. I want to use photography as part of my work rather than a the work itself, these in a way, are still collages, using computer generate polygons to reflect suggestive shapes from landscape photography.

Shutter Speeds

Just to make sure I remembered what we learnt about shutter speed, I took a few shots on a grey morning from my balcony experimenting with the different settings. Anything below 1/20 produced nothing but white light, I kind of appreciated the bright grainy look of the slower shutter speeds though. 1/125 - 1/200 aided the most accurate reproduction of the true image.