photography project on ‘time’ any ideas ?
My photography project is ‘time’… but I cant think of many ideas to do. I have thought about past,present, future and also how things have changed through the decades but I need some ideas that I can actually do. We have a photography studio at college. I have a digital & SLR also photoshop so can do more/less anything… any ideas ? ? ?
There are MANY ideas that you can do with this project.
You can focus on things in different stages of life (budding flower, flower, dead flower OR 3 different people of different ages).
You can do time lapse photography. Where you hold the shutter open for an extend time and move through the frame. That way it will show where you were in the past, in the present and the future as you move.
You could also do multiple exposures in a single image.
You could actually do it with the type of prints you do. For example, simple images taken with a pin hole camera, 35mm black and white, 35mm color, digital, then into a scanner.
You could find a project going on around you (painting a building, construction work, putting up Christmas lights, etc) and photograph them.
It really depends on your time constraints.
You could even do something like fruit/food rotting.
I seen some really cool work done with a pin hole using paper negatives (ISO of 6) which along for long exposures.
Even you are a morning or evening person you could do a set of the sitting or rising sun.
But think about other parts of time. Maybe do something about how much time is pasted in a blink of an eye. What we miss because humans are always in a hurry. The idea of something moving extremely fast that we miss it.
If this is just a basic few week project I would have fun with it. If it is for a larger project go to the teacher with some ideas of what you have and see what they think would be best and more your style that you would enjoy working on it for awhile.
Another idea could be another technique I used a few times. It is based on EXTENDED FRAMES. Meaning you put a roll of film into your 35mm camera. Advance the entire roll without capturing any images and then in a darker room (usually for a play or performance where there is dim lighting) and while keeping the shutter open your manually wind up the film back into the container. This way you will get some action shots and if you want you can place your lens cap over the camera or stop the shutter every few frames and play with it some so you will get a good bracket range for it.
There is a few photographers that I have done things with time and space you may like to look at. Just google them long exposure photography, time as subject photography, and time lapse.
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May 19th, 2010 at 10:50 pm
it would be cool to have a kid sitting on a park bench and next to her have a teenager and then an old lady next to the teenager. Does time move through us? do we move through it? i think thatd be the good question to ask while taking the picture.
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May 19th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
Take Pictures of Numerous clocks around you and then place them in different seasonal backrounds.
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May 19th, 2010 at 11:33 pm
how about simillar to time lapse take a photograph of say an apple core every 30 mins and record it going brown and rotton and produce the image as thumbnails on paper, just an idea
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May 19th, 2010 at 11:51 pm
This might be overdone, but you could get a friend to dress up in older clothes and use black and white, then sepia on it.
Then maybe do another decade and just use black and white.
Finally do a modern picture and use modern technology..
Just an idea, but you could show off the different technologies used, or replicate them with photoshop.
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Photography course last year, did something very similar.
May 20th, 2010 at 12:07 am
Past, present and future seems interesting, but don’t be stereotypical about it. Again I have a good idea for this…though perhaps not 100% PC. Think about it, though what embodies past, present and future perfectly. I’ll give you an tip…it only involves one model (that actually is two), and one location (that you might not automatically think of and I think works brilliantly.
I have lots more, including ones that involve a 10 stop ND filter and another that involves butterflies, and also a totally minimalist one, and another that is inspired by photography in the early 20th Century…but use your imagination.
Sorry for being cryptic, but I kinda like my ideas…so go on I’ve given you enough clues…think about it…what sort of a person is actually not just one person, what do they represent? And how can you portray that one person (thats actually two) in a way to capture past, present and future.
P.S. you shouldn’t be relying on photoshop. It’s not a fixall tool. Use your skills as a photographer!
P.P.S. the location could just be implied, you could do it at a studio with the right props/clothing, and could be even more powerful.
P.P.P.S Justin is on the right lines here, just need to think a little more out the box to create something more than just a photograph.
P.P.P.P.S Another clue, this model won’t always be like this…and also may be rather hard to find from the college population.
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May 20th, 2010 at 12:51 am
i did a painting called sat at the table of time, my representation of that was a person sat at a table and behind them was jet black as a future that was not yet existing, but from their shoulders came off two multicolour wings representing the event horizon, which eventually faded to the mist and myth of history and so became jet black once again, l painted the scene viewed from above(as l could not be bothered to paint a face ha ha) though that then led me to think well where in the art was l as this second person looking at the person sat at the table of time, and so that led to a poem the viewer a photograph me, which mentions a guy looking out over hills on the remote Dempster Highway, but of course l am there, the viewer of the viewer of the view, and we none of us are really there in that time frame as was or can ever be, though we wish maybe we were.art is weird.
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May 20th, 2010 at 1:05 am
There are MANY ideas that you can do with this project.
You can focus on things in different stages of life (budding flower, flower, dead flower OR 3 different people of different ages).
You can do time lapse photography. Where you hold the shutter open for an extend time and move through the frame. That way it will show where you were in the past, in the present and the future as you move.
You could also do multiple exposures in a single image.
You could actually do it with the type of prints you do. For example, simple images taken with a pin hole camera, 35mm black and white, 35mm color, digital, then into a scanner.
You could find a project going on around you (painting a building, construction work, putting up Christmas lights, etc) and photograph them.
It really depends on your time constraints.
You could even do something like fruit/food rotting.
I seen some really cool work done with a pin hole using paper negatives (ISO of 6) which along for long exposures.
Even you are a morning or evening person you could do a set of the sitting or rising sun.
But think about other parts of time. Maybe do something about how much time is pasted in a blink of an eye. What we miss because humans are always in a hurry. The idea of something moving extremely fast that we miss it.
If this is just a basic few week project I would have fun with it. If it is for a larger project go to the teacher with some ideas of what you have and see what they think would be best and more your style that you would enjoy working on it for awhile.
Another idea could be another technique I used a few times. It is based on EXTENDED FRAMES. Meaning you put a roll of film into your 35mm camera. Advance the entire roll without capturing any images and then in a darker room (usually for a play or performance where there is dim lighting) and while keeping the shutter open your manually wind up the film back into the container. This way you will get some action shots and if you want you can place your lens cap over the camera or stop the shutter every few frames and play with it some so you will get a good bracket range for it.
There is a few photographers that I have done things with time and space you may like to look at. Just google them long exposure photography, time as subject photography, and time lapse.
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