Note:

In addition to my current manifesto draft I want to add the points:

Reuse wherever whenever possible.
Recycle.
D.I.Y. save your own money and do it yourself. Practice skill, practice culture. Spend effort and time rather than lots of money.

Something along the lines of this. To hone tonight.

To Do List

To Do:

• Use Magic Lantern in cooperation with my camera to enhance the cameras capabilities for capturing fantastic images.
• Night Photography at the airport. Check flight times for jetstar/air NZ/Quantas/other companies who fly at Wellington. 30 second exposure timer. ten shots consecutively.
• Play with fireworks. Capture fireworks in long exposure images
• Strap little fireworks to toy cars light and capture in a long exposure image.
• Measure a distance with light in a long exposure. Every few paces shine a light in the direction of the camera.
• Use a measuring wheel with a light on it to aid measurements.
• Make other funky contraptions to use in the measurements with lights.

Inspiring Websites Exposures

http://laughingsquid.com/long-exposure-photos-of-planes-taking-off-and-landing-at-sfo/

http://www.geekologie.com/2012/09/long-exposure-pic-reveals-spazzy-nature.php

http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/11/04/11/

http://eclecticarcania.blogspot.co.nz/2014/04/lax-menagerie.html

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/the-star-filled-night-sky-becomes-a-magical-sight-when-combined-with-this-camera-technique

Makara Beach at Dawn

Here are all of the images of my 5-7 shoot down at Makara Beach Wednesday morning.

I began focussing on stars as in the prior exercise using long exposures. The better images I took resulted in light trails of planes and boats.

As the light of dawn came up I began to furiously experiment with exposures and apertures; and inevitably ended up taking long exposed selfies with the dog, and then some experimental landscapes.

Light Trails

 My latest shoot produced six images that interest me in an area I'd like to continue exploring.

I woke up Wednesday morning at 4.30 and drove down to Makara Beach with the dog. Together in the dark we clambered around the beach and up a  hill, woke up a sleeping goat, and came to a good spot that looks out over the cook straight.

I started by capturing images of stars but soon turned my attention to moving objects with lights. i.e. ships and planes.

Two ships in the cook straight 120 seconds

Ship in the cook straight 120 seconds

Early morning plane 22 seconds

early morning plane 40 seconds

early morning plane 23 seconds

early morning plane 60 seconds

The trails produced by ships and planes interest me a great deal. I would like to do more plane long exposure photography. I would like to be able to work out information regarding the trails of planes. I particularly like the image with the red dashed line. With some more research I could make calculations as to how fast the plane might have been travelling.

I have done some research into long exposure photography and will continue to research and practice it.

Manifesto Draft

Insert Intelligent Paragraph Here

 

Designers:

·         Designers must create with the triple bottom line in mind.

                                Think about the planet

                                Think about people

                                Then think about Profit.

·         Consider each of these equally throughout the course of the design process.

                                Materials
                                Manufacturing
                                Packaging
                                Use
                                Transport
                             Waste

·         Quantify all materials, processes and the environmental impact throughout the design process.

·         Be able to trace/track all materials throughout the process.

·         Be transparent with information. Make it public. Be Honest. Give the power to the consumers.

·         Don’t be exclusive. Allow anybody who wants to the opportunity to buy your product.

·         Be the first. The first business, the first system, the first nation. Be ther first and others will follow.

 

Consumers:

·         Take the power.

·         Read the packaging.

·         Value more than just price. Value the environment and the people who made the item.

·         Buy good stuff. Buy crafted items over plastic factory made crap. Preserve the culture of making that led to the creation of that product.

·         Take your canvas bags to the supermarket.

 

 

 

Astro-Photography

On a tripod, in the back yard looking out over the back paddock. Flash was on, which lit up the image for the moment when I opened the shutter. then 30 seconds of exposure.

Without the flash the image turned out better. Note the red light of the windmill in the center of the image. 

Another angle from the same spot.

In a different area, looking up higher

Looking from the yard towards Karori. these two images are great becuase they look like sunrises but the yellow light is just light polution from the suburbs and city.

 In the first image here I was worried that the light from inside the house on the left would change the exposure of the image. It didn't. Instead we just get two slightly different images with two slightly different cloud formations.

Manifesto Ideas

 

First ideas about my manifesto.

Final Presentation

Process

Using my new birthday present Go Pro I documented the physical process of projection of my photos, destruction of the bonnet/screen/canvas and rephotographing the photos.

I arranged this into a simple video shown below.

In my final presentation I will use the video below. It is the process as documented by the GoPro camera with my final selection of images interspersed throughout, at the times when I photographed them.

In this project the process I followed was equally if not more important than the final images. It required many iterations and processes, layering of images, trial and error, and most of all the help of others. I relied heavily on my family for this project. 

My girlfriend helped me throughout the analogue photography process. Together we discovered interesting subjects including a picnic beach scene with the dog Ken.

My dad helped me at pick-a-part to dismantle the bonnet of a car and bring it back to his house, providing me with a place where I could destroy it.

My niece and nephew ate lunch with me before I began photographing and destroying the bonnet. The setup doubled as a makeshift movie theater. Where we watched a film.

Then as you will see in the videos above they helped in certain parts of the destruction of the bonnet. One layer of destruction included running over the bonnet and leaving wheel marks over it. To do  this my nephew and I painted the wheel of an old wheelbarrow and rolled the painted barrow over the bonnet.

This project was definitely a team effort. It was a memorable process for me and no doubt a memorable process for the others who helped out.

Car Graveyard

Saturday my dad and I went up the hill in Wingate to Pick-a-part. This place is a massive car graveyard where tinkerers and scavengers from all walks of life come to salvage useful car bits and bobs.

I wanted either a car door or bonnet that was white so I could project images of my photographs onto it. I discovered a suburu bonnet in good condition that had a  scoop in it. To buy it the asking price was $70, I thought this was a bit expensive for something I would soon be destroying. still, I bought it, I guess that is what they mean by suffering for ones art. 

Images from: http://ferguscunningham.com/2012/08/25/pickapart/

Run it over

Today I ran over my photos.

I taped a negative print of three images, and one devoloped image to one of the rear tyres of my car. I reversed a few metres and then drove forward to my original position.

This is what happened.

 When the car drove over the negative print it was torn into three pieces. It is not very strong or maleable. Here we can see marks of dust where the car was pushing the negative into the dirt. The lines are caused by lines of space in the tyre.


 
You can see more of the cracking and scrathing of the negative on this side and less of the dust print.
 























I am unsure of what happened in the two above images when scanning them. On the left is the back side of the printed image, on the right is the printed image s front side.




Next I taped a negative to the wheel of a bike and the developed image on the other wheel

This is what happened.

Here we see the negative and some of the texture that the bike gave it.

Here we can see the otherside of the film where there is dust marks where the bike tyres have been put under weight in this point.



















Again I am unsure as to what happened on the developed photos on scanning, however in the second image you can clearly see a tyre mark.

The hangover.

I had an idea and it sparked many more ideas.

I will have a couple of mates over and we will watch the hangover trilogy whilst enjoying a few (or more) beers. Using the Holga I will document the night and the aftermath in the morning. 

Once developed I will put the images in a shallow tray and pour beer over them. I will photograph the images through the beer using my cannon DSLR.

An interesting idea that may have more interesting results.

Drunk Driving

To bridge the gap between my first idea of transport and second idea of a hangover, I have thought it may be interesting to approach the subject of drunk driving. The way I am envisioning this is a series of images that have been altered in several ways.

Firstly using the Holga I will take a series of images that construct a narrative around a night of drinking and partying and then later driving and ultimately a crash.

Next I will apply different textures to these images for example The photograph will be scratched as if by glass in the image of the broken beer bottle. There will be mud and grass smeared on the photographs of the car as it drives off of the road. There will be visible tears in the photograph and blood smears on it in the image of the after crash.

Next these textured images will be projected digitally onto a white car bonnet. Throughout the series the car bonnet will gradually become destroyed. I will physically destroy the bonnet before taking the next photograph.

This will produce the final digital images. I am yet to decide upon a finla output for these digital images.

More experiments with the film

My enthusiastic use of the Holga camera has led me to my first disappointment.

I approached the camera with some old black and white film I had found and bought off of trade me. and then went about taking images where and when I thought fit to do so. Without much consideration  I took these images, eager to make comparisons between not only the colour film and the black and white film, but also between the square aspect ratio and the rectangular aspect ratio.

I shopped around at places to develop the film. I had previously used image lab who were reasonably priced and I had inquired in the photo warehouse who were ridiculously expensive. Wellington Photographic's offered me the best price yet; and the quickest service.

Upon picking the images up today I was shocked and disappointed that only only one of the images had exposed the way I had anticipated. A couple of the others had exposed just enough to identify what they are, but the majority of the images were not exposed sufficiently.

A lot of the images have strange white or grey sections on them and all of the images, although it is most noticeable in the darker images, have white specs all over them that sometimes appear to look like the sky on a starry night.


I also haven't figured out how to use the film scanner very well so my black and white images turned out like this.

The one image that is easy to make out is the bicycle wheels on the bottom which I may still be able to use.

First Shoot