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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
