Project 1: Where Living Happens - Plazas and Pastures

This is my final hand-in

Nighttime photography

 Night time panoramas brought some interesting results. Particularly with light and black space.

Here I stood at the Karori Tunnel. I was bombarded with light and the colour yellow, it was an interesting location as a three way intersection. I could neglect the presence of a sky as the surounding hills created a black space that the image would fade into.

 

The street lines distorted and overall it was a hard image to work with digitally.

Karori Tunnel

This is my favourite mini-planet from Karori Tunnel the tallest poles and road markings are on the left and right of the image which gives the image some symetry making it easier to comprehend.

The next set I took at my home in Makara. the only light source comes from the immediate surrounding buildings as there are no immediate neighbours or street lights.

The first  image produced here has a lot of black space and seems to squash the buildings.

I tried to invert the image but as most settings the ground doesn't look good stretched.

 

Next I edited out the warping of the inverted image and merged the two images as I'd seen eimilar technique used in other mini-worlds. The effect usually works to coverup any central imperfections, here it helps to occuypy the space.

 

 

I do quite like the 1st and last images, I could definitely push these at a later date. In particularly the first image, I could try to eliminate some of the black space in the image whilst it is still in a panorama stage, hopefully this will stretch the buildings across the space more evenly.

 

Panorama Shoots

Over the last two weeks I have done a vast exploration of Wellington and beyond. I have explored the heights of Karori's Wrights Hill, I have ventured to the back of the airport whilst planes drop over my head, I have battled the varied weather of sun, rain and wind in the Hutt Valley and all throughout I have carried my camera and tripod, with whom I have become very familiar.

Here are contact sheets of some of these shoots.

 

Mini Worlds - Day/Night

Here are a couple of mini-planet images that I am pleased with

The first image, Day, is taken under a bridge, this results in the bridge bleeding into the foreverness of the sky; this is something we were advised against, however I quite like the aesthetic it brings to the image, it frames the image in a way that the sky alone cannot.

Day

My second image, Night, is a very busy image. Taken at the three way intersection on the Karori side of the Karori tunnel this image leads itself to some strange distortion.
I think in these images we are lead to believe that an even number of points of perspective is best; it is something that our miond processes easily. Here I play with that. This leads to a strange distortion of this mini-world in a way that interests me.


Night



Within this project I have explored a new technique that photography allows. There is more of an exploration of this that I can do. There are definitely still places that I would like to turn into mini worlds.

Under the bridge

I worked on a lot of different images, I considered submitting an image from under the bridge as a part of my final presentation but thought against it as I wanted to tell a  story of which it didn't build upon.

I was advised against having things other than sky at the top of my mini-planet images but I dared to try it and I think the effect is pretty sweet.

 

I played around with inverting images, but the majority of the time the stretching of the ground into the edges of the page resulted in strange distorted images. 

I also tried editing the top of the bridge out of the image and it appears empty, which could be another aesthetic altogether. It looks as if the production of the bridge just never happened and we live in a dystopic world where infrastructure is neglected but the church still proclaims "God Cares".

Restricted Area

Throughout the taking of photos for this project I have explored different spaces in new ways. On one occasion I wanted to explore the area at the end of the runway of Wellington airport. I wasn't in the way of any planes or in any danger but there was still a  sign telling me not to be there.

I acknowledged it and ignored it. The feeling of rebellion was growing inside me.

I managed to get some fantastic shots that I could turn into panoramas and mini-planets but my best shot was of a plane coming in to land.

The colour tone of the images was superb, it was a fantastic sunny day, yet the wind that blew was a bitterly cold southerly that I bore the brunt of where I was.

Again I tried to merge two images of the same panorama into one mini world, this helped to cover up my errors and give the image another dimension.