Thursday 29 November 2012

Architectural photography - inspiration for montaging/presentation

In the continuing presentation research, of particular interest is simple montaging which transforms an image and, because this series is on architectural photography, focuses on the form on the image and intersecting lines.  

 The current photographer of interest in this matter is Katerina Drzková's 'Landscapes' series, where a single image is cut into a triangle and repeated to create a square. This results in an abstract, almost painterly effect.




As an early experimentation, the below montage was taken in the courtyard of Guildhall, Leicester. The centre of the montage somewhat demonstrates the same kind of abstraction created in Drzková's montage, though another shoot has been done with more of the ground showing. Once those have been edited, I'm going to see how it looks in this style of presentation.




Tuesday 6 November 2012

New Topographic and Large Format photography



A current project of mine is focused on my intention to draw out the aesthetically appealing elements in the buildings in my local area, Oadby, Leicestershire, as they were not intended to be aesthetically pleasing, rather they are primarily functional. I could then, as an area of expansion, photograph Leicester as a comparison.

This could photographed in the style of the 'New Topographics', transforming the objects by reducing them  "to an essentially topographic state, conveying substantial amounts of visual information but eschewing entirely the aspects of beauty, emotion and opinion...". In addition, to enhance detail and slow the process down to carefully think about composition etc., a large-format camera could be used (typically 5x4), though a lot of preparation with digital will need to be made before shooting on 5x4.

Winding Tower by Bernd and Hilla Becher