Statement About my Final Pieces

My final pieces for my project, consist of seven photographs between the sizes of A5 and A4. The first five photographs are screen grabs of each video I recorded over the period of five days, they are images that have been captured after one minute of film as pasted.


Each photograph from the five days of filming, are to present a moment during my day, in my personal space (bedroom)capturing myself (and who ever maybe with me at the time), lost in my own world.


I thought that the video's effect on my photographic outcomes were great because they looked raw and always had something wrong with the exposure, lighting or contrast. I never edited any of my screen grabs, I just kept them as a original as I created them with my video camera. I wanted to achieve a selection of photographs that looked as raw as Richard Billingham's 'Rays a Laugh' series.
I noticed however the more I got used to working with my camera, I captured a more successful photographs.


I chose the other two photographs to be included into my final collection, (one of my eye and the other one a self portrait that is blurred) because they were two successful photographs that I captured of myself during the project, that looked the interesting. The eye photograph presented the idea of looking into my soul as a photographer and the blurred portrait was to present my confusion at the time about this project when I had no real strong ideas to follow.


I feel that I have enjoyed this project because as soon as I got an idea and a few comments from my class friends that were really positive and helpful, I became much more confident and was always opening up my sketchbook.
I am really happy and proud with my photographs and I have learnt a lot about myself and how I have a few habits... If I had more time I would have wanted to do another weeks worth of filming to get a fuller selection of outcomes.

My Final Idea

I have finally come to the conclusion that I am going to screen grab a photograph from each video, after a minute into the video. Then I am hoping that each photograph is enough to present at a moment in each day, I had filmed.

I think it will be interesting to see which photographs are picked and what each one may present.

In my sketchbook I have gone into detail about what each video and what each one as relived about me, my world; the way I have habits and stuff that I never noticed. When I am in my own little world, in my most personal space (my bedroom).

I have really enjoyed this project, it's been my favourite since starting University, it as been really interesting to see how my work as developed and others in my group. Using the blogs as made it easier for everyone to comment on each others' blogs and having their views on my work, as been really helpful.

Thoughts....

I know that everything I have done so far is not edited or anything I do from now on will be changed in anyway other than the size of the outcome, for my presentation; because i admire the effect the camera I am using to create my photographs with.

My photographs (screen grabs) will be the outcomes for my final presentation, along with my 'Blog' and sketchbook.

However:

- I do not know how many videos I should use for my final piece?
- I do not know what videos to use or if I should just use my latest video and take seven to ten screen grabs from it and use them for my final outcome to show a selection of my day, in my world and what i was doing in my personal space - my room.

etc

Any ideas?

However, I am thinking at the moment to have 5 to ten (screen grabs) photographs from each day since starting my filming and display each day. Maybe displaying the idea of seeing a week, of my world.
I am using captions, which are more like titles at the moment, to show my audience what is going on in the photographs at the time...

Suggestions and thoughts are welcome...

: )

New Day, New Video Clips...

Presenting the idea of seeing myself lost in my own world... In my personal space.

Today I am going to video myself in my personal space again - my bedroom.
For about five minutes, in which I will just carry on with what I was doing beforehand. This time I will place the video camera further away from me, so I am in the full frame, rather than being so close like beforehand, (in my older posts - below). Once it is complete, I am going to take no more than 5 clips that express me lost, in my own personal space.

The most interesting things I have learnt so far from doing this experimental project is that I have noticed that I have a few habits. For example; I like moving around a lot, I can never really seem to sit still. I'm never just sitting around thinking, I'm always doing something in my room, always using my time doing something.

I never really thought this experimental project, involving my life, in my personal space would reflect anything about me , except about what I get up to whilst at home... Very Interesting and intriguing.

Final Idea, Till the End of My project??

Thinking about taking a photograph each day, at the same time, in the same way n place... maybe.. with the camera lens blurred slightly n lighting poor... to reflect on the idea of losing yourself in your personal space... my world, presenting in my personal space, in this case bedroom. Linking with and moved onwards from my older photographs presented.

Any opinions??

Today... Ideas??

Catherine Holland (Myself) eye:


My photography Eye...
Seeing nothing but blur, meaning my ideas are not clear...

Catherine Holland (Self-portrait) Blurred to present my thoughts:


I really don't have an official idea about what or how I will be presenting my world in the form of photographs. This is why I am typing on here, to see if I can think of any ideas and maybe tell them to you, when I think of them... I have always got ideas, but then it is seeing if they are possible to follow...

I think I am going to stop thinking about what technology that I want to to experiment with, for a moment. However I need to think about what my subject matter...

I know I will be presenting 'my world/selection of my world' of it; but I do not know what area?

Like Jay, Bill suggested in 'The Thing Itself' essay in Occam's Razor book; I need a subject matter, that I have a passion about, to keep me interested and excited, about my project and my subject matter must be accessible.

Today... I have shown how I am feeling as a photographer with the idea of starting this project... rather than any ideas...

Maybe I could photograph the same section of an area in my personal space, my bedroom, each day to see my habbits with tidying up and where I place things...

For example:

I took the top one yesterday and the bottom one today...
Noticed the difference?





I think you can tell the difference a lot better when your actually looking at the original photograph to be honest...?

This idea is Sophie Calle and Richard Billingham inspired...

Ideas Running Through My Mind....

'Bad Picture'




Maybe I could photograph an area that is my personal space, where I reflect upon things. For example my favourite place or where I spend most of my time? Then maybe I could see the difference in each photograph, for example; moving objects, my habits with placing things in a certain way or even photographing where I am in that particular space. I could even photograph myself at a certain time each day... to see where I end up being? Obviously sometimes I would have make sure I wasn't in the bathroom at that specific time lol These are just ideas at the moment that I quickly need to make part of my everyday photographing and then it is just knowing what type of camera am I going to take my photograph with, will I be in the photograph and will this present my world the way I would like...?