first experimental

Showing distortion with reading. 

Distortion - creating slow motion with still life and slow shutter. The idea between doing high and low key is to see what effects they have. The idea behind doing some distortion by using a slow shutter and careful movement of my head, this was to show how muddled things can become on a daily matter or when it appears more of being someone with Dyslexia. 

Theme - distortion is a very effective technique to do in photography, I found it rather interesting into putting forth in my own work, there was this understanding that sometimes I feel that connection between the distortion and myself. for myself to get that connection, it comes down to how everything I personally see, a lot of simple things become distorted. Words blending together,  for me, its comes to mentality and visual. I see black and white, every detail to black and white, becomes natural to see the tones whereas colour, everything gets lost, there is not split tones to see the detail of the image. 

This project will be visualised in black and white, for editing purpose, I will be mixing both colour with black and white. by doing this I should create that slight distortion into not being able to separate colours. within the experimental side of editing, I am looking at creating a double exposure, this will help guide and create a series of images that show how the effects of Dyslexia can look like.

Reflecting on the shoot can seem like a challenging thing, to make sure every detail is understood and thought out. by experimenting from the shoot, I did friday 20th may, as a trial and error, and using my in camera skill, by producing an experimental image overlay. I saw this technique be really effective, however, although the books became my escape within Dyslexia, it did not quite feel like it showed the deeper parts of how Dyslexia is like on a daily basis.

By using image overlay in my camera and been really selective within choosing the right images, I put together in Photoshop some examples that will help to see how the final outcome will be put together, for me it also helps on what direction I think will portray the strongest emotion and connection 

To help know which direction I wanted to take my final over all images, I created three experimental with double exposure. This was to see what editing techniques would be needed, but also to see whether or not which process could create the strongest connection not just to myself but other viewers. I wanted something that did not give everything away, that they knew what it was about and moved onto something else, I wanted to create something that could show much more then Dyslexia in a self portrait. To get a more clear vision, I put forth my images for peer feedback. 

Peer Feedback

Taking on board to what had been said, I decided to follow the path of the second image, creating a series with words with a self portrait. This has potential to make that connection between myself and my books. following forward with further experimental, i created two similar images, high and low key, this allowed me to see what direction would work strongest to my research.

 I am very pleased with the Peer feedback I had received, this has given me something to work with into producing a strong series for my final outcome. I will take on board to what has been said and keep reflecting back to both feedback and my research into lighting techniques and composition.

Reflection of one self

Refection of one self... 

Following up my research on Vivian Maier, I went out on the high street with my film camera and shot my own reflection through windows of shops but my own reflection was not all I took, for me reading required patience to create the sounds of the words, to make them match but even then it became a struggle, the words blended together or I wrote them backwards, like a reflection of themselves. 

The shop signs I shot on my film camera through a window reflection, all had certain words that I mixed up such as letters like S, Z, B and Ds, these became common into sounds getting mixed up. For me, shooting them in reflection of shop windows shows how I saw letters.

The film was developed successfully however there are improvements to be made, such as Location, being more broader with the windows,  getting a strong reflection so working more to the light and the choice of window. planning more to the weather choice, avoiding the wrong exposure so timing when the cloud part for a clear shot and clear exposure. By seeing this film as an unsuccessful experiment, it has shown that the studio would be my  better choice for further experiment.

reflecting on the film, looking over some of the images that came out, I felt like they were not as strong into portraying what I was aiming for into showing dyslexia to creativity. Although the project experiment shows areas for improvement and the reflected images through windows of myself and signs. I feel like the experiment did not portray the intention of the project. I felt like it would be misunderstood. To make the relevant changes for future projects, I will make further plans into research, weather and location. research into choosing windows that will give different effects that will create the follow theme to the project, such a more framed window, or patterned windows, this could also help to create a more distorted look, rather then just open windows where it might lose the finest detail of the project experimental.

To compare the direction of how my project is going to look, I will be looking into shooting in the studio with slow shutter and still life. I will be shooting with low and high key backgrounds. and attempting into creating a blur movement with sharp focus still life. This will help create a distortion with still having some parts of the images in focus, by doing this type of photography, I will be aiming into producing and inviting people into seeing how it is to be someone with Dyslexia.