Artist Draft 4

This week I made the 4th draft of my artist project. For this draft, I gathered new materials for my shots to create more interesting and more diverse compositions. Then I used the same process that I had applied to the earlier draft, taking angled photos with a macro attachment, to zoom in on smaller designs focused in a smaller area. 

Artist Draft 3

This week, we made the third draft of our artist projects. For this draft I tried to remove the glare that appeared in the previous drafts and focus my images in tighter spaces for more angled photos. To get these kinds of photos I used a macro attachment on the camera and zoomed all the way in. Then I would edit the photos to crop as well as enhance the photos taken, often taking out large parts of the images that were blurry and outside the area of focus. For the next draft, I would like to keep working with this technique and play more with the composition and arrangement of the different kinds of origami paper I use. Since the images are in a smaller area, I would also like to use a stand to hold the camera in place so that there is no blurriness or doubles when zoomed in.

Artist Draft 2

This week, I made the second draft of fifteen photos based off Eileen Quinlan’s Smoke and Mirrors. For this draft, I used a better camera and made use of different lenses based on how close I wanted the image to be, such that the camera would focus at the proper height. I was also more aware of the lighting and tried to use it to enhance my photos. This helped my photos stand out more with more vivid colors and clearer resolution. I also tried to change the angle at which the photo is taken in order to give a greater sense of spatial dissonance, however it ultimately made the area of focus much smaller than a straight on shot and also further revealed the gaps between layers of cut-up photos. In the next draft, i would like to further explore this technique by more tightly closing the gaps between photos and focusing the spatial dissonance on a smaller area to compensate for the smaller focusing area of the camera.