Photography Electives-Synthesis Research

As I mentioned in my previous entry, for my Photography Elective, I looked at the details of everyday life that we miss when we walk around. This is part of the research for the next part of our Synthesis project (animation). So I intend to use the work and research from my electives as a starting point here. Below are the final images I created for that Photography elective. There was a deeper meaning to it all, but I won’t explain it here.

I used a 60mm prime Macro lens on my Nikon D70s to get these shots. All shot in RAW, processed in Adobe Photoshop.

AniMaidstone Trailer Final Version

Below is the final version of my AniMaidstone trailer, other test versions can be found on my Youtube page, but this is the important one:

I am quite pleased with the final version, although if I was to make anything like this that was any longer than 10 seconds I would probably have to find another method of doing it (that’s to say if I was working solo on the project). Having to edit each and every frame in Photoshop individually took a lifetime, especially so when you consider that the majority of the frames had to be re-editted at least 3 times. This is because I had to alter the amount fo movement in the background imagery; originally the hands tore at still images, but then I changed it so that they where tearing at moving images, with other moving images behind them. Everything you see is a photograph, no digital painting was involved.

The next part of this ‘Synthesis’ project is to create a 20-30 second animation, using video and/or photographic media again, looking at the lost details of daily life (something I studied for the recent Electives project, see above).