Week 1: Site Device + Site Visit

Research:

Pinhole Camera

I was interested in the Pinhole Camera, with how a small pinhole was capable of capturing an image through light exposure. I have played with a pinhole camera in the past so I was interested in developing my knowledge further.

I wanted to use the idea of small openings/obstructions into my device, to enhance my concept of eliminating the whole picture to highlight aspects of the picture.

Kinetoscope

Cinematic Device:

I was inspired with the idea of obstruction, to cover the lens with some kind of “obstruction” in order to let parts of an image shine. For example, one may not notice the brick walls, or the blueness of the sky due to there being too much going on in an image. But when you break up the image, they are more prominent due to eliminating other factors.

I thought there could be two ways I could achieve this: Colour filters, and “Window” filters.

Colour Filters

I was always inspired by the concept of 3D glasses, with the simplicity of using colours to produce dimension on a flat screen. Without the glasses, the image would look complicated and overexaggerated with the red and blue outlines, yet when looking at each lens separately, the outlines would be invisible, or more subtle.

Using the filters to eliminate the correlated colours on the paper (the red filter did not go as planned due to the transparency of the filter, therefore I would have to layer up the cellophane to achieve what I was going for).

I chose to use primary colours as they could mix to produce secondary colours (without making purple, orange, green filters)

Window Filters

Going back on the idea of obstructing/dividing a view to highlight a part of the view, I decided to create “window” filters by cutting out shapes:

(photos)

Results

Findings:

My colour filters were not saturated enough to completely eliminate their corresponding colours like I had intended.
Also not saturated enough for some of the images (e.g. the yellow would give a tint instead of a saturated yellow)
However, there were moments where using the corresponding colours to my subject enhanced the image (e.g. the red filter on the red lights)
Difficult to focus on the image as my hands were full by holding my devices
I liked the combination of using both filters in one image, as I felt that it kept my images within the same tone (not many contrasting colours mashed together)

“Natural Divisions” in the site

I noticed the site naturally divided themselves, whether it was through defining lines or materials. This was similar to my manmade device of dividing the image: