Yowa Yowa (Natsumi Hayashi)
The image on the left is Natsumi Hayashi, she is a photographer that is famous for her collection of images called "the floating girl in Akihabara" in which there is a series of images of a subject floating off of the ground doing various things around the city as is present in one of her images on the right where she is opening a gate or drinking from a fountain.
Below is a PowerPoint attachment of the research I have done before setting out to collect these images and editing the pictures I collected. |
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My Inspired Edits
These are my own inspired edits from the images that this artist has inspired me to take, in this case it is the floating images present in "Yowa Yowa's" work, for my images I have used different editing techniques such as image overlay to change the backgrounds present in the image to create this illusion of floating and in others I have simply brightened the image's darker features to allow a fictional setting to be shown, this set of images although inspired by the floating girl in Akihabara is one I will call "the floating students" due to everyone in the shots being in a sixth form uniform. I have made these images quite bright and coloured as it helps to promote a fantasy kind of idea to this type of movement as floating in air is not a possible movement for people so this is a fictional version of this floating to help fit this theme of movement more.
Multiplicity (Eadweard Muybridge)
On the left we have Eadweard Muybridge, and to the right is an image of his work. This is multiplicity and it tends to follow the idea of taking multiple images of movement, I have adapted this to using multiple images of the same person in the same scene and overlaying them.
Below you will find an attachment allowing you to download the PowerPoint of my research for this photograher. |
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My Inspired Edits
These are my own inspired edits from the images that this artist has inspired me to take, in this case it is multiplicity, however my own idea on the image is to change the idea of using the different forms of movement and instead incorperate the same person doing completely different motions such as reading, standing and walking all in the same image. I have done two sets of these images, some in black and white to pay homage to Muybridge and a set of these images remaining in colour to fit a more modern type of image, however both sets refer to this as different ideas of movement as the actions are vastly different yet the moving figure is in the image.
Black and White gallery
Movie Strip work
This photo-shoot did not feature a specific photographer for me to base my images off, instead when thinking about the moving figure I decided to take a photo-shoot that could pay homage to technicolor, which is developing a movie through sets of images where people move, which is literally a form of the moving figure in my theme.
The downloadable PowerPoint below features the research into the subject that I had done. |
movie_strips.pptx | |
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My Inspired Edits
These are my inspired images based on the subject I have chosen to research, I have used the old idea of the film strip to represent this "technicolor" as when originally shown in cinemas the images would only be in colour when the light of the projector was shining through the squares with the images on. I had to maintain the composition of patterns while editing these images as they all had to be the same size as the other two in each image and the movie strip pattern had to remain the same and to further this effect I had even used a film grain filter to make the strips seem more old fashioned after the films often seen in technicolor.