Key influence: Robert Adam for whom the Ford and freeways were key to American identity.
Subject matter: cars, traffic, freeways, geometry of Montague St Ramp
Themes: If the car is all American, then surely it must be unAustralian? But what is it we think of as Australian and where is it? Where the distant horizon, the mateship, the ethnic melting pot or the naturalness and beauty of the Bush we hold so 'sacred'? But isn't this concept of Australia rather empty (as well as hardly inclusive or unique)? Isn't there is beauty in what's a little more truthful: concrete lines stretching forever, crowded frames, looming skylines, absent movement, invisible community and 'nature' slipping in unnoticed.
(1) Timelapse
Camera: Pentax Optio S4i
Technique: Timelapse fixed in car, taking about 900 images per trip.
Software: Cyberlink DVD Suite, Picassa, PowerPoint
Purpose: capture 'centre of the road' photos: crowded frames, moody skylines, repetition and yet difference in eye-catching detail, contact and yet no contact.
Key problems: not many options to adjust image capture (any choice is for all images), low resolution images, constantly shooting into the sun, camera movement, minimal capacity to adjust image in either snapshot or 'movie' form.
Presentation 1: snapshots taken from clearest footage and arranged into collages.
Presentation 2: clearest 4 pieces of footage minimally adjusted so they run for the same time and placed in a single frame to play simultaneously. I can't upload that to Blogger.
(2) Still Photos
Camera: Pentax Optio S4i, Pentax k20
Technique: stills around car parks, photos snatched while driving, around Montague St Ramp with tripod to maximise depth of focus.
Editing: straightness along horizontal axis, colour cast, cropping out unwanted details and re-framing, removing details at pixel level, colour temperature, light adjustment, sharpness filter, glow filter.
Software Picassa
Purpose: Capture geometry with absence of movement, cars or people, find beauty and lines, the invasion of nature, capture cars with the absence of movement or people.
Key problems: shooting into the early morning sun, images with strong light/dark constrast, unwanted details, lens distortion, not being physically capable of getting just the right angle.
Presentation 3: we can examine individual images, but I've also placed them into a presentation to display them in an order I think makes sense.
Key problems: shooting into the early morning sun, images with strong light/dark constrast, unwanted details, lens distortion, not being physically capable of getting just the right angle.
Presentation 3: we can examine individual images, but I've also placed them into a presentation to display them in an order I think makes sense.
Sarah; firstly, get well; secondly, the original final week of semester was 4th of June, things have changed and as a consequence you may yet get the opportunity to 'present'. I will be in touch.
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