Monday, 4 April 2011

What is a Line? (Panoramic Photography)



Looking at panoramic images for thought towards using them within my project either to be displayed using the view master or in a more conventional way, it would seem city landscapes are a very popular thing to photograph. This links in well for my project as i have started looking at the Leeds sky line and turning that into a line drawing. I think a good next step would be to try and create a panoramic image of Leeds 

What is a Line?










The photographic images found on the blog below share a similar style of captureing a city as the David Foldvari images. within the project i do not only want to explore drawings and illustration using through using pen and paper but also to explore the different ways in which different methods can illustrate a journey for example photography and moving image. I really like the quality of these photographs with the vibrant colours complimenting the darkened surroundings.

What is a Line? (David Foldvari)






This work by David Foldvari uses a really nice style of illustration. a destroyed look makes the images really engaging. As far as what is a line is concerned I have not done much illustration or indeed any kind of drawing, so as this project is dependent on some level of drawing i thought it a great opportunity to investigate different illustrative styles, and this is a particularly good style in my opinion. Foldvari's work feels urban wrecked, destroyed and this is a style I would like to pull upon within my own work for this brief.        

What is a Line? (View Master)

View-Master

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
 
A View-Master Model G, introduced in 1962

View-Master, since 1939, has been a device for viewing seven 3-D images (also called stereo images) on a paper disk. Although the View-Master is now considered a children's toy, it was originally marketed as a way for viewers to enjoy stereograms of colorful and picturesque tourist attractions.




I happen to own a vintage 1960's view master, and I thought this would be a really interesting way of trying to display a journey either in several different frames or in one continuous panoramic photograph, so instead of being restricted to one image you would have a point of focus and blur that is your peripheral vision of the rest of the image. this is at this stage all thought I plan to explore the different possibilities and the logistics of how this might or might not work.