17th April 2014
The first set of pictures I created through my family did not go exactly how I wanted them to. Not only was the location not exactly what I wanted the positions and camera angles were also not brilliant. So even some of the images I liked more and thought I could use didn’t look at all how I wanted them to. Some of the issues included; feet / limbs being cut out the picture, wrong positioning of the camera, red eye, blurry images, not enough light etc.
It was obvious I needed to give more training on how to use the camera making sure the whole body was in the image as well as enough of the background I could then edit, crop, sharpen and all that later in Photoshop if they weren’t exactly right. However I didn’t want the image too zoomed out as cropping that would reduce quality.
These set of images were taking in my old high school after school hours so nobody was there. This is again to do with the unfamiliar / unhomley aspect of the uncanny anywhere where you are used to having lots of people around and busy / buzzing; shopping malls, schools and theatres when the people are gone and the places are closed they automatically become unfamiliar and eerie.
I also thought my school is quite modern and different being in Abu Dhabi I thought places such as; the spiral staircase, old school pitch with the mosque in the background and common room with Arabian cushions would make a good start to random places for ballerinas to be while also keeping the background interesting. While there I also got them to take pictures in places such as the library and empty theatre. I feel those images really didn’t come out as expected. The library is in an awkward shape and the desks and lighting also didn’t help.
The First Three images in this set of photos are all too zoomed in the first has the models foot cut off and although I like these images it is not what I wanted to achieve in terms of the uncanny and you cannot make out the background.
The last two images go to the other extreme and are too zoomed out as well as no thought taken to the positioning of the camera, the models and the surroundings. Still not what I am looking for to portray the uncanny in my final piece. I do however like that they are both dressed identically and in the 4th image are both doing the same pose linking nicely with repetition and doppelganger.
