After playing with my projection and a tutorial at uni, I realised that I could project my work on other surfaces than just leaving it as it is. I got inspired by the work of Jane Watt and her WASH YOUR HANDS projection, where she projected her own hands being washed on top of a sink.
That was the reason for me to project a projection of my face on top of my face.
I realised that I am reffering to her work in mine. The idea was to project it the same, but I did not realise that I moved the projector a little, which now made an interesting video with the mouth travelling around my face.
In order to have a nice looking video/ a video that I can manipulate with, I had to use of the Adobe programs. I switched between Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects (AE because I was silly and thought that PP was the wrong program, but I still learned something, which was unnecessary, but…yeah).
In Premiere Pro, after almost destroying my laptop with anger that nothing is working and everything is too slow, I created a 25 minute video of me changing 25 emotions.
The effects that I used for my video was: cropping, adding grain/noise, changing brightness, sharpening and colour correction. I colour corrected the picture from warm colours to cold colours as seen underneath here:
The reason for cropping of the picture was mostly because in this video, I didnt want my eyes to be seen and I accidentaly moved lower than I wanted and only one of my eyes was in the frame(looking creepy and weird).
I am currently working out some issues on my laptop, downloading some supporting program from my video player, but once I get it working, I will upload the video on my youtube/vimeo account and put the link here. I like updating my posts, so I will be probably updating this one.
In the past days, I tried another way of working. Meaning using different props/colour.In these pictures below, I used LED lights to put a different mood to the photographs, purple shampoo to make the water purple and a canvas. The idea of using a canvas came to my head when I thought about making the surroundings ‘soft’. But in the end, it made the whole photo look staged-like, which is not what I want. I thought about it, because I really enjoy these pictures and like my expressions in them, but I want my work to be all about the domestic space. Making it a little bit closer to the viewer/audience.
The other ones, without the canvas have a sense of vulnerability, making it look like the pictures were taken in unpredictable moments of someone’s suffering.
DISCLAIMER: In the photos, my mental health is not at risk, my aim is to portray emotions and situations connecting to my idea/project. In these pictures, I am just simply making a use of my acting background.
Today, after many hours of work, I finally finished my painting. The title is still unknown as I am still unsure if I want each of the works to have their own title or a title all together.
I was asked this question by one of my lecturers last year with my series of paintings. I decided to give each a title but at this moment, I can’t remember any of those titles, so I think even for myself, giving one title to everything would be more memorable, but I will see.
The materials used for this painting was Oil paint mixed with Sansodor, both from a brand of Winsor & Newton.
at the time of trying my projection, I saw nice light coming through the ceiling windows. Thankfully, there was a nice matress laying around and Sadly, I forgot my tripod.
How I worked with it? I put my phone on a chair and secured it with my jacket and a tissue box a.k.a if you want something to work, you will find a way. I sat on the matress and tried some of the expressions that I use for my photography in general. The pictures in the end looked good, but I couldn’t stop looking at some parts of the photos. Sometimes details of one picture make a whole new picture.
In my first year of uni, I would think that cropping of pictures takes away their beauty and it just ruins it. I would not expect myself at that time cropping the pictures with joy.
This one is another favourite detail picture of mine from past shooting.
