This week key reading(Basics Photography : Light & Thinking Photography, Photography, Phantasy, Function ) touches a range of important issues related to photography, precisely point of view, lighting and ,certainly, how images can create narrative and representation.
'In photography there are old points-of-view, the point of view of a person who stands on the earth and looks straight ahead ,or, as I call it, the 'navel photo', with the camera resting on the stomach. I am fighting against this point-of-view and will carry on fighting for photography from all positions other than the 'navel position', so long as they remain unrecognized. The most interesting angles at present are those from 'top to bottom' and 'from bottom to top' and there is much work to be done in this field.' (Rodchenko, 1928, cited in Burgin, 1982, p. 177) This quotation directs me on thought to produce some images for project with low-angle perspective to show predominance of nature.
Reference:
'In photography there are old points-of-view, the point of view of a person who stands on the earth and looks straight ahead ,or, as I call it, the 'navel photo', with the camera resting on the stomach. I am fighting against this point-of-view and will carry on fighting for photography from all positions other than the 'navel position', so long as they remain unrecognized. The most interesting angles at present are those from 'top to bottom' and 'from bottom to top' and there is much work to be done in this field.' (Rodchenko, 1928, cited in Burgin, 1982, p. 177) This quotation directs me on thought to produce some images for project with low-angle perspective to show predominance of nature.
'Society is ordered on the basis of what it holds to be true; truth does not stand outside discourse, waiting to be 'expressed' by it; truth is produced by material forms of discourse inscribed in concrete practices.’ (Burgin, 1982, p.214). So the point is that representational practices, including photography, form an integrated specular regime. It influences on how people behave. Therefore, the aim of photographer to make people think about concerns and things that they have a little thought before. In other words,image has to tell a story if it works as art.
Lastly, as it was mentioned in first posts photography means play with light. The reading (Basics Photography : Light) was focused on work with flash. 'The most natural light, free of harsh shadows and unpleasant hotspots or highlights, is flash that is both bounced and diffused' (p.96). However, i think i should be extremely careful with exposure as it works correctly just for certain distance. Anyway, i am going to experiment a lot with with flash lighting to find suitable balance.
Reference:
Burgin, V. (1982). Thinking photography. London: Macmillan.
Prakel, D. (2007). Lighting. Lausanne: AVA Academia.
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