Third Shoot

2 Year old

6 Year old

10 Year old

In this shoot I focused on shooting with a plain background, to emphasise the hands and to show the growth/ difference between the ages. I also took photos at different zooms, to try and get different effects.

FAVOURITES

 2YEARS

6YEARS

10YEARS

I like these three images because they focus on the hands very well.

I think the soft background in the 2year old's image shows how at this age/ time of growth we're still fragile and innocent.

I like the 6year old image because of how the bracelets help illustrate the character of this hand.

The ten year old image has an immense focus on the hand. 

Second shoot

In this shoot I was taking photos of my five month old nieces hands.This was a real challenge as she moves around a lot (being a baby and what not) but I really enjoyed capturing the innocence of her little hands and I definitely have an image that I am going to use in my collage from this shoot.

FAVOURITES

CHOSEN IMAGE

FIRST SHOOT

In my first shoot I was trying to see what kind of backgrounds would work. I experimented with which view (top or palm) looks better and which would give a better perspective of growth. I was also trying to capture movement by taking images of hands grasping objects such as a highlighter.
From this shoot I think that I'm going to focus on the left hand. I also think that the top view of the hands give more information to show growth. The background that  will work best is a plain background which allows the hand to stand out. I'm still not to sure about capturing movement so I'll keep experimenting with that aspect

RESEARCH

PAUL FUSCO

I find this image of Paul Fusco's interesting because I think it captures a moment in time.. It is interesting how he has frozen this moment in time, showing what happens while in mid air.


ANDRE KERTESZ

Andre Kertesz' images are interesting because of the way they are taken. His use of close ups or a low camera angle ( first image) creates a focus on the hands in each of the images. This is interesting because the focus on the hands creates a story about the character in the photograph. For example in the second image I feel that the close up and frame work is portraying that the character of the hand is a dominant character.

I find this photo most intriguing because I think it shows viewers a lot about the character in the image by just focusing on the hands. I think that Andre wanted to show this character as being knowledgeable ( hence the reading glasses). The use of a close up in enables us to tell that this man is middle aged by his hands, so you could imagine that he has experienced 'life'.  I think that with Andre's use of a close up he is portraying the idea that Hands can tell us a lot about a person.

AZIZ AND CUCHER

- Dystopia series

I think that what Aziz and Cucher where trying to show through their dystopia series is the similarities between people when they have no defining features such as their eyes or mouth. I think that this series can also show growth in a way that when you grow your features change with the progression in time.

PAUL STRAND

I find these three images (below) that  Paul Strand has taken interesting because in each of them he captures the story behind the hands.

  In this first image he shows the busyness of hands. I think this image shows the viewer the elegance and tantalising delicacy that hands are capable of. This is shown because of the position of the hands.  

I find this image interesting even though its not a close up image of the child's hands. I still feel like Paul is trying to draw attention to how the positioning of hands can give the impression of an emotion. (The child looks upset). 

  

I like this image because it captures time through the close up of this lady's hands. I find it interesting because it shows her age and with it the growth that she has been through. I think the close up also portrays her hands as being delicate and fragile at this time.

The PEN Story

Initial Proposal

My initial Proposal is to capture growth over time. Time is taken for granted when growing up, I want to be able to show how time "wears in rather than wears out"
I'm going to show this concept by capturing growth through the ageing of hands. I think that hands show time well because we use our hands constantly and through time our hands are affected.
My initial thoughts are to take photos of different aged hands and create a series which illustrates a hand/hands developing and growing from an infant into a matured adult.

Fast and slow exposure Images

Through this exercise I wanted to learn what sort of conditions are best suited for which ever exposure (long or short), I hoped to achieve this by going out and taking photos from the same area in different conditions.

I found that long exposure shoots are best suited when its darker because there is less chance for light to fill up the lens and give a plan white image. On the other hand I found it was better to take fast shoots in the daylight, because at night it was to dark and the images would turn out blurry.