Some thoughts...

Below are a couple of quick creations just to see what they would look like...\

I think the next step will be to play with lighting a lot more to see what kind of effects/abstractions i can create. Also I need to think more about background, what is in it and how it enhances the abstraction/transformation.

Research......

Maritus Escher:

M.Escher was a Dutch graphic artist who was inspired by the mathematical world, optical illusions, impossible constructions, infinity, architecture and tessellations.

He is most famous for his early works such as his 'Drawing Hands' (1948) and 'Relativity'(1953) which feature both his intrests in optical illusions and impossible constructions.

Though the work of his that im interested in is his tessellation works which are basically patterns of which the negative space left behind form a new object (usually animals) which are often the same as the original object. His most famous would have to be 'Sky and Water I' (1938) which features detailed fish of which the negative of it forms a goose in the end through a gradation in detail and use of black and white.

Ideas for final six....

My final three objects i have decided on are: Chopsticks, Sushi mats and Spoons.
As you can see they are all linked by being kitchen utensils.

Spoons:
My first shot will be an abstracton of the spoons making a pattern similar to old school wallpaper. They will be laid out in a circular pattern and may focus on wither the obvious patern or the negative of the pattern (mass and void).

My second shot will transform the spoons, making them look like eggs . The spoons will sit inside an egg carton and all turn and face the camera. will have to be careful with what it in the reflection of the spoons.

Sushi Mats:

My first image of the sushi mats will transform them into a ninja star. I will do this by repetedly folding the mat then sliding it foward to form triangular shapes which when put togeather will make a ninja star shape.

My second shot will be an abstraction of the mat. The mat will be folded and painted black and white and will alternate in these colours in the rise and run of the pattern.

Chopsticks:

My first shot of the chopsticks will transform them into the dark lines in an abstract painting. The spaces left behind will then be filled in with coloured card to complete the painting.

My second shot will transform the chopsticks into a forested landscape and will create both the felled trees and stumps and the undulating landscape.

Time for some more experimentation.....

In this shoot I experimented with macro photography.
I'm really interested in macro photography but I don't have a macro lens, so I experimented with two lenses a regular 18-55mm attached to the camera and then a 50mm fixed lens turned backwards and held up against the 18-55mm lens. This produced some amazing effects, you can get extremely close with a tiny depth of field and by having the second lens it makes a circular black view port that feathers into the image....

Here are some of the best from that shoot....

Levi Brown....

Levi brown is a product photographer from the States who lives with his five dogs.

His aesthetic (being a product photographer) is very clean and simple. His work i find most interesting is, in his own terms, his 'Fine art' photography. But his 'Fine art' work still has the same aesthetics as most if not all of his product photography. But still his work is very interesting especially his multiplicity work where he takes multiples of the same object and arranges them in such a way that he abstracts their original form.

Project Three_Objects

First Shoot.....

This first shoot was really quite experimental as I hadn't really done much macro photography.

I set up a little studio at home and photographed some random objects from my kitchen being a sushi mat, a can opener, a necklace, some knives, and some chopsticks. I have in mind ABSTRACTION and CHANGE IN SCALE and tried to take my images from that perspective.

Here are the contact sheets from the first shoot....

Final Images

Below are the final images for Project two_People named Digital Family.....

Final Proposal

I have decided to combine the two proposals but stick with the digital identity as i really liked the aesthetic of the layered collage centered on the main persons face but wanted to make it purely a digital identity that showed through. So my images merge the many layers to your digital identity found on sites such as Facebook, this shows not only your digital self but also your digital personality and traces. It was very hard to find previous work but the likes of Ava Seymour influenced me most in the way that she creates layers through her works and also adds a layer of humor, and also Pablo Picasso to see how he portrayed people through mainly his cubist works.