3 BLIND MEN & AN Elephant
All of the photographs in this project were taken with a Pentax K3, which is a digital SLR. One of the reasons I chose to buy this camera was because it can be used with vintage lenses which I made use of in parts of the project. The fast frame rate of the Pentax K3 also helped with some of the shots.
In galleries 1 to 3 I have three different subjects. In the first we look at three different renditions of a portrait of a dog. Although the photo has only been digitally enhanced - ie it is iterations of the same photograph, it looks as though the expression on the dog's face is changing. I think this might be because of slight colour variations and tones in the eye. We are very sensitive to this because we use slight variations to 'read' expression and work out how someone is feeling.
the bird on the water has a lot movement in the shot. This already challenges our perspective because it is a still image of something in movement. Automatically our mind is taken up with the story, where was the bird before and where will he be afterwards. So our mind moves with the bird and gives us an extra challenge in translating the image's meaning to us.
These different perspectives are very much what I had in mind as part of the project. These different perspectives can be seen clearly in Vincent Van Gogh paintings; the differences are in colour and detail. His earlier works had more detail and less colour; his later works were very stylised with lots of colour and less attention to detail. Through painting there is always a perspective, in photography this perspective can be more neutral, but using a number of techniques in photography and in editing you can make equally surreal perspectives on reality. This is illustrated well with the 'multiexposure'gallery where photographs have been edited to give a surreal effect.