Shoot 9 Work Record

For this shoot, I wanted to experiment with the use of a technique which I had no experience with much like my previous shoot with drone photography. I wanted to push my photography to a visual extent that is unlike anything I have featured within my experimentation with journey photography. It was clear that timelapse could give me the type of result that will produce dynamic photography. I researched other examples of time lapse photography and looked for ways in which I could apply some of these inspirations to my own work and develop the idea for hyperreality. I found inspiration particularly from a gif which depicted time lapse that showed an environment change from day to night. The clouds move along with the light in order to show time passing at a great speed. As a result, I realised that I could implement a journey through time by showing how an environment changes over a duration of time, highlighting different areas of the location such as the light and the clouds moving over at great speeds. In order to achieve this, I would need to use my DSLR camera complete with a tripod in order to ensure that there is no change to the positioning of the camera in order to achieve a consistent effect. For the first time within photography, I also have to utilise Final Cut Pro in order to manipulate the footage after.

In order to achieve this effect, I set up the camera with the composition that I wanted and adjusted the settings on the camera in order to suit the lighting conditions. I then filmed for periods of around 20 minutes and then took the footage into Final Cut Pro. I changed the speed of the footage to 4000% in order to allow the footage to show time passing at an extremely fast rate, allowing the audiences to notice the changes within the image easier. Both time lapses focus on representing journey through time by highlighting the activity of street. Here the audience can see clouds changing and moving allong with cars driving down the street. The second video introduces the use of contrasts in order to direct the audience's attention to these time-changing aspects. The bright orange reflections on the clouds show the way the sun is setting while the clouds continue to pass. This moment is highlight through the use of tone that the light gives to the clouds. The video continues this journey through time until the light lowers, gently removing more and more details from the image as the video change to darkness.

Progression:

These time lapses proved to offer dynamic photography which differentiated from other photography which I have used before while still merging into the subject of journey. If I were to develop this shoot further, I would travel to a place such as London or Southend in order to capture how city life changes visually over time or documenting the movement of waves as the tide slowly moves out over a passage of time.