We have been informed in our last two lectures that the best thing for us to do in this project, in terms of learning about light, and for ourselves as future designers and architects, is to focus on objects, and the lighting of these objects. This will be a useful skill to learn as we constantly create physical objects such as models and it would be great to know how to light these objects. I found a project from a former student of Victoria University online and am using it to inform my proposal for project 3.
Bigger on the Inside, Second Year Architectural Studies (BArch), May 2010
by Michael Hatch
This project focuses on creating an illusion of a larger space inside then it appears to be outside, and his second approach is what caught my attention. His second approach to this, as stated, was to create a shadow casting machiene that places a larger emphasis on the shadow formed then the model itself.
I liked this concept of emphasising the shadow cast by an object and making it just as relevant to the image as the object itself.
I have also looked at photographs by Andre Kertez and how his images have such a deep contrast between black and white objects that there is truly just as much emphasis on the shadow as there is the object. I find that in the image below, the shadow is very prominent due to the lighting from above.
La Fourchette (The Fork), 1928 by André Kertész
Overall, my proposal is to choose object(s) and take photographs of them using different lights from different directions and create more or just as much emphasis on the shadow of the object rather then the object itself. I will explore this through my choice of object, picking something which casts a solid but interesting shadow and by exploring lighting techniques in order to create the most interesting shadow. I think that I will need to get an object that casts more then one shadow in order to create a series of interesting photographs.
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