LBM: Introduction

Day 1:

Day 1 of Lens Based Media began with a presentation based on 'The Power of the Lens'. We were shown the history, discoveries and evolution of the lens and camera. We looked at many pictures taken through  old lenses and drawings created of what the people saw. For example the first lens strong enough to see into space and the whole history behind it. I particularly found that to be have interesting as it was informative and caught a hold of my attention.
Another part I found really interesting was the way pictures used to be taken. A person would have to stand still in front of the camera for a long amount of time, while the picture developed, otherwise they wouldn't appear in the picture or will show as ghosts.
There was a picture that really stuck in my mind, it was of a usually busy town/city without a single person in it. It was almost like a dead town. But that was only because the photograph had been taken for over a long period of time, and as previously mentioned, you have to stay still to appear in the picture; because everyone was so busy and moving around, no one was able to be caught in the picture, other than the stationary buildings and lamp posts. If anyone happened to be caught on camera, they'd only be slight hints of them as ghosts.

As homework from the week before, we were asked to bring in 10 photographs for our first LBM lesson. I bought in images I'd taken over the weekend and a few that I already had, all representing memory.
For the lesson, we were to select one image and create an A1 drawing of it with any material we liked. I choose a picture of a train track with a moving train. The reason being, I was on my way home on the weekend and it was getting late; no matter how much I was rushing the train just wouldn't come. One train after another kept on coming on the track going the opposite way and it had been a long while since the train on my platform last left. Yet it showed no sigh of showing up. This really bothered me and left a huge memory in my min, which is why I chose that image to draw up.

 

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Our final task of the day was to go around the area and find different ways of taking photographs, that represent 6 words given to us. This could be shown through camera angles, objects feelings or emotions.

• Crush



•  Echo



•  Jump

• Happy



•  Fall



•  Sad