Rationale

In relation to 'The Spectacle' by Guy Debord my final photographic series explores the act of listening to headphones. When you have headphones on, you isolate yourself from your surroundings and become concentrated on your music. I represented removing yourself from a context by using early investigations into privacy. When someone takes a photo of you when you do not wish, you hide your face. In my series I put a piece of fabric over the model's (who is wearing the headphones) face, literally removing there face. This shows the overall privacy and 'to yourself' of listening to music through headphones. Because I was shooting in a studio there is no background and usually when you listen to your headphone you are traveling or out and about. My way of representing people and the listeners surroundings was to have floating movements of fabrics around the listener. 

In my final layout I arranged my final 5 photos so that the surroundings (floating fabric) flowed through all the fabrics. The listener is so involved in there music that they are almost oblivious of there surroundings.

Final Arrangement

After trying many different arrangements I found one the fits perfectly with 5 photos which intertwine with each other.

arrangements.

I have been trying to piece together the final series, below are some of practices. I wanted the arrangement to really tie in well with the prints. I have been experimenting with pairing up the photos with fabric out of the shot and matching them up. As though the surroundings is moving through the arrangement.

 I really like how these photos are paired up to each other almost creating another photo in itself. Though I'm not to sure about the overall arrangement, it does not have much flow other than the pairings. I still really like how the fabric is moving through the images.

Here I had a go at cropping the photos in a close up shot. I like how they have intensified my photos creating more movement and action. I really like these cropped photos but I feel they have not portrayed 'public and private' as well as the other crop.

Again Pairing the photos. I feel this layout looks more formal and tidy. I like the photos being the same size but still with the fabrics moving through them because it shows more of a narrative. This is getting closer to a final series but I feel I can produce a better arrangement.

Edits.

Edits from my last photo shoot. I have made them all black and white as I feel it puts more emphasis on the forms of the fabrics my enhancing the shadows.
From this selection of edits I and going to try put together a series.

Photo Shoot.

Contact sheet from studio session. Where I was trying to convey how we, when listening to music through headphones, emerge ourselves into it. Removing ourselves from our surroundings. I have shown this by covering the listeners face with fabric as though they have 'removed' themselves. Then fabric forms in the front and foreground representing an abstract surrounding. This private moment, listening to music when out and about. Though not in context of a background back I want to emphase the face that the listener is completely involved with there music.

Raffaello Franiuk

This photographer has created movement lovely with these red blurs. I cannot work out whether it is fabric or not though. Either way, I think that these relate to the ideas I was talking about earlier. How I am wanting to create this sort of motion. 

Ideas.

After looking at William Hundley's photos I become more interested in the forms of the fabrics. What they could represent, as I feel that there presence is very strong.
In relation to my work I'm thinking that if I could get some movement from the fabrics around the 'emerged' model who is listening to music that the presence of the fabric could represent movement of people and other things. The person who is listening to the music is so emersed in the music that humans and there surroundings become this 'blur' and the music listener removed from reality with fabric over there face.

William Hundley

Photographer William Hundley takes some stunning photos of fabrics out doors.

Edits of Movement

edit

another quick edit.

edit

One edited photo from my last shoot. Although I really love this image it does not fit in a series, relating to other images,

studio shoot.

Contact sheets to my 2nd photo shoot.

Ideas.

For my second shoot I want to get the person who is modeling for me to listen to music underneath the fabric. Once completely isolated I will ask them to 'move' to the music. With this I am hoping that I will be able to capture the movement of the fabric.

Contact sheet

Here is my contact sheet from my first studio shoot.

Bartholot

I just discovered this set of personal work from this photographer, (who I earlier posted a photograph from).
This series to me is breath-taking. His use of simple colour schemes and such vibrant backgrounds. The way he creates form and depth to me is what interests and is what i would like to employ. With use of fabric and lighting he creates so much depth and interest into his photographs.

studio

This is the the first edit of studio photographs, (contact sheets to be posted soon)