{"id":395,"date":"2019-01-07T22:23:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T22:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2019-01-14T08:40:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T08:40:49","slug":"assignment-2-photographing-the-unseen-ideas-planning-and-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/2019\/01\/07\/assignment-2-photographing-the-unseen-ideas-planning-and-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment 2 &#8211; Photographing the Unseen &#8211; ideas, planning and research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>Photographing the unseen<\/strong><br>Start by doing some reflecting in your learning log. What kinds of subjects might be seen&nbsp;as un-photographable? How might you go about portraying them using photography?&nbsp;&nbsp;List a few examples of things you\u2019re experiencing now or have recently been thinking&nbsp;about. This doesn\u2019t have to be too in-depth or revealing, but it can be if you want. Equally,&nbsp;it might be something as apparently trivial as how you\u2019re going to fit everything into&nbsp;your busy day. At first you may come up with literal examples, but the more you think&nbsp;about them the more those ideas will develop into specific and more original ones.&nbsp; <br>Make a list of at least seven ideas. Try and keep to things you have a personal interest in&nbsp;or curiosity about. Keep a notebook with you at all times and make notes when ideas&nbsp;strike you as interesting. (This is good practice for all stages of the degree and beyond.<br>Ideas books are something to be revisited time and again for ideas and hints for the&nbsp;photographer you\u2019re becoming.)<br>Now implement one of your ideas. Aim for a tightly edited and visually consistent series<br>of 7\u201310 images. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>So here&#8217;s the reflecting in my learning log \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was immediately drawn to this one of the two options and did keep my notebook with me at all times.&nbsp; In fact it&#8217;s amazing how many times, I woke in the middle of the night and added something to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/IMG_4792-1-e1546895767731.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/IMG_4792-1-e1546895767731.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"408\" data-link=\"http:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/?attachment_id=408\" class=\"wp-image-408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/IMG_4792-1-e1546895767731.jpg 480w, https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/IMG_4792-1-e1546895767731-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/IMG_4794-1-e1546895685821.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/IMG_4794-1-e1546895685821.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"407\" data-link=\"http:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/?attachment_id=407\" class=\"wp-image-407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/IMG_4794-1-e1546895685821.jpg 480w, https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/IMG_4794-1-e1546895685821-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/IMG_4793-1-e1546895790588.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/IMG_4793-1-e1546895790588.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"406\" data-link=\"http:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/?attachment_id=406\" class=\"wp-image-406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/IMG_4793-1-e1546895790588.jpg 480w, https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/IMG_4793-1-e1546895790588-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nWhat kinds of subjects might be seen&nbsp;as un-photographable?\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Connections (between people or environment) <em>you can place a person within an environment or next to another person, but it&#8217;s very difficult actually capture the emotional connection between the two things.<\/em><\/li><li>time &#8211; <em>you can photograph the effects of time on a person or object but how do you capture time or the concept of time itself.<\/em><\/li><li>Memories &#8211;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Emotions \/ feelings<\/li><li>thoughts<\/li><li><strong>touch<\/strong><\/li><li>dreams<\/li><li>ideologies &#8211; religion \/ politics<\/li><li>sound<\/li><li>absence<\/li><li>love<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>most of these things are things that are experienced by a person within by your senses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fraenkelgallery.com\/exhibitions\/the-unphotographable\">Fraenkel Gallery 2013 &#8211; The unphotographable [accessed 02.01.2019]<\/a>&nbsp; <br><strong>The Unphotographable<\/strong>, s an interesting article about an ambitious exhibition exploring the history of that which cannot be photographed. A lot of these images are abstracted and distorted, does this imply that to represent something unseen, it has to be unrecognisable. they are said to represent sound, absence and love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Touch<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; this is the one that really interests me &#8211; I&#8217;m really drawn the idea of trying to capture how it feels to touch something.\u00a0 Not photographing the act of touching an item but trying to represent how it feels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video I found here about photographers trying to represent food they were eating blindfolded.&nbsp; The results were really different and very interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-embed-aspect-16-9\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"THE LAB: THE MENU | Finding Photo Inspiration in Your Other Senses\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K46Ca8oHg4c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>using your senses to create an image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As photography is a visual medium and I want to create a visual representation of the feeling, it seems logical to remove the visual element of my senses and try to create an image that is inspired by touching something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My idea is therefore to ask 10 different people to give me an object to touch whilst being blindfolded.&nbsp; I will write a brief and ask people to help me. I will expand on this more in a separate post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographing the unseenStart by doing some reflecting in your learning log. What kinds of subjects might be seen&nbsp;as un-photographable? How might you go about portraying them using photography?&nbsp;&nbsp;List a few examples of things you\u2019re experiencing now or have recently been thinking&nbsp;about. This doesn\u2019t have to be too in-depth or revealing, but it can be if &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/2019\/01\/07\/assignment-2-photographing-the-unseen-ideas-planning-and-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Assignment 2 &#8211; Photographing the Unseen &#8211; ideas, planning and research&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,9,37,29,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignment-two","category-assignments","category-context","category-learning-log","category-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}