My final project is street dancing. I have always been intrigued by dance and movement and I think there is something so beautiful in natural movement. This collection is of an improve dance group- it shows the natural beauty of movement within the soul.

These photos are meant to represent darkness and how inhibition provokes darkness. Everyone always has moments where they want to say something or do something and they don’t. Their inhibition causes them to crawl inside themselves and settle within this darkness the create. The color black is a color, and at the same time is not. It engulfs all other colors and this ties very well with inhibition because you engulf all the colorful things you want to express. However, I used the color red here to show the form of the subject and to represent the boldness or anger of this internal emotion. Red is also the color of passion, so it might spark someone to be passionate about something from the inside and bring it out.

For my final project I had the idea to do imaging of imaging in healthcare. I thought of this project because I aspire to become a physician and go into the healthcare career. Imaging has become an extremely useful tool for diagnosis and screenings; it has shaped healthcare tremendously. I want to capture the impact it has on providing care to patients, as well as, the procedure and resulting product. The difficulty with this project is access to medical equipment; the hospital has high-security when it comes to such devices and I need to figure out a way to gain access for a period of time to shoot.

This idea is novel, as far as my knowledge. Not many, if any, have dipped their toes in the artistic representation of imaging. In this aspect, I have no examples to learn from; however, it gives me the liberty to take initiative and set the mold for such a type of images.

Some types of medical imaging are:

1. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): uses powerful magnets to polarize and excite hydrogen nuclei in water molecules in human tissue. This excitation causes the positively charges to spin in the opposite direction and this can be produced as an image. MRIs create 2D image representations.
2. Ultrasound: uses high frequency sound waves in the MeHz range that are reflected by tissue to varying degrees to produce (3D) images.
3. Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans: uses gamma rays emitted by a positron-emitting radionuclide (F-14) which is administered to the patient and is taken up in the body like glucose. The 3D image produced by computer analysis is used to determine brain function, cancer metastasis (spreading to other site), etc.

For my deliberate color project, I want to experiment with a lack of light, aka the “color” black. A true black is a lack of light, a vacuum. In a vacuum there is nothingness. A vacuum brings a sense of suffocation and there being a lack of something. For me, that something is a lack of emotion. This lack of emotion is suffocating, ironically. This piece will explore the irony of the color black and the emotion that it brings along with it (blankness, nothingness).

It will be near impossible to convey this image to the audience without presenting other colors in the light spectrum. These colors will add value, definition, contour, and form to the photo. Each color will bring a range of emotions to the viewer (these emotions will be especially heightened if the picture’s background is black, or lacking). I need to carefully pick my colors to portray the right emotion and choose my subjects’ stance appropriately. My main aim is to shoot portraitures.

Isak mentioned today in class to explore the idea of dark current. This is a physics phenomenon that I will explain further in a later post. 

I looked into the rain room at the MOMA and that gave me the idea of using silhouettes as the area of the image where I will emphasize the black color and its background will be another color that will compliment the emotion of the silhouette.

http://photography.tutsplus.com/tutorials/simple-steps-for-shooting-amazing-silhouettes–photo-2447

Here is another aesthetic involving vignetteing:

Photos of Shadowy Vignettes of a Woman’s Life Silhouetted Behind a Backlit Screen

Here is another example of silhouettes in dance form:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvQBUccxBr4

A few more examples of how to capture the darkness/vacuum of black that swallows someone.

I like the smoke idea here and can use different “filters” on the lamp to capture the smoke in different colors. The “filters” can be created using transparent fabric of different colors.

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?193649-DSLR-vs-HVX-Still-Battle-Silhouette

Plain light

Light on Chin Light on eye

 With mirrorWithout mirror With mirrorWithout mirror

“Infrared Photography; Black and White”

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Listed below are some resources that introduces different techniques in lighting for creating certain moods

How Lighting Affects the Mood of your Photos:

http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/tip/1546/how-lighting-affects-the-mood-of-your-photos/

Benefits of Frequency Based Light &/or Sound Neurotherapy:

http://www.neuro-advantage.com/page/851224

For the first project in exploring the apparatus, I chose to experiment with infrared photography. For some background and inspiration, I did research on it and here are a few links with a few photographs that advanced my project interests.

Description of Infrared Photography with Photographs:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/11/40-incredible-near-infrared-photos/

Photo below: Musin Yohan

How to do Infrared Photography:

Infrared Photography:

http://people.rit.edu/andpph/text-infrared-basics.html

Excerpt- Coming soon!

Digital Infrared Photography Tutorial:

http://www.infovein.org/infrared/

An in Depth Guide to Infrared Photography: Set up and Capture:

http://photography.tutsplus.com/tutorials/an-in-depth-guide-to-infrared-photography-setup-and-capture–photo-9533

I decided to look at more black and white infrared photography after purchasing the following film from B&H:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=&sku=118759&is=REG&A=details&Q=

Barloga: Fine art Black and white:

(http://www.barlogastudios.com/collections/new-orleans-the-glow)

Digital Infrared Photography: Imaging with Invisible Light

(http://www.shutterbug.com/content/digital-infrared-photography-imaging-invisible-light?page=6)

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