"The college town area is the most critical piece of real estate in the community...."I think this is the final version of Project 1. I'm not sure.
Originally, I had plans to do a panorama looking down the Mill Avenue Bridge, shot to perfectly match up one shot to the next, but shot at different times of the day. The plan was to have the exposures get progressively longer, so that from having very crisply-frozen cars in the first half-or-so of the panorama, the later (night-fall)half would show only the light trails left by passing cars.
I still might do that.
But that seemed WAY too linear for me, when I got down to thinking about it.
To begin with, I don't agree with the Western / linear concept of time, anyway.
More specifically... I see the Mill Avenue Bridge as pretty symbolic of Tempe. Any dissenters? Didn't think so. You think of ASU, you think of Tempe. You think of Tempe, you think of the Mill Avenue Bridge. Simple. So, this seems to kind of bundle up the image of our little college town.
And when you think about it, college towns have a long, rich history. Even just in the US! But if you go back, farther through history, you could arguably trace college towns all the way back as far as Athenian society in the Golden Age of Greece. And, to me, a simple linear connotation of time (I'd have the first 1/3 look sketched, the middle 1/3 look like an older, grainier photo, and the last 1/3 look super-sleek) just didn't work.
So I went out and snapped some not-quite-on-line photos. They look like they kind of match up, but they're very obviously cobbled together. Their colours don't match - part of the composite is in sepia-tone, some of it is black-and-white, some of it is fully colour. Some has more grain than other areas. I used 2 appropriated photos for in the background / reflection area of the photo, to give it more diversity and depth. I re-visited this area 3 times, but ended up using photos from a single session because they "felt" better. So this is about the bridge representing all the diversity of the campus.
Originally, I had plans to do a panorama looking down the Mill Avenue Bridge, shot to perfectly match up one shot to the next, but shot at different times of the day. The plan was to have the exposures get progressively longer, so that from having very crisply-frozen cars in the first half-or-so of the panorama, the later (night-fall)half would show only the light trails left by passing cars.
I still might do that.
But that seemed WAY too linear for me, when I got down to thinking about it.
To begin with, I don't agree with the Western / linear concept of time, anyway.
More specifically... I see the Mill Avenue Bridge as pretty symbolic of Tempe. Any dissenters? Didn't think so. You think of ASU, you think of Tempe. You think of Tempe, you think of the Mill Avenue Bridge. Simple. So, this seems to kind of bundle up the image of our little college town.
And when you think about it, college towns have a long, rich history. Even just in the US! But if you go back, farther through history, you could arguably trace college towns all the way back as far as Athenian society in the Golden Age of Greece. And, to me, a simple linear connotation of time (I'd have the first 1/3 look sketched, the middle 1/3 look like an older, grainier photo, and the last 1/3 look super-sleek) just didn't work.
So I went out and snapped some not-quite-on-line photos. They look like they kind of match up, but they're very obviously cobbled together. Their colours don't match - part of the composite is in sepia-tone, some of it is black-and-white, some of it is fully colour. Some has more grain than other areas. I used 2 appropriated photos for in the background / reflection area of the photo, to give it more diversity and depth. I re-visited this area 3 times, but ended up using photos from a single session because they "felt" better. So this is about the bridge representing all the diversity of the campus.
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