Exercise 3.3

BIG

Pick one of the following processes to use in this exercise:-

Large scale drawing

Panoramic photography

Painting a wall mural

This exercise looks at working at a a large scale, and the production of a landscape scene.

The only option in these three that I haven’t done before is Panoramic photography, so I decided to venture out of my comfort zone and go for this option.

So for this exercise I had checked to see if my iPhone 11 camera could take panoramic photos, and luckily enough it did.

I thought about which places I could take a picture of, usually I would choose a nature scene, something at a park, the woods, the seaside, or a country scene.

For these photos I wanted to choose other options, so I decided to go for retail areas, areas that were busy, lots of buildings, a quick atmosphere.

After completing the research 3.3 and looking at Andreas Gursky’s work, I wanted to create a similar style to his. Especially the ones he created in large areas, like concert halls, stadiums and places where there was a lot of people, and people rushing around.

I also wanted to take the photos at different times of day, one at night, on early morning and one midday/ afternoon, to see if the light also affected the photo and atmosphere the viewer got from the panorama.

The first panoramic photo I took was when I went to a large shopping centre for dinner, I took the photo in the dark, and in an area of restaurants and lights.

The next photo I took was at a supermarket car park, it was early morning, not long after sunrise, fairly busy with lorries and workers.

The third photo: I couldn’t think of another location that would sit well with the other two and not be too similar, so I chose to do a photograph of my apartment from the hall way, it was mid afternoon and a lovely sunny day. I think the contrast between the other two locations as being quick or fast locations, to my home that is a slow location, somewhere to relax and chill after work.

The only photograph that I managed to nearly get to a full 360 degree view was the top one, the night time one. It was hard as the camera kept telling you to slow down as you moved, yet you had to move to get the full panorama in, in the time it gave you.

I like the first panoramic photo the best, I think it has a lot of atmosphere being in the dark, and with the thinking lights, it also has a contrast within it, with the green area, trees and grass, against the restaurants, large screen tv and lights.

Reflection

What did you find most challenging?

I found the way you took the photo quite difficult, you have to move slowly and turn around in a circle on the spot, whilst holding the phone steady and not letting the arrow move away from the horizontal line on the screen. It was hard to keep the phone steady and keep the arrow on the line whilst moving.

Also just thinking about interesting places to take a panorama, and hoping that the photo you took was ok.

Is this an area of art practise you have used before?

No as mentioned above it was the only one out of the three options I hadn’t done before.

Would you attempt this again and, if so, how would you change or develop your approach?

Yes I would attempt this again, I like the effects that the photo’s give at the end. I think this type of photography would be good for holidays and trips and travel.