Francesca Woodman’s Photographs

# illustration

Christian Schloe

Christian Schloe

#Contactsheets

I set my camera up on a tripod with a wide angle lens. There is vignetting around the edge of the shot as the camera that I used has a full frame sensor and the lens is not compatible with this. I could have cropped this to give me the same size image that I would have got from a cropped sensor camera, however I like the way it looks. It reminds me of an eye, being circular and this fits with the idea of us seeing more than just a single image that a photographs captures.

#True

The Art of Movement

It is often a photographer’s goal to portray, imply or represent something within a photograph that can be difficult to show in a still image. This is sometimes telling a story or capturing emotion or atmosphere. I am interested in the idea of capturing movement within a still image.

Me and my friends setup the university’s studio and each of us took turn to take photographs, each of us had a role to take for example: photographer, director, assistance ...ect. 

I framed my model Dafnne and I wanted to capture of frozen motion, by using fast shutter speed. 

#Creating photographs with lights.

After getting the settings right I got some images that I am very happy with. To get the subjects in the right place I opened the shutter on about a 10 exposure then moved over to fire the flash manually when the subject was in the correct position.

- Click the images for larger version

Étienne-Jules Marey, chronophotography - example studies of human and animal motion from 1880s-1890s,

Étienne-Jules Marey, chronophotography - example studies of human and animal motion from 1880s-1890s,

Hiroshi Sugimoto 

In this photographs I wanted to capture frozen motions and ast shutter speed in the same way as in my other experiment.

I haven’t show my contact sheets because I edit my photographs dawn to this. I have used three soft box lights. I was the photographe. This photograph is the one I mostly like because everything is in the right place the way she flipped her hair and where it’s been placed.

cool

I didn’t think I could love Edward Muybridge more! And now Mark Rosen and Wendy Marvel took his images and created motorized flip books. There’s a kickstarter campaign so eventually everyone can have their own crank flip book. 

The way Edward Muybridge photographed.