Threshold Concepts
Concept 1
Concept 2
The threshold concepts are useful because they help us better understand and take great photos. They teach us that photography is more about capturing light than using a conventional camera.The concepts show us that we don't need a camera to take a picture.
Abelardo Morell's work mainly focuses on reflections. He uses mirrors, projections and shadows to create images that challenge how we see light presented in a photograph. A lot of his work uses a camera obscura, where he will block light from entering a room through windows except from a small hole. I think this is still a photographic technique as he is essentially making a large camera and is still capturing light. |
Camera Obscura
A camera obscura is a dark room or space with a hole in a wall. The light enters through this hole and projects the outside world onto the wall opposite. The projected image will be upsidedown.
Abelardo Morell is a photographer based in Boston who has made a name for himself through working with Camera Obscuras. In his work, you can see that he has traveled the world and visited major landmarks, he turns a hotel room close to these landmarks into Camera Obscuras and then photographs them. When he first started his work, he just cut holes into the black plastic he used to blocked out windows but as he wanted a more clearer image projected, he started to use lenses as well.
|
|
Last lesson we turned the room into a large camera obscura by using black paper and tape to cover up all of the windows and doors, this took just under 2 hours and even by the end there were small cracks that would let light through. We were split up into groups and divided the work of cutting tape, holding the paper still and sticking it to the window amongst us from the start. It took a while and was very stressful to try and finish it by the end but we more or less had it completed. The final image of the outside of block two was unfocused (as we didn't use a lens like Morell, we only cut bigger holes each time we tried it to test out which aperture was most effective) and the image wasn't very colourful because it wasn't very sunny outside and Block two is quite beige.