Sequential Images - Group Work

As a practise exercise for using the camera apps on phones and digital editing tools, we generated sequential photographs in class today. It was merely an example to demonstrate how to generate contacts and final images for my images here, which I simply utilised photos I had already shot for another lesson.

His original sequential photos were a revolution in photography when compared to the sequential images of Eadweard Muybridge that we studied to start our study. The concept for the pictures did come from a bet: 'In 1872, the former governor of California Leland Stanford, a race-horse owner, hired Eadweard Muybridge to undertake some photographic studies. Stanford had reputedly taken a bet on whether all four of a racehorse's hooves are off the ground simultaneously. On 15 June 1878, Muybridge set up a line of cameras with tripwires, each of which would trigger a picture for a split second as the horse ran past. The results, as shown in this plate, settled the debate' (Powell, 2013)

Galloping horse by Eadweard Muybridge

I used a converter online to create jpeg images for my blog, Photoshop, and Pixlr because on some mobile phones you might need to convert images from HEIC to jpg.

These are the contact sheets I made using Photoshop for my photo session. I used Photoshop and chose File from the top menu, followed by Automate and Contact Sheet. I chose my file of sequential photos from my photo shoot in the pop-up dialogue box that appeared, and Photoshop automatically created the contacts. In order to post the completed contact sheets to my blog, I saved them by selecting "File", "Save As" and then saving them to my computer's desktop as a png file.

This is my final sequential piece as group. I took these images using an Iphone 13 Pro Max. The settings of my camera were as follows:

Camera: Iphone 13 Pro Max

F-stop: f1.78

Exposure Time: 1/100 sec

ISO Speed: ISO-200

Focal Length: 24mm

The final images are here, these images are called Riya, Blanca & Tithi Group Work as we were working together as a group to click these photographs, by first looks, it seems pretty obvious but it shows the happiness radiating through. While playing with the hat, the dog passed us and the swans were also swimming in the River Soar beside us so, Blanca was behind the camera clicking these amazing sequential images.

Reflection:

Even though I only had a short amount of time to create these pictures, I was happy with the ones I managed to get, and I liked shooting them in the evening with my friends. To provide the reader a clearer narrative, I believe that the flow and sequence of these photographs should have been improved. I also could have made my title in the image more clear to be more visible but I will surely do it in my individual task. I do have more photographs, so I could have been able to make this work by better organizing them.

References

Powell, J. (2013) Galloping horse by Eadweard Muybridge, The Guardian. Guardian News and Media. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/picture/2013/jun/15/horse-eadweard-muybridge#img-1 (Accessed: January 21, 2023).