Time Lapse--Sunrise&Sunset

Time lapse 

This is the first time I do "time lapse". I was quiet exited, because I've been wanted to learn this technique for so long. 

I love sunrise and sunset, but I never had time to see sunrise and see the whole process of sunset. This time I wanted to document this magic natural so bad. So I shot sunrise and sunset. 

These project took me about almost 5 hours, because I took both scenes and before shooting, I tried many sites and camera angles, then I choose the best location to wait for sun coming up(down). It was freezing outside, but I enjoyed capturing the process sunrise(sunset). I love the changing of every minute, and I realized that sunrise was faster than I thought. Just like a big bounce ball, jumped from ground. 

I took one photo in every minute. Also, I used two different cameras for back up. one supported by books, the other one standed on tripod. They both worked very well, always good to have a back up. 

Reflection:

From this project, I've learnt how to use Premier, like slow down speed, delete wrong photos, adjust colors, add video effect .

Long VS. Short

Long vs short

Long time: branches

Short time: fashion

Idea

For this art piece, I decided to use branches to create a fashion form dress. 

In abstract way. 

Because "branch" is really the symbol of long history, and it has been existing on earth for thousands years. "Dress" represents fashion, which last very short time. Fashion trend changes every season. 

I don't want to make an exactly shape of dress, what I really want to do is to built branches in very imaging-able  way, which people cannot really guess what it is at the first glance. Also, the unexpected result is very interesting for me. I like those ideas which take time for people to figure out.

Reflection:

After I made my piece, I asked few of my friends to guess what that was. All of them didn't know before i told them. Then they were like"of course, now I can see that" . I thought that result was what I wanted---abstract enough,but people will realize after i told them. 

Solution:

However, after the class critique, I realize the "branches dress " I made was too abstract that my classmates took more than 1 minute to figure out. Next time, a project like this, I may try to make more literal. 

Time Map

For "time map" project, I came up a lot ideas. For example, to shot the process of tieing up hair, spread ink in the water, Blinking eyes and so on. In the end, I choose my favorite idea- burning paper. 

How:

I've tried many times of burning different size of paper. Personally, I really afraid of fire thing, I always keep away from fire, even candle fire. So, for this reason, I began from burning tiny piece. Then I tried bigger and bigger sizes. Also I tried to roll papers together as a ball, but while I was taking picture of the process, the fire became a little out of control.  

After many time experiences, I decided the paper size I have below. 

It's a perfect burning paper size for camera to catch the process of beautiful flames of paper, and how burning paper fade away with black burnt edges. 

The idea of this project is to document the process of a burning paper piece. 

I decided to use the concept of "Fan" to show the "time map". 

I choose transparent thin plastic paper as the background of my photos, cut them by 2 8.  I wanted to give a clean look for the whole piece.  For controlling how wide each piece goes, I hollowed out a strip Shape hole on top of each plastic pieces. The longer strips are, the wider the fan is. Then I put fasterning pins in the hole to connect those pieces together.  I like the combination of transparent and gold. 

At the end, I used spray glue to stick my photos separately on each plastic paper. ( photo below)

Idea:

The concept of it is that: When you close the fan, you cannot see any process , just the first one photo of a clean white paper. However, when you open the fan one piece by one piece, you find out the process of burning paper. I did on purpose of only show 1/3 part of the photos when you open the fan, in this way, you can only see the changing parts of the burning process. With the clean background, all attention is got on the photos. 

I love to try new things, like break my fear of fire to crate a new project, and document the beauty of it.