What did you know about Lucy's practice before the workshop? What kind of art does he make and what is he interested in exploring?
I did not know about Lucy's work, and had never really heard about her or the company 'Leap then Look'
What expectations did you have about the workshop? What were you hoping to learn? How did you feel beforehand?
I had never heard of this workshop before, so I did not know what to expect, or what the artists work was like. Before the workshop, I was hoping to learn about different ways I could make my final piece of Unusual Portraiture as good as it can be. I felt excited to learn about what the artist was going to teach us.
What was your role - disrupting the cameras's view, making a hand structure, experimenting with textures or creating a performance that was recorded?
My role was to record the work going on, by taking pictures and videos. The people I was working with did the work and sculptures on their hands and I had to document it.
What kinds of materials and tools did you use - torches, string, fabric, paper, plasticine, iPads/iPhones, bridge cameras, DSLR, digital projector etc?
We used things like torches, fabric, plasticine, our phones, laptops, printers, projectors, paper, tape, cameras, etc.
What kinds of pictures did you make during the workshop - still/moving, documents, portraits, experimental abstractions etc?
We made a range of different pictures, such as still photos, videos, printed out photographs.
What activities did you take part in on the day? What was new or surprising? What did you find challenging? What did you enjoy most?
I enjoyed creating the models on our hands, and getting to build things on them to abstract them and make them look strange. I also enjoyed taping our phones to a part of our body and filming, because we are able to see different perspectives from our body instead of just our eyes
What connections have you made between the experiments in Tuesday's workshop and your chosen investigation? How might you use one or more of the ideas from the workshop in your ongoing investigation?
I want to start creating more videos rather than photographs, and use projectors with a fabric over the projector to see if it projects onto that and photograph or film the fabric. WWW: I enjoyed the workshop very much. It was a lot of fun and it made me think about how to change up my photography and gave me new ideas for my work on Unusual Portraiture. It also taught us to work together and create things with the people around us as well as individual work, which can give us new ideas and help us to share things with each other. After the workshop, I want to do a response to it and do more photography like we did in the workshop. EBI: I wish that I had created more things, especially more unique things, and been a bit more creative with my work by using different materials, or taking more videos, etc. Here are some photos and videos we took yesterday.
What happens when you disrupt the view of your subject?
By disrupting the view of your subject, you are allowing them to not be able to see what is happening in the photo, which causes it to be even more strange and you want to know what the photo is.
What happens when you photograph someone obstructing the viewfinder?
When you photograph someone obstructing the viewfinder it shows the person looking at the photograph what is actually going on in the photo.
How could capture someone's hand gestures so that we might understand something about their thoughts or personality?
You could photograph them when they're in a certain mood to show their feelings and personality through their hand gestures and where their hands are placed.