Water Color - Final Blog Reflection

Conceptual Intentions:     I have always been fascinated with images of water in motion especially right as it comes into contact with another surface to create a splash. This was the spark that influenced the rest of my project. I decided to pursue taking pictures of water as it comes into contact with a bowl/cup filled with water. Although this did not end up being my final print, it was the beginning of the process which would eventually lead to the picture below. I felt something meaningful about his project was I learned how to manipulate and play around with water in a way in which you could really capture a shot that evoked motion but was in a still picture. I addressed my conceptual concern of my project with the use of the camera. My goal was to capture an in focus moment of the water coming into contact with a larger amount of water to evoke a sense of motion within the viewer. To do this, I dropped water that was colored with into a clear container full of water. Earlier this year I said that one of my favorite areas to work in is digital photography and working with water. I believe my voice as an artist emerged in this project as I was able to use both digital photography and water in my project.

Stretch & Explore:     Throughout the project my intentions were fairly linear, although, the last week of shooting I explored capturing images in which the ink disperses in water inside a jar. I thought this was really intriguing. What lead me to try this was I had exhausted my motivation to capture purely water drops dripping and splashing on a surface of water. Although I did experimented a lot with this technique, I wanted to try something a little different which led to the use of the jar and ink. I feel I could have explored using water and ink a little more, but I am still extremely happy with all the pictures I took. I also used a very high ISO to make the pictures brighter as I had a very high shutter speed. The high ISO made quite a few pictures grainy so I wish I could have found a solution to that earlier.

Formal Intentions:     My guiding formal concerns for this project were to use water in a way that would evoke motion in a still image. Issues As I was working on the project, I deepened my understanding of these concerns as I was able to overcome many obstacles that got in the way of me taking the right picture. My intentions in employing these concerns were to, like I said before, evoke a sense of motion in a still picture. Problems I had with my experiment were the timing of taking my photos. Capturing the exact moment when the water drop hits the water in the container was fairly difficult, so in order to to overcome that, I used continuous shooting and a very high shutter speed. I felt that I was successful in achieving my intentions within this project and am very pleased with my final product.