Showing posts with label M. Show all posts
Showing posts with label M. Show all posts

Monday, 17 August 2015

Seeing Double

I had two shoots booked during August and it rained both times. In a way I was secretly pleased as it meant I could spend the afternoon of each shoot experimenting up in the spare room.

The following pictures were taken with the Monochrom during my wet afternoon with Lulu Lockhart. As well as making short time-lapse/animation sequences we worked on a set of imagery where Lulu would split herself in two so I could bring them together today for this Monday Project instalment.

I like experimenting with my photography. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't but that's all part of the learning process. When it does come together the results often surpass your expectations and lead you to want to do more.



Model: Lulu Lockhart

Copyright: Clayton Bastiani



Influences:

There isn't a specific influence this week, more a general collection. I've been thinking a lot about early cinematic techniques / trickery and when we worked on the time-lapse series it was hard not to remember all the childrens' animation programmes that had been a huge part of my childhood television experience: Morph, Chorlton and The Wheelies, Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley to name just a few,













Monday, 10 August 2015

The Magic Box

The universe has this strange habit of steering you towards different ideas, away from those you may have planned. I've learnt over the years not to fight this natural current and let go and see where it leads.


I got up for sunrise this morning in order to work on today's picture. Hoping for a lovely, still, sunny start to the day I was instead given thick, cold, damp, windy fog.

Oh well. C'est la vie.

After getting a little lost in a field of cows Tigerbelle and I decided to head home and I spent the morning trying to come up with a Plan B.

Several hours later (without as much as a whiff of any serious inspiration in all that time) I noticed a small empty cardboard box sat next to the torches I've been using recently with some of my photos.

And that is how the universe conspired to ensure today I would make...


The Magic Box.





Copyright: Clayton Bastiani

Model: Tigerbelle




Inspiration:

Real Life: An ongoing project of mine, taking photographs lit with alternative lighting easily found in hardware stores.

Film: The mystical suitcase from Pulp Fiction








Monday, 3 August 2015

The Sudden Wave video edit


The Sudden Wave

If it's not fun you're doing something wrong. 

Still thinking about narratives and sequential work here's a little improvisation involving an empty room and a roll of cellophane.  

The Sudden Wave

Copyright: Clayton Bastiani


Influences:

Real Life: Taking my wife to the boat this morning.

Book: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. (My first attempts involved a journey across the cellophane water but I couldn't get it to work this morning).

Film: Almost everything by Georges Melies

Photography: Duane Michals, Francesca Woodman 















Monday, 27 July 2015

The Traveller GIF

I've never made a GIF before, so thought I'd use The Traveller series for a first attempt...





The Traveller

The Traveller 

Copyright: Clayton Bastiani
Camera: Leica M Monochrom


Influences: 

Real Life: A day with Horace Silver
Film: Hector's Search for Happiness.
Book: The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Photography: Duane Michals and Francesca Woodman

























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