Here is my design process for the assignment I had on Tuesday in #design102 MOOC.
A friend of mine had to take a good potrait of me and after that I had to make a good potrait of myself.
There was a little mistake in the daily brief saying that we should draw a potrait from a picture that our friends took of us. So when I found a friend to take picture of me, sun was already setting and I thought is ok as I can always draw something when its darker. I also gave him free hands to make a picture of me. It was a good moment to let the other person express their feeling and impression about you so I let David freely choose where, when and how he took my picture. Its really nice to give that kind of control away sometimes as I usually love to plan my pictures and think about the details.
Here is the final picture he chose and I think its good that its expressive and not just pretty. The bridge is also nice symbolic background and that creative factory space behind and ofcourse autumn leaves against blue sky.
I also wanted to take pictures of David and this is my choice: He is artist so I wanted to give him a graffiti frame. You can see his work here:
Then it was time for my self potrait and as I noticed that the assignment was to take another picture and not make a drawing so I got a little panic.
The Sun had set and the one peace to hold the camera was missing from my tripod. So what to do. Don´t panic!, I thought and immediately start thinking my options. no light, camera no good when shaking, web camera stupid, photo automat costs and take time and last time even my picture got lost there even those are cool in Berlin. I could have run to that bar to complain about my last missing photo but most likely loose time and not get it anyway back. And then it hit me. I have a scanner! And after that I was like a child playing and experimenting as long there was time left as this assigment was just 1 hour. So I was pretty fast then scanning myself. It felt like victorian times photographer as I reached my hand to click the mouse and covered then my head with a big flanel shirt for the scan to start.
A friend of mine had to take a good potrait of me and after that I had to make a good potrait of myself.
There was a little mistake in the daily brief saying that we should draw a potrait from a picture that our friends took of us. So when I found a friend to take picture of me, sun was already setting and I thought is ok as I can always draw something when its darker. I also gave him free hands to make a picture of me. It was a good moment to let the other person express their feeling and impression about you so I let David freely choose where, when and how he took my picture. Its really nice to give that kind of control away sometimes as I usually love to plan my pictures and think about the details.
Here is the final picture he chose and I think its good that its expressive and not just pretty. The bridge is also nice symbolic background and that creative factory space behind and ofcourse autumn leaves against blue sky.
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| David |
The Sun had set and the one peace to hold the camera was missing from my tripod. So what to do. Don´t panic!, I thought and immediately start thinking my options. no light, camera no good when shaking, web camera stupid, photo automat costs and take time and last time even my picture got lost there even those are cool in Berlin. I could have run to that bar to complain about my last missing photo but most likely loose time and not get it anyway back. And then it hit me. I have a scanner! And after that I was like a child playing and experimenting as long there was time left as this assigment was just 1 hour. So I was pretty fast then scanning myself. It felt like victorian times photographer as I reached my hand to click the mouse and covered then my head with a big flanel shirt for the scan to start.
I also found some strange cameras like the concealed vest camera and love this slogan. "No Tourist Artist or Student, Amateur or Professional, should be without this Camera" .
here is one picture of the process with my cloth cover:
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| It was quite steamy under the cloth and you can see my breath in the picture! |
and here is my final self potrait:
