Triptychs

The Red Balloon

In my lesson I was given a photograph and had to create a triptych using this image. The photograph I got is of a red balloon on by the water side. I went to a local party store and bought some red balloons and walked to Hengistbury Head to look for inspiration. As I walked around I had the idea different varieties of people on a bench such as older couples and younger couples. I realised this would be difficult to link to the original image so I took some photos and moved on. I had the idea of the story of how the balloon got there or where it has travelled from. After experimenting with a variety of images I eventually came up with a triptych.

I used these two photographs because I feel they create a story and a journey. The final image was the after affects of my neighbour's dog getting the balloon and when I saw this I instantly thought I could use this as the final image in my triptych. The first image I had planned when I bought the balloons but doing this meant I only had one chance to capture as many photographs as possible.

I also had the idea of the balloon landing in a tree then moving on to the given image however I felt this could not work with the other images.

Split Triptych

In our lesson we were given a piece of card each that had three rectangles cut out of them. We had to try to use this to create a triptych with three different subjects in them so it did not look as if they were together. Me and two classmates walked around part of the school for look for inspiration and ideas. We started by getting the focus right on the camera so it focused on both the frame and the subject behind. To do this I had to change the camera and lens to manual and change the aperture and shutter until everything was in focus. We realised as we were walking along the path that we could use this as a triptych with the rock, stones and pavement.

To link the three together we scattered some of the stones on either side. We used the intersections of the card so cover the lines where the subjects join each other.

The Beach Huts

When I went to the hospital I saw an image on the wall of a single beach hut and I liked this photograph. I remembered that there are some new colourful beach huts near where I live so I went there after school to try different ways of making a triptych using the beach huts. I edited this in Photoshop to align the images to make them fit together. To do this I made the image appear like steps and gradually get larger.

I tried a series of experiments with spacing and changing the order of photographs to change the composition of the triptych and where the eye is lead.

The Painted Traffic light

Flowing

I the idea of traffic lights as a theme for a triptych. I wanted to use this theme however create something more abstract or different. I thought of the colours and how I could use paint. When thinking about what I could do with paint I realised how it flows and that I could try to make a triptych using this. I tried using the paint as it is falling into a bowl in front of a white canvas. I thought of doing a vertical triptych and having the colours like a traffic light (red then orange/yellow and green). Unfortunately I could not get hold of any red paint so I had to use pink. I started with the pink paint coming out of the pot/container. It would then move on to the orange paint as it flows so there would just be the paint against the canvas and then finishing with the green paint going in to the bowl at the end.

I was doing this experiment outside so I was only using natural sunlight which gave some of the shadow. Next time I would try to do it earlier in the day so that there is less shadow. Also the orange paint did not come out as I expected it to because it looks red in the photographs instead of orange so next time I would try using yellow paint.

The Wooden Manikin

I had the idea of taking photos of different parts of the body e.g. head, torso and legs. I mixed this with the idea of the paint and thought of the wooden manikins and that I could use that as the person. I thougth I could have three maninkins and cover each with a different colour and take photos of the head of one, then the chest and arms of the next and the legs of the last manikin. However to buy the three manikins would be too expensive so I bought one and out one colour on it then took photographs of the head, then with two colours I took a photo of the torso and finally with all three colours of the legs.

 

 

The Canvas

When I bought the manikin I also saw some small canvases and thought that they might be useful. I thought that I have done some experiments with the paint and still had some paint left so I thought I should use it on these canvases. I got a three paint brushes and dipped the first in the green paint. I put flicked the paint brush so that the paint would randomly fly on to the canvas. I then got the next brush and did the same on top but with the orange paint. I finally did the same with the pink paint on top to create an abstract piece of art that could be used as a triptych.