I felt that with this task, knowing the end result that had to be achieved, it was almost inevitable that this would be at the back of my mind as I wandered around Buxton for the sole purpose of taking photographs for this task.
Seeing the domes, then the curves of the crescents, the arches and the finger post, the whole coalesced in my mind and became a project. Although when I sat down to make the grid some of the images didn’t work to bring about something like a whole. Especially with regard to colour tone. The alternative was green and beige – the green (given the large amounts of rain!) was too overwhelming and distracting in this frame. I chose to highlight the colour of Derbyshire stone which is largely beige, so it is beige and grey tones.
I’m not promising that the images were taken in those same positions in the camera frame, but they have all been cropped to take advantage of the focal point I was aiming at. They are arranged here in order to make the ‘whole’ that I think works.
While undertaking this activity I found myself irritated by its constraints… I used my Fuji camera that is not on auto, and the Crescent image all but filled the whole frame of the camera. Also I like the square format so that is what I look for through the viewfinder. I had thought that my raw images out of the camera were in a 3:4 ratio but not so, they are 2:4! I had not really thought about the impact it has on images before I did this exercise. Other incidental irritations were cars, traffic lights, shop and direction signs and trees! Sometimes the exhortation to “just move!” does not work especially if it means standing in the middle of the busy road!
Again just before pressing the submit button I have read a couple of learning logs (Skye Eden’s and Alexandra Macy’s ) and realised that my efforts to to create the ‘Frame’ are possibly more nuanced as I have drifted away from the instructions! However I’m going to ‘stick’ because I don’t think that I have missed the point of this frame project with its compositional aids and ‘gestalt’ theme.
