Stonehouse - A Light Perspective

It occurred to me that as well as taking images simply to document the area around where the projection might take place, these images could be formatted to provide us with further information.  I therefore took the selection of images shown in one of the previous posts and editted it in Photoshop to try to obtain a stricter understanding of the environment, beyond what we are able to comprehend on the surface.  The following are the two images I created that may be able to help further in deciphering the site:

This image is simply the pictures taken and given a glowing edge effect in photoshop.  This is a very basic transformation but provides a new perspective of each image, almost drawing the image with light, similar to that of light art described in my previous posts.

This second image is the pictures manipulated using the threshold feature, and breaking the pictures down to a binary black and white format. This again gives another perspective and demonstrates in some ways the levels of light in the area, a concept which could be important in following our theme of light later on in the project.

As well as these images I also created a collage of the people that were around at the time the photos were taken.  This is because the photos were part taken to document the possible audience available to us when the projection is carried out.  The collage created shows all the people that were found in the images layed onto the same plane in their relative locations that they were in in their original image. The collage created is shown below:

This image therefore documents the people in the area over a period of time, incorporating a time based element as well as showing what type of people are in the area.

The next element me and my group plan to deal with is a more dynamic documentation of the area by videoing the area, and taking long exposure photography.  This will further incorporate the element of time with our investigations and allow us to have much more scope in how we deal with the information we are gathering.