Huddersfield Art Gallery - Fields of Contention

The exhibition brings together a generation of artists interested in minimalism and construction, including Carl Andre's controversial 'bricks'. With a new commission by artist, Sarah Staton. Part of Art in Yorkshire - supported by Tate.

It is also the 115th annual exhibition of the Huddersfield Art Society, which has over 100 paintings of society members on display.

 

Norman Dilworth - 'Puffball'                          Henri Moore - 'Falling Warrior'
(1985)                                                       (1956-7)




Carl Andre - 'Bricks' (1966)                    Norman Dilworth - '3 Cubes' (2006)

Light and Time - Motorway Light Trails - first tests

For this short film I went up the motorway bridge over the m62 in Outlane.  After taking a series of photographs on the bridge, I then moved down to the motorway.  Here I rested my camera on the crash barrier to take accurate photographs.  This was very risky, but it allowed me to get up and close to vehicles driving at speed and I am more than happy with the result!

For the first light trails shown I set a high F Stop number ( F 20) to allow low light through and set the ISO to around 200, purely to increase shutter speed.  I also had to manually correct the white balance as the photographs were yellow from the street light. 

After I took all the photographs I wanted on the bridge, I went down to the motorway.  Here, I set a higher ISO of around 800 rather than 1600, as I didn't want there to be too much noise.  The F Stop was set to around F 10/F 15.

Light and Time - Roundabout Light Trails - first tests

For this experiment I took photographs continually at Ainley Top roundabout, I put them together and animated them.  As it was late at night, there was not much traffic which was a problem because I wanted my animations to look more busy.  However, these are my first animations from the roundabout at the experimental stage so I am happy with them!

Light and Time - Long Exposure Photographs - first tests

Here are a few more experiments for my Light and Time brief.  Taken on a Canon SLR, I highered the ISO and set the F Stop to F10.  The shutter speed was set to under expose by around negative .3.

 

Light and Time - Sunrise to Sunset - very first tests

So for my first studio brief, I have to create a piece on light and time.  Having never studied photography or video in depth I started looking at basic ideas to begin with and simply experimented!  I liked the idea of animating the day through from dawn to sunset, so I set a tripod up with a camera infront of my house.  This however, turned out to be quite a tedious process as I had to take a photograph starting at 6am every 3 minutes gradually working my way up to 5 - 10 minutes.  When it got to 11am I then started taking 1 every 30 minutes.  As it approached late afternoon/early evening, I repeated the process of taking one every 5 - 10 minutes and then 1 every 3 minutes at around 7pm, until the sun went down.  I had to take them so close to each other just so that I wouldn't miss any radical changes and so my animation ran gradually.

Overall, I am happy with the result.