Natalie Artist Statement
The art works I did this term include "Long Exposure", "Excursion, Photo essay", "Career and Photography Research Assignment", "Stop Motion", "Photoshop editing", "Idiom" and "Time".
Long exposure is about using a long duration shutter speed to capture a stationary element of image like the path of moving lights in the dark; Photo essay is to use some images to describe a place; Career and photography research is to search a career and explain what it does; Stop motion is to use one click to capture how the object changes; Photoshop editing is to use Photoshop to make changes to the image, such as combining images into one; Idiom is to use Photoshop to show the meaning on the surface and explain what's the meaning literally. Time is to show how time means to you.
I did my time assignment with putting my phone in front of the window for two hours to capture how the sun moves from the same angle. For stop motion. I place my phone from the top of a long board on two chairs and place the camera downward to shot objects and to move objects underneath the board; if I want to make the video look smooth, I just need to move the objects a little bit and continue.
My goal as an artist is to record memorable moments in my daily life and I think I learn more methods to create a work. Things that I learn this term was a challenge as the things I learned was totally new to me and at first I imagined it as using making videos from our computer but it isn't, so it actually subvert my imagination. If I do it again, as I know what's happening, I think I can do it better and I will put more effort in it.
