Triptych stands for the division into three sections. When applying this to photography, it is a series of three pictures, which are closely associated with each other and displayed near each other, in order to create one image. Each individual image should have a common theme which links all three images together. This could be things such as Compositional themes, subject matters or certain colours.
With the Triptych task we were given a location within the city centre to find objects just laying around on the street. We were not allowed to buy objects or borrow, only use the objects that we were able to find. The objects I had obtained, were a beer bottle and fast food wraps. The reason I had chosen to photograph these objects is because I had in fact went out to find them the morning after a known student night. So to me, seeing the streets a mess with beer cans/bottles, fasts food wrappers and so on, it made me think that whilst alcohol is consumed people become more lazy and slobbish, as the streets aren’t normally this messy. So it got me thinking if this is the true nature of being a student. I then went on to think that i could capture what students actually get up to within my Triptych photography.
First Image
For my first image I wanted to illustrate the main reason students go to Uni for, which is to study. So I felt Photographing books would imply the true nature of why students go into high education. Keeping on the lines of true nature, I added natural elements within all of my images, for example in this image I composed leaves over the subject to symbolise nature and the students nature to study.
What I like about this image was that the leaves compliments the old fashion book, as the share similar colours and plus share the same origin. So I thought that by anding leaves conveys a positive juxtaposition, between the two subjects. The only thing I didn’t like about this image was the framing and composition, as I had left to much head room between the top of the book and the top of the fame, but unfortunately I couldn’t change this. The reason being was the fact the if i moved the camera forward or zoomed in then the I would loose the head room but at the same time I lost the width of the image, which resulted in some parts of the objects being cut off, so i decided to photograph it the way I did, but then resize it in photoshop. Even though I did not find the books but already pre-owned them, I know I didn’t keep to the brief for this image, however everything else within each image are objects that
Second Image
For my second image I decided to photograph the beer bottle I had found. With this image I added flowers which again was to portray a natural element within the image, and also to keep with the common theme throughout my triptychs, which is to illustrate the true nature of being a student. So I hope to convey within this image that after the studying and learning, that it is natural for students to then go out and socialise, as well as to consume copious amount of alcohol.
What I particularly like about this image is that the composition and framing of the subject is much more better than the first image, however what I don’t like so much is the fact that there is shadow produced due to the use of artificial lighting. But this was once again a factor that I couldn’t not get rid of no matter what I tried.
Third Image
For my Third image, I collected the fast food wrappers which I had obtained from the streets. Once again keeping to the associated theme, I added natural elements within my picture. Although with the other two images the natural elements were just placed within the composition, this time I wanted to incorporate it more and therefore decided to reconstruct the food with the natural objects, so instead of chips I had grass, instead of a burger I illustrate mushrooms and dirt. Like with the other photos the message I was trying to portray was the nature behind being a student, so I had chosen fast food wrappings, as students are known for buying takeaways and eating out, especially after a night out.
When producing this image what I had found difficult was once again removing the amount of head room, because like with my first image I could not get rid of the head room without loosing the width of the image and therefore loosing some of the objects. So once again i photographed it so the composition had the whole subject init and then I plan to crop the head room out within photoshop. Also with this image there was light glaring of the burger box, I had tried so hard to shop the glare by adding light diffuses to the lamps but because the strength of the light, the diffuses only slightly worked and I was only able to get rid of some of the glare.
