Three Hourglasses
Posted by Tom John Rose on 23 August 2011 | Views: 1818 | 2 Comments
(In collaboration with Photography students Andrew Biddulph, Giles Croucher and Sam Coe)
This project was based around the debate of computer generated imagery as photography. CGI creates a fake image (data made visual), a photography too creates essentially a fake image (a photograph of something isn’t actually that something; it’s just a visual representation), so the only way to ‘truly’ experience something visually, is by seeing the thing itself.
In one frame is the real hourglass.
In one frame is a photograph of the real hourglass in the frame.
In one frame is a computer generated image of the photograph of the hourglass in the frame.
Was tricky getting the lighting/shadows correct ! Have fun guessing !
Comments:
1 Howard | on 25 August 2011
this is a really cool concept, i’m into this sort of stuff.
i have no idea which is the real one because i am of course looking at a computer generated image of all three, so i’m gonna guess…
Left (real one)
Right (photo)
Middle (computer gen)
2 Tom John Rose | on 26 August 2011
Thanks alot, it looked spooky real when the frames were in situe ! And you’ve just proved that our perceptions of photography can be easily misled as you’re wrong haha !
Left (real one)
Middle (photograph)
Right (CGI)