Thanks for the comments, Mike and Bob W. Hockney's shot is interesting, but not really what I'm after, I think.
I remember a long time ago when I first saw Picasso's "Guernica". I thought it was a load of crap until I learned the history behind the pic. Then I was stunned by the effectiveness of cubism to express the situation. Picasso's way of abstracting objects to geometrical forms is not interesting in terms of photography, but the fragmentation of perspective certainly is. The photos I saw in Aperture Magazine two years ago was much in the same line. They were published as an afterthought to 11. September 2001. They pictured large architectural structures like the Eiffel tower in Paris and London Bridge. Each tile in the picture was taken from the same position, but with different tilt to the camera. The effect was very striking. While my attempt obviously is a bit half-hearted yet, Jon M's thoughts are very interesing. If I understood him right, he imagined the pic to be describing what could have happened if things went wrong when they relocated the lighthouse some years back. :-) I plan to use the technique for a quite specific project that is very slow in the coming. It's so time-consuming to put these composites together, and it's difficult to visualise how to create a mosaic with the right impact. Photoshop and digital introduces some flexibility, but it still needs planning ahead. One has to get the tiles right, even if they're tilted...:-) Cheers, Jostein Quoting mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >>http://www.oksne.net/paw/hatteras-mosaic.html > > > > [...] > > > > > > I'm not sure what the point of the photo or technique is. It looks a > > bit like the stuff Hockney was doing with Polaroids 20+ years ago, but > > his purpose was to explore multiple-viewpoint perspective, and notions > > of movement in photographs. > > > > http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Hockney9.html > > It's not a very big version but it gives some of the idea of what > Hockney was trying. Yours seems to be rather different. Certainly > produces another view of what would have been a straightforward record shot. > > mike > > mike > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
