Diptych

What is Diptych?

Diptychs have been a popular choice among artists and photographers for centuries. Typically, a Diptych is what many nowadays would consider a collage with a difference. Two images, that create a visual or story are aligned either side by side or above and below, these images are used to represent one image by using two, though a diptych may also be used for one piece that is continued over two separate panels. For example, a landscape painter may choose to paint the scene across two panels that are then displayed together to sow two different point of view or different concept to the same image.

In other instances, the two panels may be different perspectives on the same subject or share colour or composition with different subjects. A common example of this would be portraits painted of a married couple, with one person in each panel, using the same technique and colour palette. Other diptychs may focus on contrasting concepts.

My Diptych

At the beginning of the course, I was encouraged to produce a theme. I decided upon using Impulsive and decided to incorporate this in all my images.

· Ideas development · My impulsive, mood, sad, light at the end of the tunnel, eye catching, unusual poses, hidden faces, artistic, sharp contrast, eye catching

Equipment planning · Myself and my sitter, DSLR and camera kit lens 18-55mm, fixed lens 50mm for low light situations and to create sallow depth of field.

Recce/Location Hunting. · The Kelpies for night-time location, good low lighting atmosphere for low key images, a good variance of location, bridges, water, structures.

Research & Analysis: Lighting/Composition/Style/Content. Rule of thirds composition, to embrace sitter and their atmosphere. Shallow depth of field. Artificial lighting from surrounding using low aperture lens of f1.4.

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Research

Unfortunately, when I started planning my diptych, I was planning to use an animal as I tried to think out of the box and do something different to everyone else. This was my findings... Rather than completely re do my research I have chosen to still incorporate it into my work as I am still keen to us the same techniques.

A photographic diptych is made up of 2 images. The most important first followed by either surroundings or focus., is flanked by 2 outside panels. The strength lies in that the panels combined will bring forth a theme, story nor message. If one were to remove one panel, that theme would be lost. In the above image the surroundings have come first followed by what lives on the surroundings. This image appears to have been taken on a crisp winters' day. The white on the ground and the cloudless sky reflects this. It gives depth to the image and makes it interesting. The composition on the first image fills the frame, it shows the surroundings. On the second image it shows a close-up using rule of thirds with a shallow depth of field. Thes images feed off each other and work extremely well in my opinion. It has given the same elements approached from different angles.

In the above image Triptych has been used placing three photographs together to produce a story. The images work very well together giving different elements of the horse without showing the horses face. Close ups have been used against a dark background which gives focus to the white colouring of the horse. The lighting and texture in my opinion work well and it is unclear either the image has been made in monochrome or if this is the natural colouring, giving this photograph a sense of being timeless. Common elements have been approached here from different angles showing the key features of this animal. I do believe the strongest image has come first and this Triptych works extremely well. I would have liked to see the main image being the horses' eye. This will be something I will incorporate when producing my own images. The composition starts off high taking up the full image whilst gradually lowering towards the last image.

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The Outcome

The concept I am hoping to adapt is taking several portraits of a young teenager captured from different angles, as well as images of the surrounding areas. The surrounding areas would then tie into their feelings and surroundings capturing any buildings, fields, or any other people present. I am trying to create a unique perspective and think out of the box, although producing dark images I feel these could have a real meaning behind what I am trying to achieve. My image is Called ‘Light at the end of the tunnel.’ In the first image there is a real sense of darkness, and the sitter is looking over the edge of a bridge or railing. Although we cannot see what if at the other side, the fact that the models face is covered and, in the shadow, and thy have their arms crossed as well as looking down represents a feeling of being hidden or alone. They could be having some alone time or contemplating their life. In the second image the model is in a brighter atmosphere, looking up and their face is shown. This could represent them looking at what used to be or just overall feeling more hopeful with life. I tried this image side by side and do not feel it worked as well. The fact the sitter is looking down on the first image then looking up on the second show they are reflecting at each emotion.

In image 1 -I captured this at night-time at the Kelpies. I like the fact that on a previous visit they have a lot of artificial mood lighting and I felt this would work well when planning this image. Although this image was not intended for this excurses it still works well and decided to use it. I wanted to incorporate the lighting used off the railing onto the sitter's jacket, this shows it Is the same jacket used in the second image. Rule of thirds has been used in this image but with a twist. My low aperture has given the focus to the railing and my sitter is left in the background. Something is found works well. Settings used Canon 2000d – iso 100- f1.4- shutter 1/30

In image 2- I captured this image on a bright day in my own garden, I like the fact when this image was transferred to monochrome that it gave a complete contrast to the first image. It is completely white and bright and completely focuses on the sitter. The cigarette in hand also gives a feeling of normality, not something I had pre-arranged, but it gives a natural feel given that it was a natural pose. The sitter is the only focus in this image, and I used a slight rule of thirds also. Looking up and thinking back on the past, what used to have been... my title reason, Light at the end of the tunnel. Settings canon 2000d iso100- f8-sutter 1/60.

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Postproduction

Below is my contact sheets of the images I used... to be continues when tutor goes over

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