tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274818362011-12-03T01:01:55.058ZBen Wisely, Studio Seventeen, Plumpwench.... Visual Stuff.PlumpWenchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18323915562006775938noreply@blogger.comBlogger591100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27481836.post-13100910919407071612011-07-22T13:37:00.009Z2011-08-08T12:23:55.416Z

Still perusing the look. Here's a few bits from recent shoots. The images with Nadia are part of my ongoing exploration of fuller forms, although this time I loosened up and played a bit. I don't usually encourage my models to view the images as I'm shooting them. In fact I avoid this, but this time something amazing thing happened... She looked at the monitor and made some incredible judgments

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Some words and work in a recent publication, Complexd Magazine. An amazing online magazine developed by former LCF student Kered Clement that 'celebrating multicultural women of all shades, shapes and sizes'. It's bloody hard to write what it is i try and achieve with images of naked women but the gist laid out in the article is going in the correct direction.Princessa / Complexd © 2011Princessa:

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Being that time of year again here's my entry for 2011. I'll write about the image if it gets selected. Mother - Ben Wisely © 2011

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Some recent product shots. It's not art but I quite enjoy it. These awesome pet bowls from super talent Krallier, Bespoke cabinet makers, who do a line in luxury pet accessories. Part of my return to product photography.All Images - Studio Seventeen Ltd ©

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There's a whole lot to write. But it all boils down to a long pause to re-align myself and start fresh. In the meantime I've been assisting the artist and part-time stylist Wendy Ford.

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Pregnant (Untitled Comp) - Ben Wisely / Studio Seventeen © 2010This is just a little teaser comp from my new work. When finished this image should be an epic eight by four foot C-type print. As an ever growing part of a series of images from test shoots. The simple set up offers a space to reveal the model / sitter's self awareness and self engagement. The nakedness introduces an additional

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I entered, I did not win. But my work will be displayed among fifty other photographers works at this years National Portrait Gallery, Taylor Wessing prize. Not bad for my first ever foray into competitions. You can take a glace at the shortlisted four's work here.Princessa - Wisely / Studio Seventeen © 2010This brush with potential interest has spurred me on to create some more work. So

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Despite the shows dodgy School of Economic Science name, Create Master Inspire! This coming week the The Art Academy will be celebrating it's tenth anniversary at the Menier Gallery. With range of work from current students and it's alumni. Of course this means new work from George Triggs. The new piece had been intended for this years ThreadNeedle sculpture prize but unfortunately due to

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Research for Phase Two of K.Moyse's, Pick 'n' Mix multimedia, multi-everything performance series. Leveraging video projection, live data manipulation and multiple performances in a super intense and mentally dense piece that takes you on a journey through to the very heart of how you think you understand. I suppose I should say what in particular you understand but it's not that easy. The video

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I've never entered for a prize. Although I am competitive. Over the past few weeks I've been exploring an idea for a new series. Not sure if they fully qualify as 'portraits' although elements have what I feel is essential in portraiture. So I am biting the bullet and creating a few prints (a rare treat) and entering the National Portrait Gallery's Taylor Wessing prize.I have looked through

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Me and the studio have been busy. Had an amazing time shooting some rope bondage with a couple who where visiting the UK for London Festival of Japanese Rope Bondage.Ligatio Suspension One - Allropestied.com - Studio Seventeen © 132C/RZ67 More images from the shoot can be found at my Flickr. For this shoot I just stood back and let them do there thing. Whilst the lack of direction led to a few

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Having a studio on tap is becoming a real boon. It gives me time to seriously play and explore working processes without time and mess constraints. Over the past month I have made a few big changes to my own personal workflow. I sold the BetterLight. My much loved imaging beast with all it's pixels and fantastic pure RGB data is now gone. The decision to move on was born from a growing

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Months have passed. No posting, no nothing. I have taken a short three month departure from many aspects of my life. To take my purpose of being in London to it's logical conclusion. I have set up a fully featured photography studio! Studio Seventeen is a shared space with a George Triggs, sculpture. My side of the building has a 1300 sq/ft photography studio with a 16ft infinity curve, massive

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Recently shot a few high resolution images for British artist Dave McKean. The images present a common challenge within fine art reproduction. Two of the images are gloss vanished they also have a light amount of impasto. This leads either the use of cross polarization or a delicate light placement. I opted for delicate light placement as this removes the exposure and colour issues introduced by

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The 5D mkII is a real deal changer. The much-coveted depth of field of 35mm is now a hand held possibility. As with all tools within financial reach of mere mortals its awesomeness comes with a few caveats.Of these, the most prominent and much talked about is 'jello-cam’. Rolling Shutter is temporal artifact caused by the way CMOS sensors scan across an image frame. Things move during this time

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A good start to a new era. Having just moved back to London to officially go freelance, I'm off to a good start. With five images in Art of England and the front cover! I'm even happier as the images were a rush job completed in a day without a studio.The images were created for the first solo show of George Triggs sculptures and as entry images for ThreadNeedle 2009. It’s immensely pleasurable

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ikonoskop A-cam dII - Europe's answer to Red.Possibly the most fascinating series of talks i have ever watched. A clear insight into the sad life i lead. This set of talks hosted by Panavison are mandatory viewing for anyone interested in imaging in the digital domain. Although the primary focus is on HD and D-Cinema imaging technology, all of the information is relative to still imaging. The

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After a break I'm back. Wasting gigabytes and pixels in abundance. As usual i have not even left my front room to perform these experiments. No point in going 'live' until a secure working method is resolved. In this case i am seeking to increase speed of capture and get super detail images. The speed part is controlled much like a shutter except each line of the scan is expressed as Line-Time.

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"Tree Man" - bronze & gold - 2008New works from London based sculpture George Triggs. These pieces are being entered into the new ThreadNeedle arts competition. Hopefully these images are good enough to get him through to the selection stage. The images where shot using four Arri tungsten lamps with the BetterLight scanning back. Not the ideal lighting source with its high infrared output. The

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In a bid to get myself in a sustainable position I'm going to set myself up as a photographer. The camera is ideally suited to flat art reproduction and high resolution scanning of static objects. In plain English that means super high quality images of paintings, drawings and sculptures. Basically anything that doesn’t move can be imaged. The quality of the images will allow for prints upto A1

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Now the printings done. It's not really the end as there is so much more to be explored beyond these simple experiments. These outcomes are a disparate shift from some of my early ideas. The real key to getting things done appears to have been to follow one element of an idea. I envisaged that my end show would be a display of screens taking a live streams from the university cctv infrastructure

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These are the final images bar some editing to correct colour and contrast etc.... Not sure which to print yet.

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This first image was to signal the beginning of my home run with the creation of the final project images. Instead all that appeared was an image saturated with infrared. Even with the infrared filter in place the bellows appeared to be leaking and reducing the image to a red, contrast-less mess. No matter what i placed over the bellows i could not shift the infrared. Too add to this the power

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If only my uni would give me access to the snazzy new student attracting tech. Obviously my use for the Milo motion control arm was so abstract as to fall on deaf ears. But had i gained that access i would have been producing something very similar to this from Carnegie Mellon. My version was to be geared towards the production of a super wide field of view image with infinite depth of field with

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The technological transitions that fascinate me are one side of the process. Peoples use of images is what is going to define them beyond the current paradigm of Photography. Computational Photography i suppose can be said to be a branch of photography that is primarily research based. Its more the science of image creation. Most of the research has obvious commercial applications and can be

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Andreas Gefeller - another veteran of Bernd and Hilla Becher teaching at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Who's distinctive pedagogy and conceptual vision of a comparative taxonomy of utilitarian structures has become a standard in art photography. Gefeller's images are overt composites that upon closer inspection reveal that they are pure digital manipulations with obvious joins and blends.In this

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The scanning back has presented a set of problems that I thoroughly underestimated and to add to this my conceptual resolve is under significant strain also. I'll start with the technical issues first. All my testing has lead to one thing becoming very obvious. With the increased effective sensor size their has been a dramatic loss of depth of field. This is something I really over looked even

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Today the scanning back arrived. Not without trouble though as Customs insisted on delaying the delivery for an inspection and then charging a small fortune in tax. But once in my hands the back was amazing. Today was mainly spent getting accustomed to the Viewfinder software that controls the camera. It's not the most intuitive, but once understood it is actually very sensible. Probably my

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Looking back at all the experiments I can easily trace most of my technical choices. Although I can never firmly pin why it is that I make these images. I have strived to avoid the question. If you look at it and something goes on for you, great. But for me more than anything it is just getting it done. These current multi-focal composites are a departure from this method of approaching my work.

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All of the images Im making rely heavily on post capture processing to turn them into what i want. These computational overheads add significantly to the time it takes to create an image but represent more than anything what Im trying to achieve. The current workflow runs something like this; 1. Convert the camera .raws into small .jpgs using the generic settings within Adobe Camera Raw.2.

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I can with some degree of certainty say that i have got a BetterLight 4000E in the pipeline. Its the lowest model scanning back from BetterLight and the version im getting shipped in is SCSI based. I cant wait. I had hoped to find something a bit more local, like a Phase One PowerPhase but they are nie on impossible to find. As with all things in hi-end imaging, its all dealers and pros. Its

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This is the first full scale test. Using rise, fall and shift as before to capture the greatest area possible of the lenses image circle. Combined with racking the focus to generate enough images to describe the entire field of view as 'in focus'. This test image is riddled with errors. Most of these errors are surmountable but require an further increase in tolerances of the current imaging

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Two experiments of the current direction im working. Their is much to be said about these bits and the ideas they pertain to. I will add these thoughts soon. Additions. The image of the street excites me because in my mind it's a kind of anti-photography photo. For me it's only the outcome of process to generate an image with unlimited depth of field. As such it has imaging errors as a result

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One of the few images i have made lately. Using software to combine images shot at different focus points leading to images that are sharp at every-point. This was a small test made of 3 groups of 4 focus layer images, stitched together. Mainly a proof of concept for a super large scale creation. As soon as i get my Canon angle finder and Sinar wide bellow to alleviate the standards drifting

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These past few months have become a re-inquiry into photography for me. In school, when I started making photographs seriously, my primary impetus had grown from listening to the adults in my life lament about the magical time that was their youth. With this in mind I set about imaging everything and everyone I knew in the hope of solidifying some of this apparently fleeting time. Now years later

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I have liked this guy's works since i first saw some of his 'Photogenetic Drafts' series. These where composites of cut negatives from one studio in germany that he had combined top make a full but distorted portrait image. Other works like his 'Statics' have a conceptual link and are surprisingly similar in their visual outcome to my own work; The Statics where created from images left over

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Gently honing in on what my essay will be discussing: software and imaging. Hoping to go further than just exploring the amazing array of things that can be done with images via computers but to look at the very nature of an image in the digital domain. From it's creation from light into its encoding in binary. Obviously a rather broad area of inquiry that i need to refine, pronto. The first five

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The most visual thing i have made thus far. At other end of the scale from the Static Time-lapses this image is created by moving the camera on planar plane over time, when composited together it makes an image with a high amount of spatial information but very little temporal (although this could be increased by spacing the shots further apart in time). I am of the feeling these images/

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As a quick addition i thought i should add some information about David Bohm, he wrote a very successful book 'Wholeness & the Implicate Order' that posits that all existence is an unbroken whole, many ideas he forwards in the book are very compelling and visible in the world we experience. I read this book about five years ago and it has had a lasting effect on how i try an understand the world

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After what can only be described as an extended holiday im feeling like im back on track. Feeling obviously being very different from actually doing. For a long period i have been mauling over where i draw inspiration and im still not sure but it's clear that science is at the front of many of my thoughts more than art or even design. This video is constructed in the same way as the still images

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I now a have a working version of my hombrew software, it needs a bit of clearing up and testing but now i can produce test images. At the moment these are limited to a few hundred input images, even though the capture software will allow 100'000's of capture the G7 dies and i have yet to find a power adaptor so i might just make one.This test only used about 300 input photo's and displays only

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Third year has begun and my enthusiasm proportionally waned. It's hard to quantify exactly what is is about an education at UCE that can be so draining. As yet i have not been assigned a tutor to guide this project but this might turn out to be a good thing. As long as i work. The first version of the program to reconstruct images is now being tested, i hesitate to say that i have only directed

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From a purely technical standpoint the creation of each image will be demanding. To obtain a high volume of shots over a period of days will require the camera to be operating 24/7, so tempted as i am to do it with my DSLR it's mirror mechanism would almost defiantly fail. My research has lead me to the Canon G7, mainly because it can interface with a iStopMotion and it's whopping 10 megapixel

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After much anxiety and unease i have finally settled on an idea to pursue for my third year studies. Much of my early thoughts for a self directed project were concerned with quantization and the influx of many forms of human information into computers. I felt a strong urge to explore motion, mainly prompted by the knowledge that Biad's VRU had a animazoo capture suit and a loose idea of

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The photography projects scored a remarkable 70%, although was limited by 'division of labour'. That basicly means that the format for deriving marks has no clear methodolgy for marking group work. Ironicly most of my last two years have been tainted by the course's never ending desire to make us students work in groups, 'thats how it is in the industry' being the motivating buzz-word for

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It's noted among my peers and housemates that while my verbal skills can occasionally show prowess my essay writing skilsl are not even classifiable as skills. With a Friday deadline looming im doing my best to work, any concentration is often pieced by the searing howls of an angle grinder only feet from my top floor window as next door have their roof replaced. Around the three O'clock mark

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This is the final film, its not perfect. Some of the masks drift as they are poorly animated. Its supposed to look like the rich tri-x images of Wales by Joseph Kudelka. I cant find any images of Kudelka' s online - Maybe books are better. 3950 frames later.A mid-res version for download is available here & a HD 720P version as a torrent here.

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Facinating insight's into technical aspects of some leading edge visual effects. These are the kind that really appeal to me as they dont rely on CGI but use realtime events to create them, unfortuantly most of this stuff ends up getting used in advertisements as their is no other obvious destination for things that appear so gimmicky.I like to think their would be a way to combine these

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Ron Fricke was lead photographer on Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi and is a noted technical inovator develping time-lapse and motion control system for the 70mm / Imax film system. He also directed and created Baraka, similar to Koyaanisqatsi in its use of non verbal visually lead narrative. This Site has a good overview of non-verbal film but they appear to be very much in the spirit of The

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Bill Viola Interview - www.tokyoartbeat.comIm not crazy about his mystical slant but his explorations into captured emotion in super slow motion are somthing to behold. The point about about mapping the haman mind in real time is yet another example of human desire (?) to quantize and formalize.

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Proberly one of the most gorgeous films ever, everyshot is a killer and so is the story. A torrent of this perfect exercise in style and content is available here.

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Somthing i often struggle with is the concept of meaning. Within the context of film this becomes even more complex as film is mostly acknowledged as a narrative based medium of storys. I have taken this project as an opportunity to ignore any desire to transmit or stimulate a meaning intentionally, i think of meaning as being a bit spurious when its intentional as it suggest's their is some form

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Although not designed for this module ClipTag was made to create generative auto films. Taking advantage of the volumous amounts of photo's people post on Flickr with tags acting as meta-data relating to the images content or peoples general response to the image. ClipTag currently uses a set of user uploaded sound samples that are tagged, basicly mirroring the format of Flickr. When you visit

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Obvious links are always made towards Cindy Sherman when thinking about film photographically and whiles her works toes an intersting line, drawing out your own narratives from your own interpretations their are plenty of other artists exploring motion and the still image. Mark Romanek is a good example of someone who has talents in both fields although i would suggest he is more a fim man who

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Shot on first visit. Exploring image manipulation similar to working with an image in the darkroom or actually digitly as you can leverage far more control. I love the slow crawling pan, what it really needs is a sound element to deirect the senses. Sound will most likely be captured on location using a small world radio tranciver. As this is the highest part in Briton between here and the

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Ok, so this is the location of the film. For me the decision was rather arbitrary but i think this offers a good opertunity to just try somthing without having any srong preconceptions of an out come. Clee Hill is sparse and rather desolite feeling reminding me more a Blake 7 shooting location than a part of the Shropshire.The main features of the area are its sprawl of derelict concrete

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Any project involving the idea of a moving image for me starts with this film. Everything about it is photographically filmic from its long lingering shots that demand attention to its use of timelapse. Obvious critisms are usally based around its lack of traditional narrative, we are clearly all far too conditioned! Relieving itself from the bounds of verbal narrative it uses a magical

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The O2's are useless, not in the sense that they dont boot ect... but in the way they will only run Irix and are virtually impossible to cajole into running somthing sensible like Linux thus none of the software i need can be run. But never fear....... i found a whole set of SGI Origin 200/2000's ready for the bin at my uni!! These can happily forced into running Linux. I have 4x Origin 200

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Courtesy of my uni, i now have five SGI o2's. Hopefully with a little tinkering and a bit of help these will form the backbone of my experimental render farm for Final Cut Pro and After Effects. Given that my PowerBook is on the verge of melting after two days solid rendering of HD i figured i needed somthing with a bit more number crunching power. Short of buying a new machine this seemed my

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