A2 Art: Matt Molloy Inspired Work

Matt Molloy creates images using his time lapse photography, he calls these timestacks, In my sketch book a have created an artist research page on him showing his work and some styles of painting that these look like they create, I made some of my own time lapse films which can be seen at the bottom of this post, with these I added each frame onto a Photoshop layer an used the lighten effect (used by Molloy) these give the images an effect that makes them look like paintings, this is a technique that I like because the purpose of the time lapses is to capture the beauty in movement and the images also capture them whilst linking them to how they can be captured in other aspects of art, the time stacks allow all colours to be shown at one time which created a very interesting piece that is appealing to the eye. These link to my exam theme of multiple images as they are simply, multiple images layered to create one composition.

The image to my left is my favourite because I feel that it is the one most similar to Molloy's work as you can clearly see each layer, I also like the effect given by the lens flare as to me it represents how nature is hard to capture in every essence of its true beauty, It is somewhat Ironic that we use man made technology to savour the moments given by pure nature, the colours in this make it stand out which can cause some people to wonder what it is, i think this helps to juxtapose the monochromatic tones in the clouds, also each layer resembles brush strokes remarkably well, and questions the viewer into thinking whether it is a painting or a photograph, I like the idea of tricking the viewer and this is something that I would like to remain in my pieces

This time lapse was created by taking photographs every 10 seconds for about half an hour and then collating all of the images into one video piece to show the sunset, I really like the colours that I achieved in this piece and it is something that I would like to experiment with in a canvas painting.

All of the following time lapses were taken around the same time I took the sunset time-lapse, I took these at the same time because I liked the lighting that the sun was giving and i wanted to create some short clips focusing on the movement of the waves and the swans (Despite them not wanting to be seen by the camera) I am happy with the results that I got as They all show the movement in them well. For each of them i just used the continuous shot mode on the canon camera so the camera would take a picture every 1 - 2 seconds which was suitable for fast movements so they create a rather smooth video.

I turned each of these videos in to time stack images however they didn't work very well and the water just looked rather plain there was no definition between the waves and for the videos with the swans in them I just achieved multiple swans and to me this just looked amateur and I decided that these were not something I would continue working on.

As much as I liked the work of Matt Molloy It was not something that I thought I could move on from or experiment around with and so I chose to leave his work as just an experiment point, I learnt a lot about camera and film techniques that I plan on continuing with in the future, it also increased my appreciation for time lapse photography. I struggled with this method however because I did not have an intervalometer which is a timer used on the cameras which you chose the time for the camera to snap, I had to manually take pictures myself which was very time consuming and laborious for me, which was probably why i didn't enjoy it as much but I felt that the end result was more on my skill rather than the technology that I should have used.

Here is my cloud time lapse

I had looked at the style of Molloys work and to me each of his photographs looks a lot like a painting and so with this interpretation I began to paint canvases based on his work