Object- practice research pictures

I was taking some pictures for research and I slowed down the shutter speed to make this picture blur. I think that it would be a good idea to have the picture slightly blurred or at least a bit jagged so it's looks like a drunk persons vision.

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I decided that I would use harsh lighting to make it uncomfortable for the viewers eyes. Im not promoting drinking and Im trying to show the bad effects of it so I want the whole photo to give off an uneasy and disgusting feel. Almost as if to say that if your drink you will obtain this feeling yourself.

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A lot of my research has been leaning towards alcohol rather than drug users. I think I will make the decision to carry my project on with just looking at drinking. I think this way I will be able to make my project more thorough rather than looking at both in my project and them being weakly researched.

Object- Phillip Shannon

I found this photographer, Phillip Shannon, who has taken close up photos of objects.

I like the way in this photo there's the drink in the foreground and then theres the blurred outline in the background of the bottle. I like it because the viewer focuses first on the glass of alcohol and then on the bottle and even though it is blurred you still know what this is. I think this depth within the photo really adds to the photo as whole because there is more for the eye to look at. I think i will use this technique of having depth within my photo and use techniques of blurring, such as in this photo, within my own final photo.

Object- Maciej Dakowicz

I now want to look at photographers and artists that have also looked at the social issue of drinking and taking drugs. I came across the photographer Maciej Dakowicz. Dakowicz took a series of photos called Cardiff after Dark, they were taken over a couple of Friday and Saturday nights and show the effects of drinking after a night out. The effect on the people themselves and the effect of the streets of Cardiff.

This picture shows a group of people lying down in the middle of a road. Something they would never probably do in day to day life under normal circumstance but intoxicated they do this incredible dangerous act and laugh and seem to find it funny.

This picture shows a man who has clearly been in a fight and is now bleeding as a result.

This women has passed out on the floor and is needing help from two policemen.

These pictures show shocking truths of what actually goes on, on the streets of Britain. It has been helpful looking at Dakowicz work because it has given me more ideas, that I can use for my project, of the destructive incidents that can come from drink and drugs to the environment and to the people themselves. Such as lying down in the middle of the road, drunken fights leading to a man with blood all over his top, a passed out women on the floor surrounded by two police trying to help. However the pictures are not of objects they are of the people themselves so I need to find a way of displaying the effects that drinking leaves behind maybe. So maybe the mess in the street after a night out. That has to be cleaned up, the extra police that have to be around at night. Although the police are again people not objects. So just the effects of the place maybe.

I could take pictures of the mess left behind like in the picture above. If this picture didn't have a person in it and just had the bin with the mound of kebab boxes it would be prefect.

Object- Brainstorm associating objects to social issue

I then decided to do a brainstorm on what objects could be associated to drink and drugs.

Object-Social issues Brainstorm

I then thought of some social issues that I was interested in, so i've made a brainstorm. Looking at all the things i've thought of, i've decided to do my project about drink and drugs because it think that this is a social issue that most effects me. As it is a topic that surrounds people of my age and university life.

Object - Dictionary

I have decided to look up what the dictionary definition of object is so I have a clear understanding. I think this is always important even though it may not seem necessary because someone could have a warped idea of what a word means and not even realise it. I wouldn't want to get to the end of my project and then realise I've done it all about the wrong thing.

objectnoun |ˈäbjəkt|1 a material thing that can be seen and touched : he was dragging a large object | small objects such as shells.• Philosophy a thing external to the thinking mind or subject.2 a person or thing to which a specified action or feeling is directed :disease became the object of investigation.• a goal or purpose : the institute was opened with the object of promoting scientific study.• Grammar a noun or noun phrase governed by an active transitive verb or by a preposition.• Computing a data construct that provides a description of something that may be used by a computer (such as a processor, a peripheral, a document, or a data set) and defines its status, its method of operation, and how it interacts with other objects.