Viewpoint

I this exercise I collected some objects that shared the theme of summertime. I then took photographs of them looking at them from different perspectives.

I then comleted a similar task by drawing, rather than photographing the objects. This gave a bit more freedom in terms of the shape of the ‘viewfinder’.

In general I found the photographs and drawings that focussed in on one or two of the objects more engaging to look at. The process of photographing and drawing the images also made me think about which objects best represented summer – for me the sunglasses and suncream. I therefore chose to further develop an image that focussed on these two items.

I think that the image works reasonably in representing summer. My eye is first drawn to the bottle of suncream in the foreground and then the sunglasses. I’m not sure that it is entirely obvious that there is a map underlying the sunglasses.

I found this a useful excercise for exploring different possible viewpoints,and shapes of viewfinders, before focussing in on a final design.