Project 26

Real and implied triangles

Before reading this project, make sure you have looked at project 25.5 first!!!!!!!!!!!

Real

I can do real.

Here the brief was to produce three photographs one of a subject that is triangular, one of a triangle produced by perspective with the apex at the top, and one of a triangle produced by perspective with the apex at the bottom.

The first is of a church spire, which is, in itself triangular. This is helped by the walls forming a triangular shape by perspective due to the camera being pointed upwards.

 

The second is a tower block that would be normally square, but as the shot is taken from very low down looking almost vertically upright, the square tower appears to be triangular.

 

To get a perspective shot with the apex at the bottom could be achieved by taking a shot from high up looking down a building (the reverse of the previous shot) I decide to keep my feet firmly on the ground, and took this show of roof rafters receding into the distance creating a triangle with the apex at the bottom.

 

Implied

If you have read Project 25.5, You’ll know I have some difficulty in believing implied shapes are anything other than an individuals imagination, but the first two parts of this project simply require me to place six objects in a still life arrangement to produce a triangle with the apex at the top. Well, even I can manage that. Everyone knows that six items form a triangle if arranged 3, 2  and 1.

The next part is to produce another still life, with 6 objects and the apex at the bottom. I resisted the urge to move to the other side of the table and take the same shot upside down! I also resisted the far stronger urge to simply print the picture upside down, and instead opted for re-arranging all the fruit so that it formed an inverse triangle.

 

The final part of the implied shapes is to arrange three people in a group picture in such a way that their faces or lines of their bodies form an implied triangle. You can take this one as far as you like, but my implied triangle is in the fact that the centre head is taller than the two outer heads.