Ethan Braaf
Controller 1 Knolling
Xbox 360-2005
For this series I used knolling to represent or incorporate the central idea of Artists Observe. Each diptych shows a controller fully assembled and then fully disassembled. Starting with the oldest controller I could find at my house which was a Xbox 360 controller released in 2005, then a PS3 controller, released in 2006, then a PS4 controller which was released in 2013. I think the knolling was pretty effective for this project, since it helped showed how some controllers have changed over the years internally and externally. I do think that I messed up a few photos though, since some of them are out of focus, which was the result from me trying to get the camera perfectly over the subject, trying to catch a non tilted birds eye view shot. I did learn some new things about knolling though, I have taken apart controllers before, so I know generally what they consist of, but it was interesting to learn how effective or creative a picture of this would be if you were to organize all of the pieces, which was another small flaw in my shots, I didn't really have super good organization in the photos. A challenge I had with it was like I said getting it to focus, I had a few photos that were way more out of focus than what I ended up using, but that was because I did not think very smartly in where I took the photos. I thought that taking the shots on a table would work until I realised that it's a little tricky getting a good birds eye view photo on a table without having to stand on a chair. And relocating would have also been tricky since I disassembled the controllers on the table before I discovered the problem. But my solution was to elevate the camera and myself onto a chair to get a good reach over the controller. Overall I think it was a decent project, but I definitely could have done a lot better.
Controller 1 Knolling
Xbox 360-2005
For this series I used knolling to represent or incorporate the central idea of Artists Observe. Each diptych shows a controller fully assembled and then fully disassembled. Starting with the oldest controller I could find at my house which was a Xbox 360 controller released in 2005, then a PS3 controller, released in 2006, then a PS4 controller which was released in 2013. I think the knolling was pretty effective for this project, since it helped showed how some controllers have changed over the years internally and externally. I do think that I messed up a few photos though, since some of them are out of focus, which was the result from me trying to get the camera perfectly over the subject, trying to catch a non tilted birds eye view shot. I did learn some new things about knolling though, I have taken apart controllers before, so I know generally what they consist of, but it was interesting to learn how effective or creative a picture of this would be if you were to organize all of the pieces, which was another small flaw in my shots, I didn't really have super good organization in the photos. A challenge I had with it was like I said getting it to focus, I had a few photos that were way more out of focus than what I ended up using, but that was because I did not think very smartly in where I took the photos. I thought that taking the shots on a table would work until I realised that it's a little tricky getting a good birds eye view photo on a table without having to stand on a chair. And relocating would have also been tricky since I disassembled the controllers on the table before I discovered the problem. But my solution was to elevate the camera and myself onto a chair to get a good reach over the controller. Overall I think it was a decent project, but I definitely could have done a lot better.