C&T Publications Eye On Fine Art Photography - October 2014 | Page 69

Amusement Park Experimentation
Irony & Art
by Tobias Oggenfuss

A few years back I was invited to a theme park for a day of fun but by the end of the
day I was left most unamused. Dizzily I wobbled back to my friends car, little did I
know that this feeling would last for 48 hours. I experienced the perpetuation of too
much motion and it was as if I never got off the rides. On the third day, I awoke to
the pleasant feeling of remaining stationary, one day of fun for 2 days of being highly
unamused. Well, not entirely. I saw the universe spin in aN entirely new way. Similar
to how sound waves can cancel each other out when bounced within a close
proximity, so too does light bounce shapes into each other with the light that exists
in between a lens and subject matter.

These occurrences create a violent reaction of how light is displaced across the frame. It's ironic that there is this reaction because
the final images are a series of delicate, finally woven intricacies. The displacement of negative space is what alters the subject
matter and is the fundamental factor in altering photographic shapes. However one must always consider pitch, rpm, wobble,
angle, amount of light, distance, width, reflections, and subject matter values all influence how the negative space displacement
will occur. Still image motion is a gateway in between realism and surrealism.

Instead of our perspectives in that churn the camera does this and gets us to the door way in-between realism and surrealism . Just
like a cloth can hold water, a camera can undergo and capture motion one doesn't see until it is squeezed out.

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