Wabi Sabi and Panoramic Cloning
Panaromic Cloning
Here's a fun trick to try with family or friends. Just take a panoramic photo using your smartphone. Have somebody run around behind you right after the camera passes and hold still when it comes around again. Keep trying! Practice makes perfect.
To get started you will need: You, a phone with a panoramic option, and a few willing friends to model for you. Or you can have your parent/carer take one of you!
Start your pan-shot moving left or right, have someone stand in frame completely still (very important!) with a creative pose or a smile, whichever you prefer.
As you begin moving the camera, or panning, make sure to keep the phone at a consistent height. As the person just leaves the frame, freezing your movement, have your friend exit, making sure they stay out of the camera's view.
Have your friend take hold of the camera while continuing to keep it stable and without really moving it too much. It needs to stay in the exact position where it stopped.
Move just off frame in the direction of the pan, Strike your Pose! and hold completely still.
Have your friend pan over you until you're off frame.
Repeat the process until the panoramic is complete. See how many times you can fit yourself or your friends in the shot!
Tip: It is best to try this technique with a static background. Some great locations include walls, cliffs, skylines, or anything that moves minimally.
WAbi SAbi (Involuntary Painting)
Wabi Sabi: Based on the Japanese Philosophy meaning "Beauty in imperfection", It is mostly used when referring to things that are natural and imperfect.
"Go outside in your neighborhood or your home and take at least 24 photos of “involuntary paintings”. It’s a scavenger hunt of sorts looking for ugly-beauty.
It can be peeling paint, rubbish, something that when you take a closer look can be interesting. If you use the hashtag #involuntarypainting on Instagram or Google images you can see thousands of examples.
You can use your mobile phone or the free Snapseed app to edit your favourite six.
Choose your favourite photographs and create a collage either on your phone or the PicCollage app. Watch these YouTube videos which show you how to do this: Phone collage, PicCollage app.
Go back to the Google classroom assignment and turn in your final collage.
Include a description of where you took the photos, what they are of, what you learned and how you would use this in future work.
WAGOLL
Below are examples of the collage of photographs you will create following this lesson:
