S&S W4 Apparatus; "hands off"

My main problem with this task is that I use and have used/ experimented with a lot of apparatus and technics. From 8x10” plate camera’s, to half 25mm, panorama, stereo, analogue, digital, old technics, scanners, mobile phone, under water camera’s, 16mm film, camera obscura, VR, 3D, macro, all kind of filters, different films, photograms, infrared etc.

I was thinking on how to make images without pressing the button myself and came up with the idea that I could use the trigger system I have. This is by Hähnel called Captur. It has a couple of possibilities to release the button; it triggers on sound, Infrared, light or laser.

I choose for sound because I didn’t use that one before. Walking the dog in the morning at 6 am, I hoped it would be triggered a couple of time but it hardly stopped. There was one path in a park, surrounded by trees that was quite and an oasis of peace. It happens to be the place where I prefer to walk. The constant taking images made be very aware of the continuous sound that surrounds me all days. The clicking sound of the camera made it worse because I normally can kind of filter it but that wasn’t possible now. That realisation that I am surrounded by a lot of noise all day even early in the morning is disturbing.

the set-up

Some of the images made in series of 5 images in the taken order.

Total contactsheet

Turning around the lens to make it a macrolens making flower images. Because I kept te lens separate from the camera I could variety the angle and for a kind of tilt shift idea. Will try this for sure with the landscape photography later on.

During the live class with Laura, we spoke about the idea of sound and wavelengths and how to photograph those. Laura talked about a seismograph but now idea what she was referring to because our connection was really bad and I just heard half of it and she had the same problem. We tried different browsers and to log in a couple of times but nothing worked.

But an idea was born; maybe not what Laura meant but what I understood was the question wheter it was possible to save a photo as a sound and to see the waveform. That was not too hard problem; save is as a Photoshop Raw file and open that in Audition. Place it on a timelime and play. Here the first results. Sounds a bit as a hart beat. And every photo shows something else.

Conclussion; a strange week with lots of different ideas to work from. The 2 times that I have been in the park after the sound-trigger photography I had absolutely no peace anymore. This assignment has a big impact on me. I normally come back relaxed from a walk with the dog but not anymore. I am curious how long it will take before I can switch off the sound again and walk through the park in a calm and relaxed manner.

The sound idea is a start, will go on with it for sure.