ABNORMAL

Abnormal
Abnormal: "Deviating from what is normal or usual, typically in a way that is undesirable or worrying." This definition opens up a range of ideas such as, abnormal looks/features for portrait, abnormal behaviour, or abnormal shapes in nature for landscape or still life photography

Slow Shutter Speed:
"The technique is used by slow shutter speed combined with panning the camera to create a motion blur for moving objects. Shutter speed or exposure time is the length of time a camera's shutter is open when taking photograph. The amount of light that reaches the image sensor is proportional to the exposure time."

Based on ideas I have seen whilst peer assessing, I have decided to focus on slow shutter and double exposure photography. I have decided that my main theme will be 'Abnormal'. I came to this idea through peer assessing previous work from other students and researching work from different artists such as Bill Wadman, Maykel Lima and William Hope. I found that when looking at slow shutter photography, it gave a very abnormal or supernatural feel.

I also believe that a Abnormal theme could carry an underlying meaning, a story perhaps; similar to the idea behind horror stories, that my shoots taken could tell a horror/ghost story.

Pinterest Research:

I started researching on pinterest using key words such as 'Abnormal' 'Slow Shutter' 'Long Exposure' and 'Double Exposure'. These images are images I found to be the most interesting and fitting to the theme. 

Artists:

Bill Wadman: Wadman focuses on dancers, catching the movement of the models body, clothes, hair etc. His images look ghostly as if the model is in more than one place at a time.

Maykel Lima: Lima's work was appropriate for the idea of 'Paranormal' as I feel it has a very supernatural element. Most of Lima's images are in black and white, a lot of images dark with harsh lighting, this makes this images look rather disturbing.

My idea to portray abnormality is to express a different way of looking at everday scenes. For xample, the slow shutter speed of light, the merging of two themes and