Understand the Problem
A Triptych is a work of art that is divided into three sections physically or visually.
In this case, I will be taking three separate photographs and connecting them visually to tell a story or represent a common theme.
To do this, I can have similar subject matter, colors, composition, or create stages of a single story.
The overall goal is to create unity in my triptych.
Research and Investigate
The triptych art form is mainly used today as decoration in interior design. However, the first triptychs were from early Christian art, popular for altar paintings from the Middle Ages and further. They were used as altarpieces for religious reasons, usually depicting holy personages, saints, and biblical subjects.
My purpose for this project is to create a triptych unified by a common theme, story, or technique using digital manipulation, composition, lighting, etc.
For a triptych to be successful in this particular project, it muse convey a message efficiently or show unity in some way. The triptych as a whole must be more important and captivating then each of its individual parts. It has top work as a whole more so then each photo. A triptych can be successful if the way it is formatted portrays unity or is creative and original.
Generate Possible Solutions
Depth Change
-Subject/scene gradually gets farther or closer in the series of images
Putting three together
- Taking photos of similar subjects but are individualized using detail. (People, putting different legs body and head together)
Emotion
-Happy, angry, sad, frightened, excited
State change
-Fireworks launching, to exploding, to fading
-Ice cube, to water, to nothing
Music
-Different styles of music (guitar, saxaphone, Piano)
-Different ways of playing music (walkman, cassette, record, phone) or Evolution of music within those platforms
Select and Develop Best Solution
I would like to attempt to present a subject at different states or show different parts of a subject in action.
With each image, the subject will change in structure or in form. I specifically want to shoot an egg shot normally, falling, and finally smashed. I also want to try shooting individual parts of spray paint. (hand on nozzle, spray, dissolving). With the middle section I would like to have multiple colors of spray paint seemingly coming from the single can.
The second solution I would like to try is the evolution of music taking pictures of a range of old music players (walkman, cassette) to new music players (air pods, electric record players)
The older music should be darker lighting maybe unraveled and worn down looking while the new ones pop. The middle one can have faded color to transition the triptych from each photo. This shows how the older music has been forgotten.
Test and Evaluate
My original plan for this triptych was to have color gradually being added from black and white in each image to show an evolution. In the image below, it shows my attempt at this. However, I believed this did not look appealing and added color adjustments to all images. I do believe the composition of the first photo of the destroyed cassette expresses the message well as it contrasts with the nicely setup up record player.
My spray paint triptych shoot came up with good photos to work with. However when forming the middle photo, the multiple lines of spray paint were not shown as coming from one angle like I had planned. The cans did start to fade so more shots began to look worse.
To solve this problem, I used Photoshop to individually select, copy, and paste each beginning line of paint and move it to come out of the nozzle. I also added heavy saturation and color burning to to the paint to create a vibrant result.
