So the two ideas I came down to was eco tragedies and planetary environments. After many internal debates, I decided to settle on planetary ideas. I do plan on continuing my work to do eco tragedies, but I feel those environments are more complicated and take more time to set up than the planetary ones. So to be able to have one environment finish for the end of the semester, I believe time constraint wise planetary environment was the correct choice while eco tragedies can be done next semester. I have passion for both ideas, so I figured doing the planetary one was a good one to start out initially since it seems a little less complicated than the eco tragedies. I hope in the long run I can do a series of all the planets, then focus on earth with the eco tragedies.
For the first photo series, I plan on doing Mars. There's been plenty of documentation on Mars of course and we do know what it looks like and I think it would be a great way to start out as to get the process down for this photographing technique. I can easily make canyons out of red dirt and test some atmospheric effects in the tank as well with some color gels on lights and fog in water.
Once I get that series down and more comfortable with the technique, I plan on doing either Neptune's or Jupiter's surface (hopefully both if time allows!) for the end of this semester. Both planets are very similar in terms of surfaces, both planets have a rocky core with a very gaseous atmosphere. Jupiter is made up of rocky core and the main bulk of Jupiter consists liquid metallic hydrogen. There is 90% of hydrogen and only 10% of helium on the Jupiter. Neptune is also made up of rock and ice but there is nearly 15% of hydrogen in its atmosphere. Both planets have little rocky core and is mostly gaseous. Since they are gaseous, I figure for these planets it would be great to get the underwater smokey effect, which would also this series would make a great candidate for video. The materials would consists of water, gaseous liquid looking effect, possible electric bolts, dye, clouds, lights, boards and rocky material.
Space
I needed a dark space close to a sink where I could siphon water in and out of the aquarium without having to move it around. I figured one of the old dark rooms on the 4th floor was the perfect space that I could use. I talked to Bill to see if it was ok that I used one of the rooms for this project, and he gave the approval for one of the color darkrooms for this semester! So the next week or two I will be cleaning out one of the color darkrooms and set up my project space. Monday night I will be doing a liquid test with the old aquarium I have to make sure it can hold liquid, then I'll be setting that up in the space if it pass hopefully end of the week. I'll be spending this week gathering supplies for the Mars series, and start doing some smokey FX tests in the meantime.
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