Ref: Atkinson, N. (2007). True or False (Color): The Art of Extraterrestrial Photography. Available: http://www.universetoday.com/11863/true-or-false-color-the-art-of-extraterrestrial-photography/. Last accessed 30th Oct 2015.
Image Ref: "The Earth as Art: Satellite Images of Our Planet from Orbit"
URL: http://world.time.com/timelapse/
Due to the colours within my practice images not translating on camera as vibrantly as I would have liked, I felt it was important to look at other methods of capturing the tones of the earth within my final images. From my research into the natural colour patterns of varying landscapes my previous attempt to recreate those tones through makeup had fallen flat, as a result I took the makeup back to a natural palette and instead am using my model as a human representation of the earths different textures. This therefore leaves my use of colour to more abstract methods, for example lighting. From my previous research it became apparent that many of the colours seen within landscape photography are a result of changing light (often taken as dusk or dawn) therefore to recreate this effect more elaborately I feel it would be beneficial to use coloured lighting for a similar effect. Despite this I also want to take a more biological science based approach to this project and show the changes in elemental behaviours through the use of colour association. As a result I will research into false colour and the processes of thermal technology to demonstrate how colour can be further used to express changes in the organic environment. Despite its scientific base my concept remains organic in nature through the use of products to recreate landscape textures and its connection to the biological sciences.
Satellite imagery is a further exploration of how colour and texture is depicted within the earths natural landscaping, through its images satellite photography constructs a more abstract interpretation of the surroundings that are familiar to us from a first had perspective. By taking a familiar landscape and recording it through the use of satellite technology, the familiar textures and tones that we are accustom to on eye level become dramatically altered. Atkinson discussed how within modern science images of earth are collected through the use of satellite imagery/photography, often these images are documented by the government and spread out to through public access sites such as Google Maps and NASA. Biological science often then use these images for the purpose of monitoring meteorology behaviours, biodiversity, weather patterns and conservation. Often satellite photography is taken through the process of false colour. This is done predominantly as a result of atmospheric interference that renders true colour images unreadable. False colour involves the process of taking colours non visible to the human eye on the electromagnetic spectrum and making them visible. Infrared and green spectral bands are two examples of this occurrence as they are commonly unseen by human eyes, only becoming noticeable through processes such as x-ray and ultraviolet light. So what is the reason for this? The human eye is split into three spectral bands known as the "trichromancy", these same bands are what are combined it the creation of false colour. Traditionally we see through the bands of RGB (red, green and blue) and follows a map of RGB→RGB, false colour on a basic scale resets this path to GBR→RGB. HOWEVER in regards to satellite imagery the infrared spectrum is introduced and therefor the path for false colour translates to NRG→RGB. Infrared reads traditionally as NRG. The blue band is removed from the equation and replaced with infrared (N), as a result the areas of the earth with vegetation appear red on satellite imagery when the blue band is left unused.
Satellite imagery is a further exploration of how colour and texture is depicted within the earths natural landscaping, through its images satellite photography constructs a more abstract interpretation of the surroundings that are familiar to us from a first had perspective. By taking a familiar landscape and recording it through the use of satellite technology, the familiar textures and tones that we are accustom to on eye level become dramatically altered. Atkinson discussed how within modern science images of earth are collected through the use of satellite imagery/photography, often these images are documented by the government and spread out to through public access sites such as Google Maps and NASA. Biological science often then use these images for the purpose of monitoring meteorology behaviours, biodiversity, weather patterns and conservation. Often satellite photography is taken through the process of false colour. This is done predominantly as a result of atmospheric interference that renders true colour images unreadable. False colour involves the process of taking colours non visible to the human eye on the electromagnetic spectrum and making them visible. Infrared and green spectral bands are two examples of this occurrence as they are commonly unseen by human eyes, only becoming noticeable through processes such as x-ray and ultraviolet light. So what is the reason for this? The human eye is split into three spectral bands known as the "trichromancy", these same bands are what are combined it the creation of false colour. Traditionally we see through the bands of RGB (red, green and blue) and follows a map of RGB→RGB, false colour on a basic scale resets this path to GBR→RGB. HOWEVER in regards to satellite imagery the infrared spectrum is introduced and therefor the path for false colour translates to NRG→RGB. Infrared reads traditionally as NRG. The blue band is removed from the equation and replaced with infrared (N), as a result the areas of the earth with vegetation appear red on satellite imagery when the blue band is left unused.
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