After our final critique of the Typology machine project, I was contemplating how I could have delivered the concept in a more efficient and direct way. Some of the feedback mentioned how the 3d captures were not as clear and the details that I wanted to show were not present. Therefore, I wanted to attempt the project again in a different light. (no pun intended…)
I have a lot of shoes at home, around 10. Some are more worn out than others. Some I wear more often than the special-occasion ones. I simply wanted to photograph them with different lights. Original image, image with only diffused light, image with only specular light and image with UV light.
I was more considerate of the presentation of the typology this time. I initially tried to mask out the shoe but I decided to keep it with the background. I wanted a sense of environment that would be absent if I were to mask it out of context.
For the layout of the images, I took inspiration from paper dice templates–how cardboard boxes look when taken apart. I thought it would be interesting because the concept is that the shoes were photographed inside the shoe box.
When you first click on the pages it takes some loading time but without any action the images will slowly change from one state to another.
What I find interesting about this set of typology is that for the leather shoes (shoe2) it is almost pitch black with no details for the diffused light and uv light images but for the specular it almost replicates the figure of the original image. Through the changes we can see how the material completely bounces off the light. In comparison to the slippers (shoe1), which you can hardly make out the lines of the shoe in the specular light image.