I am involved in a project for school wherin 15 frames I am to capture the journey of noise from quiet to loud. As a constant I am including one person in each photo (perhaps interacting with or reacting to the sound). Most of the pictures will be transition shots between quiet and loud but to various degrees of course. These are the only criteria and they have been set for me by myself so creative freedom is infinite. Please give me some advice, tips, or URL's that may help me to create the most effective images possible.

Thanks a lot, JJ

-- JJ (jaboor@mciworld.com), November 27, 1999

Answers

Try starting it out with that one person on a creekbank fishing way out in the country in early spring, because later in the summer, the crickets, ciccaddas, frogs, whippoorwills, bobwhites, carry on too much.

-- John L. Blue (bluescreek@hotmail.com), November 27, 1999.

Did your teacher define "noise". If you take the tack that noise is the chaotic elements in any sound (or image), an increase of noise (loudness) would be a degrading of the perception of the sound, or image. So, and increase of noise could be shown with a shift in focus, exposure, double, triple... multiple exposures, color shifts.. whatever. Good luck.

-- chuck k (kleesattel@webtv.com), November 28, 1999.

Sound waves go out from their source like ripples in a pond. You might be able to photograph ripples by tossing a stone in the pond, then overlaying the ripple photo on the "noise" photo in a suitable location. If this weren't a B&W area, and if you were doing color, and if you had a taste for the macabre, I'd suggest some catsup running from the ears of the subject in the "loud" photo, but since I can't, I won't...

-- Conrad Hoffman (choffman@rpa.net), November 28, 1999.

Actually, for B&W blood, use chocolate sauce. That's what Hitchcock used in Psycho.

-- O.M. Jenkins (omjenkins@yahoo.com), November 29, 1999.