Photograph of a Real Fly

Derek Rankins

Photograph of a Real Fly presents the process of Versions and Variations and the mechanics of photography through expanding and contracting elements. Beginning with a single photograph of a fly, I then edited the resulting images a total of 800 times.  The versioning that happens in my photographic work is the pre through post processing of image making. Making decisions before, during, and after photographing my subjects and with the delivery of the images and the interactions of the images with my users. My website Photograph of a Real Fly shows this process.  It uses an entire website to show the different images and different ways of viewing them. I do this by using different image galleries and slideshows and a variety of viewing options and differing combinations of images and iterations.

Versioning

Versioning is synonymous with the software industry and relates to the release of different phases of software.  As the software gets updated or new things get added to it a company will release the new version.  The result being different models of the same product.

Iterations

Iterations is the repetition of a process.  Repeating something over and over.  Similar to versioning and software.  It is often used in modeling such things by repeating a process and approach to something to yield certain results in order to validate its accuracy.