Mass as a photo, what a statement. Mass is many things, we’re learning about it in physics class. Everything has mass, but not everything has weight. Weight is a product of mass and gravity. Anyways, getting off topic here. With the concept of mass, I knew instantly what I had to take a photo of. The most massive thing I can imagine, space. We are floating in its beauty. But not just space, the second most massive object in our solar system besides the sun, is Jupiter. I like to consider it, Earths older brother, protecting us from stray asteroids and anything other bodies in space that seek to do us harm. The brightest object in the night sky, up at the top left of the photo. By taking something as big as Jupiter but showing it as small as that,. Its a beautiful statement about the relativity of size, being about perspective, I’m taking something impossibly big, but showing it as impossibly small.
Taking the photo was fun but cold, I put a tripod in the middle of the road, and messed around a lot with shutter speed and aperture. Eventually I found this beauty, now in trying to take a photo of Jupiter, I also taking a photo (on the right) of the constellation Pisces. Which, funny enough, is my star sign. I was born in march. You cannot show massiveness in a photograph, without having a conversation about what defines it. Jupiter is small compared to the sun, but massive compared to the earth, or me. So mass in a photograph can only be shown through relationships. So much of how we understand something is based on our relationship to it, its about perspective. If we try to comprehend something massive, its best to understand anything is massive or miniscule compared to what its put against. Jupiter is still very small compared to the mass of the sun.