evaluation
In unit one I have researched lots of photographers for inspiration for my own photographs, such as; Elliott Erwitt, Inge Morath and Lorenzo Vitturi. All of these photographers have different styles, but have all given me inspiration for developing ideas around the different themes they all explore. One photographer who helped me a lot for inspiration was Inge Morath. I first found her work when I was researching Disguise, I thought her work was really interesting and I found it really helpful. She uses paper bags with facial expressions on to cover up the face, this made me focus around disguising the face, which lead to my final pieces. Another photographer I looked into was Rene Magritte I focused on creating my own set of one of his style of images, I particularly took an interest into his painting of a picture that fits in with the landscape outside. I then created my own set of his styled pictures trying to create it in an abstract way.
I investigated three personal projects; Mobile Photography, Street Photography and Disguise. I started off mobile photography by taking a set of images around school and on the streets using an IPod. By taking pictures using an IPod or a mobile I found it a lot easier to take out with me and more useful. A camera isn't always the best option into taking photographs out on the street, even though an amazing camera might have the best camera quality a mobile is lighter and is more hand to have on you if you want to quickly take a picture. However mobiles also have lots of apps available to use with different lens's as well as, different filters able to be put onto the photograph. By doing this it can make the picture more appealing or interesting. But by adding different filters or types lens effects, it can sometimes ruin a picture as well or make it look amazing.
For street photography I studied a photographer called Elliott Erwitt. Elliott Erwitt is a well known street photographer, he takes unusual photos including animals, but mainly dogs. When using dogs in his work, what Erwitt really focuses on, is the angle at which the camera is focused at, although he also focuses on every day things. Most street photographers use a camera called Liek, they use it because it makes a very quiet sound when its being used. This is useful because if they are taking pictures of people in the street, they don't want people noticing and moving out of the frame, or drawing attention to themselves. Street photographers are usually balletic and patient this is important because they capture a picture in the moment, but they don't create a false image for example making people stand in a specific position. By taking pictures on the streets that many people don't take any notice of, so it allows people to see the hectic street life but only in a picture. Lots of photographers are interested in different subjects, for example crime. However there is also a danger for street photographers if they are photographing gangsters or gangs who have weapons on them. This puts the photographer at risk of getting harmed, but some photographers grow bonds with the gangsters or gangs, so they know they wont be put at risk around them. Not only gangsters could react badly, some people could have a bad reaction to having their picture taken, which is difficult if they take the majority of their pictures on the street.
From street photography I have learned that diagonal lines and the rules of three really help a photographer split up their photographs like a main focus, for example a picture of a building and then the extra space of the sky around it, which is also known as the negative space.
Finally, for our last personal projects I picked the theme Disguise. I think this was the most enjoyable out of the other two personal projects. This is because there was a huge variety of things I could do for this theme. I could pick anything or any object and make it unrecognisable. Another reason why I really liked it, was because I felt like I had the most independence and freedom on creating my final pieces and the lead up to it. I used pinterest to help me get some inspiration, from the very beginning of the task I knew what types of final pieces I wanted to create. I wanted to create photos where an animal face would replace a humans, on their body. I liked being able to include the natural world into my photographs with the animals as well as, other sets of images including nature. However at the beginning of the task I didn't really consider different techniques I could use to create disguised images, so I just mainly took pictures on an ipod using the app Andigraph, and taking pictures with different objects covering up parts of the human body. After I took a few set of images I then decided to think of more complex ways to create different images. That's when I thought of using photoshop. For my first final outcome I had a lot of help from Mr Nicholls, learning what tools to use to make the animal face life like on the human body. I learnt how to adjust the face into the same shape size, change the colour tones, and create a more 3D affect, to make it seem more realistic. Overall I created 3 final pieces, not only do I think the final pieces were successful but I think this was the most successful personal project I have done.
Throughout the whole unit one I have experimented with a wide range of materials, techniques and processes. They include: Light painting, cyanotypes, photograms, rayographs, camera obscura, pinhole camera, strobe lighting, DSLR and IPod's. Out of all of these I really enjoyed experimenting with the strobe lighting, the reason I liked it so much is because, I had never tried creating any pictures like that. A strobe light is a piece of equipment that shines flashes of light at a series of different speeds constantly, which captures multiple images, from a long camera exposure. I thought this technique was really interesting and I really liked the outcomes of the sets of images my group took. Another technique I liked creating photographs with, was making photograms. I enjoyed it so much I used this technique in my mock, around the theme the natural world. I decided to create some photograms in my mock because I thought it was a more interesting process of making images, then taking pictures on DSLR's or IPod's and putting them in black and white.
I investigated three personal projects; Mobile Photography, Street Photography and Disguise. I started off mobile photography by taking a set of images around school and on the streets using an IPod. By taking pictures using an IPod or a mobile I found it a lot easier to take out with me and more useful. A camera isn't always the best option into taking photographs out on the street, even though an amazing camera might have the best camera quality a mobile is lighter and is more hand to have on you if you want to quickly take a picture. However mobiles also have lots of apps available to use with different lens's as well as, different filters able to be put onto the photograph. By doing this it can make the picture more appealing or interesting. But by adding different filters or types lens effects, it can sometimes ruin a picture as well or make it look amazing.
For street photography I studied a photographer called Elliott Erwitt. Elliott Erwitt is a well known street photographer, he takes unusual photos including animals, but mainly dogs. When using dogs in his work, what Erwitt really focuses on, is the angle at which the camera is focused at, although he also focuses on every day things. Most street photographers use a camera called Liek, they use it because it makes a very quiet sound when its being used. This is useful because if they are taking pictures of people in the street, they don't want people noticing and moving out of the frame, or drawing attention to themselves. Street photographers are usually balletic and patient this is important because they capture a picture in the moment, but they don't create a false image for example making people stand in a specific position. By taking pictures on the streets that many people don't take any notice of, so it allows people to see the hectic street life but only in a picture. Lots of photographers are interested in different subjects, for example crime. However there is also a danger for street photographers if they are photographing gangsters or gangs who have weapons on them. This puts the photographer at risk of getting harmed, but some photographers grow bonds with the gangsters or gangs, so they know they wont be put at risk around them. Not only gangsters could react badly, some people could have a bad reaction to having their picture taken, which is difficult if they take the majority of their pictures on the street.
From street photography I have learned that diagonal lines and the rules of three really help a photographer split up their photographs like a main focus, for example a picture of a building and then the extra space of the sky around it, which is also known as the negative space.
Finally, for our last personal projects I picked the theme Disguise. I think this was the most enjoyable out of the other two personal projects. This is because there was a huge variety of things I could do for this theme. I could pick anything or any object and make it unrecognisable. Another reason why I really liked it, was because I felt like I had the most independence and freedom on creating my final pieces and the lead up to it. I used pinterest to help me get some inspiration, from the very beginning of the task I knew what types of final pieces I wanted to create. I wanted to create photos where an animal face would replace a humans, on their body. I liked being able to include the natural world into my photographs with the animals as well as, other sets of images including nature. However at the beginning of the task I didn't really consider different techniques I could use to create disguised images, so I just mainly took pictures on an ipod using the app Andigraph, and taking pictures with different objects covering up parts of the human body. After I took a few set of images I then decided to think of more complex ways to create different images. That's when I thought of using photoshop. For my first final outcome I had a lot of help from Mr Nicholls, learning what tools to use to make the animal face life like on the human body. I learnt how to adjust the face into the same shape size, change the colour tones, and create a more 3D affect, to make it seem more realistic. Overall I created 3 final pieces, not only do I think the final pieces were successful but I think this was the most successful personal project I have done.
Throughout the whole unit one I have experimented with a wide range of materials, techniques and processes. They include: Light painting, cyanotypes, photograms, rayographs, camera obscura, pinhole camera, strobe lighting, DSLR and IPod's. Out of all of these I really enjoyed experimenting with the strobe lighting, the reason I liked it so much is because, I had never tried creating any pictures like that. A strobe light is a piece of equipment that shines flashes of light at a series of different speeds constantly, which captures multiple images, from a long camera exposure. I thought this technique was really interesting and I really liked the outcomes of the sets of images my group took. Another technique I liked creating photographs with, was making photograms. I enjoyed it so much I used this technique in my mock, around the theme the natural world. I decided to create some photograms in my mock because I thought it was a more interesting process of making images, then taking pictures on DSLR's or IPod's and putting them in black and white.