TARGETS
Make sure that you edit the brightness and contrast BEFORE you do any more complicated edits.
You must do what I ask in the red comments.
Screen grab complicated Photoshop techniques.
When you write about your own work (www and ebi) you need to look more closely and work out exactly what it is that you do well and what needs to be improved. At the moment you always write the same thing. The best place to start is the aims of the task. Do you meet the success criteria?
Keep on top of the analysis of other photographers- use the sentence starters to help you.
Make sure that you edit the brightness and contrast BEFORE you do any more complicated edits.
You must do what I ask in the red comments.
Screen grab complicated Photoshop techniques.
When you write about your own work (www and ebi) you need to look more closely and work out exactly what it is that you do well and what needs to be improved. At the moment you always write the same thing. The best place to start is the aims of the task. Do you meet the success criteria?
Keep on top of the analysis of other photographers- use the sentence starters to help you.
Pinterest board
My Inspirations
My first ideas
Explain the ideas
In this first set of images I wanted to show fragments by photographing reflections.
Patrick Cornillet
Patrick Cornillet is a painter that paints parts of plain buildings.Institutional bulidings like:
What I need to think about when photographing my response:
Focusing
Change the compositions
Good exposure
Well exposed and focussed
Take phots from a corner
Focusing
Change the compositions
Good exposure
Well exposed and focussed
Take phots from a corner
My Response
The editing process
Mauren Brodbeck
The buildings and car parks in Mauren Brodbeck’s photographs do not register in the thoughts of passersby. They are so unimposing that their existence seems almost doubtful. We pay so little attention to them that we can’t recall what they look like, they leave a mental blank. Mauren Brodbeck registers this secret to memory and changes it into a visual moment representing space and time.
The editing process
Best Edits
WWW:
The shapes of colour work well in the first two images. I edited the shapes well.
EBI:
The colour on the image on the right is not obvious. I could have also taken more photos to have better images to choose from.
The shapes of colour work well in the first two images. I edited the shapes well.
EBI:
The colour on the image on the right is not obvious. I could have also taken more photos to have better images to choose from.
Facades
Anatasia Saminova
Each work is made from photographs of buildings that are specific to an area. These works balance between documentary and fiction, factual and imaginary spaces, and represent an area.
My response
www
I lined up some layers
ebi
I should have taken my own phtoos
I lined up some layers
ebi
I should have taken my own phtoos
Chris Killip:A Retrospective
Chris Killip photographed people in the north of England. He wanted to document the lives of those affected by the economic downturn of the 70s and 80s. Killip lived with the communities he photographed. He saw the togetherness of communities and the industries that sustained them. He stayed with them until he witnessed their loss . He described the people in the deindustrialised north as having had history done to them.
Thompson uses his own identity and multicultural background to interrogate and re-appropriate established, predominantly white systems of reference, as a way of imagining new personal positions. Throughout his work, he creates and inhabits a range of personae through performance and what he calls ‘anti-portraits’, incorporating handcrafted costumes and carefully orchestrated poses and backdrops.
Independent Development
Simon Phipps
Simon Phipps photographs brutalist buildings. Brutalist buildings are characterised by minimalist constructions that showcase the bare building materials and structural elements over decorative design.
'My hope is that some of the architectural vision that drove the modernist architecture of London shines through the photographs in this book,' he says.
'My hope is that some of the architectural vision that drove the modernist architecture of London shines through the photographs in this book,' he says.
My response
I went to the centre of London to photograph tall buildings.
Best Edits
www
Perspective works well- the buildings look powerful.
ebi
buildings are not Brutalist.
Perspective works well- the buildings look powerful.
ebi
buildings are not Brutalist.
Stephanie Jung
Jung takes multiple exposures to show the bustle of different cities. .
My Response
I took photos of buildings in Leicester square. I chose Leicester Square because it is a busy part of London.
Best Edits
I layered my images in Photoshop to create a response to Stephanie Jung. I layered copies the image and changed the translucency so the different positions of the iamge can be seen.
The effect works well but my images were not busy enough. It was also a grey day so there is not enough contrast.
Buildings in school
I tried the same technique in school where the buildings are smaller. I wondered what the different effect would be.
Development 3
The development in school did not work. The buildings were boring so I went back into the West End of London to try busier areas with more people .
Best Edit
Pep Ventosa
Pep Ventosa plays with the perception of reality, He transforms and changes the image by layering different photographs of the same object. He explains, "why not create something that doesn't exist to the naked eye?"
Trees
I don't want to take pictures of buildings anymore so I moved on taking pictures of natural objects like Ventosa. So I photographed trees around the school.
I chose these photos because the trees are clearly defined. The imaged in the right is better because there are no buildings.
I edited these in the style of Pep Ventosa. This links to his work of everyday places.
Flowers
To develop my project further I am going to photograph flowers like Pep Ventosa. However, instead of layering the same / similar photos, I am going to photograph the flowers as they decay then layer them at the end.
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Edits
In these edits I layered the photos, changing the opacity so the different stages could be seen. The one on the left has the older ones near the top and the one on the right has the fresher pictures on top.