Photographers Project
Photographer Inspiration
People Inspiration
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David Ryle
Narrative and Sequence Inspiration
Assemblage Inspiraton
Todd Mclellan
I really like both of these pictures, it's really satisfying to see things well organised to me and it also interesting seeing all the details of every day objects which you won't usually think about in so much detail. Especially on the left image, I like how the really small components are organised out.
I really like both of these pictures, it's really satisfying to see things well organised to me and it also interesting seeing all the details of every day objects which you won't usually think about in so much detail. Especially on the left image, I like how the really small components are organised out.
Marco UgoliniIi
Similar to Todd Mclellan, I like how the objects are organised. It's also really satisfying to look at which means the audience will be more interested in his work. I also like how all the colours are bold which makes the individual photos stand out. Due to the different shades you can work out what the individual pictures are which give each photo individuality.
Similar to Todd Mclellan, I like how the objects are organised. It's also really satisfying to look at which means the audience will be more interested in his work. I also like how all the colours are bold which makes the individual photos stand out. Due to the different shades you can work out what the individual pictures are which give each photo individuality.
Environment Inspiration
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Allen Klosowski
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Documentary Inspiration
Don McCullin
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Bruce Davidson
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Portraiture: Framing The Subject
You can make the photo look more interesting from the way you frame the subject. Here are some examples.
Portraiture: Depth Of Field
The lower the f/stop—the larger the opening in the lens—the less depth of field—the blurrier the background.
The higher the f/stop—the smaller the opening in the lens—the greater the depth of field—the sharper the background.
The lower the f/stop—the larger the opening in the lens—the less depth of field—the blurrier the background.
The higher the f/stop—the smaller the opening in the lens—the greater the depth of field—the sharper the background.
Portraiture: Panning
The shutter speed was 1/50 and the aperture was f/5.6.
We created the panning effect by using a long shutter speed and following the subject with the camera as they moved across the room. I found it worked better when the camera was very steady and the person running ran as fast as possible. This meant the background was more blurred.
We created the panning effect by using a long shutter speed and following the subject with the camera as they moved across the room. I found it worked better when the camera was very steady and the person running ran as fast as possible. This meant the background was more blurred.
Landscape: Rule Of Thirds
By placing the subject on one of the horizontal, vertical lines or when the lines touch (the red dots) the image looks more aesthetically pleasing.
As soon below.
As soon below.
Rule Of Thirds Homework
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The photos on the left side are using the rule of thirds and the photos on the right side are not using the rule of thirds.
The photos on the left side are using the rule of thirds and the photos on the right side are not using the rule of thirds.
Landscape: Extreme Perspective
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Documentary
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Halfterm Homework
I visited the Ben Brown Fine Arts gallery to see the exhibition: Chen Wei - Slumber Song. Here are the two photos which I felt most inspired by.
Chen Wei lives in Bejing, his work represents life in China. He uses photography as a way to show human encounters in China, he presents the political and social situation in an interesting, artistic way and focuses on freedom and one's place in the Chinese society. He creates elaborate scenes which interest the audience, while showing a message at the same time.
The exhibition itself was in a small room with only 16 photographs. The photos were hung up on a plain white wall, this meant that the audience focused on the art a lot more. They were printed very high quality and quite large which meant you could really see the details of each image. The high quality of the photographs emphasised the the images and the detail shown and affected how you interpreted the photographs.
Chen Wei lives in Bejing, his work represents life in China. He uses photography as a way to show human encounters in China, he presents the political and social situation in an interesting, artistic way and focuses on freedom and one's place in the Chinese society. He creates elaborate scenes which interest the audience, while showing a message at the same time.
The exhibition itself was in a small room with only 16 photographs. The photos were hung up on a plain white wall, this meant that the audience focused on the art a lot more. They were printed very high quality and quite large which meant you could really see the details of each image. The high quality of the photographs emphasised the the images and the detail shown and affected how you interpreted the photographs.
This scene was laid out very carefully, there is a strong contrast between the instruments, which show happiness, and the barred wire and walls, which are old, plain and unsettling. This makes the audience feel anxious and alone. The room is very small and almost cage-like, this makes the audience feel claustrophobic which adds to the anxiety. However even though the image makes you feel anxious and sad, it is still aesthetically pleasing and nice to look at, due to the careful laying out of the objects.
One interpretation of this is that it relates to the current political situation in China. The instruments could be used to create joy, however they're not being used and they're becoming old and disused, the barred wire stops the instruments being used and makes the whole image quite sad. This is like how there are lots of laws (the barred wire) stopping people (instruments) from doing things in China.
One interpretation of this is that it relates to the current political situation in China. The instruments could be used to create joy, however they're not being used and they're becoming old and disused, the barred wire stops the instruments being used and makes the whole image quite sad. This is like how there are lots of laws (the barred wire) stopping people (instruments) from doing things in China.
This image shows an old statue of a boy in a pool. He is holding coins and there are coins in the water and on his head and in his hands. This image can be interpreted in different ways but I think it shows the relationship between humans are their discarded objects. Another interpretation might be about the way the boy looks like he is begging and is collecting the coins.
This image can also be interpreted to show the large divide between rich and poor in China. The young boy looks poor and is begging, this represents the lower classes. He is having money thrown at him by richer people, who can just throw money away, the richer people think they are helping the poorer boy, however most of their money doesn't actually help him because only some lands in his hand. This relates to how richer people in China can easily throw money away and they think they are helping the poor when in fact only a fraction of the money they give lands in the lower classes' hands.
This image can also be interpreted to show the large divide between rich and poor in China. The young boy looks poor and is begging, this represents the lower classes. He is having money thrown at him by richer people, who can just throw money away, the richer people think they are helping the poorer boy, however most of their money doesn't actually help him because only some lands in his hand. This relates to how richer people in China can easily throw money away and they think they are helping the poor when in fact only a fraction of the money they give lands in the lower classes' hands.
Narrative and Sequence: Cindy Sherman
Task 1: Choose three of her images and analyse them.
Homework - My Interpretation
For my homework I recreated a film still from "Breakfast At Tiffany's".
For my homework I recreated a film still from "Breakfast At Tiffany's".
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I put my photograph in black and white so it looked more like the original.
I put my photograph in black and white so it looked more like the original.
Environment: Allen Klosowski
Some of his work which I was inspired by:
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Environment: Colin Winterbottom
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We also looked at David Ryle.
Final Piece
Brainstorm
I looked at Annie Leibovitz, Tim Walker, Dina Goldstein and Laura Makabresku's work and wrote down some key ideas from their work.
I looked at Annie Leibovitz, Tim Walker, Dina Goldstein and Laura Makabresku's work and wrote down some key ideas from their work.
Tim Walker
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Dina Goldstein
First Response - Tim Walker
I was very inspired by Tim Walker's Mechanical Dolls series. I liked the idea of having a real person dress up as a doll.
I was very inspired by Tim Walker's Mechanical Dolls series. I liked the idea of having a real person dress up as a doll.
I was inspired by this photo of Walker's in particular and so I decided to recreate it.
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I edited the photo on Photoshop to make my friend look more like the original by darkening her hair, eyes and lips, lightening the skin, creating a cleaner background/wall, adding better shadows and adding the wind up key.
I edited the photo on Photoshop to make my friend look more like the original by darkening her hair, eyes and lips, lightening the skin, creating a cleaner background/wall, adding better shadows and adding the wind up key.
Second Response - Dina Goldstein
For my second response I was inspired by Dina Goldstein's "Fallen Princess" series. I was particularly inspired by "Belle", as below.
For my second response I was inspired by Dina Goldstein's "Fallen Princess" series. I was particularly inspired by "Belle", as below.
Due to the fact that I had no costume I found it hard to "recreate" the image, however I tried to show the plastic surgery idea and I added a cut to her eye on Photoshop to emphasise this.
Third Response - Developed Idea
For my third response I wanted to show the "ugly" truth behind fairy tales. In the original story of "Cinderella" the ugly sisters cut their toes off. This is what I recreated.
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I edited this on Photoshop to emphasise the colours and clean up the background to make the eye focus on the subject.
I edited this on Photoshop to emphasise the colours and clean up the background to make the eye focus on the subject.
Fourth Response - Final Piece
For my final piece I wanted to take inspiration from my 3 other responses. I liked the idea of showing a traditional fairy tale in a new light, however I moved away from the idea of creating a distorted fairy tale. I decided to explore the idea of scale using Alice in Wonderland. In the story Alice drinks a potion and gets smaller, then she drinks some more and gets bigger. I took photographs of a friend dressed as Alice and then used these pictures in various scenes in different sizes. I think the photographs of Alice work as part of my fairy tale series as they also mix up imagined and real worlds and show distortion and confuse the viewer.
I photographed her outside with a table set with crockery to represent the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party (photograph 4), and inside to show her in a room like in the story (photograph 3). I took additional photographs of Alice in various positions so that I could superimpose these on some of my photographs using Photoshop
I also liked the idea of scaling down normal sized people into smaller people. I took inspiration from a film called "The Borrowers" which features very small people living in a normal size world. However I was manly inspired by Dina Goldstein and a photographer on flickr called Zev ( https://www.flickr.com/photos/fiddleoak/sets/ ).
Here is some of their work which particularly inspired me.
I photographed her outside with a table set with crockery to represent the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party (photograph 4), and inside to show her in a room like in the story (photograph 3). I took additional photographs of Alice in various positions so that I could superimpose these on some of my photographs using Photoshop
I also liked the idea of scaling down normal sized people into smaller people. I took inspiration from a film called "The Borrowers" which features very small people living in a normal size world. However I was manly inspired by Dina Goldstein and a photographer on flickr called Zev ( https://www.flickr.com/photos/fiddleoak/sets/ ).
Here is some of their work which particularly inspired me.
Here are my final responses.
In photographs 1 and 2 I used my dolls house as the background to create a sense of scale, to show how small "Alice" was. To create the small people I removed the background from the original picture using the magnetic lasso tool, then I moved the person onto the photo of the background and created a shadow to make it look more realistic. I also used levels to adjust the colours and lighting to make it the Alice layer/s look more realistic against the background.
In photographs 1 and 2 I used my dolls house as the background to create a sense of scale, to show how small "Alice" was. To create the small people I removed the background from the original picture using the magnetic lasso tool, then I moved the person onto the photo of the background and created a shadow to make it look more realistic. I also used levels to adjust the colours and lighting to make it the Alice layer/s look more realistic against the background.
This is taken inside a dolls house, which is a scaled down version of a house and so I thought it was interesting to show the artificially miniature Alice in a real miniature setting. This allowed me to play with the idea of scale and our expectations of what size things should be. I also added shadows to make the miniature Alices look more realistic.
In photographs 3 and 4 I added the miniature Alice/s to a photography of the full sized Alice. Again, this is a reference to Alice shrinking in the story. However, using both big and small Alice in one picture reinforces the idea that she has shrunk from a larger size (and back again.)
This is also a way of investigating scale and making the viewer unsure about what size things actually should be. What is real and what is artificial?
This is also a way of investigating scale and making the viewer unsure about what size things actually should be. What is real and what is artificial?
Final Piece Conclusion.
In conclusion I think that my final piece worked out quite well, I learnt from my earlier mistakes and tried to create 4 final piece photographs which grasped the theme I decided to base my photos around (narrative and sequence) and showed what I had learnt throughout the photographer's project.
In conclusion I think that my final piece worked out quite well, I learnt from my earlier mistakes and tried to create 4 final piece photographs which grasped the theme I decided to base my photos around (narrative and sequence) and showed what I had learnt throughout the photographer's project.