Photography during Covid 19:
An ongoing global pandemic:
Over the course of 5-6 months, having to work under the influence of a global pandemic has been challenging; Everything has changed drastically, and the circumstances are unusual.
The circumstances in school are also strange, having to distance with everyone and being limited to the equipment is a disadvantage with the course. Although we was being set work and tasks over the period of lockdown, it was still unusual doing them in a different environment.
Not being able to have full access to the resources we have access to at school was difficult, and sometimes challenging to make do with.
The phrase 'make do', the new topic we're now focusing on. Suggests to me this topic could be us putting things together with what we can; for example other photographers work. Or however what we are given, such as tool wise and experimenting with different objects .
The 'Mending' part of the new course could be us experimenting with ripped up or teared pieces or different work using what we have available, and 'mending' it into something of our creation on from our own, original ideas.
The circumstances in school are also strange, having to distance with everyone and being limited to the equipment is a disadvantage with the course. Although we was being set work and tasks over the period of lockdown, it was still unusual doing them in a different environment.
Not being able to have full access to the resources we have access to at school was difficult, and sometimes challenging to make do with.
The phrase 'make do', the new topic we're now focusing on. Suggests to me this topic could be us putting things together with what we can; for example other photographers work. Or however what we are given, such as tool wise and experimenting with different objects .
The 'Mending' part of the new course could be us experimenting with ripped up or teared pieces or different work using what we have available, and 'mending' it into something of our creation on from our own, original ideas.
Evaluation :
Over the course of this lesson, we were given a series of old photos, some different materials, cut up photos and scissors to experiment with. We were asked to lay-out all of those how we wanted, to think carefully and strategically with what we wanted to do with the pictures. After playing around with some ideas we then had to photograph what we had done. Personally for me i wanted to make the photos a little different; for this i downloaded an app on my phone that allows me to take photos with a filter on. Hence why the pictures don't look how they normally would when taking a photo. After we were happy with our photos we wanted and analysed a split screen video created by an artist. After watching and talking about what we found interesting; like the colours in the video and how it was always evolving and changing, and what we found quite distracting; for example the sounds in the background and the many many changes. We were asked to make our own videos, using a couple of A3 pictures to re-make our own version.
Hannah Hoch:
As this weeks home-learning we were asked to research a photographer called Hannah Hoch, and make a collage inspired by her image and photography . Hannah hoch was a rare female practicing in the arts in the early 20th Century. She promoted the idea of women working creatively more in society. Hannah also addressed in her pioneering artwork in the form of photomontage the issue of gender, and the figure of woman in modern society.As well as this, she has a visual element of others by integrating them into her own larger creative projects evidenced a well-developed example of appropriation as an artistic technique. She transformed her experience of working with textiles and mass media images for a commercial on women's magazines with a gender- bending feminists slant. Hoch was key progenitor of self-conscious practice of collaging diverse photographic elements from different sources. Se involved preveailing society in work. Futhermore, she challenged the status of women in the social world. Here are a few examples of Hannah's amazing work she has created.
I have always tried to explore the photography. I use it like colours, or as the poet sues the word" - Hannah Hoch
Hannah Hoch inspired collage:
Below are a few examples of my experiments whilst doing the Hannah Hoch research. After looking at some of her work and researching her as an artist; we we're asked to create our own idea of Hannah's images. My idea for this was to cut up old pictures i had found round the house. As the first picture below was a photo of a few friends from years back, i thought it would be interesting to cut our faces on half, and then swap then with one another and played around with the faces. In the second one i decided to use two completely different photos and also play around with them. The top half was actually a picture i had taken during school not that long ago. So i decided to cut the picture off from our shoulders and keep the top part of our bodies. The bottom half however was also an old picture. I thought it would be interesting to put together a newly photo as the top half, and older photo as the bottom half where the legs are. Below are an example of how it turned out.
Collages:
As part of the make do and mend project, for a few weeks we have focused on using one specific picture and was given tools to work with and improvised with the pictures so see what we could do. The pictures ranged from all types of ethnicity and race. For example we had an elderly coloured lady with her head held up high, and another one was 2 Indian men who were dressed in clothes that related to their culture. We were allowed to cut out or cut out the picture and move the pieces around. After cutting along with everything else, we picked from either 2 pictures for a background, One picture was a close up two hands interlocked with one another, and another was a yellow background, with an orange like stripe going through it from the bottom corner of the page.
This image here is the original photo i used for my piece, It's from an artist called Franklyn Rodgers who decided to photograph his mother, Loretta Rodgers.
I began to develop the photograph by scalping out the markings of the flowers from her blue shirt.
After i decided to highlight the lines on Loretta's head by putting sharp, deep lines through the natural lines on her forehead.
After i took and cut out the triangle sharp lines below the corners of her lips. Following this, i also cut out the dark lines under her eyes, leaving cylinder like white gaps below her eyes.
I decided to keep the main parts of the photo and the things that stand out the most.
For example i believed her eyes were sharp, and looked as though they could tell a story. I also kept the posture of her head, as thought it could be a represent that she is a proud, confident coloured lady.
I began to develop the photograph by scalping out the markings of the flowers from her blue shirt.
After i decided to highlight the lines on Loretta's head by putting sharp, deep lines through the natural lines on her forehead.
After i took and cut out the triangle sharp lines below the corners of her lips. Following this, i also cut out the dark lines under her eyes, leaving cylinder like white gaps below her eyes.
I decided to keep the main parts of the photo and the things that stand out the most.
For example i believed her eyes were sharp, and looked as though they could tell a story. I also kept the posture of her head, as thought it could be a represent that she is a proud, confident coloured lady.
independent learning:
Loretta Rodgers by Franklyn Rodgers:
Franklyn Roberts:
Born in 1963
London, UK
Franklyn Rodgers took this portrait of his mother, Loretta Rodgers in 2006. He used a large-format camera as it shows the begging of the his long term community history, entitled ' The Elders'; who was involved with Simon Rowe. It paid homage to 'the Windrush generation'. Who settled in Britain from the Caribbean during the late 1940's and 1950's; which makes an important contribution to social regeneration and the shaping of a new national identity in post-war Britain. The term ' Windrush generation' refers to them men as women who were on board the ship SS Empire Windrush, that arrived that London's Tilbury Docks on 22 June 1948 from Jamaica.
Born in 1963
London, UK
Franklyn Rodgers took this portrait of his mother, Loretta Rodgers in 2006. He used a large-format camera as it shows the begging of the his long term community history, entitled ' The Elders'; who was involved with Simon Rowe. It paid homage to 'the Windrush generation'. Who settled in Britain from the Caribbean during the late 1940's and 1950's; which makes an important contribution to social regeneration and the shaping of a new national identity in post-war Britain. The term ' Windrush generation' refers to them men as women who were on board the ship SS Empire Windrush, that arrived that London's Tilbury Docks on 22 June 1948 from Jamaica.
Marcel Duchamp:
The 'Readymade'
The painting of Mona Lisa had an unidentified image of a woman positioned in the centre of the image. The background looks as though it's filled with mountains and a variety of different sixed hills.
As they also described her smile as a 'half-smile'.
Duchamp's work however was so popular as it hadn't been been done before, and it was a sense of mockery of the photo. Adding facial features could go with the sense of 'mocking' the picture.
He changed the background, colour, added a headscarf to he head. From the term 'readymade' it tells me that Duchamp used a photo that had already been painted and published by another artist.
It was so popular as it had not been seen or done before with such a well known, famous painting as well as the people who called it mockery.
As they also described her smile as a 'half-smile'.
Duchamp's work however was so popular as it hadn't been been done before, and it was a sense of mockery of the photo. Adding facial features could go with the sense of 'mocking' the picture.
He changed the background, colour, added a headscarf to he head. From the term 'readymade' it tells me that Duchamp used a photo that had already been painted and published by another artist.
It was so popular as it had not been seen or done before with such a well known, famous painting as well as the people who called it mockery.
Photographer research:
Kensuke Koike
The process of Kensuke Koike always begins with a phase of deconstruction and ends with a collage. Having art graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice in 2004 he seemed more likely to be behind the camera.
But, after having he found photographs at an antique dealer in Milan in 2012, his path took a divergence. With a new found for vintage photographs, he's has been on the look out for black and white gems ever since. Kensuke has a sharp eye and uses his imagination to create completely original images out of the objects; where men have arms for legs and legs for arms and women lose their eyes but find themselves bestowed a cigarette.
In particular how he tears a postcard to reveal a woman with a cigarette between two fingers. The artist makes the tear, turns the paper, folds it and continues his work until reaching the cigarette. He Then assembles both parts of the sheet, and the tear turns into a stream of smoke escaping from the cigarette, creating a new image. His unusual art is fasinating, it's above all the poetry that Koike uses in his works that is the most affecting. He also takes the time to take an interest in forgotten photos, and equipped with just his hands, as it could show maybe a second life, of the figures from these images.
But, after having he found photographs at an antique dealer in Milan in 2012, his path took a divergence. With a new found for vintage photographs, he's has been on the look out for black and white gems ever since. Kensuke has a sharp eye and uses his imagination to create completely original images out of the objects; where men have arms for legs and legs for arms and women lose their eyes but find themselves bestowed a cigarette.
In particular how he tears a postcard to reveal a woman with a cigarette between two fingers. The artist makes the tear, turns the paper, folds it and continues his work until reaching the cigarette. He Then assembles both parts of the sheet, and the tear turns into a stream of smoke escaping from the cigarette, creating a new image. His unusual art is fasinating, it's above all the poetry that Koike uses in his works that is the most affecting. He also takes the time to take an interest in forgotten photos, and equipped with just his hands, as it could show maybe a second life, of the figures from these images.
Sharron Walters:
Sharon Walters is a london based artist. She creates hand assembled collages around black women. Her work encourages us to take up space and to create our own space.
Sharon also has a series called 'seeing ourselves', it explores under-representastion in many different areas. It explores identity, beauty standards as well as race through her hand assembled collages.
She creates her work through using images from magazines of women and photos from other people.
Each of her collage's are carefully constructed, as it features a black woman and is a celebration of natural afro hair and its beauty.
So often blackness is represented as 'other'. Sharon shows an alternative of empowerment. As each piece shows the right to ‘take up space’ even when you don’t see yourself in certain settings.
Since graduating with a degree in Fine Art from Central St Martins in London in 2011, she has developed her practice and continued her work with community arts organisations and museums.
Both her art practice and work in the heritage sector aims to provide platforms for those under-represented in the mainstream.
Sharon also has a series called 'seeing ourselves', it explores under-representastion in many different areas. It explores identity, beauty standards as well as race through her hand assembled collages.
She creates her work through using images from magazines of women and photos from other people.
Each of her collage's are carefully constructed, as it features a black woman and is a celebration of natural afro hair and its beauty.
So often blackness is represented as 'other'. Sharon shows an alternative of empowerment. As each piece shows the right to ‘take up space’ even when you don’t see yourself in certain settings.
Since graduating with a degree in Fine Art from Central St Martins in London in 2011, she has developed her practice and continued her work with community arts organisations and museums.
Both her art practice and work in the heritage sector aims to provide platforms for those under-represented in the mainstream.
The son of man:
By using the imagery of a modern man, along with a floating apple near the sea. The title reflects religious iconography. Which are particular types of images used by an artist for them to show any particular meanings. In the Christian faith, the phrase 'son of man' refers to Jesus. Therefore, some people view Magritte's painting as a surrealist depiction of Jesus' transfiguration. 5 things you may not know about 'The son of man':
1: The painting is a self portrait
2: It's his most famous work of art
3: The son of man is part of a series
4: It's rare to see the real painting.
5: It resembles the taste of the invisible
1: The painting is a self portrait
2: It's his most famous work of art
3: The son of man is part of a series
4: It's rare to see the real painting.
5: It resembles the taste of the invisible
Artist photography research:
During this lesson i was isolating at home so i wasn't able to use the resources everyone was able to use in school. However we were asked to research 2 photographers who's work we were interested in, and go over this research in detail. The 2 artists i chose were Ellen Gallagher and Julie Cockburn.
Artist No.1 - Ellen Gallagher:
Ellen was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and attended Oberlin College, Ohio; artist Michael Skop’s private art school Studio 70; the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has invented a saturated visual language in which overlapping patterns, motifs, and materials pulse with life.
Ellen putss narrative modes including poetry, film, music, and collage, she conveys the tensions between reality and fantasy, as well as the unsettling designations of race and nation. Some of her work involves oceanography, microscopic life, popular media, the poetics of Black vernacular language, and the formal geometries of postwar abstraction.
In her first major work piece. Her works showed the aesthetics of 1960s Minimalism to racist minstrelsy and blackface physiognomy.
Other facial features, such as eyes, tongues, and hair appear in abstract clusters throughout her work.In Watery Ecstatic, one of her work pieces, she invents complex forms that she relates to the mythical Drexciya, and places populated by the women and children who were the tragic casualties of the slave trade.
She cuts into thick paper in her own version, and the practice of carving whale bones. As well as this, she invests the afterlives of the Middle Passage with a sense of material control.
Ellen putss narrative modes including poetry, film, music, and collage, she conveys the tensions between reality and fantasy, as well as the unsettling designations of race and nation. Some of her work involves oceanography, microscopic life, popular media, the poetics of Black vernacular language, and the formal geometries of postwar abstraction.
In her first major work piece. Her works showed the aesthetics of 1960s Minimalism to racist minstrelsy and blackface physiognomy.
Other facial features, such as eyes, tongues, and hair appear in abstract clusters throughout her work.In Watery Ecstatic, one of her work pieces, she invents complex forms that she relates to the mythical Drexciya, and places populated by the women and children who were the tragic casualties of the slave trade.
She cuts into thick paper in her own version, and the practice of carving whale bones. As well as this, she invests the afterlives of the Middle Passage with a sense of material control.
Artist No.2 - Julie Cockburn
Julie Cockburn presents her photographs through cutting, embroidering and collaging. She studied at Chelsea College of Art and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, and now lives and works in London.
Julie Cockburn's work is best defined by its delicate craftsmanship and by the transformation of everyday and found objects into works of art, Through the manipulation of found items and images.
She has exhibited multiple times in the UK, Europe and the United States and her work can be found in a number of public collections, including the Yale Center for British Art and the Wellcome Collection .
Her work is not like any other photography . Julie shows variety as she works with her hands. She also uses vintage and old fashioned style images and manipulating them to produce contemporary pieces of work.
Her process involves exploring and reacting to things such as colour, pose, composition or texture in images and transforming them through embroidery, collage and painting techniques. As she has trained as a sculptor at London’s Central Saint Martins, Julie approaches each work as if working with a three-dimensional form.
Julie Cockburn's work is best defined by its delicate craftsmanship and by the transformation of everyday and found objects into works of art, Through the manipulation of found items and images.
She has exhibited multiple times in the UK, Europe and the United States and her work can be found in a number of public collections, including the Yale Center for British Art and the Wellcome Collection .
Her work is not like any other photography . Julie shows variety as she works with her hands. She also uses vintage and old fashioned style images and manipulating them to produce contemporary pieces of work.
Her process involves exploring and reacting to things such as colour, pose, composition or texture in images and transforming them through embroidery, collage and painting techniques. As she has trained as a sculptor at London’s Central Saint Martins, Julie approaches each work as if working with a three-dimensional form.
Year 11 photography making day:
Assessment:
On the 30th September we were given the opportunity to spend the whole day in photography, working on out make do and mend project.
We started the morning by cutting out a load of recources from magazines, to experiment with. We were asked to design something of our choice that we thought was interesting.
Weather it was cutting out figures, faces, foods or objects. After we had cut everything out we had to stick them onto black card, and create stands so they would stay up.
After being happy with our final piece, we had 3 options to photograph our work on black. yellow or red background, with access to small ring lights. Here is an example of my first piece:
We started the morning by cutting out a load of recources from magazines, to experiment with. We were asked to design something of our choice that we thought was interesting.
Weather it was cutting out figures, faces, foods or objects. After we had cut everything out we had to stick them onto black card, and create stands so they would stay up.
After being happy with our final piece, we had 3 options to photograph our work on black. yellow or red background, with access to small ring lights. Here is an example of my first piece:
As part of our second activity, we were asked to do the same again, however this time add an interesting A3 background to the second load of pictures we had decided to cut out. After choosing and printing the background A3, we had to mount it into A3 white card, and cut our certain areas of the picture for affect. This is my second loads of photos:
Joachim Schmid:
Joachim Schmid is an artist who works with found photography. He studied visual communication at the University of Design in Schwäbisch Gmünd and the Berlin University of the Arts between 1976 and 1981. He started his career as a freelance writer, and published Fotokritik, a subversive journal focused on photography.
As he quickly became well known as a critic against prevailing notions of art photography.
In 1987, Joachim focused on producing his own art, using found photography and public images, At that time, he had an extensive collection of images, largely found from flea markets in Berlin, from which he developed his earliest works.
Schmid’s focused on already existing images and reflects his concern with photography as a widespread social and aesthetic medium that appears in all areas of public and private life. His work has been exhibited at venues around the world, and is kept in the collections of many major international institutions.
In 2007, Photoworks and Steidl published a monograph titled Joachim Schmid: Photoworks 1982–2007, which coincided with his first retrospective at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and ArtGallery in Saratoga Springs, NY.
He has published more than 100 artist’s books, and at the end of 2009, Schmid founded the ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative.
As he quickly became well known as a critic against prevailing notions of art photography.
In 1987, Joachim focused on producing his own art, using found photography and public images, At that time, he had an extensive collection of images, largely found from flea markets in Berlin, from which he developed his earliest works.
Schmid’s focused on already existing images and reflects his concern with photography as a widespread social and aesthetic medium that appears in all areas of public and private life. His work has been exhibited at venues around the world, and is kept in the collections of many major international institutions.
In 2007, Photoworks and Steidl published a monograph titled Joachim Schmid: Photoworks 1982–2007, which coincided with his first retrospective at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and ArtGallery in Saratoga Springs, NY.
He has published more than 100 artist’s books, and at the end of 2009, Schmid founded the ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative.
Aaron Turner:
Aaron Turner is a photographer and educator who lives in Tivoli, NY and is the founder of Photographers of Color. He uses photography to convey personal stories of people of color, in two main areas of the U.S., the Arkansas and Mississippi.
Aaron also uses the view camera to create still life studies on the topics of race, history, blackness as material, and the role of the black artist. He received an MA in Visual Communication from Ohio University and an MFA in Visual Arts from the Mason Gross School of the Arts. His work has been on view at The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Czurles-Nelson Gallery at SUNY Buffalo State, James Kerney Campus Gallery at Mercer County Community College, and the MEDICI Gallery University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Aaron founded a curatorial project titled photographers of colour in 2014 to show the historical work made by artists of color working in lens-based media.
Aaron is currently developing the beginning stages of the centre of photographers of colour within the School of Art at the University of Arkansas in the form of a Research Fellowship appointment with teaching duties.
He received his M.A. from Ohio University and an M.F.A from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University and was a 2018 light work artists in residence at Syracuse University. here's a few examples of his work:
Aaron also uses the view camera to create still life studies on the topics of race, history, blackness as material, and the role of the black artist. He received an MA in Visual Communication from Ohio University and an MFA in Visual Arts from the Mason Gross School of the Arts. His work has been on view at The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Czurles-Nelson Gallery at SUNY Buffalo State, James Kerney Campus Gallery at Mercer County Community College, and the MEDICI Gallery University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Aaron founded a curatorial project titled photographers of colour in 2014 to show the historical work made by artists of color working in lens-based media.
Aaron is currently developing the beginning stages of the centre of photographers of colour within the School of Art at the University of Arkansas in the form of a Research Fellowship appointment with teaching duties.
He received his M.A. from Ohio University and an M.F.A from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University and was a 2018 light work artists in residence at Syracuse University. here's a few examples of his work:
Duane Linklater:
Duane Linklater was born in 1976. After growing up in Ontario, Canada he went on to attended the University of Alberta. In 2013 he won the Sobey art award, for Canada's most prestigious photographer. Duane proceeded within his career to publish a book, 'From our hands' with Ethel Linklater, and Tobias Linklater. By using these techniques Duane represents the phsychological and theoretical power of museums. He objects himself, his12 year old son, and his late grandmother in his work; while he's also photographed groups of beaded mittens, slippers and booties. This was Duane's way of representing the lack of critical attention, as well as respect for objects that had been been created by the amazing women of these products. In Duane's photography he's used:
-Sculpture
-Photography
-Film
-Video
-Text
-Cultral loss
-Amnesia
-Family identity
-Historical conditions
-Sculpture
-Photography
-Film
-Video
-Text
-Cultral loss
-Amnesia
-Family identity
-Historical conditions
Behind bars :
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This video was focused on photography inside the prison, it talked about background on Klavdji and his travels around the world. Including the different prisons he’s worked in.
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Nicolo' Degiorgis':
Prison Photographs:
Prison Photography is a collection of 137 shots taken by the inmates of the Penal Institution of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy during the photography course taught by the Nicolò Degiorgis between 2013 and 2017. Playing with and around the limitations imposed by the prison’s own isolation, the shots are a gateway into the world as this can be seen through the eyes of an incarcerated individual, spending its days in the shared, claustrophobic cells of a jail, in the absence of privacy, in poor hygienic conditions and far removed from the outside world. Divided into thematic chapters spanning a range of photographic techniques, the book aims to trigger a reflection on the medium of photography as much as on its ability to act as a means of escape from the monotony of life in prison. Here are a few examples of his work from the book:
I believe each one of these pictures have a different meaning, and genre to them. For example, the first one could be a representation of the pain and difficultness of the prison, showing the challenging past of this inmate, and the battle scars. The second image could be a symbolism of the freedom that has been taken from the inmates, as there locked up they have no sense of freedom, or experience of the outside world properly whilst serving their sentence. Lastly the keys could also be a representation of the loss of freedom too, where they have caged up in cells for 23 hours a day, and have no power whatsoever, as the prison guards are more of less in charge and have a higher power than all the inmates.
Genre photography treasure hunt:
During todays lesson we was asked to take a series of photographs from home. We were provided with a list of the different types of photographs we had to take. We was asked to think about the lighting, focus composition, backdrop, frame and point of view. The list consisted off:
A view out of a window
Your reflection on a shiny surface
The back of someone's head
A small object show from a low angle
The palm of someone's hand with the word ' help' on it
A smile
A cracked paving stone
A pile of clothes
The creases in a bed sheet shot from above
A close up of a phone, computer or TV screen
The spine of a book
The inside of a fridge
The sky
A part of a fork
The sole of a shoe
The ceiling of your bedroom as if your lying on the floor
A photograph of a photograph
A glass of water
Overall this task was definitely different from the tasks we have been given before. It was creative and enjoyable for me, as it allowed me to use my imagination and think hard about how i would approach the task. If i was to do this task again however, i would request that we was given a bit more time to complete it, so it's not rushed as much to fit them all in, It would also allow me to photograph to the best of ability, as there's always room for improvement.
A view out of a window
Your reflection on a shiny surface
The back of someone's head
A small object show from a low angle
The palm of someone's hand with the word ' help' on it
A smile
A cracked paving stone
A pile of clothes
The creases in a bed sheet shot from above
A close up of a phone, computer or TV screen
The spine of a book
The inside of a fridge
The sky
A part of a fork
The sole of a shoe
The ceiling of your bedroom as if your lying on the floor
A photograph of a photograph
A glass of water
Overall this task was definitely different from the tasks we have been given before. It was creative and enjoyable for me, as it allowed me to use my imagination and think hard about how i would approach the task. If i was to do this task again however, i would request that we was given a bit more time to complete it, so it's not rushed as much to fit them all in, It would also allow me to photograph to the best of ability, as there's always room for improvement.
Questions & Answers:
1: What does the word genre mean ?
A genre of something, weather it be photography, music, videos, or films; its the style of that particular area. For example genre of films may be any from: comedy, romance, action, or horror. Photography genres might be: fashion photography, sports photography, or portrait photography.
2: What are the main photography genres ?
Photography genres might be:
Fashion photography
Sports photography
Portrait photography
Still life photography
Architectural photography
3: When looking at landscape photography, what do we expect to see?
When looking at landscape photography we would expect to see something pretty incredible. Personally for me when i think about landscape photography i think about some beautiful views of nature, like mountains, sunsets, trees, and everything that comes under the genre of nature. Therefore when i look at landscape photography i expect something that full of colours.
4: Why might it be difficult for prison photographers to take landscape, portrait, and fashion photos ?
When in prison recources are limited for the inmates, therefore they may not be able to have as many opportunites if they was not locked up. They may not be able to use cameras that allow them to take landscape pictures. As well as this the fashion photography also would not be easy, as all clothes are limited, and there choices are slim.
5: During the task of taking 20 pictures, most my pictures were taken from a portrait angle, and square. If i'm being completely honest, i did not originally plan to have most of my pictures to be taken in portrait, however i am pleased with how most of them turned out. However if i was to do that task over again, i would plan out the pictures that i wanted to be portrait, or landscape.
6: What is an infinity backdrop and why would you use one ?
An infinity backdrop, also known as a infinity cove, is used in photography is a plain backdrop, used to make a stage. In photography this may be useful as you could use it to enhance any work you have done; the white background will make your work stand out on a plain, bright background.
A genre of something, weather it be photography, music, videos, or films; its the style of that particular area. For example genre of films may be any from: comedy, romance, action, or horror. Photography genres might be: fashion photography, sports photography, or portrait photography.
2: What are the main photography genres ?
Photography genres might be:
Fashion photography
Sports photography
Portrait photography
Still life photography
Architectural photography
3: When looking at landscape photography, what do we expect to see?
When looking at landscape photography we would expect to see something pretty incredible. Personally for me when i think about landscape photography i think about some beautiful views of nature, like mountains, sunsets, trees, and everything that comes under the genre of nature. Therefore when i look at landscape photography i expect something that full of colours.
4: Why might it be difficult for prison photographers to take landscape, portrait, and fashion photos ?
When in prison recources are limited for the inmates, therefore they may not be able to have as many opportunites if they was not locked up. They may not be able to use cameras that allow them to take landscape pictures. As well as this the fashion photography also would not be easy, as all clothes are limited, and there choices are slim.
5: During the task of taking 20 pictures, most my pictures were taken from a portrait angle, and square. If i'm being completely honest, i did not originally plan to have most of my pictures to be taken in portrait, however i am pleased with how most of them turned out. However if i was to do that task over again, i would plan out the pictures that i wanted to be portrait, or landscape.
6: What is an infinity backdrop and why would you use one ?
An infinity backdrop, also known as a infinity cove, is used in photography is a plain backdrop, used to make a stage. In photography this may be useful as you could use it to enhance any work you have done; the white background will make your work stand out on a plain, bright background.
Treasure hunt round 2:
Genre photography:
During our lesson today, we were given the chance to complete a second round of pictures from the first treasure hunt; with the different genres. However this time we were given a list of now genres to follow by when taken these pictures. Once again, we were given an hour and use our imaginations to the best of our abilities, and be creative when doing this task.
Make do and mend:
Personal Project:
During the last few months of our time in school, this project has been set for us to enjoy our time in photography being creative and inquisitive using our imaginations. We've been told we have no limit with this project and it's all about exploring different ideas we come up with along the way. For my first piece i decided to pick out 10 images from a magazine that jumped out at me, after picking 10 images i ripped each one up differently, weather that was me ripping it in half, folding it, tearing it across the middle sideways, or ripping certain parts of the picture out. Here are a few examples of the ones i created:
For my first picture i chose the images from a Vogue magazine, and from that i decided to base my first theme on the models in the magazine and the different parts of their faces. The second image was an experiment that i did a lot of playing around with, i looked at a variety of images from different magazines and picked out the ones that jumped out at me and jumbled them all up together until i was happy with the design of it. The third image however was another theme, this time i picked the images used from a book filled with amazing different ark works from different people around the world. After being happy with this work, i moved onto scanning it into the printer and playing around layering different colors onto these images.
I also decided to try a task we once did in year 9 to make my last piece more interesting, i printed out 5 images of models, who all stood out from one other. I used one of the images as a base, and cut out and stuck on the other images on-top of it. Here was the final product:
I also decided to try a task we once did in year 9 to make my last piece more interesting, i printed out 5 images of models, who all stood out from one other. I used one of the images as a base, and cut out and stuck on the other images on-top of it. Here was the final product:
Photoshoot 1.
The original models:
Before hanging these pictures up to create my final piece, i decided to photograph the original pieces.