Photography

final piece; 8 images.

Mon, 30 Apr 2018 14:48:08 -0400

I have decided on a group of images for my final piece. I wanted to choose a few different types of images. I chose some that I had taken inside the studio and some that I had taken in natural light. I think this is important to show my skills in both natural light and studio light. I also decided to use some of the other light painting images that I completed as these gave a really cool soft look to them. after taking the shots of the original light Spirograph’s that I had created, I decided to look at other ways that my final images could be represented in the way that I wanted. I feel as though these images that I have created came out really well, I can now see my creative side coming out and also everything that I have learnt in the studio, I am now incorporating into my natural day light photography.

Tiled glitched gifs.

Mon, 30 Apr 2018 08:56:32 -0400

as a group we thought it would be more interesting to show a mixture of family images that have been glitched. This was one of the ways we came across from researching different ways to represent our work whilst using premiere pro editing software. The editing we used didn’t take as long as we had expected it to. this was really handy as it looks great and we could also have time to then focus on our second movie which in turn takes much longer to edit.

Practice!The first two images I wanted them sort of low key as I wanted to experiment later on with...

Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:51:39 -0400

Practice!

The first two images I wanted them sort of low key as I wanted to experiment later on with them in photoshop for one of my projects. The other images are just practice shots with my 85mm lense on my Nikon 810. I have found that this lense is my go to! I don’t go anywhere without it. It’s great for portraits and also perfect for a strong depth of field.

I have slightly added some more colour into these images just to give them some more life. However the first two I simply just turned them black and white. This shoot was a lot of fun to do as there were some really gorgeous shades and bright exposures to practice with. My lessons with Franklyn have really shown me how working with the simplist of things such as some tinfoil you can really get the most out of the summer sunshine!

Equipment:

NIkon 810

Lense: 85mm (1.4)

Tinfoil (reflector)

Model: my sister

Artist With Alzheimer’s Drew Self Portraits For 5 Years Until He Could Barely Remember His Own Face. Group project research.

Tue, 24 Apr 2018 09:57:58 -0400

“In these pictures we see with heart-breaking intensity William’s efforts to explain his altered self, his fears and his sadness.” written by his wife Patricia.

whilst researching for our group project, i found this artists who created a series of paintings over 5 years. they display his journey since he was diagnosed with Alzheimers. the series of paintings show how over time he has forgotten his own identity and also the ones around him. these images are some what inspiring to carry on no matter what you are going through. in the article in which i found these images they are unsure wether the loss in artistic skills was down to his mind fading away or his change in physic. either way the paintings show a journey.

As a group we found that it would be nicer to show a journey not just with my nan but with all the shoots we have taken we wanted them to all link some how. we are starting off our video with my nan’s hands and then we are going to show the rest of the clips that can be associated with memory and things that we personally can attach ourselves with as well, for example the song that is going to be played over the top of the video is a family song with my nan and grandad actually danced to at their wedding. we have also incorporated nature shots and animals which is something that Leah who is part of my group strongly associates with her memory’s. one thing that helps us link all of our shoots together as well is that we have all had some one in our family who has been affected by the Alzheimers disease, so we each have something that we can connect to the members of our family who have been affected throughout this video.

Daughter, is that you? group project research.

Tue, 24 Apr 2018 09:19:07 -0400

Whilst researching for any inspiration for my group project, i found a group of artists working for a company called Grupo Gallegos which is based in California and usually creates advertising videos. The distorted images are the same size as gallery prints and are created to raise awareness about how Alzheimer’s sufferers see the world and are also heavily distorted to try and put the viewer in the mind of the patient.

i really like these images and have given me some inspiration for some different ideas to work on when it comes to Glitching the image. it has made me think about the presentation of our project and how it can be changed. i came up with some ideas that alongside our video and Glitched GiFs we can have cut up images like the one above that we have created to the side to give the viewer a more in depth reason as to what our video is about. This research has really helped me understand how i can present my work and also the different ways in which i can do this. wether it be practically or digitally made.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2607018/Daughter-Alzheimers-patients-distorted-visions-loved-ones-shown-heart-wrenching-ad-series.html

Premiere pro editing. Group project.

Tue, 24 Apr 2018 08:57:17 -0400

As the gif was only 3 seconds long, i decided to copy and paste the image. as a group we were going to loop the video but the whole point of the glitched gifs was that it would look confusing so we didn’t want it to look basic. when i was on premiere pro i just copied and pasted the videos next to each other this then made the videos longer and also repeat. we realised that because it wasn’t on a loop it would stop and some would be longer than the others. But we decided that it would be a good idea that some of them would stop at different times so that the viewers are able to see the glitched images once they have stopped.

Glitched GIFS. As part of our group project based on mental...

Tue, 24 Apr 2018 08:14:16 -0400

Glitched GIFS.

As part of our group project based on mental health we wanted to glitch images to show the distortion of the memory in alzheimer sufferers. we glitched these images using text edit and deleting text within the image, we then created the GIF using photoshop and premiere pro. the only thing that we need to add to this video is to keep it on a loop. as a group we also wanted to put these glitched GIFS in a collage, we are going to experiment with this and see what the out come is.

Contact sheet for montage shoot.

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 09:28:59 -0400

The agony of alzheimer’s: Mark Seymour

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 07:15:49 -0400

The second image was taken in 2008 just before his father was diagnosed with alzheimers. some of these images are so breathtaking and beautiful. this is what our group wants to show the sensitive side to this disease.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3119923/Living-life-Alzheimer-s-Photographer-s-touching-images-document-father-s-four-year-struggle-active-grandfather-man-no-longer-remember-son-s-name.html

Get the inside out.

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 06:51:40 -0400

Whilst doing my research for our group project i come across this advert which lloyds banks have started up. this helps to encourage more people to talk about their own mental health or even scrapping it as a taboo subject. they focus on non visible disability’s such as bi-polar disorder, paranoia and anxiety.

i found this advert really helpful in making me understand the importance of this subject and also the sensitivity of it as well.

ideas for final project (8 images)

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 06:32:58 -0400

i liked the idea that the colour of the long exposure light images that i have taken correspond to the persons personality, or mood that they display in the photograph. whilst editing my images i decided to play around and have a look at the different ways i can display them. i found that i could change the colour of the photograph with the help of the hue button. this changed the colour of the light painting images and made them more vibrant. i was also looking at how i can change the images display so that i could see if it looked better with one portrait in the background or multiple.

i kind of like this idea and i think i can go further with this however, i don’t feel as though i have much of a connection with it as i do with the other images. i want to try and add my own self portraits in with them so that i can see if this makes a difference with the connection.

Glitch Art for group project

Tue, 17 Apr 2018 15:05:09 -0400

For our group project we have decided that we want to have a double screen projection so that one side is a edited video and the other is a glitch image to show the memories lost from Alzheimer’s patience or sufferers. I have been researching some artists that create glitches within their photographs and I could not find anything that I found exciting or interesting to use as inspiration. I decided to take a step back and start looking at other medias such as painting and printing.

Andy Denzler is a Swiss artists who creates glitches throughout and within his paintings. I really like his work as its something that I have never seen before. I also like how it tricks the mind because you usually associate glitch art with technology. his creations at first site look just like images that have been glitched with the help of technology such as Photoshop.

Glitching images using a scanner.

Mon, 16 Apr 2018 13:12:36 -0400

When I was printing and scanning some of my work from home I accidently took my work out from under the printer too quickly and it glitches the image. this gave me the idea to glitch my images using the scanner and I thought it would be a fun and exciting idea to use hands and shiny objects to just see how the images came out.

I am really pleased with these images that I created, I think it really shows how images can be taken and distorted with the use of technology.

Test shoot and final product!

Mon, 16 Apr 2018 13:06:22 -0400

today we had a test to see how we worked with each other in the studio and also how we interacted with the model. we started off a bit nervous and slow. however, we made sure that we had tethered the camera up to the computer and ensured that we all had a say in the photograph. Ian gave us some feedback on our work and said that although we started of slightly worried and a bit shaky we did finish well and had some good photographs to show from it.

After this we then had to show our skills on Photoshop by cropping the model out and placing it into one of the given photographs. I found this incredibly challenging as it was something way out of my comfort zone. I am pleased with how my final picture came out. the only thing that I would change would be to add in a shadow and practice on my cropping skills so that the cut was a bit neater.

Playing around in Photoshop.

Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:41:59 -0400

This was just a test edit. I wanted to see what I could do with the placement of the light painting and if it would look messy or quite interesting. I got some feedback off of my peers and they all said that it would be a good idea if I corresponded the light painting Spirograph’s with the models personality’s, and also make sure there is a link with the colours of the gels in which I put over the top.

I am not to sure if I like this yet as I feel it looks a bit too messy. I started of wanting the portraits within the images to be of low key lighting however this was hard to achieve the look I wanted as the portrait almost disappeared in the busyness of the Spirograph’s.

How I achieved this on Photoshop…

opened the two images in Photoshop.
dragged the Spirograph image over the portrait image.
I dragged the opacity level down to my desired look.
I unclicked the eye on each photograph to enhance each image.
I then finally cropped the image so that it was placed where I wanted it to be.

Contact sheets.

Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:39:54 -0400

Thinking freely.

Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:39:29 -0400

Today with frank we looked at how we could take different pictures with his home made lights. The light that he had us using was made from guttering, an LED light and some think tracing paper from paper chase! he wanted us to think about what creative things we could do with it, we also use a magic arm so that we could connect the lights to the tripod so that it made it easier for us to take photographs within a confined environment.

we also changed the white balance on the camera so that the images had a blue undertone to them. This then led us to use an orange gel over the lights so that we had a balanced and creative colour to them. we used a note pad so that it blocked some of the harsh light off of the models face.

over all frank wanted us to learn and think in creative ways. he wanted to make sure that in the future when we are stuck in a situation where we have to shoot with little space, we have the knowledge to use these compact lights and magic arms. i found this lesson very helpful and i will be able to take this in to the future.

Time within my life. Whilst learning about time throughout history, I had this sudden urge to take...

Fri, 13 Apr 2018 14:10:29 -0400

Time within my life.

Whilst learning about time throughout history, I had this sudden urge to take an interest into my own family tree. I found some great pictures! But it’s also seeing how times has actually changed from the fashion to how we all grew up individually as people.

Some of the pictures are from Christmas party’s to days out way back when my grandfather was young. I find these fascinating to look through, it’s strange how time works and how it affects different aspects of what we do now. I find it weird to think that if something had just happened slightly later on in my life or hadn’t happened at all I would be a completely different person!

My great grandfather and my auntie in Spain (1969).

My mum and my dad. 1980’s

Myself and my close family on various Christmas party’s. The traditional stairway photograph!

I feel as though when I start to write my essay I will have more of an attachment to it as I now have an insight because I can see how time has changed us. I can now understand what it means to be human throughout time.

Key concepts of Time:Charles Darwin (1809-1882) evolution.Karl Marx (1818-1883) capitalism.Sigmund...

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 18:29:34 -0400

Key concepts of Time:

Charles Darwin (1809-1882) evolution.
Karl Marx (1818-1883) capitalism.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) unconscious.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) relativity.

I am going to base my essay on time. I feel as though this topic has a lot to talk about and I can go back to so many different times in history and pinpoint the different ways In which these moments have affected the way we live now. I want to talk about family, how education has changed throughout the years and also talk about how science ( Einstein) changed the way we see ourselves. I want to also ask myself the quiestion of what it means to be human, and how time has changed our opinion on that matter.

De-Coding images.This is some notes from my lectures on thinking, making and writing. I found one of...

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 18:19:26 -0400

De-Coding images.

This is some notes from my lectures on thinking, making and writing. I found one of the questions we were asked very itriguing, “can digital computers think?” This was from BBC third talk (1951) I thought I would research in to this a bit further as I was surprised that in 1951 we were asking such modern day quiestions.

I came across a part of the broadcast and I thought it made perfect sense. In my opinion, considering everything that I have learnt from my lectures, is that we assume what scientists tell us about computers to be true. So when we are told that computers can be as intellectual as the human brain it is almost easy to hear. But reading through this broadcast I can’t help but see that we are blinded by new technology and because we live In a time where the technology within our phones is what helped send the first man to space. We like to think that the technology we have functions the same as a human brain. But in reality as lady Lovelace said in the broadcast “ the anylitical engine has no pretensions to originate anything, it can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. So in fact the computers are not really seen as brains, they are simply copies of what the human brain has functioned it to do.

http://www.turingarchive.org/viewer/?id=459&title=1