Jan Groover inspired photos
Groover is an American photographer who created her famous Kitchen Still Life in 1978 and 1979. Using a large-format camera, she transformed colanders, knives, spatulas and baking pans into objects of beauty that still hold a visual interest that transcends their common use.
For this task I decided I would take some photos of my home kitchen sink.
I decided to do this when there was a lot of mess so that the photos would be natural and not composed. I wanted the washing up gloves to be there because the vibrant pink stands out against the bland white sink.
I also did some photos of running water to show the process of cleaning up.
Lastly I did some photos in a stainless steel sink with some muddy football boots in them. The shine in the metallic sink is very interesting to look at and with the black football boots the photos look black and white even though there is colour.
WWW: I think that I got different angles for the shots like close up, mid range and directly above. The close up shots managed to capture the tiny particles of food.
EBI: We have very plain and dull colored plates etc. and some more brightly coloured things in the sink would have made the shots more interesting.
I decided to do this when there was a lot of mess so that the photos would be natural and not composed. I wanted the washing up gloves to be there because the vibrant pink stands out against the bland white sink.
I also did some photos of running water to show the process of cleaning up.
Lastly I did some photos in a stainless steel sink with some muddy football boots in them. The shine in the metallic sink is very interesting to look at and with the black football boots the photos look black and white even though there is colour.
WWW: I think that I got different angles for the shots like close up, mid range and directly above. The close up shots managed to capture the tiny particles of food.
EBI: We have very plain and dull colored plates etc. and some more brightly coloured things in the sink would have made the shots more interesting.
Stuart Haygarth inspired photos
In 2011, Haygarth walked along the southern coast of England, collecting every man-made item that he came across. On his return, he categorized and arranged them into ordered composition to photograph. Aside from their obvious aesthetic appeal, his pictures also tell the tale of our reckless pollution of the earth.
For this task I decided to take photos of different day to day items. I decided to find different white objects because I thought it would look good against my kitchen table. I tried to get different perspectives and angles of the shot.
WWW: I got some good close up angles and perspectives of the shot. They were all in good focus and had good quality.
EBI: I could've taken some more wider shots and some shots from directly above so you could clearly see everything, I could have also used some more sentimental items.
EBI: I could've taken some more wider shots and some shots from directly above so you could clearly see everything, I could have also used some more sentimental items.
Introduce the Burning House Project by Robert Holden. Include images from the project.
For this task we were asked to take some different things that we would take from a burning house. It had to be a mixture of things that we use for day to day life and things that are sentimental to us.
Form over Function
Copy the Kertesz analysis task here
Andre Kertesz creates surreal images, that have a depressing theme to them. He does this by changing the image to black and white and adding one or two objects. He wanted us to consider how to feel when we see this photo and what's really happening. His feelings of isolation and rootlessness, exacerbated by his reluctance to learn French and English, respectively, would manifest in a body of work that often reflected a quiet mood of melancholy.
André Kertész, 'Fork', 1928
For this task we were meant to take pictures of forks on a plain background and use a torch to capture the shadow of the fork.
www: I managed to get good angles for the photos and made the shadow clear and easy to see.
ebi: I could of used more the 2 forks and put them in different locations and places. eg put them up against at wall.
ebi: I could of used more the 2 forks and put them in different locations and places. eg put them up against at wall.
Lockdown Sequence
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Photojoiners
David Hockney
David Hockney is connected to the Pop art movement. This movement was interested in responding to Popular culture (
Hockney has also created photojoiners. Photographs are taken of the same object from different perspectives. The images are then collaged to recreate the place, person or object even though they may look distorted. This work connects with the cubist movement, one of Hockney's major aims.
Hockney has also created photojoiners. Photographs are taken of the same object from different perspectives. The images are then collaged to recreate the place, person or object even though they may look distorted. This work connects with the cubist movement, one of Hockney's major aims.
David Hockney 'Joiners' 1970
The photomontages created by David Hockney (1970 - 1986) were inspired by cubism. Cubism is an early 20th century painting technique made of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and, later collage. Hockney decided to take this an apply it to photography. Hockney's aim was to show familiar things in a new way adding lots of different perspectives and angles. He achieved this by taking things that you see in day to day life and making you see this thing in a new way.
My Response
Put the separate images in a gallery first
WWW: The photo is edited so the photo is not to normal looking but not to out of shape.
EBI: I could of taken more angels and pictures for the chair.
EBI: I could of taken more angels and pictures for the chair.
WWW: The arms and legs don't look like they were taken from different photos.
EBI: I needed to make the head be a bit more to proportion
EBI: I needed to make the head be a bit more to proportion
WWW: It was a creative idea.
EBI: I needed to take more photos and focus on the middle.
EBI: I needed to take more photos and focus on the middle.
Light and Focus
Ute Barth Analysis
Ute Barth:
Conceptual Photographer Uta Barth: 2012 MacArthur Fellow | MacArthur Foundation
Barth says that most photographers use the camera as a pointing device and that their images present the subject and content as the same thing. What does she mean? Can you give an example?
What she means is that the subject matter of the photo is the same as the meaning. There is no other interpretation that you had to do. What criteria does Barth consider when she takes a photo? What does she want us (the viewer) to do?
To make the viewer aware of their understanding processWhat did using a camera at school teach her about looking?
It taught her that in the process of working a camera she found out that what she saw when she looked through the viewfinder was different when she went in the darkroom. Where does Barth take her photographs?
She takes them in her house and she thinks that because she is interested in light and perception and a visual acuity to the mundane fleeting ephemeral everyday kind of information she thinks that there is no point in going out to take her photos.
In this task I was required to take pictures of light coming through the window and we were meant to use themes such as perception, optical illusion and non-place.
Best Edits
WWW: I showed different patterns coming through the window.
EBI: I could of tried to use different themes such as optical illusion.
EBI: I could of tried to use different themes such as optical illusion.
Ordinary to Extraordinary
Edward WestonEdward Weston used A Graflex camera. The Camera allowed him to see his subject matter in the right format before taking the photograph. He developed his own photographic language. It had to be pleasing to him. Weston was a master of composition, precise framing. The issues that Edward Weston encounters when photographing the pepper was that he lacked depth of field on f64 so he created his own aperture (f240-pinhole) The amount of time the exposure took for the pepper photos was around 4-6 hours.
The movement of light over the course of the long exposure gave the pepper a luminous quality. |
1st Response: Natural Light
In this task we were set to take photos of different fruits and vegetables inspired by Edward Weston
Best Edits
WWW: Good focus, Strong Contrast, Depth of field, Captured a good likeness to Western's pepper.
EBI: Controlled light better, Composition to tightly cropped.
EBI: Controlled light better, Composition to tightly cropped.
2nd Response: Artificial Light
In this task we were set to take photos in response to Edward Weston using Artificial Light. I learnt to have good focus and to keep a good depth of field.
WWW: I got good angles for the photos
EBI: I could have taken more photos.
EBI: I could have taken more photos.
3rd Response: Development
My Approach with this piece of work was to create something inspired by Edward Weston. I did this by changing the photos to black and white and taking pictures of different fruits and vegetables.
Explain your approach and intentions.
Photograph man made objects in colour.
Best Edits
WWW: It was a good idea to add different colours onto the lemon.
EBI: When Editing the photos I could of tilted the photos so they was straight, I could of set it up so there was more natural light and so therefore I could of had a lower ISO and so the background paper looked more sharp. I could of used different objects rather then fruits and vegetables. For the first set of images in black and white I could of used a other colours for the background rather then white. For the first set of images I could of turned up the brightness and contrast more. The focus for some of the photos weren't great. There was too much shadow in the second set of images.
EBI: When Editing the photos I could of tilted the photos so they was straight, I could of set it up so there was more natural light and so therefore I could of had a lower ISO and so the background paper looked more sharp. I could of used different objects rather then fruits and vegetables. For the first set of images in black and white I could of used a other colours for the background rather then white. For the first set of images I could of turned up the brightness and contrast more. The focus for some of the photos weren't great. There was too much shadow in the second set of images.