Four Composition Types
In this task I was required to take photos of four different compositions including Triangle, Rule of Thirds, Layers, Balance
Rule of thirds
Balance
Overlapping where you deliberately partially
obscure one object with another.
obscure one object with another.
Triangle
My First Set Of Images
Best Edits
Rule Of Thirds
WWW: For the most part the photos on the paper looked similar to the photos in real life.
EBI: I could of adapted the task by using more colours in the photos to make the photos look better. I also could of made it better by making sure the paper didn't have any crumples.
EBI: I could of adapted the task by using more colours in the photos to make the photos look better. I also could of made it better by making sure the paper didn't have any crumples.
Homework Task
Best Edits
WWW: The Photos taken for Layers and Triangle looked similar.
EBI: The photos taken of the bits of paper were poorly taken and look really bad. The Photos could of been more creative and I could of used more locations. Maybe my balance photos were more symmetry then balance so I could improve that for next time by making one chair have fallen other and the other one standing up.
EBI: The photos taken of the bits of paper were poorly taken and look really bad. The Photos could of been more creative and I could of used more locations. Maybe my balance photos were more symmetry then balance so I could improve that for next time by making one chair have fallen other and the other one standing up.
Framing
Using Mirrors
In this task I was required to take photos using a mirror. It was important to get the whole frame in the photos.
Best Edits
WWW: The reflection from the mirror was strong so most of the photos were clear.
EBI: I could have taken more photos and I could of taken them in more unusual locations
EBI: I could have taken more photos and I could of taken them in more unusual locations
Finger Frames
In this task I was required to take photos of different apertures through a finger frame. Depth of field is the distance between the closest and farthest objects in a photo that appears acceptably sharp. It changes in size and can be described as either 'shallow' (where only a narrow zone appears sharp) or deep (where more of the picture appears sharp) Sometimes you'll want to use an extensive depth of field in order to keep everything sharp.
Best Edits (Three different Apertures)
WWW: Different apertures were shown clearly with each photo. We can see how well the aperture has worked by seeing how focused the cars in the background were for different apertures.
EBI: To improve I could have kept my hands more still. Furthermore I struggled with keeping the same composition with each photos. I could have also slightly altered my focus on some of the images.
EBI: To improve I could have kept my hands more still. Furthermore I struggled with keeping the same composition with each photos. I could have also slightly altered my focus on some of the images.
Framing Details
In this task we were set to take photos through a piece of card and using different apertures for each one.
Best Edits
WWW: The photos had interesting locations.
EBI: I didn't do the depth of field correctly and the photos were not good. Also the editing was done incorrectly.
EBI: I didn't do the depth of field correctly and the photos were not good. Also the editing was done incorrectly.
Windows
In this task I was required to photograph windows that could be literal, symbolic or conceptual. We could include reflections, people, views to the outside world etc.
I interpreted the task by looking into shop windows, outside views and reflections.
I interpreted the task by looking into shop windows, outside views and reflections.
WWW: The photos taken had good reflection.
EBI: I could of taken more photos and used more variety like reflections of people.
EBI: I could of taken more photos and used more variety like reflections of people.
Formal Elements
The formal elements are the parts used to make a piece of artwork. The art elements we used were line, tone, contrast, texture, colour, pattern and form. They are often used together, and how they are organised in a piece of art determines what the finished piece will look like.
In this task I was required to take photos that had the elements such as line, tone, contrast texture, colour, pattern and form.
In this task I was required to take photos that had the elements such as line, tone, contrast texture, colour, pattern and form.
Best Edits
WWW: I choose some interesting locations to take the pictures and I managed to find all seven of the images.
EBI: I found it hard to find photos for tone and I could of improved with the composition.
EBI: I found it hard to find photos for tone and I could of improved with the composition.
Workshop 1: Mirroring and Flipping
I thought that this technique was very interesting as you can completely change the pattern of the image. I think I was successful in creating a mirrored image however, I think that I could try to do more examples of this photo and other photos.
Independent Development
Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams was an American Photographer best known for his iconic images of the American West, including Yosemite National Park. I wanted to consider him as an option as broad, landscape photography was something that I felt I could make a great response.
Three facts about Ansel Adams:
Adams was a life-long advocate for environmental conservation, and his photographic practice was deeply entwined with this advocacy. At age 12, he was given his first camera during his first visit to Yosemite National Park. He developed his early photographic work as a member of the Sierra Club. Adams created an effect on his work by his extensive darkroom work he also used an ultra sharp depth of field in his photos using an aperture setting of f/64 that produced the finest picture detail.
What were Ansel Adams Intentions?
Ansel Adams rose to prominence as a photographer of the American West. He did this by taking photos at Yosemite National Park. He wanted us to react by using his work to promote conservation of wilderness areas.
What wider context was your photographer addressing?
Ansel Adams is intended to take his photos in black and white. He felt that with colour the photos could be distracting and could therefore divert an artist's attention from the achievement of his full potential when taking a photograph.
How does the photographer's style of photography and process support their intentions?
Adams was one of the founders with Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham of the Group f/64. The members of the group wanted to explore what happened when they used large cameras and small apertures to capture a wider range of different textures.
Adams was a life-long advocate for environmental conservation, and his photographic practice was deeply entwined with this advocacy. At age 12, he was given his first camera during his first visit to Yosemite National Park. He developed his early photographic work as a member of the Sierra Club. Adams created an effect on his work by his extensive darkroom work he also used an ultra sharp depth of field in his photos using an aperture setting of f/64 that produced the finest picture detail.
What were Ansel Adams Intentions?
Ansel Adams rose to prominence as a photographer of the American West. He did this by taking photos at Yosemite National Park. He wanted us to react by using his work to promote conservation of wilderness areas.
What wider context was your photographer addressing?
Ansel Adams is intended to take his photos in black and white. He felt that with colour the photos could be distracting and could therefore divert an artist's attention from the achievement of his full potential when taking a photograph.
How does the photographer's style of photography and process support their intentions?
Adams was one of the founders with Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham of the Group f/64. The members of the group wanted to explore what happened when they used large cameras and small apertures to capture a wider range of different textures.
Rodney Graham
Rodney Graham pulls at the threads of cultural and intellectual history through photography. After looking at his photos of upside down trees, I came up with an idea of possibly created the life unusual trees upside down. I thought this would look good as it changes your perception of what is what.
Facts about Rodney Graham:
In the late 1980s, Graham moved away from the camera obscura structure and created inverted images of trees by photographing them using an 8 x 10 field camera then presenting the photographs upside-down.
What were Rodney Grahams intentions?
“I created an inverted tree because I wanted to talk about man's skewed experience of nature inside a functional architectural space in the middle of a landscape,” he said in a 1992 interview for Art and Antiques magazine.
Clyde Butcher
Clyde Butcher is an American photographer well know for his wilderness photography is Florida.
Facts about Clyde Butcher
Clyde Butcher (born 1942) is an American large format camera photographer known for wilderness photography of the Florida landscape. He began his career doing color photography before switching to large scale black-and-white landscape photography after the death of his son.
What was Clyde Butchers Intentions?
During college, Butcher presented his architecture projects by creating and photographing miniature-scale models instead of making drawings.
How does the photographers style of photography and process support their intentions?
He worked with architect William Pereira on such buildings as the Transamerica building in San Francisco and worked for architectural model companies. With the downturn in the economy Clyde lost his job and began showing his black and white images at local art festivals. He soon realized that he could make more money in photography than he was making in architecture. By 1970, he left architecture for landscape photography.
Clyde Butcher (born 1942) is an American large format camera photographer known for wilderness photography of the Florida landscape. He began his career doing color photography before switching to large scale black-and-white landscape photography after the death of his son.
What was Clyde Butchers Intentions?
During college, Butcher presented his architecture projects by creating and photographing miniature-scale models instead of making drawings.
How does the photographers style of photography and process support their intentions?
He worked with architect William Pereira on such buildings as the Transamerica building in San Francisco and worked for architectural model companies. With the downturn in the economy Clyde lost his job and began showing his black and white images at local art festivals. He soon realized that he could make more money in photography than he was making in architecture. By 1970, he left architecture for landscape photography.
Karl Blossfeldt
Karl Blossefeldt is a German Photographer known best for his stark close-up portraits of plants, twigs, seeds, leaves, and other flora. He moved to Berlin to study The school of the museum of Decorative arts.
As an art professor, he developed a homemade magnifying camera and lens to document the varieties in the geometry, texture, and patterning of plants collected to use as models for drawings, with the intention of creating a pedagogical resource for artists and designersthat could also illustrate this concept.
Karl Blossefeldt is a German Photographer known best for his stark close-up portraits of plants, twigs, seeds, leaves, and other flora. He moved to Berlin to study The school of the museum of Decorative arts.
As an art professor, he developed a homemade magnifying camera and lens to document the varieties in the geometry, texture, and patterning of plants collected to use as models for drawings, with the intention of creating a pedagogical resource for artists and designersthat could also illustrate this concept.
My First Set of Images
Best Edits
WWW: My photos really zoom in on the texture of the flowers and plants. I have taken both close up and far away pictures. The photos I took have a similar background to Karl Blossfeldt - Grey and faded out, with some bits lighter and some bits darker. It shows the beauty of the nature through Black and White.
EBI: I could of adjusted the contrasted more for some of the photos.
EBI: I could of adjusted the contrasted more for some of the photos.
Favourite Photographer: Rodney Graham
Rodney Graham is my favourite photographer because of his skewed experience of nature inside a functional architectural space in the middle of landscape.
Development 1
My Intentions for this set of pictures was to focus on the early life of trees. I think it's interesting to see how even the biggest of trees start small. I think it is important to focus on this bit of their life.
Best Edits
WWW: I liked that it makes you focus and think about the beginnings of plants and trees and highlighting something small that could one day end up being majestic and grand. I also liked that the beginnings of lives of the trees mirrors the beginning of my photography project in this development.
EBI: It would have been nice to have a wider variety of plants and trees. It would also have been interesting to have found the slightest and smallest shoots of life been before they start to look like proper plants.
EBI: It would have been nice to have a wider variety of plants and trees. It would also have been interesting to have found the slightest and smallest shoots of life been before they start to look like proper plants.
Development 2
For my second development I moved onto photographing mature trees and then flipping the image.
Best Edits
In this task I was required to take photos of one of the photographers of our choice, mine being Rodney Graham. This task links to the theme as it shows pictures of upside down trees with a high black and white texture.
www:
The composition helped to support my response to the theme by played tricks with peoples minds. You immediately see it and think is this a tree or not? We are used to seeing a tree with trunk at the bottom and branches at the top. Hopefully by flipping the composition it will make the viewer think of the roots of a tree and the symmetry of trees roots and branches.
I prioritised my ISO so the tree trunk could be as detailed as possible. I tried to keep my hands as still as possible so the photo looked still.
ebi: The location I chose meant that all of the pictures I took were surrounded by other trees. next time i am going to find one that is more neglected and has nothing surrounding it.
www:
The composition helped to support my response to the theme by played tricks with peoples minds. You immediately see it and think is this a tree or not? We are used to seeing a tree with trunk at the bottom and branches at the top. Hopefully by flipping the composition it will make the viewer think of the roots of a tree and the symmetry of trees roots and branches.
I prioritised my ISO so the tree trunk could be as detailed as possible. I tried to keep my hands as still as possible so the photo looked still.
ebi: The location I chose meant that all of the pictures I took were surrounded by other trees. next time i am going to find one that is more neglected and has nothing surrounding it.
Development 3
I wanted to develop my theme further and fast forward to the end of a trees life. Focusing on dead trees, branches and stumps. But even in the death of a tree there is optimism as you'll see in some of the photos you'll see new growth out of the dead trees.
My Edits
Best Edits
In this task I was required to take photos of trees and play with the perception of what is up and what is down. The task links into the theme as it shows upside down trees, similar to Rodney Graham.
www - I prioritised my aperture when taking my photos to manipulate depth of field. My images express my intentions which were to play with the perception of what is up and what is down.
ebi - I could have taken a few more photos with a wider range.
www - I prioritised my aperture when taking my photos to manipulate depth of field. My images express my intentions which were to play with the perception of what is up and what is down.
ebi - I could have taken a few more photos with a wider range.
Development 4
To continue my development, I decided to examine the trees in a different environment and thought that the use of water and reflection would add to the interest of the photo especially when it is upside down because the refection in the water will confuse the viewer further. Even when the photo is the right way round it may look upside down because of the reflection! I decided to leave these photographs in colour because the spring weather made the grass look very green. Also in one of my favourite images, there was a yellow daffodil floating down the river which looks great in colour. It was a happy coincidence that the flower was there when I was taking the photograph. These images were taken in Ambleside in the Lake District.
My First Set Of Photos
My Two Best Edits
WWW: I really liked how the reflection of the photo further confuses the viewer to if it is upside down or not. I also like the effect the ripples on the water have on the image of the branches and trunk. It makes them also look slightly like they are painting in an impressionist style. The overall impact of this I find very calming, if a little bit confusing as your brain tries to figure out which way round you are looking at something.
EBI: I would love to have found an enormous lake so that the reflected water surface could have been even bigger, with a wide angle photograph this could have looked even more majestic.
EBI: I would love to have found an enormous lake so that the reflected water surface could have been even bigger, with a wide angle photograph this could have looked even more majestic.
Development 5
For my final development, I wanted to photograph the newly cut trees which I has noticed has recently been done in Muswell Hill. Even photographed the right way round, the knobbly branches looked striking. However, when turned upside down they appear even more unusual and even creepy. I took my photographs over a series of days keeping an eye for particularly bright and sunny days so I could maximise the contrast between branch and sky.
My favourite photos include one that looks like an army of trees marching ominously towards you. I also like the image that appears to be a pair of legs wearing dark trousers with spindly, scary looking toes. These are the sort of images that you might imagine from a horror film. I decided to keep the photos in colour as the sky and lighting was so colourful. In another images with the houses it looks like the trees have been glued on to the top of the frame. Lastly, there is an image with an extraordinary sunset.
In conclusion, I am really pleased with my final development. I think my photos bring to mind scary, malformed hands and feet in a really creepy and atmospheric way.
My favourite photos include one that looks like an army of trees marching ominously towards you. I also like the image that appears to be a pair of legs wearing dark trousers with spindly, scary looking toes. These are the sort of images that you might imagine from a horror film. I decided to keep the photos in colour as the sky and lighting was so colourful. In another images with the houses it looks like the trees have been glued on to the top of the frame. Lastly, there is an image with an extraordinary sunset.
In conclusion, I am really pleased with my final development. I think my photos bring to mind scary, malformed hands and feet in a really creepy and atmospheric way.