For my personal investigation, I started with an opening statement that tells everyone about what theme I follow and how I started with my photography. Well I enjoyed photography from the beginning, it wasn't developed but of course as you learn new things you can use them for your theme and try out new things which then you can gather more ideas and acquire new techniques for photography. By taking a picture from 5 years ago there would be a massive difference to the way you take a picture now, you would think about the rule of three, the angling and the position because you would like the picture to be how you want it to be but then when you thought about it 5 years ago your pictures wouldn't be how they are now but they would be taken with chance because you have no idea on what type of picture you are taking, you would just say you took it as memories.
For today's lesson we got given a sheet that contained four different type of task, and within the four we were meant to pick 2, one was for the lesson, and the other was for the classwork. So for class work I had chosen to pick a few images that I have taken before and by ripping them up or cutting them into any shape and placing them into any order to make a different picture. At first, I was not quite confident with the idea because the idea of cutting the images and placing them into any order confused me. What I did were chose the pictures I wanted to use, cut them up into triangles then with my teacher's help he given me an idea to help me with this project. Which was to place the paper on the scanner and scan them, it was so much easier for me because I was able to place any of them shapes in whatever order I could because they were facing the other way round so all I got to see was the back of the image leaving the rest to chance on how it would look. Well, I think it turned out well because I am leaving everything to chance and the fact that you do not any what you're putting next to each other is a mystery.
Response #1
To start off my investigation I started by taking a set of pictures of the buildings at school. I took these pictures with my phone because I didn't want all of my pictures just to be taken using a DSLR because then I would just stick to the same routine continuously. Before taking the picture I would try out different angles and composition by viewing it on the screen to see how it would look like. When taking the picture I thought about trying different ways of taking a picture; I tried taking a picture while shutting my eyes, leaving it to chance. By doing this the pictures turn out better than what you took.
Response #2
With these images, we did something different to what we normally do and which this was another task that we had to be done, so the task was to take a friend with you and to guide them and tell them the thing that you want them to take. For example, my partner was Chantay Phillips; I told her where to stand and how tall she had to be and what had to be in the picture and what shouldn't be. At first, it was quite hard because you don't know what she sees through the lens than what I am imaging. After telling her what should be in the picture, we came out with these as a result. They didn't turn out the way I wanted it to because the picture wasn't angled in the centre of the chairs and they weren't focused. If we were to do this again, I would tell her more instructions and explain them in more depth so that she would get everything that I want her to get.
The links below are videos of the smoke photography that I did in my back garden at home, I wanted to record them so that I could see how it looks when its recorded and if I could do other things with them, for example fast forward them or reverse it so that you can see it in another way. What worked well with these videos was that I could see everything that was going on while I was taking pictures. The first video wasn't as successful as the second one but I could do it better by choosing a better time to be recording it and a better setting so that the pictures would turn out better than what they did.
I started taking pictures of smoke because I thought that I could use this theme with my Architecture project but when doing some research and the warnings that we would get by doing this in public, it's kind of risky. So just to try it out I tried it in my back garden letting my neighbours know that we are going to be doing this type of stuff so that they don't think nothings going on. I was planning to use this theme for my Architecture by disguising some parts of the building leaving it to chance and making it a mystery and what I mean by that is, when the smoke starts coming out you can't control where it goes and what it does so everything is chance and doing this to the buildings will make it more interesting by covering up some of the building itself and left with a half abstraction and smoke.
Response #3
For my smoke photography I bought smoke grenades from Amazon so that I could have an idea of how it would look like on video and on camera, what I have done is by using a Canon DSLR with a macro lens I was able to capture the detail that the smoke has given. I had yellow, purple and green smoke which they have worked out the way I wanted them to turn out but there is a lot of ways I could improve in my work which is to take better images in a better setting and this time thinking about the framing and the modelling and what's going to be in the image. These images was just testers so that I could see what the smoke would look like and how long it would last for, as for my timing the smoke last about 1.6 minutes which is enough time for taking enough images if you know what you're doing but when I first tried it out the smoke felt like it took forever but when you're taking the images you have to focus the within the first few seconds of the process and you have to work fast, if you want to capture everything within the time limit you have. By doing testers from the beginning you would know how to act later on when you are taking your actual images, because I think that if I went straight to taking pictures in the setting and the modelling, I wouldn't have known what I would have to do and how to act this is because I have never tried it before just by seeing it online and on youtube you get a rough idea about the object but as they say you don't quite understand something until you do it.
Inside/Out
The photographer Diane Arbus was maybe attracted to this particular subject was that it was a picture of the world which shows how crazy but beautiful it is. The photographer was inspired in these types of work because it was unique and it was different, but some people will disagree with the image maybe because of the height difference which the guy is so tall he's looking down on the others, which could mean that he is controlling them or it could be the opposite. The relationship between the parents and the son has been presented in a different way, I think that the way that the photographer has taken the image makes it look like that the kid is controlling the parents and makes him look more powerful because he is so tall and also that the parents are looking up to him which he is looking down. When I look at this image I don't really feel comfortable because of the positioning of the picture and the way the people are standing it seems the boy is controlling them because of the height difference, but the picture itself is really sturdy and I think this because it could also represent that the kid has a lot of power and that he will do anything for his parents but who knows there could be a negative thing about this picture that I have still didn't figure out yet, but on that note, why is the picture
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in black and white? Is the photographer trying to hide something? By changing it into black and white what is the photographer achieving? Why did the photographer make the boy stand like that, what was the purpose? These are the questions that I'm asking myself because of they're the key issues that you should know, about the image. The photographer might have changed the picture into black and white so that it could hide some of the interesting stuff of the picture and he might have tried to make the picture so negative that making it black and white was the only option because it is dull and not interesting.
What we did within the lesson was we created a sculpture that links to our chosen theme and it had to be made out of paper which was really interesting with mine because I was trying to create London skyline, so we had to include The Shard, when you think about it you say oh how are we going to create a 3D triangle with paper and I was just focusing on folding because I wanted to investigate in different ways other than sticking and using tape because its boring, trying new things will make it more interesting and more enjoying while doing it. So some how by holding and cutting the sides I was able to create The Shard and the rest of the buildings. By taking pictures of it in different angles and testing out lighting from close ups and shadows was really effective because you see different parts of the object.
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Project 2 from BusraCiftci on Vimeo. |
What I did here was took a short video of me walking through a long walkway towards the exit in Aya Sofia Turkey. This was a really long and interesting walk because the building I was standing on has been there for so many years and is one of the most famous buildings in Turkey and has been through a lot. One of the reason why I have decided to take a video instead of a picture is because you would be able to see more things than what a picture can capture, secondly the movement, me moving around, walking and taking the video and the people around me stopping looking at the other type of information given about the building and taking pictures of themselves with the background. The concept was performance art, looking and focusing on movement and whats going on in the background and around you. What I liked about this as well is how towards the ending we was able to see the interior design of the building of different edges and angles creating shadows with the different lighting that hits from the lights or the sun through the windows. If I was to carry this on I would go to more places that have a meaning to something and just walk around and video what people do there and maybe take people opinions about the building and why they came to visit?
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Ed Ruscha
With Ed Ruscha what I liked about his work was that he has placed all of the pictures that he has taken and has done a contact sheet (there is an example on the left). And what I liked about it is that the images all put together to look like one single image because they have all been aligned. His book work was created in around 1960's which was known for his interest in analysing the built landscape otherwise he was known for the continuous images of his home city. Such as the image on the side is well known because it has more than 40 different shoots and has millions of exposures.
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While I was going to Turkey by car, you have to drive through different countries, and I could take pictures of the road in a sequence, in response to Ed Ruscha. I found it fascinating how you could take several images at the same angle but capturing different things, but also having to think about how you would have to hold the camera, in what angle, landscape or portrait? But the thing I love about these images are that I didn't have to worry about anything other than positioning my camera, that's because when you're on the road trying to focus your camera is a bit hard on bumpy roads, then dirty mirrors and windows and then you might have a blurry image. But with this, I didn't think about anything and just took pictures of the road. Before taking the pictures, I agreed that I would have a routine so that they all would link to each other and I would have a theme to the collection of images but that didn't go to plan because of the long distance journey (2 days). You cannot keep up with the time, so you just sleep in the car whenever you're tired so what I planned to do instead was every time I slept I took a few pictures and then when I woke up but then still kept on making the images every hour when I had the chance. If I were to do this again, I would try an angle my camera in the same angle in every picture maybe draw lines on the window so the phone can be flat on the window so that way it wouldn't move while driving. I also have to think about where the car has to be while I am taking the pictures because while driving sometimes you have 2,3 or 4 lanes and for me to get my pictures in the right spot I need to make sure that I chose the right path so that nothing gets confusing. Then there are cars coming in, and out of the lanes and driving past us, I have to think about if I want them in the image and if I do I need to make sure that I don't capture them in the picture but then I would want other things in the picture so that it isn't boring.
Robert Frank
What I liked about Frank's photography was that he would photograph people minding their own business, and doing whatever they are doing. What I liked about this is that you don't have to focus on anything other than how you're going to capture the picture. I guess the pictures being in black and white gives is a theme and an emotion to the picture, when looking at the pictures I feel happy and different and what I mean about that is that when you look at a picture you would want to feel something different to other pictures, like a unique feeling. The feeling is like you're in the scene and living the style that the people are living.
While I was at Kusadasi, Turkey. I tried to do something similar to Robert Frank's work, which was kind of hard because of the people moving really fast and rushing everywhere because it's a tourism place. Shop keepers advertising their products, children in a corner with a scale trying to earn money and tourist taking pictures. It was quite inetersting seeing a different atmosphere through the same lens. When you are a photographer that constantly taking picture you would see a massive change whne travelling to other countries. What I could do better for next time is thinking about the positioning of my camera, what type of things I would want in my picture. Some of the pictures came out blurry and that was caused by me moving and taking the picture at the same time while the flash was going off, if I didn't use the flash the picture just captures some of the light and the rest is all black.
Response #4
Going out around London and just taking a train to random places we realised these buildings which was really interesting, I thought this because of the colours they have used and how they ordered them. If I was to chose an order for the buildings I personally wouldn't do it in that order because it has been placed into different orders. I would do it in colour order because I have OCD which everything has to be neat and in the right order. But with that idea you wouldn't find that interesting because now days everyone has started to like new things or really old and odd things, which I agree with because it is unique and different to the things you see everyday.
What I did here was got a piece of paper and ripped a piece of it so that when I'm looking at other images I would be able to see just a bit of the image. Just by cropping a bit out of the image you can see and tell a lot. What I liked about this idea is that you can focus on just the selected bit that you have chosen, so when it comes to other images and evaluating selected bits of the image using this method you can easy talk about what you see and how would be around the image, and how effective the image is when its cropped. Then after what I did was drew just that bit of the picture just by looking at the image. By doing this you would be able to see the things you might have not sure while looking at the picture and seeing the shadows and the other different type of shapes the image formed. You could be asking yourself is the image effective like this or as a whole? What makes the picture so effective and interesting?
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For today's lesson as a whole class we was set a tast to chose 4 images for each pair that corresponded to each other in some way, and even if they didn't you had to find a good reason why they did. Then after everyone put their images together we then had to decide on how we would link them all together onto one striaght line, thinking about colour, forms, abstractions, patterns and etc. As a whole class we put our minds into it and decided which images goes where. Then we didnt want to leave it there, we wanted to add more to this line, so we thought of documenting this is some particular way, then we thought of the dipcth idea. So half of the class with their cameras went along the line and took the pictures and they ended up like this...
Within today's lesson we were set a task where we chose a picture on the table that had around 300 pictures that our teacher took. Then gave us 3 pieces of white paper, we were all confused on why we gave us these so when he explained everything it all made sense. Our task was to go to 3 different people in the class and describing your chosen image to them without telling them what it is for example; there could be a brown chair behind a brick wall, you would describe it by saying "the object has round smooth edges which are a really comfy and is behind a brick wall." So I went around and told 3 people my picture and then 3 people came and told me there. After the activity, sir took our cards and made a small clip about our descriptive captions behind a black background. Which I think is really effective because while watching the short film you wonder what the image really looked like and just by reading the captions you try and imagine the image.
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13D photo captions from Thomas Tallis School on Vimeo. |
We all walked into our lesson and then we was all given a piece of clay, so that we could create an abstraction, but not just any abstraction it has to be something about the film we watched. I didn't really get the idea of the whole thing of creating something but I just it's something different to get your brain working around, thinking and creating something while just watching a short clip. While watching the clip I saw so many things that I didn't know what to focus on, so after a while I realised that there was a lot of pillars in the video and it got me thinking if it was a type of abstraction but then you think about the object and you see a lot of shapes that create the whole thing. Then with the picture I chose from the pile I placed it in different places of the clay model and took pictures from different angles. Which was really effective because then you see the image in a different way because you're placing and putting the image into the clay model which covers up half of the image.
From the pile I chose the image I liked the most which was the an image that had double yellow lines on the pavement and a chair, I chose this image because it was different to other images you see everyday and its different and unique because the two yellow lines doesn't just go straight through the chair, whoever painted the floor decided to go around the chair and make things different. My task was to go around school with the image and taking a series of pictures of the picture in different locations. This task was the most successful task because I enjoyed it the most where I was able to use many thinking skills, where I had to think about where about's I wanted the picture and how to connect it to the location I was at. I think this task has worked out really well because I was able to find different objects and things around the school to connect my image, and I tried to keep a theme with my images, what I did was connected the picture to an object.
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The third task was to go around with a different picture and capture light that was reflecting onto it, which I got confused because of how that was meant to happen so while getting my camera ready my friend was just standing there holding the picture down an you can see a little reflection of on the picture which was really interesting because the light covers up most of the picture and you're left with seeing a few bits of the picture and the reflection of the light but not caring about the background. Then I thought why am I not thinking about angling and my background and my positioning of the camera, so going around reflecting light on the picture I thought about how the picture should be and thats me holding the picture, I liked the concept of this because it was a theme of me holding the picture and reflecting it in different ways so meaning that I don't have much control over the camera with just one hand.
Our task was to pick out a bunch of pictures that you think is interesting, with my partner we picked out from a few and then created a video of us taking the pictures out of the video, this is like a performance art, trying to have a rough understanding on how our performance art should be later on.
By visiting Plumstead I was able to take some images of the buildings there. But the thing I got confused about was I thought Plumstead was a brutalist place which instead it was Thamesmead. The reason I thought Plumstead was brutalist place is because of the large block of flats located in different places but what I have realised is that these weird large block of flats are really old and really interesting because from a far distance you would think they are made out of concrete but really its made out of bricks which is really fascinating this is because how can it look so different in different distances.
A photoshoot of buildings from Charlton to Greenwich, I used a Canon DSLR on auto mode, experimenting with angles, compositions and light. It was a really interesting photoshoot because it was getting quite dark so I was worried about the lighting and the effect that the camera will give.
While walking around Oxford Street, I thought why not take pictures of these buildings, because not everywhere in London do you see these buildings. At the time I didn't have my digital camera with me but gladly I didn't, using my mobile phone was better and different. It gave it a natural effect and it was way easier because you have less buttons to focus on.
I went to visit an art gallery and while I was there I thought about street photography because Oxford Street is a beautiful place to be taking that type of pictures, so just by using my phone I was able to capture some pictures of the buildings and trying to include the people as well because they are apart of it. What I like about capturing buildings and the people is that there is a massive link between them which is a really interesting link as well. While I was editing these pictures I thought about which picture would look better in black and white or with a really high contrast and playing around with the levels. When looking at the pictures you have to think about if it would look better in black and white or in colour because you can either hide the things you don't want people to see for example the feelings, the colour to the viewer or you can do the total opposite. By hiding the colour from the viewer it would be effective because then they would be putting more thought on the pictures and looking at the picture in more depth. The pictures were all successful because there are some were there are reflections including architecture and the people, what I like about that is that its really fascinating because its something out of chance the people are just walking towards where they are heading towards and I'm just taking a picture of the building without even focusing on the people. While taking the pictures the people walking wasn't my main focus, but that has worked out really well instead of making people model.
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Portraiture:
These images were my second set of images which there were others that I took before on the same theme but it wasn't as successful as these one, and maybe because of the way I took the images, the theme I chose to take them in or the camera I chose. But while taking the images below I didn't really focus on what I was taking because from the first lesson I was still confused on what my teacher mean't by taking picture of portraiture that has a few things behind it, because when your in school grounds you have limited things to take pictures of and angling them so that the picture doesn't look like it has been taken in school. But I realised that I either take really good images of things when I'm not in the mood or really bad images that can turn into a really good image when changing the contrast. I realised that I have focused a lot on the lower body and their shadows. They have all worked out really well because they have all a unique pose to each other and the structure of it. Some images turned out to look really white so that you don't see the object that clearly that was because the camera was on manual mode and I didn't realise till after I took the image but even though the image was mysterious and different to the others maybe because you can't see everything, or there isn't that much colour to it, or even the shadow!
The images above I edited them with photoshop and converted them into black and white, also changing the brightness, contrast, tone, curves and levels. They all looked better in black and white because it made it more mysterious and there is less colour in the picture, and you are able to see more within a black and white image this is because you focus more on the image and whats in the image itself, seeing things that you didn't see in the image. Seeing better contrast of the images, and what made it really interesting was the shadows, and what I liked about the shadows was because there was so many you don't know where half of them came from and they are in weird places that makes the image look interesting.
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Set 1 for Zine:
For our zine our theme was portraiture, so it could be anything that includes a body. This was kind of hard because I'm not the type of photographer that takes pictures of people I don't know how to lay them out, how to angle the camera to the body. Below I have tried out some of my own responses and I think they have worked out really well and I think this because they are all weird and mysterious, but I could do better than what I did now. I was trying to focus on everything expect the face, and that was because I've always liked the idea of disguising someones facial expressions maybe because when you don't see the face you don't understand the type of emotion there is in the picture or toward the person, so it makes the viewer/audience have deep thoughts about the picture, trying to figure out what the picture is trying to tell us and why it's telling us in this way. To improve my images and still focusing on everything else other than the face, I would have to find a place that has a lot of feet which has a lot of movement to it, so if we leave the shutter open for a few seconds we can see a trail of feet moving. Or even take a picture of them all together with a plain black/white background. When it comes to hands I would want it to relate to the person, so that we are trying to link the hand with the background, then it will allow the picture to have a meaning and emotion.
Perfomance Art
On the same day we was then set another task to cut out a circle, whatever size and wherever on the cardboard, we was all confused on what the task really was after that. Meanwhile waiting for the others our teacher told us what we had to do, which were to move around for 10 seconds, stop for 2 seconds and focus on an object using the whole on the cardboard for 5 seconds. The images on the left gives you an idea on what we was doing. We first tried it out in the class room to have a rough idea on what were meant to be doing but then sir said that we have to go outside but we all realised that there was students on their break which put us a bit off but we still had to do it. So we all went outside doing our performance which everyone is watching us. While doing it we hear "what are they doing", "they look funny!" and etc but when you hear comments like that in these performances you have a rough understanding about how other photographers do it and what type of responses they get while doing it, which it might put them off, annoy them, but might even please them, because it will show that they are doing something different to what others see everyday!
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At the beginning of the lesson we went into the dark room and got given a piece of photographic paper and our teacher told us to create something out of this paper that could fly, so I thought of a paper aeroplane. And then we was meant to take it outside so that we can throw it as far as we can. But there was one problem the paper is sensitive to light and we have a long walk what do we do? We out it underneath of shirts or jumpers and ran outside and waited till everything was set up and threw the paper, ran back down got the paper and ran back to the dark room so that we can see how the paper turn't out with the folds and light. With mine it was interesting because you can see the different folds and the exposer on where the light hit.
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Bas Jan Ader
What Bas Jan Ader did for his performance art was really different to the other work I've seen from other photographers. He works really different and what I like about it is that he takes big risks which is something that I need to be doing but not what he did was where he jumped off his roof, but him riding his bike and giving gravity to do the work which led to him falling in a canal, that is really interesting because he could of fell off the bike onto the pavement and the bike could of fell into the canal instead, so really he wanted to fall into the canal so see what would of happened.
Now lets talk about performance art, I'm still at the stage of trying to figure out what I want to be doing, so instead of me writing a long paragraph about what I want to do and what I don't want to do I decided to do a mind map which is much simple to do and to understand. By taking the main sub-themes of my project I wrote what I would be doing, which some of them are really good because when you think about something in your mind you have second thoughts and start debating if you really want to do it before even doing some research on it. When I write things down and set my mind onto it I am able to think about the idea and try to do something extra on top of it so that the performance isn't as simple as that and then the viewer saying "is that it!". Also when I focus on the idea and while writing things down I am able to think about other ideas and evaluate them, which I think is a really good thing because I'm not just going to focus on one thing.
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Dafna Talmor
Dafna Talmor her work was weird and I think this because of the way her images looked, while looking at them I would try and figure out the way she works but it confused me because I see a dark blob and another image layered behind so I thought about the process of this but I still didn't understand. By asking the people around me they would say the same thing. What I liked about her work was that its mysterious, it makes you think in depth, and what I found interesting was the layering of her images, they were so weird that you couldn't understand what part links. For my personal investigation I could try this style out, cutting out the negative space and leaving the rest for chance.
We had a photographer come to our school and do a workshop in our lesson which was Dafna Talmor, talking about her life and about her career with photography and how her interest in photography grew and how she found her way of taking pictures, after Talmor telling us about why she does these stuff to her images which was destroying her she wanted us to do the same thing and how our ones will turn out. So she gave us some pictures that were taken by her neighbours which they gave it to her when they moved away, so what we did was chose our first image from random and either destroyed it, scratched it, put nail varnish remover on it, hole punched it or even cut it with a scalpel. The best part about this is you just have fun doing whatever to the image or you think really carefully about everything you do because you might even want to layer the image with another so you would have to think about composition. Mr Nicholls gave us a light box with acetate so that we don't damage the light box and we had many different equipment and started doing everything to the image.
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After damaging our images we had a projection which allowed us to insert our pictures individually and then we was able to see our images projected to the wall enlarged.
The Final Outcomes
Helene Binet
“Hélène Binet has emerged as one of the leading architectural photographers in the world. Every time Hélène Binet takes a photograph, she exposes architecture’s achievements, strength, pathos and fragility.” (Daniel Libeskind)
Helene had studied photography and after a while had an interest in Architectural photography, she has focused on contemporary and historic architecture. What she has also focused on and developed interest in landscape photography but linking both of the theme together. Her work has a different type of style to the other type of photographer I have research and what I think is different about her work is that she still focuses on the chosen themes but captures them in a way that makes you think and questions you about the images, which I personally think that is a really hard thing to do because you have to be careful on what type of picture you are taking and why you are taking. Thinking about the angles and lighting, she has included both. Looking at her pictures it looks like that she has focused on them two elements, by playing around with light it allows you to cover up some of the image but what she has done in her images has captured her images using the natural light that has hit the building.
Barbican Centre
I wanted to find a way that I could find an artist that takes photographs in the style that I do, by doing some research on brutalist buildings some photographers came up but they were the ones that I've investigated in. I wanted to try out something new and what I mean about that is different styles of taking a simple picture, trying out variety of techniques. I found that Barbican was the best type of source for brutalist buildings so I found a link a pdf file giving information about their programs and photographers that focus on architecture and brutal buildings. This was really useful because it would give a title of the photographers name and a few key information about the photographer, telling us the theme they focus on etc.
Trip To The Trellick Tower and Brunswick
Saatchi Gallery
I was able to visit the Saatchi Gallery for some ideas for my personal investigation. But there wasn't that many stuff on Abstraction and Architecture but even looking at the other art work it will inspire you in different way. What I also liked about these artworks is that they're all different to each other and are all unique. Focusing on scale of the artworks and how they were used in the gallery and how it got there. When looking at these works I asked myself questions which were: What was the artist inspired by? Why did they put it in a collage? Why use them materials? What made you think that pans can be art? Why would you put the pans on the wall and call it art? Why did you scale you work really big or really small? What was you trying to achieve? By leaving the gallery with these questions it would allow you to think about other stuff and want you to research and link you work with theres.
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A View From A ViewFinder
I thought about what my teachers have told me and the ideas they have gave me, but what I wanted to try out was something different, which instead of going to the place again, why can't I just try out things with the images that hasn't worked out. I thought about this because if I'm not going to be using them what is the point of having them on my site. By looking at the images again I wanted to try out other things other than leaving them there which is kind of plain and basic. I thought of the idea that my teacher showed me which was to cut out a shape from a paper and create a viewfinder and then take a picture like that but instead I thought why can't I just crop my images in that style and see the final outcomes. Which I think they all have worked out successfully, this is because they all have something different in the image, which doesn't allow you to notice the whole image, meaning that it could disguise half of the image, creating a scene and emotion.
The reason why I have chosen these are because they were the most successful pictures within the selection. I think this because of the different angles and lighting the image has made, and not just that when you look at the image you think about it, you start asking yourself questions, for example it could be; What is the actual image? Why did they crop it in the angle? Was their another way you can crop the image? Could you crop the image again? Why have to chose to crop this part of the image? etc. Well when you look at the original images you think that you could do better things with these images other than them staying there doing nothing, so that we could develop them and make this useful. I have cropped them this way because the picture is less obvious and that's what makes the image more exciting and mysterious.
A Clockwork Orange
A clockwork orange film was a film of violence images and comments about the society, young gangs, political and economic subject based in Britain. The locations that were based in the film were in London, which was really local to where I live which are:
Wandsworth Bridge Roundabout
Wandsworth, London
Woolwich Barracks
Thamesmead South Housing Estate
Tavy Bridge Centre, Thamesmead
Albert Bridge, Chelsea, London
Stonegrove, Edgware, London.
Most of the film around London and the home counties that's including south-eastern counties, this is because of the architecture that south London has which was old and brutal architecture.
Wandsworth Bridge Roundabout
Wandsworth, London
Woolwich Barracks
Thamesmead South Housing Estate
Tavy Bridge Centre, Thamesmead
Albert Bridge, Chelsea, London
Stonegrove, Edgware, London.
Most of the film around London and the home counties that's including south-eastern counties, this is because of the architecture that south London has which was old and brutal architecture.
Final Outcome
My aim was to capture the film and the place it was taken, comparing the two together. Linking it to brutalist buildings and to your environment. The film A Clockwork Orange was filmed in South East London, a place where we grew up. It's like a flashback to 1970 comparing the two together and seeing the differences and similarities.
Abstract Forms
I wanted to try out something else other than taking a picture of an actual building that has a meaning to our environment. In the dark room I found some objects that could be represented as buildings. By placing them on the table and seeing what I have found I was able to make a landscape out of objects and took pictures in different compositions, making them less obvious on what they are.
My aim here was to capture the 3D models in away that it would look similar to buildings, making them more abstract. I used a macro lens, which allowed me to get really close to the subject, and to focus on other parts of the objects. When looking at the images in colour they looked a bit too busy and confusing because you don't know where to look at and the objects are too obvious, by converting them into black and white they looked more effective and more like buildings other than a few objects all together. Adding contrast and changing the level of brightness on the image made it stand out more, making the darker areas more obvious. For next time to improve my work, I would use other objects and materials to see the difference between them and which ones have worked well. I have to focus on my camera angles, to make them more effective I would try and capture them in long and short lens, or maybe even really close so all we see is lines.
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Black Light
I tried out black light effect on my images that I have taken and I've done this on photoshop. Changing your images into the black light effect makes the viewer think about the picture, whats going on in the picture and try to guess what the picture is! It's really like an effect that disguises the image and covers up everything over than tone and lines. When doing this you have to play around with the levels just to make sure it’s how you want it to be, so either really close to 0 - 100 depending on how much information you would want to share. With mine I didn't want to hide a lot but still have the little details in the picture. Once I was happy with the final outcomes I wanted to do something else to this so that it doesn't just stay there as something I tried as a technique. What I did was printed them out all in the same size and then thought of a way that I could lay all of these together in a way that would show that they all link. I placed them all in a straight line linking the corners together from the pictures, but then that didn't really work as it should have, it wasn't what I was expecting it to be. Once again I looked at all of the images and saw the dark and light areas and thought of linking them together, so I had to turn the pictures upside down so that all of the can link and the outcome is displayed on the right. The outcome only contained 5 images, because when limiting yourself it's harder to think about where all of them should go and how they would l0ok after that. But with these 5 images everything has worked out well because when I look at it from my point of view I see 2 different type of images - 0ne when I'm standing really close to it and the other is when I am far away from the outcome. When your standing far away from the image you see less of the details and the lines that separate the 5 images, so it allows it to make it a whole image, but when standing close to it you see every little detail and think it's a little outcome to what you saw before. To expand this idea I am going to try it out with more images using the same effect and trying to link them all together but also making a shape out of it.
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My Finaly Outcome For Zine
Photograms Of The Brutalist Models
Creating photograms of the brutalist building models from a book by Zupagrafika. Making photograms of the paper models made it interesting and what I mean in that is, with photograms the light either exposes it too much or too less for you to see all of it but the shape that has been cut out you would be able to see that. From a distance it looks like abstract forms but it isn't quite obvious what it is, but for more clues if you look closer to the photogram you can see little writing talking about instructions and small models on how to construct it.
Final Outcome
I discovered a book on Amazon that relates to brutalist building that has been designed by the company called Brutal London. The book contains nets of the famous brutalist buildings. After taking pictures in various ways of the models in different combinations I decided to make a series of photograms of these nets. I discovered some out of date photographic paper which was donated to my school, I was quite pleased to use the photographic paper that might have been the same as the brutalist buildings. The results were photograms of the abstract versions of the flattened buildings and instructions that were on the pages of the book.