Monday, 30 January 2012
Unit 2 - Exam Project - Mind Map - Life Cycle
The ''Life Cycle'' Project is a mini project inbetween Exam unit we did that ties into theme of life experiences and we use this project to gain ideas.
Friday, 27 January 2012
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
The Light Project - Evaluation.
For this project I was required to learn different types of lighting, research the background of it, find out about artist who use light, but to also create our own light drawings with film SLR, and digital SLR with different materials such as; torches, lazer pens, Glow Doodle on the Mac's and experiment on Adobe Photoshop. This project involved doing some research about artist and the history of light and when different types of light came into practice, it also involved experimenting yourself and learning how to use light in different ways for example the best lighting for a still life portrait on a model. It also involved me improving my Adobe Photoshop skills in going back on my original images and trying to improve with maybe enhancing the colours, overlaying images. etc.The aim of this project was to learn more about light and then for us to put into practice and producing our own final outcomes.
For this project i looked at 3 different artist who had done some light photography, each looking at it in different ways, Pablo Picasso, Patrick Roachon and Eric Staller. i Learned different things from all artist but what they all had in common is the majority of images created were unintentional and were randomly designed. In particular Patrick Roachon, were he would named his images after looking at them saying and saying that first came into his head. This inspired me in my own work.
Having looking at these artists, i decided to have a the same approach and try to ''go with the flow'' and not try and plan my images as you will see and come out with randomly designed effects. i mostly took this approach with my experiment with the digital SLR and my own digital camera which is my 2nd mounted sheet.
Overall i was please with my final outcome but also other pieces i had created along the way. With this project i tried to think outside the box in what i could take pictures with as i don't have my own digital SLR or film SLR, so i decided to take some on my mobile phone and see the effect as i felt it's relevant as we are constantly on our phones. I am proud that i have improved my photo shop skills but also my attention to the quality of prints in the darkroom, this project has given me confidence in being a great photographer. Some images hadn't had the same effect once scanned through and uploading to my blog so i was a bit disappointing at that.
I was pleased with all my images and very happy with this project, the amount of detail i concentrated on shows through my blog and my 2nd mounted sheets. i would like to take light paintings,drawings and images in the future as i enjoyed doing so.
For this project i looked at 3 different artist who had done some light photography, each looking at it in different ways, Pablo Picasso, Patrick Roachon and Eric Staller. i Learned different things from all artist but what they all had in common is the majority of images created were unintentional and were randomly designed. In particular Patrick Roachon, were he would named his images after looking at them saying and saying that first came into his head. This inspired me in my own work.
Having looking at these artists, i decided to have a the same approach and try to ''go with the flow'' and not try and plan my images as you will see and come out with randomly designed effects. i mostly took this approach with my experiment with the digital SLR and my own digital camera which is my 2nd mounted sheet.
I was pleased with all my images and very happy with this project, the amount of detail i concentrated on shows through my blog and my 2nd mounted sheets. i would like to take light paintings,drawings and images in the future as i enjoyed doing so.
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Improving my prints by using Adobe Photoshop.
After producing 2 mounted sheets, 1 for my darkroom prints and another for my digital SLR prints, i decided that i wanted to work backwards and improve my photoshop skills at the same time and overlay the images to see what kind of effect i would get.
For this one, i used photoshop to enhance the colours of the stencil by using the path tool and brush tool |
Again, using photoshop by simply overlaying images and adjusting opacity |
Again this was edited on photoshop again used the paths tool, brush tool and adding and deleting layers, |
this was a previous light painting i made above then going back to it and overlaying with other light drawing i have taken with my digital camera. |
Friday, 13 January 2012
Other Light Experiments
light experiments made on glow doodle |
another image made on glow doodle using a UV pen |
one of the portrait SLR prints using photoshop to overlap |
another experiment of two overlapped images |
additional still life SLR prints |
additional still life prints |
additional still life prints |
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Wednesday, 4 January 2012
Christmas Holiday Homework Part 1
For the Christmas holiday we were asked to some of our own images relating to the project light. As it was the festive seasons I used some of Christmas decorations in my images such as the LED lights and decorations on the tree, the images were taken on my digital camera quickly making lines whilst the picture was being taken.
Digital/SLR film images based on the Light project
Here are some experimentations reinforcing the project light using a torch with different coloured tissue paper over the top to create different colours. With adjusted the shutter speed for 10 seconds.
I also experimented wit a laser pen also having the shutter speed on 10 seconds.
I then lead on to doing some more images with a laser using a SLR film camera adjusting onto the B setting, allowing you to hold the shutter button down for aslong you want to take the image.
I then lead on to doing some more images with a laser using a SLR film camera adjusting onto the B setting, allowing you to hold the shutter button down for aslong you want to take the image.
shutter speed 5 seconds,filter 3,5 aperture 11, exposed 2 seconds. |
test strip - filter 3,5 aperture 11, exposed 2 seconds. |
shutter speed 10 seconds,filter 3,5 aperture 11, exposed 2 seconds. |
shutter speed 15 seconds,filter 3,5 aperture 11, exposed 2 seconds. |
Still Life/Portrait Contact Sheet, Test Strips + Prints
Here are some images of still life experimenting with life, I took some with an SLR film camera but most of them was not successful and I only had one best print, the rest of the images were taken with my digital camera.
The rest of these images were taken with my digital camera with objects I collected around my house that reflected light, I experiment with my camera settings and these were my results.
Still Life image with SLR film camera, Aperture 11, Exposed 2.0 Seconds, Filter 4,5 |
The rest of these images were taken with my digital camera with objects I collected around my house that reflected light, I experiment with my camera settings and these were my results.
We then moved on to a portrait workshop and using others member of the class as models and using artificial light, (lamps,studio lights) to emphasize certain features or hide them away.
exposure 2,5 seconds aperture 8 filter 2,0 |
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exposure 2,5 seconds aperture 8 filter 2,0 |
exposure 2,5 seconds aperture 8 filter 2,0 |
exposure 2,5 seconds aperture 8 filter 2,0 |
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