St Pauls Catholic College PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZINE Yr 12 Exam Work
These are my AS Level final exam images inspired by photographs by J.T Burke, including image “A Beautiful Ball of Life�. I really like the way the images portray an unexpected quality of the natural world.
Ellen Kenrick
Nicole Sensier
My exam theme was Freezing MoHon, AJer experimenHng with water I decided that was the path I wanted to go down and venture on. I decided to use flour first with hair, However decided that wasn’t as effecHve water. AJer having a couple of trials using water I had decided this was a great route to take and explore. Using water made it extremely tricky to capture the movement, this meant I had to capture hundred of photos to capture the movement the human eye could not capture. This concept of capturing something the human eye couldn’t gave me the moHvaHon for this project.
LOUIS B RYA N T FINAL EXAM PIECE
I B E G A N B Y TA K I N G PHOTOS OF MY MODELS JUMPING. I THOUGHT THIS C R E AT E D A N I N T E R E S T I N G , S U R R E A L E F F E C T. I T H E N EXPERIMENTED BY ADDING MOVEMENT TO THE SHOTS. I TOOK SEQUENCES OF MY MODELS JUMPING WHICH T H E N C R E AT E D T H I S E F F E C T. I C H O S E T O M A K E THE SEQUENCE INTO A V I D E O S O T H AT I T M O T I O N WOULD BE MORE FLUID, THIS WAS INSPIRED BY VA R I O U S C R E AT O R S O N VIMEO. I THEN DECIDED TO COLOUR THE VIDEO U S I N G PA S T E L T O N E S A S I F E LT T H I S W O U L D ENHANCE THE VIDEO’S D R E A M L I K E E F F E C T. I N A D D I N G T H E F O O TA G E O F THE BOKEH LIGHTS, THE S PA C E - L I K E E L E M E N T WA S A D D E D . I A M E X T R E M E LY HAPPY WITH MY OUTCOME.
Emily Delaloye
‘This is a photograph of me when I was 17, with my first husband. We had 30 happy year together until he sadly passed away’
After interviewing and spending time with an elderly lady named Betty I started to understand how peoples possessions, mainly photographs, portray peoples lives. I took journalistic style photos around Bettys house and inverted them to show how although they have significant meaning to Betty, they are still just objects/rooms. I decided to display my findings in A series of photographs but also a short film.
These are some screen shots from the short film I made about Betty. She spoke about each photo.
Ignorance is bliss By Em TruscoW
These are my four final pieces from my exam quesHon ‘Story Telling’. These pictures are taken by my Hasselblad medium format camera and then scanned digitally. I chose this camera for the colour and contrast it produces. These images are inspired by a photographer called Gregory Crewdson, he sets up scenes for the audience for them to produce their own interpretaHon of the picture. ‘Ignorance is bliss’ represents the ignorance of society-‐ the lack of awareness of what happens behind closed doors. It depicts the dominance of the family and how certain people may feel mentally alienated and alone, however physically close they are to others. The cinemaHc and animalisHc features connote the unrealisHc and mindful phases of people alone when surrounded by others.
My exam theme was story telling. I was parHcularly interested in the style of Izima Karou’s Death sequence. My final piece represents the transiHon from childhood to adulthood. Olly Moors
JUSTIN SAM RUTLEDGE
My exam theme was Freezing Motion, I experimented with the use of paint and strobes; this allowed me to develop my own personal response to the theme. I used a mixture of paint and strobe lighting to capture movement in a very unique, personal way.
As shown above you can see how I used a range of brush marks and techniques to capture movement in my images, I feel it has work affectively and has given me a personal out-come very individual to my project.
Chloe Smithers For my final piece I decided to create a confidenHal files with images of people with certain ‘abiliHes’. These photos are some of the images I used for my final confidenHal file that explored the way people who are different are seen to be outcasts and are seen to have no idenHty. I was inspired by photographers such as David Talley and Alex Stoddard who both concentrated on surrealism; a topic that has inspired me throughout my photography project.
Michael Emmins
The Natural World - Amelia Luckett
Every item can hold millions of unnatural qualities, and when captured from a different angle, I hope I can show the ways in which one simple product of nature can take on so many different appearances and forms.
“I try not to invent; I try simply to translate the weird language of the natural world. And I’m not into absolute ownership of things” - Alice Oswald
“The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world – to put on blinders and avoid seeing it – would for me seem like a form of madness. I’m also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures” - Rick Bass