Landscape, memory and light
Florie Lafon 0847279 Richard
Teacher: Richard BALDWIN Assessment Item: Practical Task 2 – Photography Now – Landscape, Memory and Light In Contemporary photography the landscape can be associated with our cultural background or our understanding of psychology. In this assignment you are being asked to develop a body of work based on a landscape that is partly affected by your cultural or personal background or your interpretation of psychology. When you select from the photographers below carefully consider the techniques they have been using and how that might help you develop your own work. You may also use techniques from earlier assignments if you feel this might develop your ideas. Three shoots for Tertiary and two for Accredited your first shoots might simply look at locations and the changing light of the seasons before the more complex ideas of memory and psychology. Due Date Range: 15/06/2015 to 19/06/2015 Weighting (%): 30% Conditions: 70% in class Includes; Work Proposal, Digital Work Flow and Artists Statement.
Research Marion Drew , Trent park Gregory Crewson , Giacomo Brunelli Massimiliano Pugliese , Marcela Paniak Javier Arcenillas , Lee Atwell
Artist Research Marian Drew Marian Drew is born in 1960, Bundaberg. He is one of Australia’s most significant contemporary photographic artists known in the world.
'The Creek that Leads to the Sea' 2008
I find that it was interested what she thought about art:
'Light sticks Lake McKenzie' 2006 Describe: This photograph is a landscape of a lake. It is taken at night and Marian Drew used different types of lighting to compose this photo. It looks like the objects that are on the lake are fontains surrounded with light. The melting effect she uses to make the light that way is called long exposure. There is contrast on the mountains therefore the sky and lake looks detailed, smooth and peaceful. Analyses: This photograph is a rule of third composition. The light of the moon straightenens in the middle of the image. The photo is dark but also comes from a purpely yellow colour which looks spooky to the eye and mysterious. Interpret: I think the photogrpaher wanted to comfuse the viewer by how she made the light melt on the lake. It is a impressive technique to perform and if done correctly it will look incredible.
'Campfire with circle 2' 2008 Describe:: “Campfire with circles” is a landscape showing mostly the sand and a bit of the lake. Marian Drew most have used few big lights to lighten up some parts of the landscape because some are darker than the other. If you look closely, There is a fire and there would have been people there aswell, but has faded away as it is maybe a 10 seconds double exposure. There is another long exposure on the lake which shows a lighten circle. It is relfecting onto the water which gives a nice effect to the composition of the photo is made. Analyses: There is a nice atmosphere of colour all around the photograph which looks welcoming. It differs from the greenish colour of the nature and the beige from the textured sand. Interpret: The photographer Marian Drew has nice taste of choice depending on where to put the lighting and how much use could be offered. She knows the balance betweena goood photo and an underexposed one, which is good.
“Art can imagine things. It can imagine a future or about how we might rethink our existing relationships. It can provide non-threatening positive images that may assist in individual's growth and change of attitude. It can stimulate our perceptual system and transform the way we think about something that is already very familiar. It can appeal to our emotions and create personal connections. Art offers way of revealing the limitations of our existing knowledge systems. Art helps create the stories or narratives through which we understand our relationship to environment.”
Trent Parke About him:
Trent Parke was born in 1971 and was brought up in Newcastle (NSW) He is an Australian photographer and believes that the way a person captured an image was influenced by their experiences as a child. Trent Parke, Dream/Life
The Black Rose is a serie who explores themes such as birth, death, pain, loss and memories. It is his quest to reclaim those early years that he lost. It comprises hundreds of largely black-and-white photographs, animations, moving-image works, text and handmade books. His subjects and themes come from everyday life and nature, and seem to have a mystery quality to them.
The Black Rose is essentially a meditation on life journeys, and the way the past infiltrates the present, and in turn can influence the future.
Describe: Dream/Life, explores life on the streets of Australia’s largest and most cosmopolitan city, Sydney. This photo shows real texture, contrast and balance between the use of black and white shadows or lightning. The use of contrast is used 100% on the side of the photo. The lighting is shown at the back of the photo. Trent Parke, Australia, born 1971, Limestone Coast, South Australia, 2007 Describe: This black and white photo is a landscape. In the centre there is a plant with horns standing up. It is white at the top and black on the bottom. The contrat of the photo is used on the side and brightened on the centre of attention “the plant“. The sky looks cloudy and stormy. So Trent might of taken this photo before the rain. The sky is lighter than the nature which shows balance. Analyses: This a rule of third photo, taken at eye level. The plant texture looks sharpened soo it looks more striking. Interpret: This photo explores the theme of death and loss because the movment of the curvy lines of the sky and the use of contrast. I dont know, it just looks that there is something missing to him when he took the photo.
Analyses: It is a rule of third composition of the photo. It is taken fromt the perspective of the little boy view of the city. Interpret: Trent Parke said: “I wanted to present a truer version of Sydney – with lots of rain and thunder storms, and the darker qualities that inhabit the city – not the picture-postcard views of Sydney that the rest of the world sees. I also wanted to make images that were poetic, but I actually found the city to be quite ugly in terms of the amount of advertising and visual crap that clutters the streets. I found I could clarify the image by using the harsh Australian sunlight to create deep shadow areas. That searing light that is very much part of Sydney – it just rattles down the streets. So, I used these strong shadows to obliterate a lot of the advertising and make the scenes blacker and more dramatic. I wanted to suggest a dream world. Light does that, changing something everyday into something magical.”
Gregory Crewson
Gregory Crewdson was born in Brooklyn, New York, on September 26, 1962. The photographs are shot using a large crew, and are elaborately staged and lighted. “In a Lonely Place” by Gregory Crewson
Describe: This photo shows a story scene of a women standing outside of a neighbourhood. She looks sad and thinkful. While she is standing there, there is a man in the car waiting for her to come back in since the car door is open. Analyses: This photo has movement and life as it is taken from our general life perspective. It is not depicted from a fantansy story but the reality of things. This photo is a rule of third composition taken in colour. The lighting looks very interested of how it is use further from the car and shadowed behind it. Interpret: The women looks shocked and undecided to go back in the car as something has happened. She is not looking back at the camera but in open air which creates the story.
In his visual mosaics Crewdson engages our relationship with time and space to challenge the trace of experience. His tableaux act as a kind of threshold or hinge of experience between interior and exterior, viewer and photograph. His photographs are a form of monism in which two forces (interior / exterior) try to absorb each other but ultimately lead to a state of equilibrium.
“Protect me from what i want” by Gregory Crewson
Describe: This photo shows a little young man waiting outside the caravan looking at the nude lady that is standing there looking back at him. The moon light lightnens up the scene and depicts some of the colours of the nature. The scene is reflected onto the water on the ground which looks interested to be honest. Analyses: This is a rule of third composition taking at eye level and far away from the situation that is happening. Interpret: It looks like the little boy was coming back to his home from school but surprisingly he sees someone else that he didn’t expect. It is why his posture is soo blanck.
Series: Eternal London, 2012-2013 Brunelli born in 1977 in Italy, takes his photographs during daily early morning walks, randomly choosing a person to follow before focusing his camera on them. Working discreetly, Brunelli often uses a removable viewfinder, to be able to photograph his subjects from waist height and other unusual angles, such as directly from behind and with extreme close-up. He protects their anonymity by obscuring their faces while exploiting light, shadow and contrast to imbue his images with a dramatic atmosphere and a feeling of claustrophobia.
Describe: This balck and white photography is a men reflection on the rainy ground walking with an umbrella. The city life of the towers is reflecting aswell but looks faded and blurry because of the rain. Analyses: This photo is taken in down angle shooting at the ground to have that effect reflection. Interpret: He followed this men discreetly to capture a memory and an emotion. He find that it was interested how he walking, is reflection was the same dimension height as the tower next to him.
Animal Photography by Giacomo Brnuelli
Giacomo Brunelli used the skills he had acquired to track down animals, shooting them in a noir-ish style that made them seem singled out or stopped in their tracks, sometimes startled. “I grew up surrounded by animals in Perugia, a very green part of Italy, so I used to look for animals, chasing them
Aji Susanto Anom
"This Too Shall Pass" - Bali - Š 2014
Describe: This landscape in black and white of a beach is sublime! The sky looks stormy and full of anger. There is a dog in the middle of the photo lying down looking up the sky. His position of looking up really stands the photo out because it represent that there is something going on which creates a story to tell. Analyses: The contrast of the clouds and the sand manipulates us into a dark environment. I really like how the contrast is used all around and then it brightness up at the waves creating a snowy texture. The dog doesn’t have any form of texture like the enviroment surrounding him, he/she is just pure black. Interpret: This photo is full of meaning! The dog may seen to have that impression and emotion that the heavy rain is coming soon since of the stom.
Aji Susanto Anom is born in 1989. He is a street photographer from Solo, Central Java, Indonesia. His photos are fictional historical record from his life. He only shoots in black and white to capture a memory.
Aji Susanto Anom (Indonesia) - Street Photographer
Massimiliano Pugliese He is born in 1970, Rome, Italy
The photographer get lost deliberately in these enigmatic parallel landscapes in order to look for images that registered deeply within his memory and in his Ego.
The characters in these images find themselves totally alone, lost in gloomy atmospheres, almost as if they were looking for some sort of protection. Like nocturnal insects, they are attracted to sources of light as if the light could provide a safe shelter from the deep, enveloping, ever-looming black.
“I need a guide” by Massimiliano Pugliese Describe: This photo is a landscape of a mountain envrionemnt with a foggy orange sand air sky taken at night I assume. Far away, there is a girl standing at the edge with a torch, looking lost. It doesn’t look like it is hot because of what she is wearing; a raincoat and a hoodie. Analyses: The rocks of the mountains fuses with the colour of the sky. “I need a guide“ by Massimiliano Pugliese focuses on a large landscape but interface with a lost girl looking for her way home. The colours diffuse from a reddish colour to a orange brown colour. Interpret: In such a big envrionment like this one, i understand why the photo is called “I need a guide“. Getting lost seems wonderful he said because it is where he can capture the most beautiful, unexpected scene ever and different from what we see in our everyday life.
“I need a guide” by Massimiliano Pugliese
Javier Arcenillas
In India, the world's second most populous country, tens of millions of people live, eat and sleep in the streets. Every day, I discovered how human bodies filled the corners, how the asphalt (and dirt) roads were blanketed with entire families who each night had to brave the elements, the wet ground, the rats, crows, and garbage. Many families have nowhere else to go. A shortage of housing—or worse, extreme poverty—force these groups to remain on the streets. Indeed, the further I explored, the more I realized that these sleepers were simply an integral part of the urban nocturnal landscape. These images of the dalit (or "untouchables") sleeping all over Kolkata impressed on me deeply from the first moment I saw them. This is my testament.
Lee Atwell But Atwell's photography is not only internal. Her best work conveys the sense of external intimacy and shared personal space that are the hallmarks of all great street photography
“In street photography, the lightness and the darkness around us fascinates me. The questions of how our outer world can reflect our inner world and can somehow be intuitively an extension and expression of ourselves"
“Winter's Reach” by Lee Atwell
lee_atwell_004_morning_light Her experience of taking photographs is part of a mediative experience that enables her to be present within her surrounding environment. This sense of connection reflects Atwell's deep-set empathy with her subjects and her surroundings—an empathy that is borne through her images.
Light and shadow, both.
Architecture/Design
Ideas
Early Morning Photography: -before sunrise -shoot with fog would be nice - long exposures of lights
Types of Fog Radiation fog occurs frequently in hilly and mountainous areas. This type of fog is formed by the cooling of land after sunset by thermal radiation in calm conditions with clear sky.
Advection fog is different as it is sometimes referred to as sea fog. It also causes fog in coastal areas as it flows over colder air lying on the ground that has cooled down due to radiation. Evaporation fog: This fog occurs when cold, dry air travels over warm water or land that is moist and warm. When water in the warm and moist water or land evaporates, it rises and mixes with the cold air layer. Upslope fog: This fog usually happens during the winter in the mountains. Light winds push the moist air lying on the ground up the slopes until it reaches a saturation point and condenses. With freezing fog, the water droplets contained in the fog become super cooled.
Fog can be used as a very powerful effect if you can emphasize the lighting, depth and outline of your subject.
The benefit of shooting in the fog is that it can diffuse the light source and appear that the light is coming from all angles.
Photography in fog,
mist or haze can give a wonderfully moody and atmospheric feel to your subjects. However, it's also very easy to end up with photos that look washed-out and flat.
Double exposure Painting with Light - "Light Streaks" Technique by Toby Keller.
Painting with Light by rafoto. Painting with light is a fantastic photography technique where you illuminate parts of your scene with a torch or other light, to add emphasis and colour to certain objects during a long exposure.
Mick Ross - Surreal Long Exposure Photography
http://www.photographymad. com/pages/view/paintingwith-light
Experimenting with my photos relating to the landscape, memory and light project
My photography
Aji Susanto Anom I’m using his techqnique of a black and white meaningful story using animals and a wild landscape.
Manipulations of my photography’s
Taken at lake griffin park
Raw
Snowy forest
light forest
Steps of Manipulations:
Layer 1 is the photo that you want to put on top of the background.
Shooted at day tme at the lake griffin park. It was sunny day with a blue sky, no clouds.
So on the setting at the top: 1. click layer 2. click layer style 3. then click blending options 4. You are then going to see that big box that you can see on the photo above. 5. To make this beautiful night sky, I choose “Multiply“. 6. You don’t have to choose “multiply“but other format that are attributed in.
You can aswell change the lighting and darkness with the “curves” box from image, adjustements, and then simply “curves“
Fire vision Fantasie theme - visions of lights
Raw photo
light house
Raw photo
Memory
The Splash
High ways
Work proposal
I want to create a serie of bodie of work with different locations that touches with the theme of fantasie. Each photo will have a unique touch of feel and colour or simply be in black and white. I will use the technique of “manipulation“ and “double exposure” to compose each photo. Each one of them will follow under the rules of memory and light. They will accept the concept to view and find their way back to the passed to overcome their fear of loosing something that their lost a while ago. The fantasie will affect the memories! Those photos are taken from my unconscious! Sometimes I have those dreams where I find myself in a fantasy world surrounded with people I knew but had problems with. I don’t know what that could mean but I wanted to represent some of my landscapes that are sometimes in my unconscious mind in this project. Colour always been a big part of my life! It always been around me, on me and in my photography/art projects.
Double exposure is a photographic technique that combines 2 different images into a single image. I got this idea from my art project essay. Fantasie is
an activity of imagining impossible or improbable things.
The unconscious mind consists of the processes in the mind that occur automatically and include thought processes, memory, affect, and motivation.
My unconscious/ subconscious mind
When you become asleep your conscious mind sleeps as well but your subconscious mind remains awake. At this point the true connection between dreams and the subconscious mind starts to appear. This is when I start to see myself in a world full of colour and mystery. It appears that i am in different locations each time for example: the lake, the forest, the ocean and fire explosion. Those following locations are shown on the photos that I took and manipulated around. If i am concerned about problems that happens in reality, I am sometimes abble to use my subconscious mind to show it in my dreams in order to remind me of it or to help me to solve it. I don’t know how I do that exactly, but only sometimes I wake up knowing how to fix it, which is a good thing.
Subconscious Mind
In psychology, the subconscious is the part of consciousness that is not currently in focal awareness.
Memory: - Sorrow - Vision -Powers of recall - Mind -Remembrance -Echo -Commemorative -Dim (is something that you cannot remember very well because it happened a long time ago) - Foggy -Forgotten - Haunting - Memorable -Redolent (reminding you of something) - Unforgettable - Blurred - Erasing - Long/short - Researching
Memory/ light/ fantasy (landscape) Ideas to call each photos
fantasy:
light:
- Immortal - Farytales - Unrealistic - Beautiful - Imaginary - Dream world - Creativity, - Fancy - Invention - Originality - Vision - Speculation - Daydreaming
- Flashing - Bright - Star - Radiation - Visibility - Illumination - Glowing - Luminosity - Shinny - Sparks - Flame - Strikes
Pictures are resourced from google images.
Tim horn glass artist My photography
Looks like a jelly fish
This first shoot was taken at 11:00 am at the lake griffin park, where I just shooted my dog “Sky“. She is 4 years old now and is apart of the Lafon family.
Photoshoot 1
This second shoot was taken the same day and place as the first one but shooted the environment like the lake, the forest and the landscape. The time that this shoot happened was around 2:00 pm
Photoshoot 2
This third shoot was taken around a small lake at 7:00 pm
Photoshoot 3
This fourth shoot was taken in Singapore (April 20th - 27th 2015) I was at this music light festival show where those flowery colourful sculptures would play music and change colours. It was an inspiring night to be honest and very beautiful.
Photoshoot 4
Edited photos
The meaning of this serie is called “Something missing“ Those photos are night landscape. The different lights are a symbolism for searching something missing.
Something Missing
Green Redolent
Fire Vision
Mysterious Forest
Green Redolent
High Ways
Pathway
Fire Vision
Night forest
Researching
The fisher man
Beautiful Radiation
Cold night
Haunting
Bright Illumination
Frozen Memory
Remember Me!
Come back!
Violet fantasy
The Splash
Spooky green
Green ghost
Green Nutrition
Jungle splash
Volcano Irruption
Enter my Wildness
Global Warning
Volcano irruption
Sunnies
Emperor sunset
The three orange lines
You are my sunshines
Lost in your mind
Green Nourishing
The three orange lines
You are my sunshines
Questionaire/ Answers
Why did you choose to manipulate the photos?
To be honest I always manipulated my photos in my own time. It is one of the techniques I first started to use when was introduced to Photo-Shop when was 12 years old. In Canberra, there are not a lot of lights flashing around so I thought that fusing another photo will only make my work stronger and it personally did.
Is it a hard technique to use?
It isn’t a hard technique to use and to pull it off. You just have to try and experience with the different effects attributed and then changed. It is a matter of searching what you want to do with it and think why you choose that fusing effect in relation of the official theme.
What is the meaning of the photos behind it?
Well those photos are really personal, they are taken from my deepest imagination of my unconscious and subconscious mind. The photos refer from my lucid dreams which are different colourful lights flashing around the perfect environment that I like.
What do they mean to you as an artist?
Exposing those photos out to reality is strange for me because it is what I dream about. So it is like I am sharing something to the world to be honest.
Why do you dream about being in a forest at night?
To be honest, I hate to be surrounded by a forest especially at night and being alone. It is the place where I never go and it is weird that I do dream about it so often. I don’t know why, but when I dream about it, lights flashes from one dominant spot to another like if something or someone wanted to tell me something.
Is your dreams repeated or changed over a period of times? My dreams repeat itself a number of time, the longer was a week and then it will change strangely.
Artist Statement:
Overall I did four photoshoot that I am proud of. It didn’t took me long to get the ideas from. I started experimenting with the techniques I liked and then setted myself with the theme that was shown depending on them. It always been a pleasure to work and edit. I spend almost all my free lines working on this memory, light and landscape project to make the very best out of it. There is nothing that I would change about my work. I put all my time and love to the photo’s and they mean personally my subconscious mind of dreams. I can relate to them as if I was again dreaming which is a good experiment to interpret and remake what i see imaginary into reality. My work is involved of three series: “Something Missing“, “Frozen Memory“ and “Lost in my mind“. “Something missing” involves the multiple radiant lights researching for the memories whereas “lost in my mind“ interfere with the memories inside my subconsious mind. Lastly,“Frozen memory“ expresses a full story starting from the beginning to end. Giving in 8 images.
Remember me!
Come back!
Violet Fantasy
The Splash
Green Redolent
Fire Vision
Mysterious Forest
Immortale
My photography
outside of school conserning this project. At vivid 2015 sydney
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