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Flaws, Perfections, Ideals & Compromises

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Georgina Evans 0081 Flaws, Perfection, Ideals & Compromises

Imperfections

Ideals

Statement of Intent

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within the theme of flaws and perfection i like the idea of exploring architecture and buildings. i feel that scaffolding and run down buildings have an erie and interesting edge.

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i feel that ruse and ecay is also a really nice thing to photograph. It is seen as a negative or ‘flaw’ but photographed and edited with skill can prduce a beautful result with really exqusit colour and textures.

this work by aaron siskind really interests me, he takes photos of ordinary run down areas of roads or streets or posters and creates interesting black and white peices that draw your eye and create a really effective photo .

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Mind Map - Run Down Architecture

The idea that flaws are beautiful facinates me. how something perceived as a flaw can we photographed in a way that makes it beautiful. architecture is designed in a way that makes every part of a building perfect, but after time these perfections become flaws. smashed windows, graffiti, scaffolding. buildings and architecture become imperfect and are perceived as flaws within the architecure. i however find these imperfections facianting and somewhat beautful in their own way. the photos i have taken on this page potray my ideas of flaws and imperfectios. these buildings are seen as a flaw and an imperfection in he eyes of the public but i feel my photos represent the flaws being artistic and symetrcal and the way i have edited them show the architecture in an intriguing way that change the perception of the flaws.

For this mind map ideas i have tane the rust and run down peeling paint and taken my own photos exploring this idea. i found around my area and garden lots of places where paint and rust was forming on architecture and walls, i find this sort fo thing really intersting and through my photos

Mind Map - rust and decay

i feel i have changed the perspective that these things in nature are ugly or flawed. i hope to have photograpghed them in a certain wa that makes an interesting photo to look at. i have kept the photos almost the same with little editing as i really like the colours emerging. the green moss against the white wall i think gives a really nice contrast in colours.

also the brown brick being exposed behind the blue paint i think gives a really nice effect and adds to my idea of flaws as the flaw has been exposed here and creates a really interesting photograpgh. i feel these photos realte to Aaron Siskind who i really admire and have taken a lot of inspiration already in this project. to improve these photos i would maybe edit some in black and white to really link them with Aaron Siskind, but for now i am just collecting some ideas from my mind map to widen my ideas and knowledge and give me a really good starting point for the project.

i think there is a certain bueauty in differnces in peoples appearance and scars and bruises can be photograpghed in a way that makes them beautful even if theyre seen as a flaw.

Scars & Bruises

Ferdinando Scianna

Ferdinando Scianna started taking photographs in the 1960s while studying literature, philosophy and art history at the University of Palermo. It was then that he began to photograph the Sicilian people systematically. Feste Religiose in Sicilia (1965) included an essay by the Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia, and it was the first of many collaborations with famous writers.

i really like the way ferdinando scianna explores the idea of perfection. the symetrical patterns relfected on the face of a perfect model really encapsualtes the theme of perfection and is very contrasting to my other photographers research which explores the oposite which is flaws.

Irving Penn (June 16, 1917 – October 7, 2009) was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn’s career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake, and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally and he has become a fashion photograpghy icon. Best known for his fashion photography, his work also includes portraits of famous people; ethnographic photographs from around the world; Modernist still lifes of food, bones, bottles, metal, and found objects; and photographic travel essays. i like how Irving Penn has taken flaws and perfection in his own way either photograpghing what he percieves as beauty or what he percieves as a flaw. however all of his portraits have a certain beauty to them, he has captured a beautiful photo from people leaning on their faces or moving their faces. aswell as freckles which all are captured in a clever and inriguing way. i will use Irving Penn’s work and create my own photoshoot on his work and create links between mine and his. i will use a mdoel as Irving Penn has and display my own ideas of flaws and perfections through facial expressions and marks scars or freckles.

Irving Penn

Ferdinando Scianna For this Photographer interpretation chose Ferdinando Scianna to use as inspiration. i love how he uses the light to create beautful shadows on his models. i feel this relates to the theme of perfections as the light has relfected interesting patterns on someones face. i used the light to m advantage here and used objects where the light would create interesting shadows and project them on to my models face.

Irving Penn Interpreation

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for this photoshoot i have taken inspiration from Irving Penn and his work with portraits. i love how he photographs interesting people with character and definition. he also gets his models to lean or pull parts of their face and this creates a flaw in the models face. i have used my grandparents and my dad as they have a bit more character in their faces with wrinkles ect. i have copied some of Irving Penn’s facial expressions that his models do like leaning on their face and pulling their eyes to the side. i feel this shows flaws as i have taken a photo of a model and they have moved their face around and distorted it to create a flaw.

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I intervene images by applying my own perception of beauty to them. Sometimes by giving them a new identity or a different aesthetic concept. It’s the chance to give this image a new emotion, a new life, a new interpretation of beauty through embroidering.

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Jose Romussi

ose Romussi was born in 1979 in Santiago, Chile . In 2010 when he was in New York he decided that art was what he wanted to do, and there he started doing some art work envolving embroidery and painting. From 2010 to 2014 he worked with different themes like ballerinas, portraits with embroidered flowers and skulls and also landscapes, among other themes; until he came to what he is doing right now, which comes from different travels he has made along the years and which have made him see art in a different way: with a critical eye and a social perspective. I love the way Jose uses black and white photos and embroids over the top. i really want to include this technique in my final piece. the way he makes beautiful photos even more beautiful through coloured thread really facinates me and i want to create beautful outcomes to my run down photos.

Jose Romussi Interpretation I really like Jose Romussi’s ideas with using colourful thread and lines accross photos to create different perspectives.

here i have taken photos of my model and edited these in black and white. i have then used photoshop to add flowers to the first one and lines on the sencond. i have no physically sewn these lines on but i wanted to get an idea of how this would look before doing a manual edit to my photos. putting these flowers over the top really brighten up the photo as they are in colour and really create a beautful finished piece. the lines accross the models face adds definition and another interesting edit to the photo. it adds a completely different effect and changes the perspective of the shot creating an almost robotic final shot. to further thid idea i will take some of my other photos and physically embroid over the top to create a beautful effect. i will defienetly use this technique in my final peice.

Techniques Cropping

what does cropping do to a photograph? - cropping zooms in or takes away parts of a photo to give you a completely different persepctive. what is your favourite crop and why? - my favourite crop is the one where ive really zoomed into the windows, i think this creates an interesting photo with symmetrical lines. the photo started off as a flawed image and has ended up being interesting and beautiful.

Techniques Rotating

what does rotating do to a photograph? - rotating an image gives the photo interesting and different angles. it changes the perspective of a photo and you can create interesting mirror effects by rotating an image. what is your favourite photo and why? - i love the black and white rotate edit with my interpretations from Ferdiand Scissani.

Techniques Layering

what does layering do to a photograph? - layering photos and changing the opacity of the layers creates an interesting effect. i have layered multiple of the same photo on top of eachother and this has created an interesting edit. what is your favourite photo and why? - my favouite edit is the one below. i feel the lines of the architecture look really effective layered on top of eachother and relly change the orginial shot.

For this page i used card and ink to create these interesting finished piece. i folded different pieces of card in different ways to create flaws in the card. i then made these plain pieces of card colourful and intereseting, making the flaw a perfection. this is a representation of the ideas i want to convey throughout my work and photographs.

Paper Flaws

Jose Romussi

On Pinterest i found these really interesing ideas around flaws and perfections. taking the idea from Jose Romussi with the embroiding and sowing and the flaw becoming a perfection by Stephen Gill but using portraits instead of architecture and run down landscapes. i love the way the artist has taken a colour photo and stiched a different part of the face over the top slighlt adjar. this fits in with the flaws theme. i love how the embroided part of the face is edited differernt in black and white to show the difference in parts. these examples have given me a lot of ideas for my final peice. i could taken photos of run down places and buildings and then sow modern beautful areas and architecture over the top, edited differently to show the contrast. i love the idea of sowing different parts of something else over the top, and i could use this technique in my final peice. this idea also realtes to many of the photographers and artists i have researched aswell as fitting in nicely with my theme.

Pinterest flaws & perfections

Flaws & perfections

On this page i have taken a series of photos that i think relate to flaws and perfections. i chose to include a model to potray the perfection side of the theme, i have also got the model to hold bright colourful flowers which also represent this perfection idea. the flaws come in with the background. i have chosen an old rusty background where the paint is peeling and the metal is being exposed. this relates to the flaws idea. however with my idea i want to show flaws becoming perfections with the right photographic set up. i feel these photos have acertain beauty to them and the flaw has become something unflawed. i have purposfully created a background, midground and foreground to add depth and interest to the photos. i have chosen to keep these photos in coliur to show the contrast from the flower to the background. these photos are also quite editorial, i have done this as this is the field i want to go into at uni. i wanted to take photos that i know i am good at taking and that i am interested in to ge tthe best out of this course as possible.

On this page i have shown some more of the photos from the previous photoshoot. i have again used the flowers and a model to portray the perfection side of the theme. i have chosen to take photos in an old unused phone booth. i feel this shows flaws through an unsighlty buidling in a town. the glass is all scratched and there are old posters that have been ripped down to leave unsighlty marks on the glass. i feel using this box as a setting for some photos creates a really interesting background. the plastic residue on the window has created a really interesting filter in front of the model. her face has become distorted and i think this creates a really interesting effect.

i feel there contrast between model and flowers and then the phone box shows a really interesting contrast of flaws and perfections and almost maekes the flaw beautiful which is what im focusing on for this course. i have kept the photos in colour again to show the contrast between the dingy phone box and the vibrant flower, i feel the distortion on the face also reflects flaws and perfection as my models face has been distorted and flawed because of the phone box. the flowers add beauty to the whole shot with the vibrant colour. i have many ideas for a final peice using flawed run down places and adding beautiful things like flowers or new shiny buildings. i could take a photo of this phone box and manually add flowers by sowing them in or scanning them over the top. this diea realtes to Josse .. and Stephan Gill.

For this photo i used the same idea with my model and the flower and th flawed background but i have edited ti so the background is black and white and the flower is still in colour. i feel this shows the stark contrast between the rusty run down background and the big vibrant flower. i have manually show the difference between flaws and perfection and i feel this is a really interesting edit. i have layered 3 of the same photo on top of eachother to create an intersting layout.

for these photos i have kept one in colour and then one in black and white with just the flower in colour. i like the contrast between the flower and my model and the graffiti on the background. the black and white edit is really effective with only the flower in colour. this clearly shws the contrast between flaws and perfections with the pretty colourful flower and the run down graffiti’ed backdrop.

For both of these photos i have chosen to do a whole portrait of my model to really get a lot if the background in. i have chosen a run down littered background to contrast against the model and the pretty flowers. for the first photo i have decreased the saturation majorly to really create a dingy mood. in the second again i have edited the background in black and white and then just the flower in colour. this really shows the differece between the flaw and the beautiful flower.

For this image i have shown more of a close up of my model holding the flower against the graffiti backgroud. i have taken inspiration from Jose Romussi and drawn lines over this photo to enchance it and change the perspecive of the shot. i feel it really adds an interesting layer to the photo and adds more depth to the shot. the triangle around the eye draws your attention to this area where the eye could be considered a perfection. i hope to use this technique in my final piece.

Josse Romussi Interpretation

Here i have taken one of my favourite photos from the previous shoot, already edited and printed it. i have then taken a nice pink thread and embroided over the top of the image. i have threaded lines coming out of the eye like i did on photoshop earilier, i also stiched all the way around my model. i feel this realtes to Jose Romussi’s work and is a really good interpretation of his work. i wanted to do a manual version of his work to practise the technique and refine my skill for the final exam as i want to use this technique for my final photos. i feel the embroidery really adds an interesting and effective feature to the photo and creates a different persepctive to the shot. it adds to the perfection side of the theme and creates something beautful from an orginally flawed image.

Overlaying / photoshop edits For this page i wanted to continue experimenting with different techniques for my final piece. i have used photoshop to produce these two images. i took 2 of my favourtie shots from the previous shoot and i have also taken 2 images i have taken of peeling paint and rusitng keyholes. i have then placed these 2 texture photos over the top of the orginal image, i have then decreased the opacity and changed the layer edits from normal to hard light. this creates a merged effect where the second image is visible through the orginal image but almost blends in with the orginal image creating a whole new photo and a really creative and effective technique. i have made these two photos flawed by adding cracks and rust to the orginal photo whiich was of my model holding flowers. i really like this idea and will experiment more with it. i may use this in my final piece to add to my photos and show off my editing skills.

i feel both of these photos really capture the theme of flaws and perfections and i have manually created a flaw in my photography. the textures add a lot of depth to the orginal photos and add something a bit more interesting to the orginal shots. i have used inspiration from Aaron Siskind with the textured flaws and i have used my own ideas around editing to create a micture of ideas that i may use within my final piece.

AARON SISKIND Aaron Siskind was born on December 4, 1903 in New York. He was the son of Russian Jewish immigrants and the fifth of six children. After receiving his Bachelor of Social Science degree from the College of the City of New York in 1926, he went on to teach high school English in the New York public school system for 21 years. His first loves were music and poetry, but he took an interest in photography after his 1929 wedding, when he received his first camera as a honeymoon present. He began his career in photography as a documentarian in the New York Photo League in 1932. From 1936 to 1940, he oversaw the League’s Future Group as they created documentary photo essays of political importance, fueled by a desire for social change. his work focus’s on imperfections witihin urban life. cracked pavements and ripped posters and graffiti. i really like his photography and realtes to the theme of flaws and imperfections really well. i want to take these ideas and take my own photos using his work as inspiration.

Robert Cartwright

Rob Cartwright is a wedding and portrait photographer but has a passion for street photography around London. his shots show a wide variety of run down and dingy areas of london, but the way he has edited and photographed these shots is really beautiful. i love the run down effect with the dark black and white edit. i feel this really adds to the run down mood of the photo and brings out all of the tiny details that makes the area look so worn.

I really like Rob’s work and i want to create my own interpretation of this. his work portrays what i am trying to achieve through this project and i will take a lot of inspiration from his work.

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or this photoshoot i have taken a series of photos in London. i wanted to find flawed and perfect architecture to relate to my theme of flaws and perfections and to explore different architecture. i found both pefect and run down areas where i have taken photos. The top left was a very pictureesque symetrical archway that was very pretty, however the 2 dustbins in the bottom left distract away from the beauty of the architecture. the symetrcial buildings and windows in the bottom left show a perfections architecture. on the left the fire escape stairs could be seen as a flaw but edited in black and white and taken in a good way has really improved the shot and made it almost a beautful photo.

flawed Architecture

Stephen Gill Stephen Gill (b. 1971, Bristol, UK) became interested in photography in his early childhood, thanks to his father and interest in insects and initial obsession with collecting bits of pond life to inspect under his microscope. Stephen’s photographs are held in various private and public collections and have also been exhibited at many international galleries and museums including London’s National Portrait Gallery. Most of Gill’s books until 2014 were shot and created in Hackney. His earliest work was in a straight documentary style. He has gone on to create documentary style photographs in which he alters the image in a variety of ways. Coming Up for Air, Coexistence and Best Before End share a theme of immersion in liquid.Outside In and Talking to Ants use what he terms “in-camera photograms”, his attempts to “evoke the spirit of a place”; items from the environment in which he is photographing are inserted into the camera itself and included in images in unpredictable ways. I love how Stephen Gill creates beautiful pieces from dingy run down orginal images. i love the use of petals and flowers over the top of his images. i really want to use this technique in my final piece, on top of my run down architecture photoshoot.

Final Piece Ideas / Pinterest inspiration

While i was browsing through pinterest i found many interesting photos of run down areas where there was mould or peeling paint and deralict areas. for my final piece i want to explore in more detail my ideas around run down buildings and run down areas around where i live. I also want to use my theme of flaws and perfections to create a balance between the two. i want ot take ideas from the photographer and artsit Stephen Gill and his petals over the top of photos. i want to take photos of run down deralict areas and make them beautful with my skilled photography and edits but also manually adding petals over the top. i may use a scanner to create the same effect as Stephen Gill but i will have to experiment with this technique before the final exam. i like the idea of nature finding its way into even the most run down areas like it has in these pinterest photos i found. i want to combine my idea of run down architecture and areas with petals anf flowers to make the photo different, interesting but also beautful. i want to use inpiration from not only Stephen Gill but Aaron Siskind with his run down texxtures and peeling paint. i also want to use Jose Romussi as inspiriation to not only scan petals over the tp but to embroid with beautful threads to further my perfections idea. i will also use Robert Cartwright as inspiration with his run down areas and deralict places. i want to edit my photos in black and white but have the petals and threads really bright and vibrant to show the difference between flaws and perfetions within my work, to realte back to my original theme. i will buy some pretty flowers that have many different colours and experiment placing them on top of my photos, and also scanning them over the top like Stephen Gill to reveal the best method to get the exact technique i want for my final piece.

Possible ideas

Here i have taken two photos i really liked from pinterest and experimented with my idea of using petals over the top of rundown places and areas. i have superimposed petals and flowers using photoshop on the top of these images to see how it would look, as i want to use this technique on my own photos. i will create a manual version of this before the exam to practise and experiment with this idea.

Stephen Gill Interpretation

Here i have taken the inspiration from Stehen Gill and created my own interpretation of his work. i also wanted to experiment with this technique ready for the exam. i took photos similar to Stephen Gill’s of flawed things in the environment like trucks spilling rubbish, i chose my wheelie bins. i opened the lids and took a range of photos of them from different anlges. i then printed off these photos and colleceted some pretty petals from the garden and placed these over the top of where the rubbish would be. i feel this creates a really interesting effect where the petals repalce the rubbish and a flaw becomes almost pretty. i really like this idea of turning a flaw into a perfection and i will use this technique in my final piece.

More Overlaying edits

On this page i have experimented again with overlaying my photos. i have taken some of my favourite photos of run down areas and overlayed photos of flowers over the top. i feel this gives a really creative effect and changes the perspective of the shot completely. i really like this technique and i may use this in my final piece with my final photos. i have kept both of the photos in black and white to show the photos really merging together and almost coming together as one. i feel this ocvers my theme of flaws and perfections well and creates something pretty from its orginal ugly flawed state.

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ere i have taken one of my favourite architecture photos, i have taken a photo of a group of buildings that could be seen as run down. the paint is chipping off the walls and the buildings are very much old and worn. i have edited this photo in black and white to emphasis the flaw idea of the photo and i have then increased the contrast to really darken the photo. to create the perfection side of this edit i have taken a photo of a watercolour painting and layed this over the top. i have then decreased the opacity and experimented with the overlay edits. i have kept the flowers in colour to show the contrast between the flaw and the perfection. i really feel i have covered flaws and perfection in this edit and merged the two together to create a perfect flaw.

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final piece photoshoot For my final piece photoshoot, i really wanted to take a wide variety of shots so i would have lots of choce when it came down to picking my favourites for the final piece. i chose to take a series of photos around bracknell as i had been there before to sus out where the best run down places were. i found derelict areas with graffiti and abandoned machineery and equipment which i found really interesting. i wanted to take photos of lfawed areas to stay with my theme of flaws and perfections, but also as a backdrop for my perfections part which i wanted to either scan or place petals and colourdul thread over the top. i have chosen to edit these photos in black and white as they add to the dingy and dark mood of the -

flawed archiotecture and areas around bracknell. i went to an abandoned car park where there was graffiti all over the walls and shopping trollies just left to rot. i chose to take these photos on a realtively overcast day to really add to the dingy mood of the photos. I wanted to get some shots of things where i could add the petals like skips or empty shopping trollies and i took that inpsoiration from Stephen Gill. Most of these photos realte to either Aaron Siskind or Robert Cartwtight as they were my main inspiration for this theme and my ideas. i wanted to really show the contrast of flaws and perfections with the flaws side being in my enitial photos and the perfectiosn part with my manual editing in the actual exam.

In this deralict car park i found there were many parts of car parks that orginally would be there but because of the length of time it has been deralict, mould and dirt and graffiti had covered every section of the car park. i found a walkway to the stairs in the car park and this had an almost haunted feel to it with the irodecent light flivkering and the empty hallways. i chose not to edit this in black and white but to keep it very low saturation and keep the contrast up high to really show off the dirt details. above i found some old lifts. these were completely deralict and had graffiti all over them. the dingy feel of this area was perfect for a photo and really shows a flawed area of the car park. i chose to edit this photo in black and white to really show the graffiti detailing and to show the dark dingy mood of the photo. this is one of my favourtie photos showing a flaw in architecture and surrounding buildings and i really want to include this in my final piece, i feel the challenge of making this look prettier and more like a perfection will be hard but i am up to the challenge and thats why i want to inclde this particualr shot.

I Love this abandoned bentals delivery area. the shapes and aquares are all very symetrical which is seen as a perfection yet this is very run down and odd. the bins add a deralict run down feel to the area, and the whole shot is just very worn and run down. the graffiti numbers on the garage doors add a feeling of vandalsim and adds to the depressing abondoned feel of this shot. i have edited this photo in black and white to convey the feeling of depression and abandonment.

I have used the light to my advantage in these two shots above. the natural light flooding in, in the first one adds a really interesting effect, almost as if the dingy area is very dark but outside is much better. the litter all over the floor is a sign of a flaw and shows the area has been abandoned and been used as a dumping ground. the masive graffiti on the brick wall adds to the flaw idea and shows how run down this area is. graffiti is seen as a massive flaw in architecture and buildings so i wanted to capture this to show the flaw side of my theme. on the left this brickwork that has been knocked down to reveal a ladder shows how run down this part is. the graffiti adds to the depressing mood and ideas surrounding this shot. i have again edted these photos in black and white to show the mood as depressing but also to show details of the dark and dingy corners and areas of the photo. i really like this photo on the left and i think the use of light throguh the back gives a really good effect, i want to use this photo in my final piece and using petals and embriodery turn the flaw into a perfection. i will take that idea from Stehen Gill, Robert Cartwright has also inspired me in this shoot with his run down photography around london. Also the work of Aaron Siskind and his flawed textures.

For these photos above, they really capture flaws in my eyes. the destryed steps of the car park in the first one i feel show a really deralict and depressing effect. the graffiti all over the wall again adds to the flawed idea. i used the flash in this photo to almost give the shot a ghostly feel. for the second shot i found some abandoned windows with text and some of them even bordered up. i think there is an element of a flaw in any abandoned place as no life creates a flaw. this dingy almost neverending row of windows looks really effective in black and white and the angle i think is really interesting, i stood at the bottom and shot it all the way up. the third shot was around the back of some abandoned shops, these bins relate to Stehen Gill’s work and i could manually add petals to these bins. the deralict area looks really run down and flawed and the chairs just left there add an abandoned mood. The black and white edit with high contrast gives the photos that dark and dilapidated feel i want to convey through these photos.

This is one of my favourite shots from the whole shoot. ir really encaptures my theme and all of my ideas in one. there are the abandoned doors and window panes and bits of wood on the floor, but also the graffiti on the wall, and finally the deserted shopping trolly which hsa been bent, all of these features really add to my idea of flaws and gice me a great starting point to make this a much prettier and perfect phtograph using Stehen Gill’s ideas. around petals and creating a perfection out of a flaw,

My work vs Robert Cartwright Both mine and Robert Cartwright’s work are taken is very dingy run down settings, a lot of my insspiration for my final photoshoot was based on Cartwright’s work so there are many links between the two. both mine and Rober’s photos are edited in black and white and we have both increased the contrast to create more dingy and dark outcomes. both of the photos are taken in a run down area and invlove either windows or doors. graffiti is also another aspect that links the two, with writing on the window in Cartwrights on the top and graffiti all over the walls in mine on the bottom. i feel both of the photos link and look very similar becasue of the mood and edit of the two photos. Most of my final peice photos link to Cartwrights work in some way as i used him as a photographer for my inspriation.

Final piece photos & petal overlay For my final piece i have chosen 4 of my favourite shots from my run down architecture shoot in bracknell. i feel this was my most succsefull reshoot from my photoshoots in camberley and London and i am most happy with this shoot. I feel these 4 photos i have chosen encapture my ideas around flawed architecture and run down areas and give me a really good starting point for my perfections edits which i have shown here with the petals. i chose 4 of the best shots i took, but also the 4 shots that will be most effective to put the petals over the top. in these two i chose 2 of my favourite photos from the shoot but also the ones that realte mostly to Stephen Gill and also Robert Cartwright. i wanted something where i could physically place the petals where something else would go. this is why i chose an empty shopping trolly and a skip. i edited these photos in black and white and increased the contrast to really show a dingy delapidated mood. i then printed these photos in high quality on glossy photo paper. i went to a garden centre to get the best flowers i could with really vibrant pretty petals so i didnt have to pick any flowers in my garden. i chose very pretty pinks and purples to really contrast woth the black and white background. i wanted the photo to really merge and for people to question wher the petals came from and how they looked so real over the top of the irginal shot.

i picked the petals from the flowers and placed them where i wanted them over the top of the shopping trolly and over the top of the skip. i then placed this on the floor and took a photo of the finished piece with my camera. i was scared this would really reduce the quailty of the photo so i experimented with this and reprinted it to see how good the finished photo looked. i was happy with the quality so i knew that when i then printed them off in A3 it would be the same quailty as i wanted. i experimented with scanning the petals over the top like Stehen Gill but i feelthis reduced the quality of the photo because of the 3D effect of the petals creating a shadow and reducing the clarity of the shot behind. i feel taking a photo of the petals over the top makes the photo merge with the petals and creates a shot that is all in one and will make people question how it was done. i took the skip idea from Stehpen Gill as he has one of his shots with a big lorry offloading rubbish which he has replaced with petals. i love the idea that this flaw has become a perfection with the petals and the contrast between a flaw and a perfection is really clear because of the vibrant petals and the dingy black and white background. for my final piece i want ot experiment with this idea but also using thread and embroidery like Jose Romussi to create even more of a contrast between perfection and flaws. using colourful thread and string i will be able to majorly change the persepctive of the shot and soften how harsh and sad the background is. I want to embroid over the top to also show my editing skills are more than just scanning and using photoshop but also manually being able o edit photos with sowing.

On this page are my two other favourite shots for my final peice. Again i have shown the after effects of my petal overlaying. i feel this is really effective on these photos and really shows the brilliant contrast between flaw and perfection. Both of these shots involve graffiti and this was a strong idea through my project as a flaw on architecture and buildings. i wanted to create a perfection out of a flaw and i feel i have acheived that with the inspiration from Stephen Gill. i chose to use petals with stalks to imitate that these were almosy growing out of the ground. This photo i feel really relates to Robert Cartwright’s work with the graffiti and writing all ove3r the lift doors, i feel this really links with Roberts glass window shot with the condensation writing. Both my work and Robert Cartwright’s has a very big sense of depression and areas that are deralict and run down, this is the idea i wanted to get accross but with the petals creating a different mood and created a contrast from the flaw. the balck and white against the colour shows a really good contrast also showing a clear difference between the flaw and the perfection part of my photo. i feel i have really captured the theme within these photos, and for my final peice iwill not only use this technique inspired from Stephen Gill but the embroidery ideas from Jose Romussi to really show a contrast between flaws and perfections within my final piece. The light flooding in from the left gave me just enough light to make sure my photo was high quality but because the lifts were inside this still created the depressing dingy feel i wanted to convey.

In this photo on the left i have again shown the contrast between the dark and run down graffitied car park with the bright petals. I really like this photo as it shows a dirty and littered floor with the graffiti on the wall, i am pleased with the angle of this photo as it feels like the graffitied wall just goes on forever behind the photo. the light coming through the opening at the back has created an interesting clsing in feeling and the light almost symbolises the outside of this dingy car park is so much happier and brighter. i have placed the petals on this photo so they look like they are almost spilling out from the entrance. This again shows how the outside is the perfection and the beautful petals are spilling in from the outside changing the orginal flawed photo into a more pretty and cheerful photo. i really wanted to show this contrast between the moods, the depressing mood of the black and white run down area and the happy cheerlful mood of the high vibrancy of the petals. these contrasts in moods relate to my theme of flaws and perfections as they are such high contrasts. I will be using this petal overlay idea in my final piece and i will take a photo of the petals placed over the photo instead of scanning as i prefer how these ones turned out. I will also stictch over the top of these photos in bright string that is the same colour as the petals to show the similarities between the petals and the string and then the contrast between them and the black and white run down orginal photo. i will also buy frames to present ym owrk to show a more proffestional finish.

possible ideas 2 For this possible ide ai have taken my petal overlayed photos and added lines on photoshop which show where the thread will be stitched in the final exam. I wanted to practise on photoshop prioir to the exam to see where i wanted the stitching and to see whether it worked before i starting sowing randomley in the exam. I experimented with the lines and related them to Jose Romussi’s lines over his work and i am very pleased wit hthe outcome. I will be using this idea in my final piece and it will be easy to follow the lines on here with real threads.

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Final Piece

Mind Map Photoshoot

Main aim of photo shoot the main aim of this photoshoot is to create a series of photos that relate to the theme of flaws, as this is what i have chosen to focus on.

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Shutter speed range (secs) ranges from 1/80 - 1/125

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Aperture range(f numbers) 6.3 - 3.5

ISO range from - 3200 - 100

february 2nd

natural light

Photo shoot ideas my ideas for this photoshoot is to focus on the theme of flaws. i like how flawed architecture can actually look beautful with the right photograph and edit. i plan to go to bracknell or a more run down area and find architecture that has become delapidated. i want to take photos of buildings or areas that have become run down and are seen as flawed or ugly by society. i want to capture these places in a way that creates perfectino out of the flaw.

Photo shoot evaluation i am really pleased with how this photoshoot turned out. i like my variety of flawed shots within bracknell and there were lots of interesting buildings and architecture that relates to ym theme of flaws and perfections. i have edited many of these shots in black and white as i feel this really brings out the details of the buidings and the small detailed flaws. i feel the black and white really adds to the flawed effect of the photos.

Irving Penn & Ferdinando Scianna Interpretation

Main aim of photo shoot For both of these photo shoots i used Irving Penn and Ferdinando Scianna as inspiration. i wanted to do my own interpretation of their work within this photoshoot to explore their ideas and concepts.

Date of photo shoot march 3rd

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1/80 - 1/125

8.0 - 4.5

100 - 160

Light source natural - sunlight

Photo shoot ideas Ferdiando Scianna my idea for this photoshoot is to take a variety of photos that relate to both photographers i have resarched. i want to use the light to my adnvantage in the Ferdiando Scianna shoot as he uses the light to create patterns on his models faces. i have a patterened blind that creates flower shapes when the light hits it which i will use. also my garden table creates a scaly pattern when the light hits it and i also want to use this prop when taking the photos of my model. i need to make sure i chose a day to take these photos where there is a lot of sun to create the shadows i want. Irving Penn for this shoot i want to use a viariety of models that are older. i really want to capture the lines and wrinkles on their faces much like Irving Penn does, i want to focus on flaws and use this to create somew really interesting portraits. I will use my grandparents and maybe even my dad to create this link with Irving Penn and his portraits of older models.

Photo shoot evaluation i feel both of these shoots were really effective and i am pleased with the outcome. once edited these photos will look even more effective. I will edit the Irving Penn photos in black and white and increase the contrast and sharpness to really show the fine lines in my models faces. i really like the different angles have created and i have used the lgiht to my advantage to create really creative shots of my models. I feel the Ferdiando Scianna shoot was really successful and i have used the light to my advantage here. The shadows i have created are really interesting and i feel they really realte to His work. i have used a model to create the shadows over her face and i am really pleased with the patterns and shapes created.

flaws and perfections photoshoot

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the main aim of this photoshoot was to take a series of photos that relate to flaws and perfections, i wanted to create a the contrast between flaws and perfections using a model and my inspiration from pinterest.

25th march

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1/80 - 1/200

0.5 - 9.0

100 - 200

Natural

Photo shoot ideas For this photoshoot I want to use a model to show variety in my work I have been focusing on architecture and buildings so I want to experiment with a model to see a different idea that I could possibly use in my final piece. I want to take a series of photos that show a contrast between flaws and perfections as this is what I am focusing on for my magazine. I will also use some vibrant pink flowers to show a high contrast between this and a run down rusty background. I will find a run down area in my local area to use as the backdrop. To show a clear foreground, mid-ground and background I will use the run down background, my model and then the bright flowers. For this photoshoot I will gain inspiration from Stephen Gill with the pretty flowers, and Irving Penn using a model to show flaws and perfections. I will use the natural light as I want this shoot to be outside.

Photo shoot evaluation I am really pleased with the outcome of this photoshoot. I used a variety of locations around Ascot where there was rusting or peeling paint and littered areas. I also chose to take some photos in a run down phone box to show a variety in locations and backdrops. I chose a model that I had hold bright pink flowers to really show a contrast between the flaw and the perfection. I will edit these in many different ways, experimenting with Photoshop and making the flower and the model colour and then the background black and white. I feel this will really show the contrast between the flaw and the perfection.

architecture - london photoshoot

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For This photoshoot I want to focus on the idea of run down and beautiful architecture and buildings as I prefer photographing this instead of models. I want to go to London where there will be variety in buildings and a good mixture of run down and perfect architecture to coincide with my theme of flaws and perfections.

24th April

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1/40 - 1/200

3.5 - 9.0

125 - 400

Natural - sunlight

Photo shoot ideas The ideas around this photoshoot is to experiment more with my ideas around the theme of flaws and perfections but focusing on buildings and architecture. I am going ot London and i will look around to find some intersting run down areas where i can photograph and also some beautful architecture where i can realte this to myy theme of perfections.

Photo shoot evaluation I am reall pleased with this photoshoot, i have taken a good variety of shots around London including run down dingy areas but also beautiful old fashioned architecture. The light worked to my advantage as it was a really nice day, and i am happy with the angles and shots i have produced. i will edit these in black and white to really show the flaw against the perfection. i want to experiment with my overlaying skills on photoshop to add flowers and other prettier imagery over the top of these photos.

run down photoshoot - Camberley (London reshoot)

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The main aim of this photoshoot was to do a reshoot of my London Photoshoot, although i really want to focus more on falwed architecture rather than beautiful. I have found some run down areas around Camberley - a different location and this shows variety between my photos. i wanted to find areas with graffiti or scaffolding to really realte to my theme of flaws.

1st may

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Re-shoot evaluation I am pleased with this photoshoot, however i did not take any photos I liked enough to use in my final piece, so i will be doing a re reshoot for that. I like the variety between run down buidlings, scaffolding and graffiti i found on all diferent tectures and surfaces, this really relates to aaron Siskind and the run down aspect really realtes ot Robert Cartwright. I like the different angles i have created and i think these photos will look really effective edited in black and white.

final piece photoshoot (final reshoot)

final piece photoshoot

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Evaluation of Project

Flaws compromises Perception

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