Photography a2 level 1

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Level 1: The set up _______________ Textures and surfaces __________________

Serena Mackintosh C.N 13 12

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______________ Indoor objects ______________ ______________ Textures ______________ ______________ Colours ______________ ______________ Patterns ______________ ______________ Close ups _____________ ______________ Stephen Gilll _______________ My interpertation ________________

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TEXTURES

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n This photo shoot, I was concentrating on doing close ups of objects surrounding my home, in order to achieve a good quality of the detail and texture of the subject. Overall I think I have achieved it in this photo shoot. Overall I took a photograph of twenty to thirty objects located around my home. I wanted to get a range of objects in order to have a range of Material and outcomes in my work.

focused on hard and soft surfaces to achieve this result, I realised how there appeared to be different results from each material. Generally the softer material, when zoomed into, became more hard and become almost lattice like, creating a different result to what I would of thought. As can be seen below, of a matterial of straw. From far away, we would consider this to be a gentle and soft ma terial, but when zoomed in the true state of the material is restored. The material looks as if it’s a hard surface and the viewer can see the lattice formation that has been used to create the material.

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imilarly the hard surfaces then became softer after zooming into it. However the state was restored to looking to harder surface after some editing in camera raw.

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n this photograph I was using a peice of yarn, which I then spread out over a table. I then took photographs from different angles, and choose the best ones to keep and feature on this page.

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his photograph was my favourite out of the collection. I like how the yarn seems to spread out over the table, but seem to cluster towards the left corner of the page

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also like my work with yarn as the pieces seem to be ever lasting and never run out and create a cool effect to the image.

o enhance this image, I went into camera raw and uses enhance tool to Create more detail and clarity to the image. I also used white to create a strong contrast between the table and the yarn. It then creates a striking image and creates a really great effect to the image.

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n this photograph I decided to do a close up of a hard surfaced object, my backpack. My back pack is made out of leather and when zoomed in,it creates a pattern and texture effect.

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hen zoomed in it creates the effect of a uneven Surface and a pattern effect on it. To enhance the photograph I used clarity to make the detail of the image stand out and to add to the effect of the surface.

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then also used contrast, to lighten the contrast and therefore stop the interference of light acting on the bag.

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This photograph was different to the objects, I used previously in this photo shoot. I like how the wood carving has been enhanced and that you can see the groves of the wood panel or ‘veins’ on it.

I cropped the image to remove some of the carpet that followed the stairs and to focus the viewers attention on the wood, as that the key focus of the image.

In order to do this, I used camera raw, to level the lighting of the image aswell as creating a sense of lighting within the image.

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Colours

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n this photo shoot, I was concentrating on capturing burst of colours located around my home.

wanted to follow the same fundamentals from my earlier photographs, such as close ups in order to capture the most striking images, but also focusing on capturing colours and richness in the subjects.

Again I focused my photo shoot on both hard and soft surfaces, however I did

also try it with reflective surfaces, such as the

cans of coke on the top right image of this page.

I thought this worked well, as the silver back ground of the metal structure of the can, really helps to emphasise the colour of the cans. It helps to guide the viewer#s attention towards the colours and adds to the overall effectiveness of the image.

I really like the way this material has turned out. I like how I zoomed in to get the greatest amount of detail out of the subject. I also like how it enabled the threads of the material are shown facing towards the viewer.

I furtherer enhanced the image through the use of camera raw. I used saturation to really heighten the colours used in the subject, to make the object stand out. I further enhanced it through the use of clarity to show the clearest detail in the image.

Overall, I think the angle I took the photograph, was successful as it revealed different layers

of textures within this one photograph, both on the material but also showing the texture of

the surface used to place the object. The blandness of the surface, helps to attract the viewers

eye attention towards the rich colours of the cloth, and helps heighten the viewers attention to detail.

In this image, I was trying to telescope in to

the detail of this material. I really think this was successful as you can see the individual

thread of the texture, and it was successful for my task of capturing detail.

The material already had really rich colours contours and threads, but by doing this zoom in, it was really effective in enhancing these.

I then went into photo shop’s camera raw, to then further enhance what I wanted to achieve out of my art piece.

I used clarity, to increase the quality of the

image. This helped to the viewer to see each individual thread in the material, and clearly

see all the detail of the material and the colour.

I then went onto saturation on photo shop, to enhance the colour richness of the material.

This resulted on mixed results. First, I like how this created the richness of the cloth and made the material stand out in the artpeice, which was my aim. However it increased the noise of the material and almost made the art peice overwhelming and too striking to the viewer. _____________________________________________________________________

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In this photograph, I wanted to capture the Colours and texture of the marble floor. I really like the striking effect the marble has and how the various lines that follow it, create an impression of veins, as if it reaching out.

I like how I zoomed in to capture the quality of the lines, this really helped the drama of the colours and the lines.

I also used the colours of the marble, to create the conflict between the light acting on the marble, and the natural rich blue of the marble. To enhance this, I increased the saturation of colour in the marble, this helps to embrace all the various colours found within it, and create this sense of conflict between the colours shown in this art piece.

I also used clarity in the camera raw, this helped the lines and the colours to become more clear and striking to the eye, Overall, this helped to make the image become more mood felt and have a greater impact on the viewer.

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In this image, I wanted to capture the detail of the flowers on the printed bag. Again, similarly to the previous photo graph, it resembles the vein like quality, which seems to be never ending, and go off in different directions.

In this image, I was focusing again on close up of the

image as-well as preservation of the original photograph.

All of my photos up to this point, have been heavily edited

and manipulated. I wanted to stand back from that, and let

the close up of the image, to become the art piece and edit it self.

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In this photo shoot, my aim was to capture a pattern in objects, around my home.

I used objects that has texture and that appear to be in line with continuous arrangement around them, thus creating a pattern in the composition.

I found out overall, the best outcomes where the photos I took using the wooden textures, they were the best in creating both textures and pattern within the composition.

To further enhance these images, I have used camera raw, to increase the quality of the photograph to get the achieve my aim.

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In these photographs, I wanted to capture the repetition and the pattern created by the wooden board. In order to get the most detail, I zoomed into the each panel, and attempted to get the grooves in each panel. However, in order to get the whole panel, in focus, I had to move further away and therefore causing the detail to lessen.

I then went into camera raw and increased the clarity of the image and averaged the black and white in order to create a neutral lighting to the image. Then I decided to copy and paste the image four times and change the direction of the image, so then it appeared to become a lattice within the works. I like how the repetition then creates a never ending pattern of the wooden panels in the composition.

The image behind was heavily edited, and thought it would be a good image to

have as the background. As it imeditaly attracts the viewers attention and shows

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In this photograph I was concentrating on the repetition of the wooden panels of the wooden heater box, as well as the texture of what lays beyond: the metal pipe work in the machine. This photograph captures my intent of repetition and of textures. I like how in this photograph you feel as if you can almost reach out and touch the texture of the metal clogs, therefore engaging with the viewer.

In order to achieve this, I had to make the image lighter and enhance the clarity of the image, in order to focus on the metal clogs. In order to do this, i increased the lighting in the composition and lowered the influence of black in the composition. This made the image become lighter and then let the metal beyond to be seen. I then increased the clarity of the image, to get the optum detail of the metal, to make the image become interesting to the eye, and spark interest in the viewer.

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Main aim of photo shoot

Date of photo shoot

The main aim of the photo shoot was to capture photographs of textures and materials of objects, both hard and soft textured.

Monday the 8th of June 2015 Light source Artificial lighting, lamp

Shutter speed range (secs)

1/50 1/100

Aperture range(f numbers)

ISO

2.2 - 5f

320- 3200

Photo shoot ideas Close ups and increase the apperture to increase detial of subjects and materials Use a range of products to get a mixture of different textures.

Photo shoot evaluation I thought the closer I zoomed ito the object, the better example of tectures and materialI had on my magazine.

Also by catogrizing the different textures into groups, was effective and trying to create different shapes and textures through different objects.

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tephen Gilll

‘ His photo-accumulations demonstrate a tender vision factored out of experience; alert, watchful, not overeager, wary of that mendacious conceit, closure ’

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he photographer, Stephen Gill was born in 1971, in Bristol the United Kingdom. He became interested in photography during his childhood years, due to influence from his father.

Who was interested in insects and collected many matter from a nearby pond,which were then investigated under a microscope.

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han as Stephen’s interest began to manifest, his father than taught him how to develop prints in their own darkroom. This then sparked him to pursue a job in the local, Bristol based photography company in 1985. His work consisted of copying and restoring old photographs as well as helping within the process of taking photographs.

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even years later, in 1992 he enrolled in the photography foundation course at Filton College in Bristol. Two years later, he began working full time in a onehour photography session. He then went to work at the Magnum Photos agency in London, first as an intern and then full-time. In 1997 he left Magnum to become a freelance photographer, working on commissions to shoot portraits for newspaper supplements,and editorial,whilst continuing to make a variety of personal photographic series. He lived and worked in Hackney, East London, until 2014.

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n January 2003 Gill bought a basic 1960s box camera made by Coronet for 50 pence at Hackney Wick market, near where he lived. The camera had a plastic lens, and it lacked focus or exposure controls. The market was a large ad-hoc car

boot sale on the site of the old Hackney Wick Stadium, a decommissioned dog racing track near Hackney Marshes. He used the camera to photograph people and the environment at the market over the next two years.

As well as what, and how, Gill photographed, the pictures are also distinguished by the unpredictable and poorly rendered images from the camera.

_____________________________________________________________ ‘‘ Part of me was letting go and rebelling against this stage that

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Outside In was produced as to make a series of photographs for the Brighton. The images offer us views of the seaside town that are distorted and obscured by objects Gill has found on the streets and beaches and placed inside his camera before shooting, His aim was to capture the spirit of the place in the images and to evoke the feeling of the area at the same time as describing its appearance. Gill took various chances with his work and installed diferent techniques untill he was happy with his work.

The results included some highly detailed macro recordings amongst and within the landscapes and portraits. Gill says how he ‘‘likes to think of these photographs as in-camera photograms in which conflict or harmony has been randomly formed in the final image depending on where the objects landed.’’

In order to enhance his images, he has also used a magnifying glass to concentrate the Brighton sunlight onto some of the negatives in order to define the markings directly onto the image. Some of the negatives I dipped in the sea. I was imagining and hoping the finished series would be like the regurgitated contents of a giant vacuum cleaner.

The subject matter of the photograph is a urban area, with high-scale building in the background, and what appears to be pieces of matter printed or placed on top of it. which contains within a duck.

I think this art piece was inspired by his father who had an interest in insects and matter, therefore having their debut on Gill’s artwork.

An image of Gill’s ‘Inside out’ collection.

The mood of the photograph is contradicitng. The colours used in the photograph of the buildings are light and breezy colours that comfoting to the viewer. However, this is then comparimised by the matter that has been scanned on top of the art work. It contains very dark and heavy matter, that compared to the photograph makes it feel alienated from the whole subject matter.

This photograph has been heavily stylised, which is a theme in Gill’s ‘inside out’ exhibition. Gill has used a scanner, to scan in the objects of the insects and matter onto the artpeice. This shows that they photograph has had a deaper meaning to it, and that there was a purpose behind the styling of these images.

The photograph also conveys a sense of conflict and the issue of class. I think the high scale buildings represent the wealthy, and the bugs and the matter seem to be represent the forgotten. There was allot of social up-heave, due to the mines closures and the housing shortages. I think the photograph represents the people’s view of being forgotten, and treated like insects, which is features in this art piece.

What interests me about this art work is how there still appears to be a relationship between the artwork. How the objects and the subject seem to relate and create a similar bond with the photograph and enhance it. I like how one can put objects on the surface of a photograph and add a deaper layer to the image and enhance it.

Space is represented as contrasting, the orginal photograph is distant and there seems to be a lot of positive space within the image and there seems to be a distance between the viewer and the infrastructure. This then contrasts with the objects and the matter on surface of the image that are spaced quite close together. It seems quite claustrophobic and it plays on someone worst nightmare of close spaces and vermin it makes the viewer think claustrophobic. To show how there aren’t similar subject matters.

I think the added bugs and objects around the photograph is affective as it creates an extra layer of relationship. I like how even though both subjects matter have no clear realation apart from belonging to the same artpeice, they seem to become one and become appropriate.

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I took inspiration from Gill’s work, but instead of using urban areas for my subject I used landscapes.

In this photo shoot, I was concentrating on taking images of nature and using thescanner at school, to scan in images I found surrounding the location of the photo shoot.

I carried on similar properties to my previous photo shoots, where I zoomed in to the object to make sure I get the most detail and quality of the images. I then followed objects in the photo shoots, where I used choose objects that I fought related to my photograph.

I wanted to create my own interpertation of Gill’s work, i wanted to follow his theme of using objects to add to the dimensions of my work. I wanted to follow his theme of making the images seem eiery and almost hauntingly in the viewer. I went about achieving this by going into camera raw and editing the images, by altering the clarity, saturation, monitering the black and white bars etc. I then wanted to take the idea of placing objects onto something further, by creating layers with existing images to add to the effect of eieryness to the viewer.

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In this scann, I wanted to create a contrast which almost creates a conflict within the composition.

I organised the flowers in order on the front half of the composition, then on the bottom half, following ideologies of Gill’s work I used hard materials such as the wire, decaying leaf and a crunched flower.

I wanted to create a conflict between these two sections of the compositions to create a juxtaposition of ideas and thus create a tension within the composition.

To add to this effect created, I edited the image in camera raw on photo shop. I increased the clarity to create a sense of drama and add definition into the compositin. I then increased the whiten panel and increased the black therefore creating high levels of contrast, adding to the effect and mood of the image.

In this image I wanted to show how this

conflict has resolved and how the heavy ma

terial has concequored the beauty of the flower, and therefore infertritating it. I

think again the image connotes drama and

conflict and the use of the heavy metal colours helps to re-inforce this.

In camera raw, I then increased the clarity to crates the heavy detailed look to the image. I also decreased the saturation of the image to create a mood to the image and to convey what I was trying to acheive in the image

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In this scann, I used one flower which then streamed out into different panels being covered by some metalic. I then scanned this into the computer and used camera raw, to increase the saturation of the image and then invert it. This then caused the image to have different colours that saturation could not acheive. I like how this has caused there to be clear defiinition between the various layers.

My main aim in this photogrpah, was again to convey a eiery tone to the photograph but also to capture the beauty of the image. I thought by using saturation helped to achieve this.

I then also varied the use of black and white to create this glistening outline around the flowers. I think this adds to the eieryness of the flowers, this is because of the darkness of the main subject of the composition in comparison to the light around the outline of the flowers. It creates a supernatural sense to the image.

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In this image, I used a scanner to scann in some of the flowers of the pot into the school computer. I then put the scanned image onto the original photograph of the flower pot. I then edited the image in camera raw, to decrease the saturation of the scanned image, then I placed it onto the orginial photograph.

I then went onto photoshop and changed the layering setting onto ‘multiply’ so then the image therefore shared the black and white colouring of the flowers.

I then made the scanned image fill one half of the page and keep the other half the original. therefore creating the effect that can be seen on this image.

My intention behing this image was to create a sense of conflict within the image. I did this by changing the colours of the first half of the image to black and white and leaving the other half, to it’s original colour. This then creates a sense of seperation and difference within the composition, as there are two different sections with different colouring, thus creating a dramatic mood within the image.

Main aim of photo shoot

Date of photo shoot

The main aim of the photo shoot was to take photographs of outdoor landscapes, which then I intended of using as a background to scan in objects.

Monday the 15th of 2015 Shutter speed range (secs) 1/50

1/100

Aperture range(f numbers)

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Light source

2.2 - 5f

320- 3200

Natural lighting

Photo shoot ideas - Take a variation of nature photographs.

- Take close ups of objects in the surroundings, to ensure the best quality and the best texture of the objects.

-Then scattered arround, to pick up objects that relate to your image.

- Or images that can be irornic to the photograph.

Photo shoot evaluation I thought the oucome of the quality and definiton of the subjects I have chosen for textures where really high quality. By zooming in, it really helped to capture even greater amounts of texture within the object, therefore creating a good photograph The only thing which didn’t go so well, was using apperture. Some of my photographs where blury and didn’t capture all the definiton I wanted to.

Manual edits

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In this photograph I wanted to mimick the winding motion of the flower stems

and petal of the original image. To do this I used strands of string, to feed

through the holes or gaps in the paper, I made by using a scalping knife. I then

gently fed the peice of string through these holes and made them seem as if

they were winding through the stem, mimicking the action of the original photograph.

After threding the string through the holes in the paper, I then re-scanned the image into the computer again, and created a two dimensial art-peice.

My aim was to capture the essesence and life of the original photograph.

When I first looked at the image, I thought the winding of the stem was an interesting action to it and I wanted to mimic this in my manuel edit.

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In this composition, I wanted to again capture the essense of the photograph.

In this image, I noticed the hard material that seems to be layered in zig-zag lines behind the subject of the flower. I thought that was a good subject to use in order to capture the essence and decided to mimick by cutting up the composition into sections.

I used a scalping knife to cut zig zag’s across the page, mimicking the action and the repition of the material behind the image. I then re-arranged the composition back in order and created the composition from a A4 size sheet into a interesting and dynamic composition.

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In this composition, I re-arranged the pieces of the composition in a different order. I followed the same ideologies of my previous manuel edit and then altertered and re arranged the composition. I did this because, I wanted to show the sense of conflict within the composition.

I first represented this with the use of material against the beauty and the softness of the flower. In order to create this conflict, I cut up the compositon and rearranged it, to create a sense of conflict and miss indetification.

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