Level 1

Level 1 - ‘The set up’ T E X T U R E S AND SURFACES

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LAYOUTS MAGAZINE

I have chosen these magazine layouts because I find them all interesting too look at, and I think that they make the photographs and the text look very professional.

I also like some of the bright colours that some of them have used, for example the bright yellow colour. I think that this was an effective colour to use because it stands out very well but does not look messy. The advantage with a colour standing out is that the viewer will be drawn to that page so they will want to read it and see what is on it. I also like how some of the text has been put in a large font and has been filled with a picture- and think that this is interesting and different and makes the page overall look much better.

I hav e ch os outs again en thes e very inter because magazin e e lay that looki sting too I find th e ng a azine m al look t l s wil l a caus l hel ayouts o t. I thin k p e f inspi I will be me in m real mag a ra y work tion fro ble to ge work be t m o w ther ideas an to se hich wil d l t p fessi mine ou help me ieces o t f o t alot naly. I li effective o be abl e ke o ly I hav f these m the use and pro e fou a nd, t gazine l of text i that ay hi n it fonte is very e s is beca outs tha ff t u d out w title. I ective to se I thin k u t what ell- and hink tha se a larg e t m t is, so he title akes you it stand s o to be you know f the pie aware o ce o f what f wo the b looking y o r u are k at. I ottom also has g o i i m n g lik a b I think that finding these magazine layouts is going to help me out alot with maksligh een laid ge maga e how i n zi tl ing my photography magazine. This is because I will be able to take inspiration o effec y slanted ut. I like ne layou t t from what I see and apply it onto my own work and it will help my work to be laid how see i ive beca I think i t is that use t so out professionaly and look effective. I will experiment with using different layyou it is t h i s dont very is outs in my work and use the ones which I think look the most effective. I will also new and c usually experiment with using different fonts on my work, and different sizes of that font. I reati ve. think that a large font size for the title is interesting with small text around it. This is because I think that it dosent look like too much text has been included in the page so it dosent look messy, because it has been seperated by a large fonted title.

aaron

siskind

Aaron Siskind was an american photographer and was involved widely on the abstract expressionist movement. Siskind’s work focuses on the details of nature and architecture.

He presents them as flat surfaces to create a new image out of them, which he claims stands independent of the original subject. Early in his career Siskind was a member of the New york photo leagure, working with the group he produced several significant socially conscious series of images in the 1930’s.

Siskind found emotional joy and tensions in the process of discovering subjects and photographing them in such a way as to emphasize his reading of the world as essentiually abstract, a series of echoing forms, lines and textures. I have decided to look at the work of Aaron Siskind because I think that his work is very interesting and links in well with the theme that I am looking at of textures and patterns. I have started to interpret some of his photographs, for example the lines that have been painted on the road I decided to take a very similar photograph to that. I did this because I think that he takes excellent photographs of up close textures that not everyone would think to be nice to look at. I also like how he has put alot of his work into black and white, I think that this emphasises certain areas and allows you to see both the blacks and the whites in the photograph, and certain areas are highlightedwhich is were the focus point of the image is bound to be. I think that Siskind has photographed a very interesting set of textures and surfaces, and ones that you wouldnt focus upon on everyday life. For example the first photograph on the left is paper and graffiti that has partly been ripped off of a wall. I think that this is a really interesting texture to look at because it is messy and ragged but there are many different areas to look at, and I think that ripping it slightly makes it look much more interesting. My favourite photograph of Aaron Siskinds is probably the graffiti on the wall, this is because I think that it is such a simply photograph but it is made to look so interesting. I also like how it has been put in black and white as I think that it looks much more interesting, As it is a close up of the wall you can see all of the different textures and markings on the wall, which again makes the photograph look much more interesting, I plan on looking at Aaron Siskinds work in more depth and beginning to do more interpretations of it. The one interpretation that I have done of his work is in my texture and patterns work and was the photograph that I took of the lines painted on the floor. I found Siskind’s good and effective because aswell as just being able to see the line that has been painted onto the ground, you are able to see the actual texture of the floor and were all of the cracks are and the dents- which makes the piece look much more interesting by just being able to see these small elements.

STEPHEN GILL

The photographs in this series were made in Brighton and Hove during 2010.

They feature objects and creatures that Stephen Gill scooped up from the local surroundings and introduced into the body of my camera. Stephen Gill is a photographer that was born in 1971 in Bristol, he was taught out to produce photographs in his own dark room that he had at the house he grew up in by his father when he was a child. He used a magnifying glass to concentrate the light onto the image to etch markings directly onto the image.

Stephen Gill 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 galliers and museums including Londons National portrait gallery.

I think that Stephen Gills work is very interesting to look at because of the use of all the different colours and how some areas look much brighter than others. I also find it interesting how he has taken a photograph of a person or a landscape and then has scanned images over the top of that. I think that this is really interesting because it is very different to alot of other photographers work, and it makes the images look more interesting to look at as a whole. If the objects over the top of the original photograph were not added then they would look simple and boring, but my simply scanning objects over the top of a photograph much more is added to it. I also like the use of colour in Gill’s work, this is because he has used a variety of bright colours that stand out well and they all go together well.

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T E X T U R E S AND SURFACHAVE FOUND IN MY ENVIRONMENT

I have photographed a variety of different textures and surfaces that I found in the environment that I was located in. I have photographed different objects such as the sole of my shoe- I thought that this was interesting to photograph because you could see a different pattern on the sole of the shoe and when I edited it on camera raw it made it look even more interesting because it highlighted certain areas. I also photographed objects such as paint on a board, I think that this looked ver y interesting because it showed a wide variety of different colours and because they look messy it looks good with the theme of textures.

I have photographed a variety of different objects here that I found in the surroundings that were near me. The first one on the left was of a spray paint board which I found, I decided to photograph this becuase I thought that it looked like a very interesting texture. The second photograph that I took was of bark on a tree. This has been made to look like a much more interesting texture after it was edited using camera raw. This is because I edited it so that it was in black and white, I think that this looks very effective becaue it allows you to see the details of the bark more, and where the lighter and darker areas are. Another object that I decided to photograph was a brick wall, again I think that this has been made to look much more interesting after it has been edited. This is becuase I again edited it into black and white, I increased the contrast so it allows you to see the darker areas and highlights the lighter areas which I think was very effective. The next object that I decided to photograph was somebodys hair close up. I think that this is an interesting texture because you are able to see it close up and can see the split ends and different pieces of hair going in other directions. I edited this picture on camera raw and decided to put it in black and white because I thought that it allowed you to see the shape of the piece of hair better and made the photograph look more interesting as a whole.

TEXTURES AND SURFACES

I have photographed a variety of simple objects here that I thought had an interesting texture of surface. The image to the left is a shed and had a scribble in some sort of white pen which I thought made it look interesting. Even though it is such a small marking I think that it makes the shed overall look much more interesting because it adds to the surface of it. I decided to put this photograph into black and white because I thought that it made it better to look at because in enabled you to see all of the markings clearer, as there is also mud on the bottom of this shed.

Black and White enhanced the darker areas so it allowed you to see where the lighter areas are in the picture. To the left I have photographed the sole of my shoe and also the toe of it. I think that this is a very interesting texture to look at up close and it photographed very well. This is because you cna see some small pattern which you would normally notice, but up close it has been made to look very interesting. Again I think editing these photographs into black and white was effective because it allows you to see the lighter areas of the photographs and the darker areas in more detail, and more clearer. I have begun to look at the work of Aaron Siskind and I have tried to interpret some of his work in my texture and surface photographs, that is why I have decided to put many of the photographs in black and white because I think that it makes them alot more interesting to look at.

I decided to photograph these because I thought that they looked very interesting. This photograph was taken of a shed that is outside in the school that I go to. There are many scratches and words that have been put onto the shed and I think that that makes it look inetresting and different and looks good with the theme of surfaces and textures.

There is also dust on this shed and words and different lines have been marked onto the shed. I then edited these photographs using camera raw, I think that camera raw made the photographs look much more interesting because it made certain areas lighter and certain areas darker which enables you to see the markings more clearly.

I based this photograph on the photographers work Aaron Siskind. I found his work very interesting to look at and I think that it links in well with the theme of textures and surfaces that I have been looking at. I edited the photograph on camera raw and then used four of the same image, but rotated them so that it looks like a mirror effect. I think that this was very effective because it links in well with the theme of surfaces because the lines on the road that I have photographed join up together well, and this creates an interesting surface.

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E V A L U A T I ON I think that the work explores the topic very successfully- this is because you can tell that the aim of the photographs that I took was patterns and surfaces, because that is what they are all of, and that was the main focus of why I took these photographs. I think that this work could be taken further by making manual edits, taking more photographs of patterns and surfaces, and also scanning more objects which have a nice pattern or surface. I think that my work links in well with the artist that I studied Aaron Siskind, this is because I took inspiration from his work so that I could get ideas when producing my own.

I have taken risks with ideas because I have photographed certain objects or surfaces which look quite boring, but once edited they look much more interesting to look at because you are really able to see there surface and pattern.

I understand about this topic now that everything even a boring simple object can havea an interesting surface, and also by editing it into black and white it makes it much more effective to look at.

For this topic which is based around textures and patterns I have created a variety of different pages were I have taken a variety of different pictures of different textures and patterns that I have photographed, or scanned. The techniques that I used in the production of my work were using camera raw to edit the photographs that I took. I also rotated some of the images once I had transported them onto indesign so it looked like they had been mirrored. I also scanned some patterns and materials which I found interesting to look at. The ideas that I explored were photographing textures and patterns that I found interesting and editing them into black and white on camera raw. I think that black and white looks effective because it draws your attention to some of the darker and lighter aspects so you know what the main focus is of the image. Ideas that I didnt carry on with were with some of the items that I scanned, I decided not to use all of these because I didnt think that they were effective enough to use.