Harold Edgerton
Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton also known as Papa Flash was a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device.
Gordon Mangin
Los Angeles-based artist, Gordon Magnin, produces work that is a perfect combination of his education, talents, and environment. After receiving his Masters Degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture, a bachelors of science in structural engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno, and completing studies at the Mountain School of Arts, Gordon finds himself in a city that is visually influenced by celebrity and Hollywood advertising.
Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist and collagist. Most of her work consists of black-and-white photographs, overlaid with declarative captions, stated in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed text.
Zoom blur
This was a task that I did much earlier in the course where I would take a photo of a subject and very quickly zoom in and then back out again while the shutter was open. For this I needed quite a low shutter speed as I would have to do the zoom movement in the time that it stayed open. Because you zoom in and out so quickly while taking the photo it leaves the subject relatively clear yet gives the extremely effective zoom technique that Dominic Harris manages to capture very well.
WWW: I managed to capture the technique replicating Dominic Harris ver well in my opinion as the subjects of the photos have stayed clear yet I have still managed to get an effective zoom blur effect. I also think that I managed to get the right settings on the camera to take the clearest and most crisp images possible. This means that I got the shutter speed at the right setting and had the camera in the right lighting.
EBI: I feel as if my images are far too similar as they are all in very similar surroundings with a repeat of subjects. I feel as though my images would've been much more effective if they had been in different surroundings and with a wider range of subjects potentially including objects rather than people and maybe including objects in transit such as a car or a train.
EBI: I feel as if my images are far too similar as they are all in very similar surroundings with a repeat of subjects. I feel as though my images would've been much more effective if they had been in different surroundings and with a wider range of subjects potentially including objects rather than people and maybe including objects in transit such as a car or a train.
Force of Nature
First response
In this task I set out to capture pictures that represented man vs nature around the school. I looked for overgrown nature that covered buildings, walls and fences. I aimed to capture the colours around the school and also find places where there was a combination of nature and architecture.
WWW: I managed to capture a lot of good pictures of nature vs man and managed to source places where plants are overgrowing onto walls and buildings.
EBI: I could've taken more variation of natural things not just plants.
Formal Elements - Some of the formal elements that I used in my work are focus and colour.
EBI: I could've taken more variation of natural things not just plants.
Formal Elements - Some of the formal elements that I used in my work are focus and colour.
Nadav Kander
This photo is of a nursery hat has been destroyed by the events of Chernobyl. This relates back to the task I was doing as it shows a place where humans used to live completely destroyed and also how humans acts destroyed places.
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This image is a room in a building in Chernobyl with trees growing out of It. This links back to my task as it shows a building where the windows and the chairs both man made things have been destroyed but there is still trees growing in the building.
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This image is a picture of the main square in Chernobyl completely abandoned and with the sunset in the background. This links back to the task that I did as it shows the nature of the trees completely destroyed by humans as a nuclear accident caused the town to be completely abandoned.
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Nadav Kander HonFRPS is a London-based photographer, artist and director, known for his portraiture and landscapes. Kander has produced a number of books and had his work exhibited widely. He received an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society in 2015, and won the Prix Pictet award.
Half Life was one of his projects where he went to Chernobyl, Ukraine to capture pictures of nature In man made buildings that have been destroyed due to a nuclear explosion in 1986.
Half Life was one of his projects where he went to Chernobyl, Ukraine to capture pictures of nature In man made buildings that have been destroyed due to a nuclear explosion in 1986.
Second response
Architecture vs nature
In this task I had to capture images of architecture using the negative space formal element to capture the kind of images that I have taken. The negative space allows the images to have an extremely powerful look as they make the images scale massively enlarged. For example the images that I have taken have made the buildings in the images look much bigger than they actually are.
WWW: I managed to capture the negative space images as well as putting them in black and white.
EBI: I should've taken more complex images and maybe should've taken some more.
EBI: I should've taken more complex images and maybe should've taken some more.
Simon Phipps
Simon Phipps is a fine art photographer operating in the UK and has captured a wide variety of subjects. However, when we came across his Brutalist Prints series, we immediately saw something special. While photographing Brutalist architecture is nothing new, Mr. Phipps' approach and execution is something very unique. We were able to speak to the photographer about the series and understand his ethos and vision.
My response
In this task I set out to recreate Simon Phipps work. I did this by taking photos of the architecture of the school and using photoshop to reflect them onto themselves which leaves me with the images I have now. These images are a very good representation of Simon Phipps work in my opinion.
WWW: I managed to recreate Simon Phipps work quite accurately and it shows a lot of qualities in both my photographing and photoshop skills. I think it is a very powerful piece as it is quite a nice image to look at and it took a lot of editing which creates the powerful effect that I feel as if I have achieved.
EBI: I feel like I could've made my work a lot more diverse as all the images are quite similar in the way they are taken and edited. I feel as though if I had taken a bigger range of images and edited some of them slightly differently, my work might have been much better.
EBI: I feel like I could've made my work a lot more diverse as all the images are quite similar in the way they are taken and edited. I feel as though if I had taken a bigger range of images and edited some of them slightly differently, my work might have been much better.
Homework
In this set of photographs I was in Iceland and took images of the local nature and environment in order to capture the images that I am left with.
WWW: I feel as though the images that I took are very well taken and they really capture the effect that I was trying to capture because I took a lot of time to get the right photo and it took a lot of attempts. This meant that I was left with very striking images in my opinion and they really show exactly what I was trying to achieve.
EBI: I feel as though I should've edited the images more to enhance them even more as I feel as though if they were edited they would be better than what they are.
EBI: I feel as though I should've edited the images more to enhance them even more as I feel as though if they were edited they would be better than what they are.
Applied force
In this task I set out to replicate the work of Francois Delfosse by using different types of coloured paper and a few other materials to make the paper look like a real world surface. I did this by getting very close to the paper with the camera and using the flash to enhance the actual look of the paper.
Francois Delfosse
Francois Delfosse is a Belgian artist. Francois says that his images, which are representing air, where taken in a “glacier cave just North of the South Pole”, then he added that they were “viewed from the inside of a plastic bag”. I really like his images and the actual idea, that he didn’t just take a photograph of a glacier cave, but made this through a plastic bag. I think that the concept of these series of his artworks is quite interesting and unusual – “Antarctica in a Bag“ which therefore makes his work unique and memerable .Francois Delfosse also works as an architector, and these artworks are also very beautiful. I chose this artist because I personally believe that his work is very thoughtful and he shows this by using simple object such as a plastic bag and creating a scenario such as “Antarctica”. I will use his technique by using a plastic bag, however I will focus on change the colour for example I will put a material over the camera lens and the do my photography through this I will manipulate his work for my own to be different .In Photoshop I will also use lower exposure to make the images slightly dark by just Deeping the shadows. Through this I will create a mood for my audience which will be calming and intriguing. This will relate to my theme environment because I will be using a plastics bag that will show space and also give a image of ‘Antarctica” just like Delfosse has.
White paper test.
In this task I had to use a piece of paper and make it into as many things as possible and capture them.
WWW: I managed to take a good number of photographs of many different things of the paper.
EBI: Some of the photos could've been a bit crisper and better focussed.
EBI: Some of the photos could've been a bit crisper and better focussed.
Brendan Austin
Photographer Brendan Austins’s Paper Mountains are situated on the border of reality and fiction, blurring the lines between photograph and nature. Each mountain is in fact a printed photograph of a mountain, worked and crumpled to replicate the peaks and shadows of the American West Coast, New Zealand , and Iceland. Austin’s mountains, protruding against blank whiteness or extending to the corners of the frame, are simultaneously false images of the landscape and the landscape itself. Existing as both the subject and the means of representing that subject, they question the reliability of the photographic medium to capture truth without contest.
Second response
WWW: I feel like I have massively improved my work with my second response and I think I have got closer to what I was looking for. I used my knowledge of aperture and shutter speed to achieve more of the effect that I was aiming for and I feel that some of the positions of my pictures really improved the look of the images.
EBI: I feel like I could've taken a few of my pictures closer to the paper rather than a shot from further away.
EBI: I feel like I could've taken a few of my pictures closer to the paper rather than a shot from further away.
Levitation
This is a task that I did earlier in the course. I would get people to jump and move their legs in the air and I would capture my subjects mid-air which would leave me with a levitated subject within my image.
WWW: I took a good selection of photos that replicate someone levitating and also some of the images are taken in a way that show the subject looking as though he is doing something else such as walking on an object or something like that.
EBI: I should've taken another set of photos in another response which would've left me with a much wider range of levitation images.
EBI: I should've taken another set of photos in another response which would've left me with a much wider range of levitation images.
Edward Mybridge
Eadweard Muybridge was an English-American photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. He adopted the first name Eadweard as the original Anglo-Saxon form of Edward, and the surname Muybridge, believing it to be similarly archaic.
Light painting
For this task I used the light painting technique to create shapes within the image. I did this by going into a dark room and using the manual setting on the camera and putting the shutter speed on BULB which means that the shutter opens when you press the capture button and closes when you press it again. Because of this setting I was able yo get somebody else to use a torch or a glow stick to draw a picture using a light. Because the room was dark and the shutter was open for the whole time the images drawn with the torch comes out in the image that I am left with.
WWW: I think that I did well at achieving the effect that I set out to get as it clearly portrays a picture within the image that I have taken. I managed to achieve a wide range of colours and shapes in the process of taking them and they clearly replicate the work I was trying to replicate.
EBI: I feel as though if I had managed to take more pictures in a darker place with better torches it would've created a more powerful image as the brightness of the room and the transparency of the light mean that it doesn't give the same powerful effect that a pitch black room with a high brightness torch would've created.
EBI: I feel as though if I had managed to take more pictures in a darker place with better torches it would've created a more powerful image as the brightness of the room and the transparency of the light mean that it doesn't give the same powerful effect that a pitch black room with a high brightness torch would've created.
Ink in water
In this task I would put ink in a bowl of water and capture the exact moment that the ink spread across the water leaving me with the images that I have.
WWW: I executed the effect quite well and edited the images in a good way that increased the colour.
EBI: I feel as though I should've done a second response with much more ink as that would've given me a much bigger amount of ink being spread around the water which would've left me with a more enhanced image.
EBI: I feel as though I should've done a second response with much more ink as that would've given me a much bigger amount of ink being spread around the water which would've left me with a more enhanced image.
Second response
Reflection - Force final piece
In this task I captured the canals of Amsterdam and used that as a reflective surface to portray the nearby environment. I then put my work into photoshop and used the hue and saturation settings to make the whole image black and white using the greyscale saturation. I then erased the parts of the image that I wanted in its original colours such as the canal and the sky and this revealed the effect that I have now achieved. My main idea for this piece was to show a sense of old and new within the same place. I thought that Amsterdam was the perfect place to do this as it has very modern boats and bridges among other things however it still retains a lot of classic architecture and housing as well as the nature shots were taken in Amsterdam's oldest and most historic park. This meant that I was able to capture both old classic things which I have edited to be B&W while being able to capture new things or modern additions to the older things within the same photograph. These are the parts I have left in colour so I feel as though all of this combined is what has left me with images that I see as very well taken and edited as well as a very good and powerful overall end product.
WWW: I managed to use photoshop in a very effective manor and I achieved the effect I was aiming for and I feel like I have really enhanced my shots. I also think that the choice of making a certain part of the images B&W shows off a sense of old and new that I was trying to achieve. The effect of black and white also puts the attention to both sides of the photographs which make them very effective in my opinion.
EBI: I feel like I could've maybe been a bit more exact with my erasing as I have accidentally revealed a very small part of colour that I din't want to reveal. I also feel as if I could've gone further with the idea of old and new and travel to a place that has both elements of new architecture and living ways as well as a more tradition place. This would've given me images that are slightly more powerful as they would be much more effective in showing what I wanted to.
EBI: I feel like I could've maybe been a bit more exact with my erasing as I have accidentally revealed a very small part of colour that I din't want to reveal. I also feel as if I could've gone further with the idea of old and new and travel to a place that has both elements of new architecture and living ways as well as a more tradition place. This would've given me images that are slightly more powerful as they would be much more effective in showing what I wanted to.