AO1 - Develop ideas through sustained and focused investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and critical understanding.
Brainstorms
Mauren Brodbeck.Mauren Brodbeck is a Geneva-born artist with a multi-faceted talent who breaks down the barriers between different forms of expression to bring to life fiction-images with many layers of meaning combining the real and the virtual. She first studied art, then continued into film making and producing short films. She graduated in photography and design from the Art Centre College of Design
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These are some examples of Mauren Brodbecks work. She has taken these landscape photographs and then editied only one main feature to create the image she has. There is something about this work which is intriguing, probably the brightly coloured 'block' against a simple background or foreground.
My three Brodbeck style photographs.
Photoshop
We were given task the to create three of our own photographs into a Mauren Brodbeck style photograph. To do this I photoshopped the image.
Ideas Sheet
Kevin Baurman - 100 Abandoned Houses
Kevin Bauman is a Denver based photographer specializing in architectural, interior, and industrial photography. He is better known, however, for his personal, documentary style, projects such as 100 Abandoned Houses.
Niki Feijen
Niki Feijen is a dutch photographer who specializes in documenting and capturing historic architecture and abandoned buildings. Each photo fuses together the conflicting notions of beauty and decay and corresponds with his desire to capture and silently communicate with his audience about the subject’s very essence.
Travel/Movement
Brian Yen 'Hong Kong City Movments'
Brian Yen is a global photographer and in this series of work - his Hong Kong City Movements - he focuses on the travel and the rush there is of life by having a long exposure set on his camera. The series of photographs inspired me due to the beauty that is portrayed in the style of his photographs, which he took for the Hong Kong City Movements they are vivid colours. However the movement that is a blur in the photograph are brought out more than the still life, because the lights and different colours that are captured, in the movement, stand out against the dull cityscape colours. This helps us to concentrate on the movement of the photograph Brian Yen achieves these photographs by using a long exposure on his camera. He takes this photographs in an overcrowded and populated area of Hong Kong city.
This image of Brian Yen's captures the colours, movement and the contrast between movement and still life. The movement that Brian Yen has captured shows the contrast between the two greatly due to the bright vivid colours that he portrays along with the impact that he captured of how life is literally a blur around you.
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This photograph of Brian Yen's inspired me through my work because of the stillness of the man obviously walking to work whilst there is a blur of rush around him. The colours in this are predominately red against the greys and bland colours of the background. In this image it simply a man walking through a road filled with constantly moving buses. This photograph has been taken with a long exposure during a busy time of the day in the busy Hong Kong City.
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Christopher Martin 'Motion Panning'
Christopher Martin uses different aperture speeds to get different outcomes of his photography and also uses different shutter speeds. He edits the photograph by enhancing the colours on the photograph to get vivid colours which bring personality into his photographs. Christopher Martin captures the everyday movement of busy public transport by using motion blur and this really enhances the busy everyday life.
AO2 - Explored select appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes, reviewing and refining ideas as work developed.
5 Rules of composition
1) Filling the frame.
Filling the frame is when you focus on your subject and only the subject excluding as much wasted background as possible.
As a famous photographer once quoted, "If your photos aren't good enough, then your'e not close enough".
As a famous photographer once quoted, "If your photos aren't good enough, then your'e not close enough".
These are a small selection of the photographs that I have taken.
2) Framing the subject
Framing the subject is when you have a frame within your camera frame, this brings attention to the subject that you are focusing on.
3) Vantage Point
Vantage point is when you take a picture of something from an angle that is not usually obvious to non-photographers.
4) Depth Of Field.
Describes the range in an image, from near to far, that is in focus - stops photographs looking flat. A shallow depth of field means there is less in focus - has a large aperture, low F-stop. A large depth of field means there is more in focus - has a small aperture, high F-stop.
5) Rule of Thirds.
The rule of thirds is when the subject is not in the centre of the photo and the subject fills up a third of the photo.
Photo-shoot 1 - Brentford&Isleworth Station, Between 12:00 and 18:00
I took this group of photographs at two different times at two different stations to see the difference in lighting. I like the photographs I took at Brentford station during the day because this is when I had my technique nearly perfect. This photo-shoot was successful because the technique that I was using to take the photographs however it took many attempts to get anything near the photograph I wanted. I selected the best photographs which show the progression in my technique out of the selection I took that day.
Top Two.
Out of the group of photographs I took this on of the ones I like the most because of the way the things that are still in the photograph are the only things in focus and how you can see through the train at the people on the other platform. Also because you can see the train is moving in the photograph.
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Photo-shoot 2 - Isleworth Station, 13:00
With this photoshoot, I decided to change the shutter speed and mess around with that more and I got a speed that I liked more because it captured the speed of the train.
Top two
I chose this image because I felt it really captured the movement of the train whilst the platform was still. However this photo is dull and i feel that in my next photoshoot I should focus on other movement in a busy area, perhaps a train station so I still get the movement of the trains as well as the busy commuters.
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I chose this image also because its only part of the train and this also shows the movement of the train more because there is more still life around the train. This was is more successful than the previous one because it isn't just the train, however it is also dull as well due to the fact that it is just a train on an empty platform. In my next shoot, I should get the movement of the train at a train station but also have people on the opposing platform.
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Photo-shoot 3 - Clapham Junction and Waterloo Station
For this photoshoot, I took it at a station once again but instead of focusing on the movement on trains I am focusing more on the movement of people in a busy area and the blurred movement they give if you allow the shutter speed to be slower.
Top two
I chose this image because in this one you have a lot more of the still life around the blurred vision of people. I also chose this image because you can almost make out the peoples faces. Also the colours of the station and the blur of colours on peoples clothes enhance this photograph. But the lights in the background of both of these photographs is distracting.
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I chose this image once again because of the still life around the blurred vision of people. But I also chose this image because of the blurred shaped that the people have created and the wave of there movement. In my next photoshoot, I am going to aim to get a similar photograph but to exclude having writing or distracting lights in my image due to the amount that they distract you.
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Photo-shoot 4 - Waterloo Station 19:00
In this photoshoot my intention was to capture the movement of people at a station but to exclude distracting lights and writing. It was successful due to I captured the busy movement of commuters at a station, however it could be improved due to the lighting being dull and not being able to capture the whole movement.
Top three
This image is one of the images which I chose to follow up and try and recreate but in a different setting. I chose this because the movement is clearly shown and the contrast between the still person and the movement of people is clear. However there is once again a distracting light in the background.
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AO3 - record ideas, observations and insight relevant to intentions, reflecting critically on work and progress.
Photoshoot 5 - Central London
This is my final photoshop, this photoshoot was successful because I was able to get the best photographs I could possible. Also it was lighter than my other photoshoots therefore I could get more colour into my photographs to then edit them for my final pieces.