MY FINAL FOLIO

Theme: decay/ natural processes

Capture devices

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Experimenting with other capture devices was really interesting. My favourite was using the scanner. Even though I should have cleaned the scanner screen / top before I started. The scans came out really well. I didnt use photoshop at all but there is one section where you can tick a box to enhance colour and backgroud shadowing Which I used on some images. Still sticking with my theme i looked at spider webs. I tried to creat in a sense a "fairy floss" look out of spider webs, but I eventually ran out of cob webs but it still turned out intersting and facinating.

Photo Shoot Cont

Trentham Photo Shoot

The shoot went well. Here are the photos before editing or post production. Now that ive completly finished taking photos for my folio I have finally found my theme!

Experimenting cont

The original image posted previously seems really washed out and you cant really see much detail within the image. When edited, ensuring that the image is darker it looks like dead spider legs etc within the web. Which is not that appealing but interesting.


Experimenting with contrasts and colour

Editing , croping, experimenting

This is the orginal image



Edit: looking slightly 3D




Editing: With the above image I wanted it to look fake and the web to look like another surface.




Another image to attempt editing

Odds and Ends

The above are all from class Activities. Representing different art elements and principles, Line, Colour, Texture as well as themes we needed to focus on such as : clarity, something yuck, blurry etc etc.



I thought that I had lost these photographs. They were from the beginning classes. When re-looking at them I may be able to use some for finals with some touch ups. I am evolving my ideas and themes as I go. I think that I may look at natural objects, scenes or try and bring that into some sort of final idea. Including nature and my surroundings. Even though it sounds quite boring and un-original I may be able to bring something to it to make it more interesting.

Trentham

Here is where i will be hopefully taking most of my photos for the assignment. My block of land in trentham, i am confident that it will definitely provide opportunities to photograph all my intended themes.

Update

At the moment folio dates are starting to come around and I am struggling to complete all the required about of photos just initially looking at insects and spider webs. I am thinking that I might try and incorporate portraiture into my photographs with spider webs etc. I have been thinking about possible things to stage and then take the photograph but time wise I dont think that it will be effective.

On another note Presentations are finished. Some artists I found interesting from the presentations were:
- Cindy Sherman ( Historic Portraits)
- Diane Arbous
- Martha Cooper
- Bob Clarke

Editing

I was looking at a website : www.beautifulbugs.com

An insect artist Frank Phillips discusses " Photomacrography"
Here is my first attempt. I don't think that it worked overall. I didn't use Macro on this image when it was taken so maybe that's why the magnification etc didn't really work at all. The image is unclear.

Robert Capa

I have finally made some decisions on what I'm going to do.

Research Assessment: Robert Capa
Folio: Insects/ Spiderwebs

- Robert Capa was a Hungarian combat photographer/photojournalist.
- Photographed wars: Spanish civil war, Second Sino-Japanese war,World War II ( from London, north Africa and Italy.) The 1948 Arab- Israeli war and the first Indochina war and the battle of Normany on Omaha Beach.
- Portrays the violence of war with unique impact.
-Used a Contax II camera mounted with a 50mm lenses with lots of rolls of film.

Some interesting photos that I like are:

" Loyalist Militaman at the moment of death,Cerro Murrano September 5 1936"
- I really like this photograph in some ways it is like an action photograph incorporating movement in the image as it meant to be of a " Falling solider ". I found that his photographs are really grainy and mostly in black and white.
- Interestingly for 30 years many professors have been trying to say that this photograph has been staged and is not a true document of war.


American soldier killed by German snipers,Leipzig,Germany, April 18, 1945

Montage

Be warned, that my montage exercise did not work out as well as I planned. I think I'm going to have to spend some real time trying to use the technique properly, and constantly look at hints! The photos were planned and worked out okay, BUT the editing process seemed to fail me. There is gaps and places in the photo where the exposure was brighter compared to my base photo etc!. Hopefully I will be able to do another photo. Which will be my re-attempt . I tired uploading my edited image but it seems the Blogger doesn't even like it !

Photography :the begining

I was researching last night and found some interesting information on Photography during the initial stages my notes are below:

- Sir John Herschel in 1839 labelled ' Photography' it was also the year photography came public.

- The word is derived from the Greek words light and written. ( I found it interesting that it was written, as words arent the focal point of photography it is the image , a commuication of an idea/theme etc. So I researched more and found that it wasnt the word written instead it wa drawing. So a drawing with light? I will need to do some more research to confirm this. )

- Imaginary tale: A prediction made by De La Roche (1729-1774) working on Graphantie. ( Surprisingly I couldnt find what this method or medium actually was). The tale was that it was possible to capture an image using a sticky substance on canvas. Apparently it would create a mirror image when dired in the dark would stick to the canvas. " The author would not have known how prophetic this talke would be, only a few decades after his death."

- There are two specific processes that make photography possible: Optical and Chemical.

- At the begining of the nineteenth centry Thomas Wedgewood was conducting experiments , sucessfully captured images, but they could not survive. There was no known method of making the image permanet.

- The first succesful picture was produced in June/July 1827 by Niepce by using a mterial that hardened on exposure to light. But took an exposure of eight hours.

Week Three

I was ment to post my photos from week 2 but I havent placed them on the PC portion of my hard drive so keep looking , I'll post them soon. I was quite happy with my photos this week and it really was a good day to go for a shoot. I shot in both RAW & JPG. When I really sould have just used RAW . oopps. But even saying that two photos turned out quite well ( out of the 30 i took..) So ill put them up. Im still a little uncertain on my theme for my creative works assessment. I was thinking of appropriating in a sense.. works of famous photography artists throughout time to depict the history of photography as well as show off some skills, but I am still in the brainstorming phase.

Previous Photography

Here are some shots from The Great Ocean Road!