‘IF THIS IS ART’
Level 4 - Techniques
2. Cutting out sections of photos and replacing with other photos or leaving blank or adding in text. 3. Working in Black and white and adding paint to emphasise areas. 4. Drawing onto photos to emphasise shapes or adding words using pencils, permanent marker pens. 5. Combined blended layers on Photoshop to show depth, scale and fantasy worlds. 6. 7.
Pin
Hole
Chlorophyll
prints
8. What tography
does
9. Texture and summer
photographs photographs
10. and
phomean?
Working in black white and colour
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1. Scratching into photos using compass, nail to create textures, mood, atmosphere.
I think that this technique is effective and it was a good technique to show as part of my work. I used photographs which I have done in a number of different shoots and I think by scratching into them it adds alot of effect and emotion. It also adds alot of texture and makes the images more interesting because they have been marked and you would wonder why that has happened and what link it has to the photographs. I think that this technique would be a good one to experiment with and if you are doing a photoshoot which includes an emotion such as anger or stress this could portray that well.
Scratching into photos using compass, nail to create textures, mood, atmosphere.
I think that this is a very effective technique because it can combine more than one texture and picture together. I think it was effetive to use a black and white image adn cut out sections and use a coloured background because it looks interesting and you are drawn to look at it. Also i think it looks good if you combine text with a picture- on the one on the right i have cut out sections and placed text so you are able to see them through the gaps. I decided to try out this technique because I may like to use it later on in my work and think it links in well with the photoshoots i have done so far.
Cutting out sections of photos and replacing with photographs
or
text.
Working in Black and white sise areas.
I think that this is one of the most effective manual edits that I have completed. I think thatit stands out well because there is not too much going on because black&white and coloured paint is being used. I think this is very effective because the coloured paint that has been put over the black&white photograph really makes the photo stand out and emphasises areas. You could use this technique when you are dealing with photoshoots that include emotion and the variety of colours could portay hapiness or excitement.
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I decided to use this technique because I like the mix between photographs and text and think that it is a very effective combiniation. I plan on taking this technqique further and experimenting with using it on more photgrapghs that I take. It allows you to have more of an understanding of the photo because all of the words that are written on the photo have some sort of link with what is going on, whether it is litral or something to do with the emotions.
COMBINED BLENDED LAYERS ON PHOTOSHOP TO SHOW DEPTH, SCALE AND FANTASY WORLDS.
I have blended different photographs together here using photoshop. these are the photos that i took during my summer photoshoot based upon the theme ‘if this is art’, and the artist sophie calle. I have experimented with blending layers to see what techniques look good and effective. I did this technique on photoshop and put the photographs ontop of eachother and then changed the blending opacity so that you are able to see both of the photographs and an effect like this is created. this shows my skills on photoshop and proves that I am able to use a number of different techniques on a number of different programmes.
PINHOLE CAMERA “A pinhole camera, a variation of Camera obscura, is a simple camera without a lens and with a single small aperture, a pinhole – effectively a light-proof box with a small hole in one side. Light from a scene passes through this single point and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box.
PINHOLE CAMERA PINHOLE CAMERA
To take this pinhole photographs we used a camera that we created ourselves. We used a tin can and then cut off the top of it, we then made a lid for the can using tape and card which we were able to slip off the top of the can. We made a hole in the can using a needle so it was tiny, and made sure that the lid was able to cover the hole once we pulled it down. We then put photographic paper inside the tin making sure the shiny side was facing the hole. we then went outside and lifted the lid up for around 12-20 seconds, making sure that the tin can camera was kept very still. after the time was up we would put the lid down immediately covering the hole. We then bought the tin camera back inside and went into the dark room. Once we were in the dark room we took the photographic paper out of the tin and placed it into the chemicals that are in the dark room, which helps to develop them. developer, stop, fixer- are the chemicals that we used in the dark room, and we placed the photographic paper in these chemicals in that exact order. we then left the photographs to dry and later scanned them so that they were on our computers. we then went onto editing them further on photoshop. I placed colour overlays ontop of them so that the photograph looked different, and different areas were highlighted depending on what colour was chosen. i also inverted one of my pictures which i think looked effective because it allowed certain areas to be highlighter and stand out more.
Chlorophyll prints
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Rachel Sokal Her work is all about the light that is constantly changing in the physical world. she tweaks these reactions and catches them, she does this by using her range of delicate and labout intensive photographic techniques. Rachel sokals work however is more and deep and personal then just leaving a leave and a photograph in the sun, it is looking at a more environmental issue. she explores issues of species survival in changing climates and both the power of solar energy and the damaging effect of UV light on living cells. She runs a number of workshops and has many exhibitions running. The workshops that she runs includes; cyanotype printing, pinhole, photo processes and many other techniques.
I have experimented here with chlorophyll prints and have used my own photograph to experiment with this. i used a photograph that i took with my summer photohshoot and then put a leaf behind the photo, put both under glass and left it by the window so that the sunlight could reach it. “the prints are bleached by sunlight directly onto the surface of leaves using a positive. The resulting images are stunningly delicate and beautiful, ranging from haunting silhouettes to crisp definition.� An aritst that focuses highly upon the work of using chlorophyll prints, and then printing them on to leaves is rachel sokal.
What does the word ‘Photography’ mean?
i think that the word photography means capturing a moment in time that you thought looked interesting and exciting, or setting up a scene which you think would look good in the frame of a camera. i think that photography is all about what or who you are taking a photograph of, the lighting, the environment, the apeture and many other different aspects of the camera. a definition that has been given of photography is ‘the art or practice of taking and processing photographs’, i think that this is an interesting definition because alot in photography you are changing and progressing your photographs to make them betterand that is what this is talking about. “ The most obvious of them has to do with the changes brought about the advent of digital photography and the apparent obsolesence of analong photography” - Marco Breuer “Conceptual artists have gone on to ways that challenge and unpend its artistic, intellectual and technical concepts and aesthetics and broadened the notion of what a photograph could be in art” - Marco Breuer I think that photography can be all about different aspects including people photography, object, still life and environments. I think that it is all about what the individual holding the camera finds interesting, and how something can link to them- or how they can see something that is so simple and un-interesting in a different way and photograph it so that it looks interesting and exciting. “ By making the photograph both a material thing and a philosophical question ‘photography’ asks us to really look at what and how we are seeing, in the gallery and outside of it. It asks us to see what is right infront of our eyes. It asks us to get real.” - Geoffrey Batchen I think that this is a very interesting look on photography because it is so accurate.
TEXTURE & SUMMER PHOTOGRAPHS
BLENDING TEXTURES AND PHOTOGRAPHS
I have experimented here with overlapping the photos i took of a number of different textures, and the summer photographs that I took of a sophie calle inspirated colour shoot. I did this technique on photoshoot and overlapped the two photographs and then changed the opacity and the blending mode. i think that this is an effective technique and it adds alot to the original photograph.it makes it look more exciting and interesting because it adds alot of texture to the photograph, and changes alot from the orginal. I think my combining black and white with colour on the photograph on the far left makes it look very interesting. This is because everything is in black and white and then you are able to see a tiny bit of colour.
I think it is really effective how I have overlapped a number of pictures on top of eachother because it looks like there is a ripping effect on her face. I think that the combination of black and white below on the left is also a good contrast. this is because the photograph itself is in black and white and then the texture that i have overlapped it with looks like there is paint being splattered over the photograph. I think that i would be able to go further with this idea and photograph a number of different textures and overlap them with different photographs that I take within the course of photography. I think that combining this with manual editing would also be really effective. This is because it would have a number of different techniques going on with it.
Combining black& white
and coloured photographs.
I decided here to combine black and white and coloured photographs together and set them out in a way that a fina; piece may look- or a mopck up for a final piece. I think that it was an effective technique combining black and white and coloured photographs together because you can see more of range of images- i also think it is effective how the main image is in black and white but then the coloured images have been placed around the outside which draws your eye to there and makes the piece look much more interesting.
I then decided to use wire on the bottom right hand side of this piece. I then added parts of the colour photograph here and different coloured string. The main aim of this photoshoot was colour and this is why i decided to incoporate colour into as many different areas as i could. i think that this technique is very inetrestin g and effective and i am going to consider using a mix of colour photograps and black and white photographs when i am constructing my final piece.