White Paper Test
For this task we were challenged by our teachers to take 1 piece of paper and make 24 unique pictures without cutting or ripping it. We could use techniques such as folding, rolling and scrunching. To make the image more vibrant and interesting we added colour. We used coloured glass on top of a torch to create the effect of glowing paper with shadows.
Paper Task Abstraction Task
Here are all the pictures I took of the paper. Below are the final edits of my favourites.
Final Edits
www: Abstract images using just white paper, composition and lighting.
Ebi: more emphasis on folds than scrunched paper.
Ebi: more emphasis on folds than scrunched paper.
Photographer Task
Francis Bruguière
Bruguière was an American photographer born in 1879 and moved to London in 1928, where he took pictures of cut and twisted pieces of paper with the only light source being one lamp. His work looks other-worldly, and almost futuristic for its time.
Above are all the pictures I took, and below are my best edits.
Brendan Austin
The next artist I have chosen is Brendan Austin, an artist who took an interest in mountain scapes after living in countries like South Africa, Singapore, Thailand and New Zealand, who creates work with paper that replicates the look of a mountain range. His work could be described as simplistic yet so intriguing as it is a very different take on something we see regularly.
Austin created the work above by using crumpled pieces of paper against a blank background to make the look of mountains with jagged rocks and abstract shapes.
My Response
Above are all the pictures I took in response, below are my best edits.
Ordinary to Extraordinary
Edward Henry Weston was a 20th-century American photographer. During his 40-year career Weston photographed a broad range of subjects, including still life, nude photography, landscapes and more. His work entitled ordinary to extraordinary is the set of pictures our class is studying. Weston used a graphlex camera to produce 4 x 5 inch negatives. This camera was ideal for him as it was easily portable and allowed him to see the subject matter when taking the photo. Composition and framing of his images was key in his photography and his philosophy involved the idea of a photographic voice. When taking his 37 photos to get the whole pepper in focus he created his own pinhole to get a smaller aperture and got to F240 and exposed it for 4-6 hours. This took many tries as even if a truck went past his house it would ruin the exposure of the image due to the movement. This exposure allowed for a luminous look as there is a lot of light in different angles of the pepper as the sun moves.
Agnieszka Lepka - Human Vs Nature
Agnieszka Lepka is a photographer based in Cracow, Poland, who creates images of the similarities between nature and the human body. Lepka wants to remind us of the connection we have with nature in a poetic but realistic way.
For this task I went into Coldfall woods with the intention of taking pictures of parts of nature that look similar to parts of the human body, like mushrooms as ears or sticks positioned like fingers.
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Task
Final Edits
Erwin Blumfield
Abstract Buildings
In this task we were asked to respond to the abstract work of Johnny Kerr and Matthieu Venot. Their work consists of shapes and straight lines, and vibrant colours. This could also be a building that doesn't look like a building, contrasting another colour to look almost 2D or just unrecognisable.
Johnny Kerr - Ambiguity
Johnny Kerr is an American artist best known for his abstract photographic that reveal the colour and hidden beauty in everyday Arizona. Johnny has a passion for minimalism and shows this through his abstract photography that he taught himself. His work brings out loud colours in shapes of buildings that aren't recognizable against the blue sky in this work.
Lee Friedlander
Lee Friedlander is an American-born photographer. Friedlander made almost two dimensional looking images of the city and mannequins in shop windows in 1948, using the reflection of buildings and whatever else is in the background to layer the image and get that flattened look.
We went out to try and make images similar to this 2d style in shop front windows. |
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Task
Final Edits
3 Strands
My artists I have chosen are Brendan Austin, Bethany Hoos and Jason M Peterson.
Brendan Austin
After graduating in 1998 from The London Institute, Brendan Austin has worked as an architectural and landscape photographer. He has spent his life living in places like South Africa, New Zealand, Thailand and Singapore. This is where he got his inspiration for his work on these "artificial mountains", from his work as a landscape photographer and his environments around him.
My Response
In this response I wanted to put more emphasis on colour and material than Brendan Austin does, so I used different coloured papers and tin foil scrunched up and folded in shapes similar to Austin's mountains, and I edited the contrast and brightness, as well as giving the images a hue to brighten the images up.
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Final Edits
www/ebi:
www: Mountain-like images similar to Austen's work with a greater focus on colour.
ebi: Flat colours for the background.
ebi: Flat colours for the background.
Bethany Hoos
Bethany Hoos is from Menifee,California, as a student, Hoos studied graphic design and photography. Her work to the left is from when she was a student, which focuses on colour and depth. Currently she works as an interior designer, incorporating features from her earlier photography into today's work.
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My Response
For this task, I took pictures of cracks in the pavement and chipping of paint on walls and increased the saturation, contrast and hue of the images to respond to this photographer. Within my response to Hoos' work, I believe that I strayed away from her use of colour, and instead took a focus on the shape and composition of the cracks in the pavement.
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Final Edits
www/ebi:
www: The pictures I took show focus on the shape and composition of the cracks.
ebi: More flat and solid colours, they look quite shallow.
ebi: More flat and solid colours, they look quite shallow.
Jason M. Peterson
Jason M. Peterson is a Chicago-based photographer and creative director with 25 years of creative experience in television, print, interactive advertising and brand identity. He often works with celebrities for shoots and does this in his signature urban and moody black and white style. He takes pictures with a Leica SL for its astonishingly high definition.
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My Response
For this project I wanted to respond to Peterson's use of people and shadows as well as also implementing London architecture into the pictures I took. To do this I used people on the street to show bring through the solitude of the people Peterson photograph's. I made the pictures Black and White and brought up the contrast, exposure and lighting to get the look I desired.
The work I created is more subtle in comparison to Peterson's work, and the figures in my images are more peripheral to the picture whilst his are more central to it. Although focusing on the architecture in my work, the people are still integral. I think my use of shadows echoes his work. |
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Final Edits
www/ebi:
www: I took and edited pictures that resonate with the style of Jason M Peterson, focusing on light and shadows but also adding my own features of focus on architecture. I also included figures but made them less central to the images.
ebi: darker shadows and brighter lights - more central shadows
ebi: darker shadows and brighter lights - more central shadows
Development
I will develop my work on Jason M Peterson, I will take pictures of people coming up stairs or going out of exits because the weather isn't bright out currently.
Next Development
Final Edits
Attempt 2 - South Bank
For this next development, I went to the South Bank to get better images of brutalist architecture so I could include my influence from Amelia Lancaster whilst keeping elements like shadow, lighting and black and white from Jason M Peterson.
Final Edits
www/ebi
www: I focused more on architecture and added features of other artists along the way to create a set of images that were a final strand.
ebi: potentially collage images for even more obscure images.
ebi: potentially collage images for even more obscure images.
Further Development
Film photography for the architecture and focus on separate parts of an image.