Analysis Of 24 Hour Shoot

The time given for the 24 hour shoot was significantly longer than I required. This was due to the fact that all of my photos where taken around a 5 mile radius, this was down to the inability to travel any further than that. The distance was the walking distance I could cover in a few hours.

There where many problems with my original photos, the most common problem was the fact of glare from the sun reflection. this was corrected later into the process where I edited the photos in photoshop. Another problem I faced while doing this project was the areas in which I wanted to do initially I wanted to take photos of the local castle but the day I wanted to do my photoshoot they where doing repairs to the castle so was unable to take photos of the castle, I could have taken the photo of the castle if the time frame was say an extra day or two.

Blank Poster Evaluation

The blank poster project was a, project which revolved around the concept of one word being the subject of a poster, such as one week we had the word of “embrace”. The idea generation of embrace for me was to embrace nature, but other ideas could be “embrace the darkness” which his know as a famous Star Wars reference. In the end I decided to go with embracing nature, to do this I ensured that the background had a green feel, I also added the earth as the main featured image, as it justifies the concept of natures and the world we live on. Also on the earth is the evolution chain of how we evolved from monkeys to humans, this adds to the concept of earth and how we should “embrace” the change. Lastly with the poster is the simple text, this is a representation of, just embracing the simple thing of life like nature, and nature is the theme I based around this poster. my other poster was with the word “figure” I decided to go with the phrase “figure of speech”. For this idea I went with lots of “speech. The centred image is of a women head (silhouette), this was to show the women talking or giving a “figure of speech”. With the poster I tried to do contrasting colours hence the white being obviously more visible than the black on the poster, I was going to do it the other way round, but I found that I like this way if contrasting better for what I wanted it for. The text I spent quite a lot of time looking for, so that its suited the poster better. For example I tested many fonts like, “times new roman” and “Ariel” but the final typography is the one I actually went with in the end. If I had more time I would have made the text in the silhouette more clear, for example would have spaced it out differently, so that there where evenly spaced making it look more professional in the long run. I general I found that I didn’t really enjoy this project, but was probably down to the fact that the words we where given didn’t really interest me that much.

Define Quality

Quality is a word, what shows how good or bad something is. For example looking at something that someone had made you would assess the quality of the said object. Saying whether it is either good or bad. This is how I perceive the word “Quality”

3d Sculpture Phone Images

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Surrealist Research

Reyn Dirksen

Reyn Dirksen was a surrealist artist and Graphic Designer from Holland He is most well known for his works such as ‘Gangloff’ and ‘Europe’.

This piece shown above is in the style of surrealism this is surrealism as it features unexpected juxtapositions such as the use of the face being the sky, with the sun being placed for an eye.

George Grie

George Grie is a contemporary surrealist graphic designer. He was born in 1962 and is well known for being one of the first digital surrealists.

This image fits into the genre of surrealism as it features aspects which would be unexpected or unusual such as the cliff at the edge of the piece on which the water does not fall over the edge as would usually happen in that situation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photographers

Man Ray

Man Ray was a surrealist, and Dada, the photographer born in Philadelphia in 1890.  He regarded himself as a painter but was best known for his photography.

This image fits into the genre of surrealism as it features elements which are unexpected, the hands floating in the chair.

 

Erik Johansson

Erik Johansson is a surrealist photographer from Sweden. He is best known for his surrealist work by combining images digitally in various ways to make them look like real photographs.

This image fits into the genre surrealism as it features unexpected contrasts which are unique to surrealism such as the road markings acting as cutting and folding lines from paper models.

Idea Generation / Figure

Figure

The word, figure in my mind is of a shape, or a mould. My mind works in a way which toys to put words into phrases, as this simplifies and gives a word definition to me, such as this word my mind goes straight to “figure of speech”. This phrase means according to google, a word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect. So for my poster I have the idea of using a female silhouette speaking with a speech bubble. My final poster can be found below, the poster is very similar to the idea earlier in the blog. 

Personally if I had spent more time on the poster I would have made sure that the word figure in the silhoutte was perfectly in line with each, basically make it align properly and get rid of the white gaps.

3D Paper Sculpture Forms/Brian Dettmer

Brian Dettmer

Brian Dettmer is a American contemporary artist. He is noted for his work on, alteration to old books, maps, cassette tapes etc. Brian is from Illinois, born and raised, until 2006 he lived in and around Chicago, where he a=earned his BA in fine arts from Colombia Collage Chicago, in 1997. A large body of Dettmer’s work is down to the alteration of old books for example, “Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”. This work was done during his residency to Shandy Hall. Brians work can be found all over the globe, ranging from the USA to Asia. Some of his more well known work can be found bellow which are clearly labelled. 

Lighting Techniques

Hard Light

We experimented with hard light by using a snoot onto the flash head, this makes hard sharp shadows and creates contrasting images.

Soft Light

We experimented with soft light by using the soft box on the flash head., This allows for us to produce soft shadows, or sometimes no shadows at all. This technique is often used for portraiture as it gives out an even amount of lighting. This technique is done by the soft box which diffuses the light from spreading out, an example of this is like how the clouds diffuse the sunlight.

Coloured Gels

We experimented with coloured gels on two different flash heads, we used contrasting colours, the effect of which allows a 2 tone image with a variety of different hues and tones displayed when once the lights are combined. These are used to add colour/emotion to an image, and when using contrasting colours adds the effect of drama.

Bauhaus

The Bauhaus movement . The Bauhaus movement began in 1919 when Walter Gropius founded a school with a vision of bridging the gap between art and industry by combining crafts and fine arts .

Ellen Lupton

Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Nationality: American

Education: Copper Union, Art

Known for: Writer, Curator, Educator, and graphic designer

Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, and graphic designer. She is director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, where she also serves as director of the Center for Design Thinking. As curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum since 1992, she has produced numerous exhibitions and books, including Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office (1993), Mixing Messages: Graphic Design and Contemporary Culture (1996), Letters from the Avant-Garde (1996), and Skin: Surface, Substance + Design (2002).

Florian Schulz

D.o.B December 21, 1975, Weingarten, Germany

Nationality – German

Occupation – Wildlife Photographer

Website – florianschulz.org

Florin Schulz is a professional nature and wildlife photographer based in southern Germany whose striking images have garnered international recognition. Florian Schulz has become a world-renowned, award-winning photographer dedicated to the support of conservation efforts to protect endangered ecosystems. Schulz is sponsored by the Blue Earth Alliance.

Honours and Awards

1994 – Environmental Protection Agency Award

1998 – Senior high school art prize at Gymnasium Wilhelmsdorf

1999 – Wildlife Photographer of the year as “Highly Commended”

2001 – Wildlife Photographer of the year as “Highly Commended”

2001 – Nature’s Best International Photography Awards

2003 – Nature’s Best International Photography Awards

2004 – BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year as “Highly Commended”

2004 – Nature’s Best Photography Awards

2004 – Banff Mountain Photography Competition

2004 – European Photographer of the Year as “Highly Commended”

2006 – Philip Hyde Environmental Award

2008 – Conservation Photographer of the Year, Nature’s Best Photography Awards

2012 – Sierra Club Ansel Adams Award