Public Places
For this set task, I captured the school environment. I mainly focused on the places that were empty as people would become a distraction to the image. It is only when there are people in these spaces that they come alive. As the school that i attend has an old structure the images have a gloomy feel to them. my Intentions for this task was to focused on angles, perspective and different points of view. I took multiples photograph of the same subject but experimented with all those elements as well as exposure. one thing that made my images successful was the fact that i took loads of images, therefore i had a lot to choose from when it came to looking for the best image. i also experimented a lot with how i would edit the image to highlight the lack of human being but has the presents of life there. My images could have been more successful if I had thought more about my exposure more specifically my ISO. As I was mostly shooting inside some of my images came out grainy.
Inspired photographer: Scott Fortino
A patrol officer for 23 years in the 18th District of the Chicago Police Department. Scott Fortino born in the United States in 1952. In 1998 Fortino returned to graduate school for photography, after completing school he realised that his uniform allowed him to visit restricted places. Scott investigates the architectural structures in Institutions. The environments he captures are mostly school classrooms and jail cells. However Fortino creates a new perspective using the absence of the presence of humans to give an insightful psychology of confinement and protection. In the photographers images. Fortune draws the attention to the details within the room that the former resident have left behind. The classroom image (on the right) is a prime example as the graffiti left behind displays the attempts to change the institutional environment into a more independent and individual place. Light, colour and composition of his images draws the attention of the viewer as a way to percvie this new perspective in an aesthetic pleasing way but also revealing "cultural and social roles as places of worship, education, punishment, or entertainment cast long and complex shadows over our lives."
Development 1 - High Contrast
For this development I altered the threshold of the image. this alterations took away all of the colour and heighten the contrast so the only colours present would be black and white. These two images below are my examples of this development. One thing I felt worked well with this type of development was to choose images that didn't have a lot of colour to them and had simplest pattens on them in order to not make the image busy. For further in my project I would use this type of development when taking pictures of structured buildings.
inspired Artist: Keld helmer-Petersen
This work was inspired by the Danish photographer, born in 20 August 1920, Keld Helmer-Petersen. The images below are from his book, "Black noise" which features a collection of high contrast abstract images from the 1960s, although he is famous for his coloured photography work. Published by the Rocket Gallery, includes flatbed and negative scans of black and white negatives. In the images Petersen has altered the contrast to achieve a pure black and white images. The photographer collaborated with Jens Frederiksen and book designer Micheal Jensen they made only 1,00o copies available to purchase and 100 copies signed. His process consits of taking the image and using a flatbed scanner to remove the mid tones.
The Process:
Development 2 - Dissect
For this development I had to dissect the image. I did this by deleting and erasing parts of the image and removing the context and essential parts of the image. My intentions for this task was to choose images that had interesting structure to them and isolate that. below are the examples. one thing that i felt was successful about this images was that i like the isolating of one part. also another thing that i like is the fact that the white background blends in with the website making the structure even more isolated as it doesn't have a clear border to the image. One thing that I think can be improved is the images that I chose to use some of them worked quite well especially the image on the right hand side. however the image on the right hand side had a tree in front of the window and i ended editing that image out making the tree look disjointed. Also another thing that did not make this task as successful was the fact that when taking the images i did not know about this development therefore i was not looking for structure and also about placing the structure in the centre of image.
The Process:
The inspired photographer: Patrick Cornillet
In this series by a French artist, he explores the elements of architecture were taken out of their environment and reconstituted in the form of objects on a white background. The infinite nuances of concrete, make us aware of the wealth of the material and of the remains left by the humans and by Time passing by. Even if the architectures seem austere, spaces seeming uninhabited, dehumanised, Cornillet creates a particular poetry and a mesmerising mysticism.
Development 3 - Measurements and Angles
This development is all about measurement and angles within a photograph. Using the images that I took in the public places I chose this one below to measure out the length and angles of the table in the middle. I used line, brush and pencil tool to draw on the lines. To find the angles I used the ruler tool to act as a protector. one thing that was difficult about this developments was making sure all the lines meet and none go over. Unfortunately some of the lines go over each other and don't make a smooth edge shape. Another thing is the fact a few parts of the image are bright and the white lines don't stand out very much and may be difficult to see by people with visual impairments. however overall what I really like about the image is that the measurement are in the big and centre in the image. They also create a good contrast with the colour black table.
The inspired photographer: Nikki Graziano
"Nevertheless, the fact is that there is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing as cosmology or physics... and allows more freedom of expression than poetry, art, or music... Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood."
-Paul Lockhart (A quote which she puts with her images on her website)
Nikki Graziano was born in Rochester in 1988 to a photographer father and an engineer for a mother. Her passion for photography and maths shines through in her project Found Functions This projects of her inspired the task above. “My found functions series is the only project that I’ve worked on as a cohesive series. My aim was (is still) to sort of take a step back and focus on sublimity and the gaze in both an aesthetic and mathematical way, to communicate both ends of beauty in the natural world.” She is able to alter her environment by using formulas and other mathematical terms in her images to enhance the shape of her subjects. “My found functions series is the only project that I’ve worked on as a cohesive series. My aim was (is still) to sort of take a step back and focus on sublimity and the gaze in both an aesthetic and mathematical way, to communicate both ends of beauty in the natural world.”
The photographer first got into photography because her father would not let her touch his new 4x5 view camera. this made her determined to be able to use all the other camera that he owned. By doing this she fell in love with the process of developing film. At college she was meant to study photojournalism but ended up " studying Art History and started thinking less about process and more about what i was trying to do and ended up following the "fine art" route". Her Found Functions project are random shots of the natural habitats. Graziano says most of her images are from weekly walks, or when she is driving in winter. The photographer shoots on a Hasselblad 503CW and colour negative film. When she was back in school she used to use the drum scanners. The remaining part of the process is in photoshop which she fixes "colour tweaks, proofing, printing."
-Paul Lockhart (A quote which she puts with her images on her website)
Nikki Graziano was born in Rochester in 1988 to a photographer father and an engineer for a mother. Her passion for photography and maths shines through in her project Found Functions This projects of her inspired the task above. “My found functions series is the only project that I’ve worked on as a cohesive series. My aim was (is still) to sort of take a step back and focus on sublimity and the gaze in both an aesthetic and mathematical way, to communicate both ends of beauty in the natural world.” She is able to alter her environment by using formulas and other mathematical terms in her images to enhance the shape of her subjects. “My found functions series is the only project that I’ve worked on as a cohesive series. My aim was (is still) to sort of take a step back and focus on sublimity and the gaze in both an aesthetic and mathematical way, to communicate both ends of beauty in the natural world.”
The photographer first got into photography because her father would not let her touch his new 4x5 view camera. this made her determined to be able to use all the other camera that he owned. By doing this she fell in love with the process of developing film. At college she was meant to study photojournalism but ended up " studying Art History and started thinking less about process and more about what i was trying to do and ended up following the "fine art" route". Her Found Functions project are random shots of the natural habitats. Graziano says most of her images are from weekly walks, or when she is driving in winter. The photographer shoots on a Hasselblad 503CW and colour negative film. When she was back in school she used to use the drum scanners. The remaining part of the process is in photoshop which she fixes "colour tweaks, proofing, printing."
Perspective
I went to the city however this time it was mostly to take photos using angles either looking up or looking down. However some of the images was taken with the idea of dissecting the image like the development above. My intention was to take photos of interesting structures. I focus on tall buildings that had an unique architecture, Both old and new. One thing about these set of images is that I like the fact most of the buildings were blue and there isn't much contrast between the sky making it seem that longer. As I was mostly around office building there weren't many opportunity for angles that looked onto the city. The other photos that I took was to dissect the image. For these photos I went to a student housing in Moorgate. The building was old and simplistic in design making it ideal to dissect as it was easy to separate the other structures.
People in the Environment
For this task I focus on "what are they looking at?" My intention for this task was to focus on people that were still in their environment looking at something or lost in their train of thought. The pictures were taken from two different locations one being in central and the other in wood green. I first went to central but i realised everyone there has a purpose and not many have stoped and are just in their own thought admiring the environment that they are in. So therefore I decided to go to wood green as it is more of a residential area. However again most people were had a purpose as to why they were doing. Therefore I started to get drawn to the colour red: so the bus, woman coats. I also noticed that when people are waiting for something whether it is waiting for the green man to cross the road or waiting for the bus. Either the person is like to look at their phones or it is when they most notice the environment surrounding them.
Exhibition: Richard Mosse
Mosse used a Military- grade camera designed for battlefields awareness and long range border surveillance. The thermal camera was created by the European Union by a multinational weapons company that can detect body heat day or night from distance of 30.3km. The idea behind the project was that with using a militaristic instrument that would be used to create an "immersive, humanist art form, allowing the viewer to mediate on the profoundly difficult and frequently tragic journeys of refugees" that go through border enforcement and their desperation to escape their collapsing country.
In this project Mosse worked with composer Ben Frost and cinematographer Trevor Tweeten. Together they record journeys made by the refugees and the migrants. The UN has said that since 2015 to present day the world has experience the largest migration of people, with more than million people fleeing to Europe. "The film bears witness to this global event mediated through a camera that is blind to skin colour, presenting a story of humans struggling for survival." In the exhibition there were three 8 metres- wide screens of the film that went on for an hour containing videos of refugees camps and them arriving by overcrowded boats. The films were accompany by a visceral soundtrack blurring ambient field recordings with synthetic sound.
In this project Mosse worked with composer Ben Frost and cinematographer Trevor Tweeten. Together they record journeys made by the refugees and the migrants. The UN has said that since 2015 to present day the world has experience the largest migration of people, with more than million people fleeing to Europe. "The film bears witness to this global event mediated through a camera that is blind to skin colour, presenting a story of humans struggling for survival." In the exhibition there were three 8 metres- wide screens of the film that went on for an hour containing videos of refugees camps and them arriving by overcrowded boats. The films were accompany by a visceral soundtrack blurring ambient field recordings with synthetic sound.
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Fake Environment
For this task I was given loads of different printed images to chosen from I deiced to experiment around with coloured paper and a photographer of a moon and a building. From these images I could fold, crease and layer the images in order to create a fake landscape. As I put some spaces between some of the photos I put my camera in aperture setting allowing me to control the depth of field. As it was a sunny day with a lot of light I had to use a smaller f-stop, such as f/4 , in order to make sure the image was not over exposure. I also used the focal length on my camera to effect the depth of field. My intentions was to create a environment that was actually made from images and colour. This environment would be created by only changing the aperture and focal length. There were elements contributing to the task that made it different and could be improved if i were to try the task again, these being: there wasn't any sellotape or glue. This meant that I only had a tiny bit of blue tack which made it hard to put distance between each printed image. I managed to hold the paper above however this meant that a few of the images had my thumb in it and also that the image was not still. One thing that went well was my choice of the coloured piece of paper. This gave contrast between the other two prints that I used.
Final Edits:
Inspired photographer: Aaron Farley
Farley was born in 1975, Spokane. The images below are his creation of 'Fake Environment'. The artist use of depth of field allows the viewer to not separate the different location present. His use of define colours make the image look more realistic and merges together nicely making the image as a whole look more believable.
"The image is not a photograph of a real scene. The original photos show water and clouds and these are photographs of those images, turned on their side, moved, reshot, reflected and reprinted to create a different scene which still looks and feels familiar and real. The multiple generations that the photographs go through bring memories and feelings of past real scenes."
"The image is not a photograph of a real scene. The original photos show water and clouds and these are photographs of those images, turned on their side, moved, reshot, reflected and reprinted to create a different scene which still looks and feels familiar and real. The multiple generations that the photographs go through bring memories and feelings of past real scenes."
Confined Spaces
For this task I worked in partners to find confined spaces around the school site. I had to fit the model inside these enclosed spaces. My intentions are to fit my model into very tight spaces that shows the model being very uncomfortable both physically and psychologically. I chose spaces that made my model first having to travel through tight spaces and secondly barely fitting into them. There were a few things that made this difficult one being as most places were underneath tables or in cupboards for example the light was limited so it was hard to get the prefect focus on the model and also that they would be fully lit. However even though there was a lack of light. This enhanced the element of confinement in some of the photos.
Development
As I was interested by the task above I decided to do a development at home. My intentions were that the places that I found around the school site would be very different to the ones in some else house. So I set off to around the house to find different spaces that my model could just about fit in. One thing that made this development successful was that the model I chose is quite tall meaning that the places do not have to be that small to make the model look cramp. However there were a few things that made this development not successful one being that the model was quite smile and joyful but for these image i wanted the model to look in distress as if they were stuck in those places.
Development
For this task I set up two boards at a degree below 90 degrees. Two LED white lights both at facing where the boards met. My intention for this task was to get the model as tight as they could be in that the shape. i also wanted to get different angels and interesting poses. One thing that made this shoot successful was the different angles i took. Also liked the lighting , my first model fitted with the light as she was wearing light coloured clothing. whereas my second model absorbed more of the light. Another thing that I felt was successful was the different type of body that the two models had one was very thin and small making the space feel less confined but had more space to move and create interesting poses. On the other hand the other model was more curvy therefore filled the space more. One of the things that really lacked in the photo was the fact that some of the background showed: the blue colour of the board and also beyond the boards.
Inspired by Irvin Penn
in 1948 Irving Penn began taking usual portraits of writers, artists, musicians, politicians, dancers and other celebrities. Each subject was positioned in a small corner less than 90°. The corner was created with two studio flats pushed together and a carpet on the floor. To quote the photographer, “a very rich series of pictures resulted. This confinement, surprisingly seemed to comfort people, soothing them. The walls were a surface to lean on or push against. For me the picture possibilities were interesting: limiting the subjects’ movement seemed to relieve me of part of the problem of holding on to them.”Penn create an claustrophobic environment that isolates the subject's personalities. The viewer has no distract and the focus is completely on the pose of the subject and aspects of their clothes.
Personal spaces
For this task I decided to go to a mates house and photograph how they personalise/decorate their home to make it look unique and individual. My intention fro this task was to capture the way the house is set up, how the family leaves their house just after the breakfast. I mainly focused on the kitten and the living room. This is because all family members go in those rooms every single day whereas a bedroom most of the time not all family member would have interacted with the environment. I wanted to take picture of both close up of individual objects placed in the house as well as wide shot that got the whole part of the room. One thing that I felt was done well in this task was the exposure of certain images and the angles of the other.
Inspired photographer: Martin Parr
The photographer Martin Parr is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist, he was born on 23 May 1952. Par studied photography at Manchester Metropolitan University from 1970 - 1973. In the early 1990s photographer Martin Parr collaborated with Nick barker to create the series: Signs of Time. This was named after the documentary aired one BBC which was also directed by Barker.
Parr is one of the most recognised British photographers, best known for his sharp eye and cheeky sense of humour. Over his career he had looked at capturing people doing madame things. He edits the image often highly saturated and brightly coloured, He is known to comment on the class system. To create this project an advertisement was placed in the British national, asking for volunteers to be involved in the film that coexists with the vintage prints taken by Parr. The documentary was about showing the personal taste in a person's British home. The intentions was to inform the audience of that time what was good or bad taste to have. Roughly around two thousand people of all ages, race, genders and social background applied but only fifty were chosen. It was Barker asked Parr to shoot the stills from him and create the book in which all the quotes are from the film. The images were presented at the Beetles + Hunxley Gallery in London, which also happened to be Parr first solo exhibition.
Parr is one of the most recognised British photographers, best known for his sharp eye and cheeky sense of humour. Over his career he had looked at capturing people doing madame things. He edits the image often highly saturated and brightly coloured, He is known to comment on the class system. To create this project an advertisement was placed in the British national, asking for volunteers to be involved in the film that coexists with the vintage prints taken by Parr. The documentary was about showing the personal taste in a person's British home. The intentions was to inform the audience of that time what was good or bad taste to have. Roughly around two thousand people of all ages, race, genders and social background applied but only fifty were chosen. It was Barker asked Parr to shoot the stills from him and create the book in which all the quotes are from the film. The images were presented at the Beetles + Hunxley Gallery in London, which also happened to be Parr first solo exhibition.
The Radical Eye (modernist photography from the sir Elton John collection)
People and Paper
For this task a long piece of brown paper laid on the floor with one light at the left side. The task was to place models so they would become apart of the paper. we could whoever we liked to the paper apart from cut or rip the paper. My intentions was to have the model interact with the brown piece of paper to become apart of it. I did not notice how dark the images came out. If I noticed it before I could have changed the shutter speed much earlier. Also it was hard to take some of the images as the background if i was coming from the side wouldn't have the white behind it. I felt that most of the images meet my intentions of the task. The close up images were more successful.
Strand 1: Film Experiment
For my first strand i went out to cold fall woods and the cemetery surrounding the woods. i look focus in the environment of both places and how nature in present there. I shot this on a film camera and developed it in the studio. however as soon as i development the film i wanted to experiment so that i could add colours to the black and white film strips.
Here are the ingredients that I used:
- Thick bleach
- Vanish oxo action
- Fariy washing up liquid
- Soda crystals
- Tea bags:
Here are the ingredients that I used:
- Thick bleach
- Vanish oxo action
- Fariy washing up liquid
- Soda crystals
- Tea bags:
- Yogi bags
- Black chai
- Strawberry, Raspberry and Cranberry
- Jasmine tea
- Liquorice
- Blackberry, Blueberry
Inspired artist: Cool Girls Shoot Film
Cool Girls Shoot Film is a girl duo that start on tumblr. They were interested by experimenting on film. They both are intrigued by the way one film can produce a different outcome on another camera. There Images are shot on colour film and they used lemon juice to distorted their film. As i was shooting in B&W film I looked at other methods stated on the website. One of them was using tea to stain the print. This was where i got the inspiration to put the images that i shot on the film camera through the process.
strand 2: tottenhale
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For this strand i went out to tottenham hale. in this area it is very industrial and i wanted to capture the range of the different environment that is shown. i went out to photograph both the new area built and the old industrial factories there. In these set of obersations i also wanted to edit them on photoshop to enhance some of the isolated out of place qualities presented in the buildings. some the factories looked out of place next to the new buildings. from the set task: public places and the developments i want to do the same editing to these images. I felt that some of the images that i capture really presents the essences of the old and run down buildings. especially the ones of the close up images which i would say are the most successful ones. However to improve these images i should like more about the composure. and the exposure of some of the images.
An idea to go forward would be to place the old buildings next to the new place. maybe even to construct a piece where it takes elements from both the new and old. |
strand 3: Supermarket
For this development my intentions was to photograph people in the supermarket. However to alter the colour of the products, I wanted to enhance the colours to show the fact that in everyday life everyone is exposure by advertisement. I drew inspired from Richard Mosse in infra red project. I also wanted to leave the people in the shot normal colours in order to contrast between the products and the consumers.
One thing that i found was successful with the final edited images is that the contrast is very clear between the people and the products. However the thing that i did not like was the fact that when i came to edit the photo i used the vibrance. However I also used the hue and saturation, this made all ht enhance colour the same sort of colours so on my first edit the colours are mostly green and pink. however i intended them to enhance all the colours that were there before. If i were to continue this strand i would next time find a different location but some where with a lot of advertisement. I would also work on just enhancing the colours and not chaining them to fit two specific colours. |
inspired artist: Richard Mosse
Richard Mosse is an Irish conceptual documentary photographer. In June 2015, Mosse became a nominee member of Magnum Photos. The project that i drew inspiration from is 'Infra'. here the photographer captures the beauty and destruction in war. He used KodakAerochrome, a discontinued reconnaissance infrared film. The film registers chlorophyll in live vegetation. His images come out are a beautiful Congolese rainforest that appears a surreal landscape of reds and pinks. However the soldier become more enhance as they appear normal in a surreal world. In my images I drew inspiriation of creating something surreal but leaving the person as the centre of attention and untouched by the background alteration.
strand 4: sitching -- creating light
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For this strand my intention was to use the thread to show the light that which ever source I used produced. I used lighter, candle and a heart shaped lamp. These all projected light in a different way. Out of the images I took, I chose three images, turning two black and white and leaving one coloured. I felt that the images I chose worked really well as the light trait were obvious making it simple to the to where wanted the thread to go. The side profile of the model worked really well and was the most successful . This is due to the fact that it emphasizes the models profile and it also comes from all the same point in the light source. However I should have done the whole flame not just at the bottom. I printed pout these images at home and the printer left lines that look very unprofessional and make the quality of the image really go down. i also stuck the images onto card to make it easier to stitch through them so the photo would not rip. if i were to carry this development on i would have to chose stronger card as some parts still ripped. another thing i would change is to chose thicker thread to make the white lines more visible. meaning i would have to make less holes in the images it self.
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Inspired Artist: Michael Raedecker
Michael Raedecker was born in 1963. He is a Dutch artist currently living and working in London. Raedecker was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (1993–1994), and at Goldsmiths College, London (1996–1997.) In 2000, Raedecker was shortlisted for the prestigious Turner Prize.
The image on the left is the piece that i drew inspiration from. I like the way the light going from the house is actually thread. Therefore in my images i wanted to stitch in the way the light travels to illuminate the subject. The image is Called 'Ins and out' it is a sublime dream house. |
Development 1
For my first development I went out to highgate woods. I wanted to capture the natural environment. I focused both on taking pictures of the whole place and details of how the life there is formed. I wanted this development to follow from strand 1. I shot on a film black and white camera and develop the film at school. I then chose to have enlarger some of the images. By placing them into different ingredients I chemically altered the prints. These were: - Nivea Cream
- Bleach
- Liquorice tea
- Chai tea
- Iron file
- Vanish
I felt that the film strip most of the images meet my intention of capturing the natural environment. Putting the printed into tea changed the colour of the overall image which was extremely successful as I wanted to change the image so they stood out and were more original. Also by changing them I like the image that they become original because of each conditions it changes the outcome of the appear of the image.
I want to research more of how i can change and further develop the images. Another thing that I will change in the next development is to take pictures of before I add the ingredients in the tray. As Sometimes it was hard to judge how much the images changed. For next week the images that I enlarger I am going to burry them in natural to let the organic life imprint on the images.
- Bleach
- Liquorice tea
- Chai tea
- Iron file
- Vanish
I felt that the film strip most of the images meet my intention of capturing the natural environment. Putting the printed into tea changed the colour of the overall image which was extremely successful as I wanted to change the image so they stood out and were more original. Also by changing them I like the image that they become original because of each conditions it changes the outcome of the appear of the image.
I want to research more of how i can change and further develop the images. Another thing that I will change in the next development is to take pictures of before I add the ingredients in the tray. As Sometimes it was hard to judge how much the images changed. For next week the images that I enlarger I am going to burry them in natural to let the organic life imprint on the images.
Two of the film strip I put them into Liquorice and Chai tea. BElow i have put the original image on the bottom and then the film strip that has been effected by the tea.
I took my film strip into the dark room to enlarge the images, here are my testers that I did in order to get the right exposure.
For this print above, from the negative I used bleach on the print. from this i then develop the negative. To the print I put Nivea Cream on the parts that were on the leaves, I put the loads of bleach so that the whole print lost its colour. I used Nivea Cream as it acts as a blocker against the bleach and therefore saves the image below.
This print was taken at Parkland walk. To chemically develop this print i sprayed a bit of bleach on some areas of the print. I then used Iron file and water to leave overnight. Above is the result of the print.
For this change I put the print into Bleach.
buried images
I took three of the images that i altered and buried then for 2 weeks. It went through different types of weather, I wanted to do this so that the natured that i captured had the chance to imprint and alter the image as well. As it rained some of the mud stuck to the image and added interesting texture and a 3D aspect to the image. I like the outcome of the images but i don't want to carry on. For my next development i want to look at how time changes the environment.
Development 2
For this development i wanted to look at the difference time has on the environment. I went to photograph buildings in an urban part of the city. I went from photographing nature to buildings as i felt that buildings change less during the time change and i wanted to capture the idea that what if the subject that i was photographing is somehow not changeable easily whereas nature can change in seconds like a leave falling off. I liked that some of the images between day and night had the same composition and really captured my aim of this development. Most of the images in the dark were burry or the white balance was off. Some of them the light traits looked nice but made the images grainy. also some of the composition for the images could really improve.
Development 3 Film
As I shot in digital l before I wanted to shoot the buildings that i captured in film to see if there are any changes. I used a kodak black and white film to shoot on. As i had to film stripe I went out during the day and took the images. however I then went back at night and took images of the same buildings but looking at how much they had changed just because it was night. I put the film that i used at night in lemon juice and boiling water for 6 hours. However this altered the chemicals and the images did not come out.
https://www.lomography.com/magazine/186270-destroying-film-to-play-with-color -- this was the website i used to find the process of how to use lemon juice.
Day images:
https://www.lomography.com/magazine/186270-destroying-film-to-play-with-color -- this was the website i used to find the process of how to use lemon juice.
Day images:
Night images. As i used a negative scan to do this it really enhanced all the dots and how the images come out.
Here are the final edited images. Using photoshop I put all the images on top of each other and then changed their opacity level so a bit of each image would be seen. The only problem that i had was that the images did not fit into another some had different angles while the other were at different focal length. This made it difficult to edit. For the next development I will look at buildings and shoot them in digital and how i would want to isolate them.
Development 4
For this development I kept photographing buildings. this time i looked at old buildings and and capturing their preservations. I went to South-bank for this development as i felt that many buildings there are fairly old and have interesting structures. i researched the history of the buildings in the South-bank. The national theatre caught my attention for the architecture feature, it was built in the 1960s in the style of brutalism. The war- bunker like blocks made it the voted ugliest ruling in britain by daily mail. however now it is seen as an example of post modern architecture. In 1976 the national theatre company moved into the building. I also went on a walk to capture the new buildings that are residential and office buildings. I liked the theme that without people within the buildings they look lifeless and out of place.
After taking the images I went through the process with the idea that i wanted to highlight the buildings then self and take evidence of the present such as people and cars on the street. I am going to put nivea cream on the parts that i want to save, as it blocks the bleach getting rid of that part. I am pleased with how the images came out. The are successful to a certain extend, however I did not go as plan. This is because I used thick bleach and didn't dilute it. I also think that i should have put a thicker layout of nivea cream on as i only put a thin layer. Some of the images were also to light so i put them in tea so that it soaked up the stained tea therefore making it darker.
For the next development I will make sure i put on a thick layer of nivea as even the parts that had some were bleached. I was also using thick bleach, even through the images were in bleach fro 30 minutes they were significantly destroyed. Therefore next time I will use thin bleach and still dilute it.
After taking the images I went through the process with the idea that i wanted to highlight the buildings then self and take evidence of the present such as people and cars on the street. I am going to put nivea cream on the parts that i want to save, as it blocks the bleach getting rid of that part. I am pleased with how the images came out. The are successful to a certain extend, however I did not go as plan. This is because I used thick bleach and didn't dilute it. I also think that i should have put a thicker layout of nivea cream on as i only put a thin layer. Some of the images were also to light so i put them in tea so that it soaked up the stained tea therefore making it darker.
For the next development I will make sure i put on a thick layer of nivea as even the parts that had some were bleached. I was also using thick bleach, even through the images were in bleach fro 30 minutes they were significantly destroyed. Therefore next time I will use thin bleach and still dilute it.
Development 5
For this development I carried on with photographing the buildings and to put them through the same process as before. However this time i changed the location. I went to the Tate Modern which has a lot of interesting structure. The building is also very plain in colour which i wanted to experiment with as the buildings in the development before i edited them to have a high saturation level. I also went out at sun set around a residential area i wanted to capture how the mood and the colours of a sunset could effective the look and feel of the environment. I felt that this development is more successful in the process aspect. I used a ruler which made the straight lines so much better. However with a ruler i struggled when trying to to put it on curved lines or small ones. I also put so much nivea cream on that it was spreading to other parts of the images making some have weird parts that did lose colour or go away.
The history of the Tate modern:
Tate Modern was a power station originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. The building was built in two stages between 1947 and 1963. The power station was then closed in 1981. The building became at risk of being demolished by developers. In April 19994 it was announced that the Bankside Power station would turn into the new Tate Modern. It was completed by 2000.. it was opened by the queen on May 11th of 2000. In its first year that it has been opened it received 5.25 million visitors.
The history of the Tate modern:
Tate Modern was a power station originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. The building was built in two stages between 1947 and 1963. The power station was then closed in 1981. The building became at risk of being demolished by developers. In April 19994 it was announced that the Bankside Power station would turn into the new Tate Modern. It was completed by 2000.. it was opened by the queen on May 11th of 2000. In its first year that it has been opened it received 5.25 million visitors.
Final Development
For this final development I went out to central London to capture the buildings structure. This time i was not looking at the history of the buildings I was drawn to their architecture and how they are persevered. I am fascinated by h the idea that building become useless and lifeless as soon as they are abandoned or when there aren't no human inside them changing there environment constantly. I went out in the middle of the on a saturday probably one of the busiest times to photograph this buildings with the intention to put them through a process that will isolate there structure and taken them away from the life movements that surround it. I felt that this was successful as i was happy with the outcome of the images their composition are good. Also the process went very well as no part of the image was taken away.
The images below are y chosen ones which i will edit and then print.
The process
The artist: Patrick Cornillet and me
I drew inspiration from this artist since development 4. I liked the way he would dissect the image and leave only the building. Like my work we both went through a process to isolate the buildings from the rest of the world. However the noticeable difference is he did it on a different media than i did. I worked on doing it physically as i liked the fact that after the image had come through the bleach i would not be able to create the same image again wont putting bleach as there are so many variables that change the outcome of the image. I was going to dissect the images on photoshop but it did not have that unique aspect to each image that i liked. In the final piece another difference is shown because not only do i not leave the images just plain with only the building. I like having the image with still some people trace of the life that surrounds the building them save. However some of my images do have no trace of anything and is just a blank white.