Here are some of my best images from my shoot at Jersey zoo, from these I found that they were appropriate to remove the main subject of each photograph (such as butterflies and flowers) and impose them upon white backgrounds, which would make it much easier for me to incorporate them into my editing process. Below is each of those images followed by the cut out version of it.

The main thing which I have got out of this shoot and my favourite images is a range of natural beauty from patterns and colours to shaped and forms which I can use in my photo montage process. The butterflies specifically are a common occurrence in the photo montage work from artists which I researched to begin the project.

I also then made an edit from one of the images which i took in this shoot. It is a completely experimental edit in which I created a wallpaper-like pattern from one of the butterfly images, I just wanted to include it in this post in order to show the possibilities of what can be done with simple editing of these images…

This blog post shows my photo-shoot in which I planned to visit Jersey zoo to photograph the butterflies in the new enclosure. This is because through my research I found that butterflies were a commonly feature element of the artwork which I was looking at such as Peter Blake, Dexter Navy, Damien Hirst and Dan Baldwin. Although I was unsure of why butterflies were used in this work I believe that they are an example of nature’s beauty and when added to a piece their prints and patterns give for a very aesthetically pleasing effect, so therefore I wanted to incorporate this in my work. Whilst on my photo-shoot I made the most of the location and photographed some of the other animals which I may also use in some of my photo-montages. I believe that this shoot was successful and has lead to plenty of images which I am sure I will use in my work for this project.

Dodging the Camera

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Throwing a dodgeball in the air and creating a line with tennis balls

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The process I went through to create this image started with open three different images and then colour balancing them with red and yellow.

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One in shadows

Another in Midtones

And the last one in highlights

I then placed the three picture stacked on each other prepped for the fade tool so that all three could be seen

I used a fade of 35% on the shadow and midtone pictures so that the highlight photo could be seen underneath.

After that I went into brightness and contrast and reduced brightness by 25% and boosted contrast by 100

Then too make a final touch I went into Vibrance and reduced vibrance by 100% and boosted saturation by 50% so that it created a burnt out colour effect.

Lorna Simpson is an American Photographer born in Brooklyn in 1960. She is known for creating bold works of African American women and sometimes African American men, questioning conventional notions of race and identity. In ‘Five Day Forecast’the images shows an African american woman. The images has been cropped so that the face is not visible in the image meaning the viewer only see the torso of the women. From a quick glance the images all look identical but after looking each image is different in the way she has her arms crossed, clothing and overall positioning. The photos appear underneath five contiguous frames, labeled above with the days of the workweek, Monday to Friday in a sort of calendar or weather forecast format. Underneath the image is ten plaques two for each image, which read
misdescription, misinformation, misidentify, misdiagnose, misfunction, mistranscribe, misremember, misgauge, misconstrue, and mistranslate.

Simpson said ” I use the figure to examine the ways in which gender and culture shape the interactions, relationships and experiences of our lives in contemporary America.” and that she was exploring what could happen to a Black women within one week.

John Baldessari was a key figure in the Conceptual art movement that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s, emphasizing ideas, language, and performative actions over the formal preoccupations of painting.

. In his black and white video, I am Making Art, made in 1971, Baldessari takes a humorous and ironic look at the extremes of such a position. This work is an example of post-modernism art, this movement was coined in the mid to late 1900’s, it is a reaction against modernism; a movement that was based on idealism and achieving a Utopian vision, modernist artists wanted to reflect the real world through what they create. Post-modernism denied the idea that there is any single way or definition of what art should be, viewers have their own interpretation of the art due to their own unique experiences. Another aspect of post-modernism is that it takes pieces of different past styles. I am Making Art is post-modern in the way that Baldesarri has created something that everyone interprets differently and especially in the way that he is aware of this

In 1970, Baldessari and some friends burnt all of the paintings he had created between 1953 and 1966 as part of a new piece, titled The Cremation Project. The ashes from these paintings were baked into cookies resulting in an art installation consisting of a bronze plaque with the destroyed paintings’ birth and death dates, as well as the recipe for making the cookies. Through this project, Baldessari draws a connection between artistic practice and the human life cycle. For me this project brings to life his quote of ‘no more bboring art’, as the idea does sound very boring at first as it it an active that you seen being done every way, but I do think that the images are actually very interesting to look at.