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sublime shoot: under water 6

For this underwater shoot I had the thought that this would definitely create the most sublime atmosphere and composition possible. I believe the combination of both tranquility and beauty posed within the inability to breath and threat of death created what would be expected as sublime. For the shoot itself I intend to create a composition of both from a large camera above the water looking down on someone submerged within the pool, but then taking this further and taking images of someone submerged within water. My visual inspiration for this shoot are the following images:

I believe these images not only focused on the embodiment of the sublime. As this shoot is one which is very hard to successfully achieve I decided I wanted to research the best way to take the shoot for it to be the most successful it possibly could be. There are an array of methods I will be experimenting with, the first is using a dslr camera but having my person submerged in the water and me having myself and the camera above the surface. With this effect I will be able to capture images of her face close up and in high definition and also her whole body from a lower down perspective. one of the main issues I am facing with this shoot as I am taking it in a public pool the lighting will be very very strong. Because of this to get the darker tonal colours and contrast will be a-lot more difficult.  I could also use this to experiment with bodily from, having just hands and bodily shapes coming out of the water. I will additionally be using a go pro in order to take the deeper underwater photography and also developing the different effects it can capture compared to a different camera.One of my other aims is to really be able to capture her falling into the water and trying to really connote and depth and a submerged effect to the image itself. If the water is not deep enough I will use photoshop in order to further exaggerate how deep the water is, as this is one of the factors which will actually from the scenario of danger and pain that causes emotions based off the sublime themselves. I think this soot is so unique and I really hope the images come out successfully, and if they come out blurred and less of the detail that I wish to capture, that I could at least further edit them to still show a accommodation of emotions and suffocation of water.

 

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Dslr edits: I wanted to edit many of the images in order to make the water feel deeper. I wanted to  take many from the above perceptive as to my mind this has a tendency of themes of surrealism within the image itself. I wanted to really be able to visibly see the detail throughout all the bubbles. I think it is a really interesting perspective to be able to see someone from such detail above the water. Not only is it a unique view but it portrays the effect beauty and a aspect of danger as they have the possibility of drowning.

sublime shoot: ballet dancer shoot 4

For this shoot I wanted to shows some themes of surrealism and also emotions expressed through their style of traces woodman and how she blurs people moving in order to express an emotion. I chose a dancer due to the effect of the abstract shapes and forms creating patterns in the sky and such. I belive this response is quite interesting and definitely does contain more abstract themes to my previously more straight photography style of showing a clear demonstration of emotions. I belive due to how blurry it is as it forms a similar relation to both landscapes and portraiture both mixed into one similar over ruling theme. I wanted to experiment with both editing with and without colour, I have done this as I quite enjoyed experimenting with the juxtaposition of the bright red shoes, I then also developed more in photoshop and overlaying the images and ow this can combine to show a chaotic over ruling theme of both emotion and action, I belive those images clearly demonstrate that of stress, and a sense of frantic worry. I think dancing itself is an oxymoron. It is so beautiful yet causes the dancer themselves so much pain throughput the extensive training.

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This is one of my favourite images from this shoot, I think the movement of the light and juxtaposition to the arms moving so quickly and frantically to that of the simplicity of the dancer being on point. I this creates an almost type of paradox that perhaps it could be further conceptualised to that of pleasure and pain all into one image itself.

This image has such a strong surrealistic undertone. The way the light forms and looks as though it is lifting her up. I believe this movement and almost angelic light shows a freedom and a peace to the image. I think this image is the symbol of the sublime, you could never plan this image which I think is such a primary purpose to being a significant and sublime. There is a freedom and unpredictability, there is also an expectation of danger as she will have to fall back down. I think I should do further experiment with this image and do believe possible with a lower saturation this will be such a successful

Overlapping images edited:

I think overlapping  these images makes them less clear in the way which you are now unable to see the point of the composition. I belive if I add more quotations which philosophers have spoken about which have a relation to the image it could be successful and further conceptualises the photos themselves.

Academic sources: quotation and referencing:

book reference of themes :I have read the following books

Contemporary arts: is a book written by: 

I started reading contemporary arts wi the intention to fin out more about the bass of how art and photocopy developed throughout time politically and economically and how this had an influence on the images produced and also the effects emotionally on the images themselves. These are the following notes I made when reading gah following book: Contemporary arts was founded upon the soviet war and the decision between the eat and the west,if the art of the east had to conform and to represent a specific ideology and have a definite social use,then the art of the west must be apparently free of any such direction and attain perfect uselessness. East had a celebratory achievements of humanity socialist West limits failures and cruelties Many ethnicity cultures and art influences joined the west in the way they were no longer ignored and were born to critical and commercial success.The end of the cold war broke the white genius and white monopoly of the country.The greatest effect on art has not been on its economy but its rhetoric. The demonisation of barriers

Camera lucida:Is a book written by Roland Barthes 

this is a book questioning the philosophy of why photography is important and how every aspect to an image has a different precise point of interest within it, It additionally develops the idea of what is reality and emotions being reflected and held within the person in the photo. The following are quotes and reference of interest I think will benefit my work. “I am interested in them as I am interested in the world but I do not love them” often punctum is the detail dependent on a size, However lighting like, it may be the punctum has, more or less potentially a power of expansion .This power is often metonymic.‘Thinking eye’ . This is Sole proof of art to annihilate as medium .What a stubbornly see. We say to develop a photograph but what the chemical reaction develops is undevlopable , the essence of a wound, what cannot be repeated but only transformed but only repeated under the instances of insistence. We must speak of intense immobility linked to detail to a detonator Not to inherit anything other than my own eye. Within movie you are not allowed to shut your eyes, otherwise you would not discover the image.  

The third book I have looked at is Oxfords worlds classics,, Edmund burke a philosophical enquiry: This book is a clear questioning of what the sublime is and of how it has come about and what successful it achieves. Many of my notes here are Ideas burke has bought up that I think could benefit my research question that I will continue to ask myself. These are quotes and theoretical questions. 

Burke had the thought that the beautiful us that which is well-formed and aesthetically pleasing. This is differently how the sublime is something which has power to compel and then destroy us. He stated the difference was that of the tranition from neoclassical to the romantic era. Burkes thinkning was based off the understanding he had from the casual structures, this consisting of Aritotelians belief that ‘physics and metaphysics, causation can be divided into formal, material, efficient and final causes’  he belived the fromal cause of beauty if the passion of love, the material cause concerns would be the materials of the object itself, smallness,smoothness,delicacy. These ese intern cause the calming of our berves . The final cause is God and his providence. Beauty before burkes view was based oin the three deifning factors of fitness perfection and porportion. however the sublime also had a casuals tructure before urkes theory and this consisted of, the passion of fear(death), The material was the infinity, vastness and magnificence of the object. The efficient cause is the tension of our nerves, and gos role in the final cause is having created and battled satan. Pleasure is ongly pleasure if it is felt and the said to be said about pain. Three states of indifference, of pleasure, and of pain. He will feel greater pain stretch caused upon the rack, but does this pain of the rack arise from the removal of any pleasure. DIFFERENCE OF REMOVAL OF PAIN AND POSITIVE PLEASURE. Pupose, that pain and pleasure are not only, not necessarily dependent for their existence on their mutual diminution or removal, but that, in reality, the diminution or ceasinf of pleasure does not operate like positive pain. And that the removal or dimunition of pain, in its effect has very little resembelance to positive pleasure.

internet reference of themes :I have two themes to which I want to research this being emotions within photography and the other being sublime.

The sublime: I decided to dive into the Tate modern for this research and discover what the contemporary sublime is k.Anish(2002) Tate Modern: Contemporary artists have extended the vocabulary of the sublime by looking back to earlier traditions and by engaging with aspects of modern society. They have located the sublime in not only the vastness of nature as represented in modern science but also the awe-inspiring complexity and scale of the capitalist-industrial system and in technology.Julian Bell surveys the contemporary sublime with personal reflections on its continued relevance to artistic practice. Other essays reflect on the complex relationships between concepts of the sublime and capitalism and technology today. ,, The content of the sublime: global Fear of what? What is that ‘something which one immediately has to recognise is bigger’? Does the contemporary art of the sublime have some substantive content in mind? Or do its meanings reside in its very nihilism, its hankerings after the sheer effect of power? Or is that taking matters too seriously? Why should we not simply celebrate showmanship, in this our age of spectacle?

Emotions within photography:Here I wanted to measure how you can measure emotion within a piece of art such as photography. And how differently art and emotions can be.

(Cacioppo et al. 2001 p. 173)–Our emotions play an important role throughout the span of our lives because they enrich virtually all of our waking moments with either a pleasant or an unpleasant quality. Cacioppo and his colleagues wrote that “emotions guide, enrich an ennoble life; they provide meaning to everyday existence; they render the valuation placed on life and property”This person will experience all kinds of emotions, such as fear, amusement, anger, relief, disappointment, hope, etcetera. Instead of one isolated emotion, it is the combination of those emotions that contributes to the experience of fun. It is not implausible that the same applies to other instances of fun, whether it is sharing a joke, using a product, or interacting with a computer.–P.M.A. Desmet (in press) Measuring Emotions 1Delft University of Technology; Department of Industrial Design

artists references online and in books :

j.bell (2013) sublime and the contemporary arts – But here in the foreground, as of the 2010s, we seem to stand amidst a delta. Channels of discourse about the sublime meander all around us, but which is the main flow, which the subsidiary, which the navigation canal or ditch for irrigation has become almost impossible to tell. Ideally, I should like to draw a map of this muddle; pragmatically, I hope at least to offer a ground-level topographical sketch.

 

 

hypothesis

Inspired questions:

I wanted to choose questions which were specific and had similar themes to what I want to ask myself.

.Merging the Boundaries of the Real and the Imagined: How are Fictional and Mythical Characters Represented in Photography

.How is religion – specifically Christianity – linked to fairy tales?Can staged photography really be considered as a form of factual documentary photography?

.What are the differences/ similarities in a formal or informal approach to portrait photography?‘How do Paul M Smith, Ben Zank and Rut Blees display emotions through self- portraiture and environmental photography?’

.How can elements of Surrealism be used to express and visualise the personal, iner emotions of people suffering from mental health issues?

.Can surrealism in portraiture photography accurately bring out powerful and deep personal emotions?

.Examining the documentary aesthetics: A photograph should not be manipulated, so that its authenticity, veracity and sense of realism can be maintained?

How did the Bechers’ typologies of Industrial Architecture influence a new generation of photographers?

how and why do photographers use the human body to physically express hidden emotions’

My questions:

examine how the sublime and reality work hand in hand to  visualise how they reflection of personal emotion. And how the artists… and ….. show this in different ways.

how can politically movements of photography such as surrealism and the sublime effect the way which photographs see and demonstrate emotion in their work.

how does the power of pain and beauty found within the sublime, have such s strong influence on the emotions of artists and photographers.

Does objectivity and reality effect how we view and react to our emotions. How does the sublime have such an emotional response dependent on the persons current emotional status. And how do photographers capture such a unique set of emotions all at once.

Merging the boundaries of the sublime and surrealism; how are emotions and personal identity represented conceptually throughout photography. Why do these photographers consider their work to be sublime.

Examining the sublime: A photograph should not be able to have such strong emotional occupancy, so that it effects how someone perceives reality and views their own emotions.

Mandy Barker Response 2 Plan

Concept: To capture the rubbish I have collected in the style of Mandy Barker’s “Soup” series.

Location: Photo Studio, Black background

Props: Items I have collected

Lighting: I will attach a trigger to the camera that works with the studio lighting flash system

Camera Settings: Shutter Speed – 1/160, Aperture – F16, ISO – 100

The items will appear to float on a black background.

Experimentation in Photoshop – Surveillance and Stalking

Overview/Plan

For this experimentation I will use the photographs I’ve taken in the style of Sophie Calle; photographs that depict the journey’s of unknown strangers. I aim to edit these photographs in a way that merges the concept of stalking and invading that Sophie Calle explores in much detail, with this idea of surveillance that I have also began to explore in the earlier stages of this project. I want to find a way to age the photographs/lower their quality to mimic surveillance cameras and the footage that they produce. I also want to add dates and times to add character and realism to my ‘surveillance footage’. After the photographs are edited in a way that I like, I want to test different methods of presenting the images; try out grid formats – similar to ones used in typology (Bernd Becherand Hilla Becher) or perhaps try presenting the images in a row like a sequence or comic strip that will showcase the progression of events.

I started by inserting the image; unlocking the layer on the side so that I can make permanent changes to the image. I then went onto the details of my image by selecting ‘file’ and then ‘file info’ – this displayed the exact date and time the image was taken and I copied this value. After that, I selected the text tool and pressed paste; from here I experimented with the positioning of the text, the size, the colour and the font until I reached an equilibrium. I was aiming for something simple but also easy to replicate.

In order to process to the next step I needed to make the different layers one; I did this by converting the text layer into a smart object and merging it down onto the picture layer. Then, I went into ‘Filter’, ‘Noise’ and ‘Add Noise’ to reach this interface. I moved the slider around until I was satisfied and applied the said filter to my overall image.

Using the Polygonal Lasso Tool, I traced around the man, I then right clicked and copied the image onto a new layer using ‘Layer Via Copy’. This transferred the area I highlighted onto a separate layer where I could make adjustments. I went into ‘adjustments’ and then ‘Brightness And Contrast’ and edited the brightness, creating a stark contrast and in a sense, highlighting the man from his surrounding.

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A wider layout; One the first image I added a black and white filter over the image to eradicate the blue/green hue that the photos contained. On the second I did the same steps but didn’t add a black and white filter and therefore keeping the hues.

This photograph is longer vertically, I didn’t apply a black and white filter, this results in the photographs having a hue and the yellow text is much more prominent and visible in the image.

In this example, I opted for a much bigger space between the images; I also didn’t use the black and white filter and even made the background colour more brown to compliment and contrast the hues in the images.

This experiment was the opposite of the one before; instead of leaving huge space between the images I left none.

Sophie Calle – My Response

Planning

In Sophie Calle’s publication called ‘Suite Venitienne’ she follows a man, a complete stranger to her,  and photographs his journey. She records her observations in forms of photographs. As my response to her work, I plan to follow complete strangers for a fraction of their journey through town. I want to treat this as more of an experiment; explore and approach it in different ways. I don’t plan on following just a single individual – I’ll follow many characters and experiment with how close I can get to the subjects. I’ll start off with photographs from a safe distance before zooming in, adjusting lenses and getting closer to create a much more intimidating and risky photographs.  The lighting and setting will be natural; I’ll be adjusting my camera settings on the scene to reach an equilibrium. I plan to edit the photographs heavily in the post production part – I’ll use Adobe Lightroom to turn all the photographs black and white with the same contrast,  brightness and exposure settings throughout to maintain a very consistent theme in all the photos.

Contact Sheet

Adobe Lightroom Alterations

I began by inserting all my photographs from this shoot into Adobe Lightroom. Then, using the function of flagging photographs, I picked out the images that I think are successful and that I want to use and edit in the later stages. I filtered out all the non-flagged images so that I was left with only the images that I chose and I went into the ‘develop mode’ where I edited the first photograph to my liking.

‘Develop Mode’ allows complete adjustment of images. I firstly changed the colours into black and white – Sophie Calle photographed in black and white to add mystery and focus much more on the subjects. I then transformed and cropped the image in a way so that the subject is in the direct center. I adjusted the colour sliders to make certain colours more darker while others more brighter so that they stand out more. Once happy with my alterations, I right click and went into ‘Metadata Presets’ and then I pressed ‘Copy Presets’, essentially what this does is copy all the exact changes I have made to this photo and make them transferable onto other photographs. This results in all my images having the same adjustments done on them without having to edit them individually making the whole process much simpler and less time consuming.

The final result was a collection of 41 photographs that I want to experiment on. They are now much more similar to Sophie Calle’s work. I will export all the photographs as TIFF files so that I can edit and experiment with them on Adobe Photoshop in the next section of this project.