What are Codes ?
Codes are a system of words, letters, figures, or symbols used to represent others, especially for the purposes of secrecy. Codes within photography are also known as symbolic codes, technical codes or written codes
http://jakehicksphotography.com/
Born in Cornwall, he first discovered his love for photography when his father first gave him a camera, but his real interest in the subject began when he found that photography was the only path left for him as he had to fail at most of his academic subjects. His work could be described as bold, bright and colourful, as lighting colour is the main focus of his images
PhotoShoot
| Concept | Genre / Artist | Location | Props | Shot type | Lighting | Settings |
| Codes | Jake Hicks/Abstract/HDR | Studio | Tripod-Gel Sheets | Portrait | Artificial/Studio Lights | Manual focus,f/2.8-f/4, 1/60 shutter speed ISO-100 |
Contact Sheet
Best Images from the shoot 
Overall this shoot was okay but I didn’t produce the outcome of images that I wanted. So I have decided that I am not going to carry on this idea, but I will use some of the backgrounds in some of the final outcomes
contextual - Pichler used his bathroom as a studio and for storing various foods kept in plastic containers as they began to flourish in mold and rot. He grew up in a rural province in Austria where raising and eating meat was an important part of their culture. Pichler later defied these customs and became a vegetarian.
technical - This picture has been flipped to make it look like the string is holding the lemons up like flowers. The use of lighting is cleverly done, Pichler has lit the lemons from the front and bottom which gives a shadow on the floor of the picture [the ceiling], adding to the illusion that the lemons are standing up on 'stalks'.
visual - As Klaus Pichler said, the initial sense of his work may seem beautiful and appetizing until the viewer realizes what they're looking at. He's set up this scene to remind the audience of something beautiful; flowers, with the string set up like stalks and the lemons displaying bright and vivid yellow and green colours. These colours relate to toxicity, beauty and nature creating conflicting views on the picture for the audience - is it beautiful or repulsive?
conceptual - The photograph is set up like flowers, giving connotations of beauty and life, directly contrasted with decay and effectively death. It gives the underlying message that everything comes to an end, highlighting that the luxuries we take for granted will slowly diminish with the natural reckless behaviours accompanied by humanity. Pichler has created these pictures to make us question the everyday actions that seem normal to us; throwing away rubbish, littering, driving cars, material consumption etc. - where does it come from and where does it go? We've been bred to do and not think.
Once looking over his images I decided I should analyze it to see what made it effective as an image, to do this I would take into consideration the technical, visual and conceptual aspects of the photo. By doing this it would enable me to direct it to my own images and how I could relate this specific style into various shoots. The photo I chose to analyze is called Silent Hill:
Technical: The piece uses a high shutter speed to create a broad overview of everything in the theatre and capture the whole picture. Joo has used a higher exposure to capture parts of the shadows around the seats and ceiling to emphasize the sense of eeriness around the idea of abandonment, by doing this it removes much of the sense from a light-hearted area. The use of including part of the floor before the seats creates the impression of long-term abandonment due to the rubble present throughout.
within these four images I repeated and flipped the images and edited the angles to create an altered reality to the positioning of her face.I originally did this by the lighting technique and blocking out light on half of her face originally. 
