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AO2 Explore Ideas, Unit 1 Abstract

Alexander Mourant

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Raised on the Channel Island of Jersey, London-based artist Alexander Mourant (b. 1994, UK) is
drawn to the friction between interior and exterior worlds, as well as photography’s power to
represent existential ideas. For his recent Aomori series, Mourant captured the blue depths of Japan’s
ancestral forests with a lens filter developed specifically for the project.

An Example of his work, Blue Photography:

 

Alexander Mourant
  • In this photo You can see moss covering rocks and ground on the left hand side and on the other side there is rocks and banks and trees to do this photo he would of used natural lighting, the light is coming from the bottom left hand corner.
  • To get the colour blue he has taken a piece of blue glass  from a church window and had it specially cut to fit the lens of his camera. this meant that all the pictures he took were blue.
  • Mourant has captured the moss on the left hand side and has made it look like water is coming down the banks, when i first saw this picture I first of all thought it was water however when I looked closer I realized it wasn’t.
  • The trees on the right hand side has been made abstract as the lines from the branches are filled and the leaves look like they are block.
  • The lighting is coming from the left hand corner, the light is catching the moss and making it white as if it has been over exposed

 

This is my example responding to Alexander Mourant work, Instead of using glass over the lens, I changed the white balance setting in the camera, I liked this setting as the photo was green however When I changed the white balance It went to this light blue. The light Is coming from the Left top right corner catching the branch in the middle,

AO2 Explore Ideas, AO4 Present Ideas, Unit 1 Abstract

Over-exposure

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To start my over-exposure piece, I first chose the two images I wanted to use. I looked for two images which might go well together, and at least one that had texture and was considered abstract. I had to make them the same size, so since one was smaller than the other I had to make the smaller one bigger so it covered the entire picture.

I then went and copied my textured one onto my other photo, and lowered the opacity so the bottom layer was visible through the top layer. I adjusted it until I was satisfied with my outcome.

 

Final works:

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week 1-white paper challenge

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In my very first a level photography class i was challenged like the rest of the photography student to take a picture of only a paper with my phone camera, and i was up to the challenge.

So i grabbed my phone with the really bad camera and picked up a paper and started experimenting shapes that i can create from a single sheet of white paper.its really just about being creative at this point you really just need to experiment as much as you can and think ahead on how are you going to take the picture, at what angle, what lighting……..

I saw that most of the students where just trying to copy the photograph of a paper in the form of a ball that the teacher showed us, so i wanted to do something else. so i grabbed a ruler and my paper and started folding the paper around the ruler to create a zigzag paper.

After i did the paper now i should plan on how am i going to take the picture, i decided to use the flash on my phone since there was not enough natural light to create shadows. but i wasn’t sure at what angle should i take the photo so i experimented from two angles and this is what i came up with:

so this one i took it from above the paper and used the light in the room to create that zigzag shadow around the paper.

this one i just took it from the side, and the light from the sun through the window also created some shadow on the paper.

and as you can see both photos where edited and that was using a phone app, since the challenge included only using phone there was no other way to do it.

in the first photo i used a light filter called vintage which makes the photo a bit dim and yellowish, i also used a tick black frame alongside cropping to adjust the paper in the middle of the picture.

in the second one i used a light filter called x process, which makes the photo brighter and blueish , i cropped some obstacles from the photograph and i used a frame with a little bit of texture to create some movement in the photograph.