The next set of blog posts will be about portraiture. Portraiture is creating images that involve other people in some way, maybe by showing their faces or by other means by showing things that present them. There are many different ways to do this that many different artists and photographers have come up with to display different emotions or show the lives of people.
Below is a mind map all different things that we may cover ahead and things that may come up within those topics, such as lighting and the emotions of people.
I may use inspiration from images like these below. These have been created by all sorts of different artists and photographers like, Henri-Cartier Bresson, Sian Davey and Alec Soth. I may also look at scenes from films or drawings, like the image of Snow White in the image.
Overall in this project I have been able to experiment and explore the different ways that I can create abstract photography as well as learning the different types of camera skills I can use to generate those photographs. I feel I have been able to develop my photographs across the whole project well and have kept the fluidity of the project as I produced more photo shoots and experiments over the course. Into the next project I will try to get more photographs during my photo shoots as I feel this was something I had struggled with in this project and something that I can develop and would be helpful into the next coming, this will mean I have more options and more to experiment with, which will help me as I move through the next projects. I feel that I have tried to show my development of my skills and the development of my photographs and the project as they have develop. Something I feel I could do better would be to have more fluidity in the photographs I am taking and how I develop them. I feel at some points in the project I could’ve taken some more risks with the photographs I was taking and being a bit more experimental would’ve helped and this is something I will try to do into the next project.
Final Displays
Overall I am happy with the way my final photographs turned out and how I was able to display them. For my A3 and A5 image I feel they worked well as I contrasted them together as the different sizes but also the different takes on abstract. In the future I may try to explore more creative ways to display my photographs, I started to try and experiment with this with the tracing paper over my A4 display however I feel I could have found more ways to try and display my photographs in more creative ways and one way I will be able to improve this is to have more photographs taken during my shoots so that I can give myself a wider variety. I am happy with the way the editing of my A3 photograph turned out and this is something I will take forward and try to experiment with more.
