Emotional Response:

• Dark and sinister feel to the photo.

• Background feels cathedral-like.

• Character wears suit so has an authoritative feel, like he's above the workers.

 Technical:

• Wide angle lens.

• Uses camera to capture image.

• Symmetrical.

• Strong Perspective.

Visual:

• White, old male.

• Smug looking male.

• Dominant character.

• Maintaining strong eye contact with the camera.

• Cathedral-like background.

• Not very colorful/vibrant.

Concept:

• The image was Arnold's way of revenge on Krupp. Krupp used slave labour in his factory and assisted and supported the nazi's.

• Newman was a jew and by making Krupp look as emil as possible was his way of revenge.

Context:

• Arnold Newman was a Jewish photographer. He was approached initially by Krupp to take his photos but when Krupp found out Newman was a jew, he was rejected because of his nazi supporting views. However, Newman insisted Krupp that he looks at his portfolio, which lead to Krupp then agreeing to have Newman take his photo.

• Alfred Krupp was an industrialist. He was accused of using slave labour for his Nazi war ethic.

Mind Map:

Mood Board:

Franco Fontana:

Franco Fontana is an Italian photographer born in Modena, on December, 9th, 1933. Although he is best known for his abstract colour landscapes, he has also takenmultiple images of colourful buildings. He is known as the inventor of the photographic line referred to as concept of line. Fontana plays with the concept of reality and unreality. Fontana views that our built world is more than buildings, surfaces, objects and colors. Fontana engages with the symphony of relationships that is constantly being rewritten between the physical elements of the urban landscape. 

Fontana uses natural lighting such as daylight in his images, and uses the vast amount of colours and shadows to contast eachother. Fontana mainy uses a 35mm camera on location as he claimed that the world was his studio. In Fontana's landscape images he uses a high light sensitivity which creates a grainy image, however, in his urban landscape images of buildings he appears to use a lower light sensitivity because the images are a lot less grainy. Fontana plays with both warm and cool temperatures in his images, constantly creating a contrast. 

Colour and line are the main features of Fontana's work that makes it so striking and unique. The reoccuring theme of line runs through his work, creating unique and distorted impressions, creating the illusion that some of his images are photoshopped. The tone of his work varys, with both light and dark and light and shadows constantly featuring. There is usually some element of space in Fontanas images aswell, however he cleverly uses it as it is usually the sky, with the blue contrasting the colours of the image.

Action Plan:

1 x A3, 1 x A4, 1 x A5.
I was inspired by  Fontana's images of the urban landscape and also wanted to photograph images of colourful buildings. Location wise, I thought Gorey is the perfect location to shoot my photographs because along the pier there are many colourful buildings. I decided to use a 55-250mm lens to capture my images because I decided not to take close upimages, but images that are a bit further away, so therefore I thought that a 55-250mm lens would be more suitable. I also wanted to have atleast one of my images featuring the sky to create some negative space, however I would have to be careful and ensure I am not creating too much negative space. I also chose to shoot in the middle of the day so I wouldn't have to use artificial light.

The Photoshoot:

I did take images of the buildings at Gorey, however I was also interested in features such as the paint of the road, and the abstract shapes formed by palm trees. However, overall I prefer the images of the buildings. The I find the colours very striking and eyecatching.

Final Image Selection and Manipulation:

Out of all of the images I took, my favourites are of the buildings. Here are my three favourites:

A3:
For this image I used adobe lightroom to manipulate it. I increased the contrast, decreased the exposure, cropped the image and slightly increased the vibrancy of the image. This is my favourite image because I really like how detailed the pattern is of the buildings roof in the foreground, and the pale blue of the sky in the background. I also like the shaped introduced in this image, for instance the round curves created by the tiles, however the line introduced of the outline of the roof. I feel that the blue and green compliment eachother, and the natural daylight creates the shadow of the right side of the roof constasts the bright and vibrant colours of the left side of the roof. Line and pattern is a reoccuring theme of this image, which makes the image eyecatching and interesting.

A4: Once again I used adobe lightroom to manipulate my image. I increased the vibrance, contrast and slightly increased the clarity. I then decreased the exposure and hightlights. To take this image I used a fast shutter speed to ensure there was no shakiness. I also ensured that I used a low light intensity to make sure that the image won't be grainy. Colour is the main focus of this image, I especially like the magenta contrasting the green in this image. I also like the textural difference of the flowers to the smoothness of the building. There are also some elements of line in this image, seeming as the windows, borders and buildings feature line. 

A5: Adobe lightroom was used to manipulate this image. I decreased the exposure, increased the contract,decreased the shadows, increased the vibrancy and increased the highlights. I used the daylight as my natural lighting. I like the contrast between the dark olive green and the vibrant reds in this photograph. I also like how the busy and unique texture of the flowers contrast the smooth and regular texture of the house. the repetition of the three windows and three bushes of flowers add symmetry to the photograph, making it more aesthetically pleasing. The temperature of this photo is mainly warm because the red of both the roof and the flowers add a warm temperature and feel to the photograph. I used a fast shutter speed to make sure the image wasnt blurry or grainy.

Presentation of Final Images:

To present my images, I am going to place them onto foam board. My reasoning for this is because the foam board will give a slight 3D feel to the photos, and emphasis on the fact that the images are of buildings.

Distortion is a warping or transformation of an object and its surrounding area that differs significantly from what the object would look like with a normal focal length, due to the relative scale of nearby and distant features.

Here are examples of my distortion photography:

I like these images because in the first photo the background is warped inwards, and the face is dragged out. However, in the second photo the face is flat and you can see a lot more of the background.

Once again the face is contorted out and in the first photo the background is a lot more visible, with the face being very flat.

Frank Hallam-Day

Washington, DC-based photographer Frank Day is a versatile artist shooting in both black and white and color film. Traveling the world to remote destinations, Day is able to capture the rich beauty of pattern, color and texture of the open-air markets, isolated landscapes, busy harbors and everyday lives of diverse cultures. Day has also mastered the landscapes and cityscapes of the world, shooting the angular architecture of cities such as Berlin, New York, and Baltimore, as well as the beautiful softness of Washington, DC’s cherry blossoms.

https://addisonripleyfineart.com/artist/frank-hallam-day/

Franco Fontana

Franco Fontana is above all interested in the interplay of colours and he had based his own vibrant and original language on that. The later critics had labeled it as Photographic Trans-avantgarde. He explored different subjects: urban landscape, portraiture, fashion, still-life and the nude. He worked with 35 mm cameras, mostly on location claiming that his studio was the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Fontana

My Inspiration

In this photoshoot I went to gorey because I wanted to focus on the different colours of the buildings. Therefore Franco Fontana was a god artist to take inspiration from. However, because I was also going to the pier, Frank Hallam-Day is a great artist to take inspiration from, especially his photographic series of the rusty multi-coloured boats.

Here are examples of my photos:

With my shoot, I was lucky enough to have a vibrant sunset which affected all of my photos. I especially liked it when it was dark, and my photos of the boats feature a dark red sunset.

To manipulate my images I used adobe lightroom. With my images I adjusted the vibrance, clarity, contrast, exposure, highlights, shadows and I cropped the images until I got the result I wanted. I adjusted the vibrance to emphasize the sunset, however for some of the photos I didn't need to adjust the vibrance because the sunset was so predominant. 

In some of my images I was struggling with the shutter speed so some of my images turned out blurry because it captured too much of the image. With the lighting I used both natural light, however I also used flash when it became really dark. Most of the images have a very warm temperature, however some of the photos that include the buildings also feature cold colours because of the buildings colour. The darker the night because, the darker the tone of the image. There are some elements of line introduced in my images, from the colours of the buildings, or the wires of the boats. However, there are also softer elements of the images, from the roundness of the boats to the curvature of the flowers.

The aperture stop of a photographic lens can be adjusted to control the amount of light reaching the film or image sensor. In combination with variation of shutter speed, the aperture size will regulate the film's or image sensor's degree of exposure to light.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture

Here is my experimentation with a 75-300mm lens:

Experimentation

In photography, shutter speed or exposure time is the length of time when the film or digital sensor inside the camera is exposed to light, also when a camera's shutter is open when taking a photograph. The amount of light that reaches the film or image sensor is proportional to the exposure time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_speed

Here is a mood board:

Here are my experimentations.  I learnt the slower the shutter speed, the higher the exposure, so I had to do a lot of adjusting to the ISO and apeture. This is my first time experimenting with shutter speed, so therefore my images aren't amazing because I was constantly learning how much I should adjust my ISO and apeture to.

I like the photos of Imani shaking her head because it appears she has multiple faces. To create this image I slowed the shutter speed and because the image was taken inside in a dark area, I adjusted my ISO and apeture a little higher then the photos I took outside where they were very low.  I believe next time that I can adjust the white balance because the images have an orange tone to them. My mistake of taking photos of tom rubbing his faca and moving his glasses is that I didn't focus of the backgrounf. If I made him sit the other side of the table then the background wouldn't be so light and distract the image.

Here are some examples of the images I manipulated:

I feel that the images look a lot better in black and white. I used adobe lightroom and applied a black and white preset to my images. I then adjusted the clarity, exposure, contrast, highlights and shadows of the image until I was satisfied with how the image looked. The last image is an experimentation because I wanted to see what the image would look like if the white balance was corrected. I used the white balance correcter tool to balance out the background. I then adjusted the contrast, exposure, highlights, shadows, clarity and saturation of the image until I was happy with the results. Personally I prefer the black and white images because I find that it is easier to focus on what's going on in the images, the colours distort and distract the image too much. However, I am glad that I had adjusted the final image and fixed the white balance issue.

Mood Board

Keld Helmer-Peterson

Keld Helmer-Petersen was a Danish photographer who achieved widespread international recognition in the 1940s and 1950s for his abstract photographs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keld_Helmer-Petersen

Peterson typically uses natural daylight in his photographs. However the vast contrast on the subects and the backgrounds in his images gives off the impression that he uses the threshold tool in photoshop, even though that wasnt physically possible because the first personal computer was invented in 1975. Petersons work has a strong tone, with both the light and dark contrasting eachother. Peterson was thought to have an obsession with line as it is often a major feature in his work. Also many patterns appear in his work, especially phoyographs involving buildings and structures.
Here is an example of Peterson's work:

My Interperatation:

These are screenshots of some of the photos I took in my shoot. I went to both indoor and outdoor locations and took photos of images I thought looked interesting and aesthetically pleasing.

Here are the images I selected for manipulation and my final image:

I then manipulated these images using photoshop. I cropped them into squares then applied the threshold tool and adjusted them until I got the result I wanted. I also rotates some of the images to distort the feeling of the final piece. I feel these images are both a reflection of Peterson's work, however there is an obvious indication that I have also inputted my own creativity into these images. Here is my final image: