These are my final three images that I have chosen for printing.
Close Up of a Rose
This is my A3 image- I picked this image as I liked the contrast between the different shapes and lines. I also like that the background is a light colour and the rose in the center is a dark blue.
Close up of a Plant
This is my A4 Image – I picked this image for the A4 as I thought it was a good example of an abstract photo due to the lines and different shapes formed in the image. Also because half the image is in focus whereas the other isn’t.
Eiffel Tower
This is my A5 image- I picked this image as I liked the contrast between the light colours of the Eiffel tower and the dark colours of the background.
Abstract photography, sometimes called non-objective, experimental, conceptual or concrete photography, is a means of depicting a visual image that does not have an immediate association with the object world and that has been created through the use of photographic equipment, processes or materials. (Wikipedia)
Ralph Eugene Meatyard was born in Normal, Illinois and raised in the nearby town of Bloomington, Illinois. Meatyard purchased his first camera in 1950 to photograph his newborn first child, and worked primarily with a Rolleiflex medium-format camera ever afterwards. He eventually found his way to the Lexington Camera club in 1954, and at the same time joined the Photographic Society of America. It was at the Lexington Camera Club that Meatyard met Van Daren Coke, an early influence behind much of his work. During the mid-1950s, Meatyard attended a series of summer workshops run by Henry Holmes Smith at Indiana University and also with Minor White. White, in particular, fostered Meatyard’s interest in Zen Philosophy.
here is one of the Zen twig series. Meatyard has only focused on the twig and has blurred out the background and has only picked up the detail from the twig and leaf. He has properly used manual focus to creative the blur and also he has done the picture in black and white I think that this enhances this as he has got the balance of contrast and brightness.
White balance (WB) is the process of removing unrealistic color casts, so that objects which appear white in person are rendered white in your photo. Proper camera white balance has to take into account the “color temperature” of a light source, which refers to the relative warmth or coolness of white light.
My Examples:
Here I have produced several example of white balance and changing settings on the camera, I have Included different items that I changed the white balance, for example the trees and the close ups to the plants. My favorite out of these photos are the plant ones as they had more detail than the others also they were in better focus than all others.
Here is a video explaining more about white balance:
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,
I have decide to experiment With shutter speed and Aperture and depth of field. I have included some examples to show my response to the task.
The Image above is a picture I took with the objectives above however I decided to edit it as it was too dark and you couldn’t see what was in the picture so below I decided to change the brightness and contrast so you can see what is in the picture. Personally I think that the outcome is better than the original photo however I don’t think it would be classed as abstract photography as their is to much to focus on in the image.
Here is another example of shutter speed and aperture
I like this image as you can see that it gets out of focus at the back of the image. For example you can see that the board closest is in focus however after that point it is out focus I am happy with the outcome of this photo so I haven’t decided to edit this photo as I think that the lighting is alright for this picture.
Albert Renger-Patzsch was a German photographer born in 1897, he first started make his photographs by the age of twelve. In the first world war Albert Renger-Patzsch was a solider fighting for Germany. After his time doing military he then went to study chemistry at Dresden Technical College. Later on he
associated with the new objectivity, a book which explores photographs in their natural forms, industrial subjects or mass produced objects which are then clarified by his scientific knowledge.
This is one of his example of photography, I like this image as it is abstract as it is a close up of a dandelion and it is printed in black and white which I think is very effective. In this image there is still a lot of detail which I liked also he has managed to have bits of the picture blurred out and the other bits in focus I think that this is really effective as It show how the perspective is changed when one changes your mind.
For the layers experiments I decided to experiment with different ideas, for example I tried the gradient solid back ground and then I tried a patterned background for one of the pictures and then I included a inverted picture on a patterned background.
For this picture above I have experimented with layers and I tried using the patterned background instead of using a plain one, In my opinion I would say that I prefer the patterned version gives a contrast and just having a solid colour for the background.
This Image I first used the invert tool to create the image a different colour and then I decided to use the patterned background to shift the focus on the image and the background.
This Picture is my favorite as the picture behind is very simple and it is abstract, then for the layers I decided to use the gradient version instead of one colour in my opinion I think this is very effective solution as the darker shadows of the picture contrast with the colours.
