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Keld Helmer-Petersen: Thresholds Experiments

October 2, 2018 Lillie M Leave a comment

Keld Helmer-Petersen was a Danish photographer who achieved widespread recognition for his abstract photographs. He gained recognition through his coloured photographs but also published black and white photographs exploring the contrasts of the tones. He was inspired by Albert Renger-Patzsch, the experiments at The Bauhuas in Germany and by Henry Callahan and Aron Siskind at the Art Institute of Chicago.

My Own Experiments

For all four of my experiments I took my photograph into Photoshop and I edited and experimented with the threshold of the image which adjusted the contrast of the black and white tones within my photographs. From taking inspiration from Keld Helmer-Petersen my aim was to extenuate the dark’s and the lights of the photograph and editing and experimenting with the threshold of the photograph.

Final Four Photographs

These are the final four photographs I produced from experimenting with the thresholds of the images being inspired by Keld Helmer-Petersen. I feel my outcomes were quite successful as some are showing the geometric lines which Helmer-Petersen also produced and using the thresholds I have extenuated the contrasts of the black and whites.

AO3 Record Ideas, Component 1 Personal Investigation, Homework, Unit 1 Abstract

Ralph Meatyard Artists Experiments

September 27, 2018 Lillie M Leave a comment

Ralph Meatyard

Ralph Meatyard was an american photographer from Illinois. Meat yard worked as an optician who also practised photography. One project of Meatyard’s work is looking at photographs out of focus, and spent months just looking through an out of focus camera to learn how to ‘see no focus’. Meat yard began the project because of his initial attraction to the out-of-focus backgrounds in some of his images. Meatyard eliminated the “thing” and looked only for the background, which he would then throw out of focus. Eventually, feeling that the background was still too recognizable, he stopped this practice and began to see his surroundings through an unfocused lens.

My Own Experiments

Chosen Four Together

Other Experiments: Into Black and White

A lot of Ralph Meatyard’s work is seen in a black and white tone so for my photographs I decided to also experiment with them in black and white as something different to add on to just experimenting with the camera itself with the focus and shutter speeds.

While experimenting with the black and white I also adjusted and experimented with the exposure and contrasts of the photographs as to add more tone and different highlights and darks into the photograph.

For one of my photographs I also experimented with cropping to get rid of unwanted dark space and the side of the photograph to just leave the objects shapes against the light.

Chosen Four: Experimented

Final Chosen Photograph

I have chosen this as my most successful photograph as I feel it shows the most connections to Ralph Meatyard’s own work, which was where my inspiration was coming from. I have chosen my edited version as my favourite as I feel it works the best and has the best contrast as the photograph unedited is as well very dark and doesn’t show much colour so to put it in black and white eventuates this and I feel works next to Meatyard’s work best.

AO2 Explore Ideas, Unit 1 Abstract

Shutter Speed Experiments

September 27, 2018 Lillie M Leave a comment

Shutter Speed :

The shutter speed is the amount of time for the shutter to open and close, the faster the shutter speed the less amount of light will be let in during the time taken for the image.

Example:

Above are two examples of the same photograph set up but taken with different shutter speeds. Both photographs were taken with an aperture with F5.7 so that I could see the full effect of only changing the shutter speed. The first photograph with a slower shutter speed produced an image that was over exposed and had too much light in it, this happened because the shutter was open for longer so more light was being let into the image leaving it over exposed. The second photograph however had the shutter open for less amount of time and produced an image that isn’t over exposed as not as much light was being let in.

AO2 Explore Ideas, Homework, Unit 1 Abstract

Response To Albert Renger-Patzsch

September 25, 2018 Lillie M Leave a comment

The World Is Beautiful

Albert Renger-Patzsch was a pioneering figure in the New-Objectivity movement 1920’s. Rejecting the tenderness and idealism of a previous generation, Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) emerged as a tendency in German art, architecture and literature in the 1920’s.

In 1928 Renger-Patzsch published ‘The World is Beautiful’ which was a collection of 100 photographs whose rigorous sensitivity to form revealed patterns of beauty and order in the natural and man-made alike. He was adapting a new and modern way of looking at the world using his work and this caused the book to establish Renger-Patzsch as one of the most Influential photographers of the 20th century.

My Own Response

This is a contact sheet of my own response to Renger-Patzsch. These photographs I developed using manual focus on the camera which proved to be a little difficult for me however it produced some good outcomes, which I intend to experiment with during editing.

Experiments

Final Chosen Photograph

I chose this as my final photograph as I feel it was my most successful outcome both as a photograph itself and once it had been edited. I feel it has the most inspiration from Renger-Patzsch and it was my closest representation to his work through my experiments and own work.

AO2 Explore Ideas, Unit 1 Abstract

Photoshop Skills

September 24, 2018 Lillie M Leave a comment

Original Image

To begin with I cropped the image down to get rid of the blurred edges that where caused by the window frame. This left me with a clear image of the structure.

My next step was to adjust the image while it was in colour, I adjusted the contrast to make the colours more vibrant and I also adjusted the exposure to capture the light in the right corner of the image more vividly.

Next I cropped out one of the structural lines and duplicated this into another layer and then proceeded to do this again. I did this to create a more geometric abstract image.

For my final step I edited the separate colour vibrancy in the blues and cyan’s I did this to make my photograph more vibrant and to pop.

Final Image

AO1 Develop Ideas, AO2 Explore Ideas, AO3 Record Ideas, Homework, Unit 1 Abstract

Experimenting with Paper

September 16, 2018 Lillie M Leave a comment

Martin Creed

Martin Creed (born 1968) is a British artist and musician. He won the Turner Prize in 2001 for exhibitions during the preceding year, with the jury praising his audacity for exhibiting a single installation, Work No. 227: The lights going on and off, in the Turner Prize show. Creed lives and works in London.

For this experimentation with Paper I focused on the artist Martin Creed. Creed is looking at a sense of possibility. He is experimenting with the shape of the ball and also into the creases that can be made onto the paper as shadows and lines.

My aim was to use Martin Creed as inspiration to produce my own set of photographs from and experimental photoshoot. This included experimenting with the different positions of the paper and where in frame it sat but also what effects I could create with the creases in the paper and also different paper textures such as plain white paper and also tracing paper.

I have done experiments with the angles I have taken of the paper and how I have positioned the different sheets to form one image to create different compositions. I have tried to experiment with the different traps of light between the creases of the paper to create different tones in the final photographs.

I often used the flash when creating my photographs, I did this to experiment with the amount of light I could hold and experiment with to see different outcomes of tone and exposure as I photographed the paper.