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Mirror Image / Kaleidoscope Techniques : Symmetry and Repetition

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For this task I decided to try the kaleidoscope effect on Photoshop

This is how I did it in steps:

  1. Open a new image
  2. Open a new canvas, set the width and length to 8 (inches) and set the ppi to 300
  3. Press Ctrl R on your keyboard then take the ruler from the top and put it in the center
  4. Drag your image onto the new canvas and then size it till it fits on of the halves off your canvas
  5. Next, duplicate the layer, then drag it to the bottom half of the canvas
  6. Rotate the image 90 degrees
  7. Edit your photo to your liking
  8. Save as JPEG

I really like how this turned out and I would like to use this technique in upcoming projects.

 

 

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Final Images – Absract

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Final Selection for Unit 1 Abstract

For my final images I decided to stick with the technique of ICM as I really liked how it looked and I think this style is where I produced the best images. I will also have one photo that is in the out of focus style as it is one of my favourite images out of the ones I have taken.

My Final Photos (A3):

With these photos I plan to create a A3 piece with a white background and these photos on top. The A3 piece will be landscape and in colour. It will look similar to this:

A3 Final Photo:

This is what my final image for the A3 print will look like. I think by putting the 4 images on the white background, it will make the photos stand out from each other, as they are all similar in colour.

My Final Photo (A4):

With this photo I will be using the image below and it will be for my A4 mounted piece. There will be no borders it will just be the image.

I have chosen this photo because I think it is one of my best photos I’ve taken. I really like how the lights stand out from the dark background, it gives it a really nice look.

My Final Photo (A5):

This is what I chose for my A5 piece. I chose it because I really liked the way the heads of the figures looked. Also I think I did this way of taking photos really well and executed the technique.

Evaluation:

I think overall I did a good job at choosing my final images as I believe these photos are the best ones I have taken. I also think I have edited these very well, still keeping the original image present, just enhancing the photo to make it look a bit better. I think to take this to a higher level I could’ve chosen a photo that was different from ICM, but, I still think I took the best photos in this style of taking photos. Overall I am very pleased with how this project turned out.

 

 

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Week 5 Homework: Colour and Texture

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Franco Fontana

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Franco Fontana is an Italian photographer born in Modena, on December, 9th, 1933. He is best known for his abstract colour landscapes. Fontana’s photos have been used as album cover art for records produced by the ECM jazz label. He is known as the inventor of the photographic line referred to as concept of line.  He has published over seventy books with Italian, French, German, Swiss, Spanish, American and Japanese publishers. His photographs have appeared worldwide in over 400 exhibitions, solo and collective.

Fontana’s work is more minimalist and simple. 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’.

I really enjoy Fontana’s work as I like simple and minimalist photography as well. I will try and work with his style of photography and incorporate it into my project.

Nick Albertson

Nick Albertson (b. 1983, Boston, Massachusetts) received his MFA in Photography at Columbia College Chicago. He received his BA in Photography from Bard College in 2006. His work has been exhibited in Chicago, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and New York as well as internationally at the Pingyao International Photo Festival.

Nick Albertson describes his process of work on his website: https://www.nickalbertson.com/home

Here is the process of each of his styles of photography:

“My process blends techniques similar to those of painting as well, sometimes altering and emphasizing elements of the image with the use of Photoshop. Though the image always starts with a camera, it is further abstracted to varying degrees in the computer. The act of creating the compositions in the physical world allows the images to feel familiar. The slight variations from object to object suggest the imperfection of the real world as well as that of the artist’s hand.” From https://www.nickalbertson.com/manufactured-gestures

“White Light was created by popping a flash as many times as I could during a single thirty-second exposure, slightly moving Post-it notes in between each flash on a black velvet background in a very dark room. The areas where the Post-its overlap build up luminescence as those areas are subjected to more light reflected back on to the camera’s sensor. ” From https://www.nickalbertson.com/white-light

“Tape Cuts are a series of images in which I cut pieces of colored duct tape and photographed them floating over a white background with hard lighting. They are meant to reference color field painting and hard edge abstraction, but the shadows emphasize the fact that they are photographs of objects in space, not pure abstraction.” From https://www.nickalbertson.com/tape-cuts

“Photo Sprays are a combination of computer-generated gradients printed on Epson Hot Press Bright paper overlaid by airbrush-applied Epson Ultrachrome K3 inks, the same inks used to print the initial inkjet print. While not a photograph, these works are photographic in makeup. The works, made with photographic materials but created with more painterly techniques, seek to complicate the relationship between photography and other media (painting, prints, works on paper).” From https://www.nickalbertson.com/photo-sprays

I really like the way Albertson takes his photos so I also want to incorporate his style into my project as well. I almost want to mix both Fontana’s style and Albertson’s together.

Photos of Fontana’s Work:

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Photos of Albertson’s Work:

Plan:

For this photo shoot I plan to take photos of buildings, landscapes and materials such as: paper,tape and memo pads. I also plan to edit them on Photoshop in different styles like this:

Contact Sheets

Red – No

Green – Yes

Orange – Maybe

Yellow – Edit

My Best Photos (Unedited)

My Photos (Edited)

I edited all these photos on Photoshop

I’m really happy with how these edited photos came out as I believe I achieved the same style and look of the photographers I have researched. I really like how I edited these photos. Next time I think I will take more photos

Step by step how I edited one of my photos:

First I cropped my photo to my liking with the crop toolImage result for crop tool photoshop

Then when I cropped it, I pressed Ctrl, alt, L on my keyboard and brought up the levels tool. This tool allows you to change the darkness, exposure and light on your image.

Then I pressed the photo filter tool and set it to the sepia filter.

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Week 5 Task 2 – Conceal/Reveal

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Conceal/Reveal

In this task I used photo shop to create this circle photo effect:

I will explain step by step how I did this photo effect on Photoshop:

This is how I did it-

  1. Open an image in Adobe Photoshop
  2. Add a new layer from the layer panel > solid colour
  3. Reduce the opacity in the layer panel to reveal your image
  4. Click on the layer mask  (white box) in your layer panel
  5. Choose the brush tool from the toolbox
  6. Adjust the size of the brush using the “{}” keys
  7. Check and adjust the opacity level of your brush (top bar)
  8. Click on any areas of the image to create circular “holes”
  9. Using the opacity slider in the layer panel, bring the level up to 100%

I really like how this image turned out and I like the style of this editing a lot, I think I may try this editing technique in the future.

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Keld Helmer-Petersen

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Keld Helmer-Petersen

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

Helmer-Petersen was born and grew up in the Østerbro quarter of Copenhagen. He started taking photographs in 1938. At an early stage, he became aware of the trends in international photography; in the 1940s he subscribed to the US Camera Annual and in this period became familiar with German inter-war photography, which had developed at the Bauhaus and in the Neue Sachlichkeit (The New Objectivity) movement.

The international prospect and an interest in contemporary art and architecture contributed to the fact that at the age of 23, Helmer-Petersen, as one of the first Danish photographers, began to work with an abstract formal language. Inspired by the Bauhaus and Albert Renger-Patzsch, he published in 1948, the bilingual book 122 Farvefotografier/122 Colour Photographs. This was an audacious debut by an auto didactic photographer who wanted to assert the position of photography as an independent art form. Today, the book is considered to be a pioneering work in the area of colour photography.

Examples of his work

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My Images (Unedited)

Process Of Editing

 

Firstly, I went on image, adjustments then threshold.

I then decided to play around with the sliders to achieve the photo below.

Then I decided to play around with brightness and contrast to improve the look of the photo.

My Images (Edited)

Here are my final four photos edited with the threshold effect. I really like how these images turned out because I think they are quite similar to Keld Helmer-Petersen’s style of photography. I really like this style of editing because it gives it a very unique and abstract feel to the photo.

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Week 4 Homework – Uta Barth

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Uta Barth

Related imageUta Barth is a contemporary photographer who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow and a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004‑05. Barth experiments with blurred backgrounds, cropped frames and the natural qualities of light.

Uta Barth’s work is represented in numerous public and private collections worldwide, including the ‘Museum of Modern Art’, the ‘Metropolitan Museum of Art’, the ‘Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’, and the ‘Whitney Museum of American Art’ in New York; the ‘Tate Gallery’ in London; the ‘Art Institute of Chicago’ and the ‘Museum of Contemporary Art’ in Chicago; and the ‘Los Angeles County Museum of Art’, the ‘Museum of Contemporary Ar’t, the ‘J. Paul Getty Museum’, and the ‘Hammer Museum’ in Los Angeles; the ‘San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’; the ‘Walker Art Center’ in Minneapolis; and ‘Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art’ in North Adams, Massachusetts.

Her work is exhibited regularly and has been shown in one-person and group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe, including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Stockholm, Sweden, Düsseldorf, Germany, Bilbao, Spain, and Tokyo, Japan.

Example of her Work

 

Image result for uta barthImage result for uta barthI really like how she takes her photos as it gives a very vintage and retro vibe, which I personally really enjoy

My work in the style of Uta Barth

For this homework I decided to experiment with white balance and manual exposure. I kept the ISO on 400 and I differentiated between different shutter speeds from 1/3-1/80. I also kept it on F5.6.Image result for white balance on camera

 

Contact Sheets

Green = Yes

Orange = Maybe

Red = No

Yellow = Edit

My Favourite Photos (Edited)

I edited all of my photos on Photoshop.

I decided to choose these images because I think they were taken very well and produced very good images. On every photo I used the level tool (Ctrl, alt, L) to achieve the look of these images. I also played around with brightness, contrast, vibrancy and saturation.

In this photo, I played with the levels tool to achieve this photo. I really like how the darkness of the people contrast with the light from the windows. I think this photo turned out really well and I really like it.

With this next photo, I again played with levels and brightness. I also put a photo filter on to make it look better. I really like the way this photo turned out because you cant really tell what the photo is. I also really like the contrast of the bright white structure against the the neutral colours of the furniture.

This photo has to be my favourite picture from the photo shoot. It almost looks like the the heads are being peeled apart kind of. I experimented with levels and photo filters. I also decided to add noise to make it look more retro and vintage. I really liked how this photo turned out and I hope to take a photo in this style again.

I am really pleased with how this photo turned out because it is in the style that I really like. I played around with photo filters, levels and brightness and contrast.  This photo has to be my second favourite out of this photo shoot.

Conclusion

In conclusion, I think this photo shoot went very well as I took many great photos. I think to make this better I would’ve taken photos somewhere else, but, I am happy with the results I got from taking it around the house. Next time I think I will try yo use this technique in my photos as I really like the outcome of the photos when you take it this way.

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Albert Renger- Patzsch

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Albert Renger- Patzsch

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Albert Renger- Patzch was a  German photographer associated with the New Objectivity. Renger-Patzsch was born in Würzburg and began making photographs by age twelve. After military service in the First World War he studied chemistry at Dresden Technical College.

In its sharply focused and matter-of-fact style his work exemplifies the aesthetic of The New Objectivity that flourished in the arts in Germany during the Wiemar Republic. Like Edward Weston in the United States, Renger-Patzsch believed that the value of photography was in its ability to reproduce the texture of reality, and to represent the essence of an object.

I tried to capture the essence of his work and I think I got the best result I could get. I took the photos with my DLSR Canon Camera on the close up setting. Most of my photos were landscape but a few were portraits.Image result for Albert Renger- PatzschImage result for Albert Renger- Patzsch

For my response to Albert’s photos I tried to take 100 photos, but only managed around 80 photos. Even though Albert’s photos were in black and white, I have a mixture of black and white and coloured photos edited photos.

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Top Favourite Photos (Edited)

Edited all on Photoshop

I chose to edit this photo because I really liked how the table had the unique and colourful marble in it. I decided to make the marble pop by making the wood and chairs black and white. I really like how this photo turned out and I will try this style of editing again.

For this next photo I decided to make it more dull and dark as appose to it’s original bright photo. I played with the levels, contrast and saturation to achieve this photo. I’m really happy with how this turned out and I really like the difference of the original photo to the edited photo.

For this photo I decided to use levels, contrast, colour balance and photo filter to achieve this look. I really like how the light is almost shining into the room. I also like the contrast of the wooden windows and glass windows, it gives it a really nice look. I think I edited this photo very well.

This next photo I used the contrast and exposure setting a lot. My vision was to make the sky brighter than the stairs, and I really like how I achieved this look. I think I got the overall idea of what I wanted for this photo, and it translates very well in the edited final picture.

For this next photo I used exposure, contrast and levels to get this final picture. I really like how the light is centered onto the middle of the keyboard. I think I edited this picture well and will try to use this style of editing in future projects.

For this last photo I used photo filter, gradient, contrast and exposure. I’m really pleased with how this turned out. The way I edited it gives it a retro and vintage look to it which I personally really enjoy. I hope to also use the style of editing in future projects.

Evaluation

Overall I think a did a good job at recreating  Albert Renger- Patzsch style of photography. I really enjoyed doing this project as it gave me inspiration and ideas for future photo shoots and projects. I hope to keep achieving photos that I like and to improve with my camera and photography skills. I would also like to explore more ideas with different photographers and look at work that isn’t my preferred style because I would like to expand my ideas and see other styles from my own.

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Claude Cahun and Clare Rae Exhibition

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Clare Rae is a photographer based in Melbourne, Australia. Her work is inspired by feminist theory, and presents an alternate and often awkward experience of subjectivity and the female body, usually the artists’ own.

Claude Cahun was an avant-garde queer artist and writer based in Jersey CI. She was a self-portrait photographer and writer, and these photos and texts heavily influenced artists dealing with questions of gender identity.

Our photography group went to the CCA Gallery to look at both artists photos, and I was very impressed. I really loved both artists interpretations in abstract photography.

Top 4 Favourite Claude Cahun photos

Claude Cahun – ‘Self portrait (in cupboard)’

This first photo really stood out to me because of how the girl is placed in the cupboard. She seems to be very squished and uncomfortable, which gives it a eerie and sad look to the photo. I think this photo was taken and executed very well.


Claude Cahun – ‘Self portrait (shaved head, material draped over body)’

This next photo is very different and unique and I really like it.  I really like the contrast of the white wall and the black sheet behind her. Her expression also works well because it is very neutral and black, so it compliments the feel of her clothes and the background.

Claude Cahun – ‘Self portrait – crouched naked in rock pool)’

This photo really stands out to me because she is not afraid to be naked and express herself, which I really like because in those times expressing yourself wasn’t really “normal”. This photo works really well because her expression and stance is very soft compared to the rigid and sharp rocks, it gives a very good contrast.

This last photo was very well executed and captured very well. I really like how she looks at the camera with a blank expression (which she does in most of her photos). I also really love the use of the mirror in this photo.

Top 4 Favourite Clare Rae Photos

This photo works very well because the way she sits in the hole makes her look uncomfortable, but her body seems to maintain a very graceful and soft posture. I really like this photo.

This photo is one of my favourites from Rae. I really like the way she is almost draped across the rocks. The position of her body again looks uncomfortable which works really well.

This photo is a very good interpretation of Cahun’s photo of her in the rock pool. I like this photo better than Cahun’s because she looks like shes in danger or that she’s struggling to get out. This photo was taken very well.

This last photo really stands out to me as it appears that she is in an office. I think this photo is implying the struggles of working in offices that are always busy and packed. The position her body is in is very abstract and contorted, it kind of looks like she is pain. I really like this photo.

Other Photos

I really enjoy both artists photos and how they both interpret this style of taking photos. I think they both take very amazing and unique photos, I hope to try this style and get a similar vibe when I take my own photos.