My response- Identity And Place

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The images below are my respone to both the theme ‘ Identity and place’ and the response to my artists one being Eamonn Mccabe and Brad Mangin. As my action plan consisted of my brother playing foot ball and the process which a young footballer has to take due to play as best as he can. Some of these images are what id like to call action shots. This is my interpretation of identity being the child and place being in his element which is football fields and some images are captured indoors to show the process of him getting ready for training.

Here are my images in a form of a contact sheet.

In the examples below you can see I have drawn over the images.  have done this because some of them are under exposed therefore to dark so I am unable to edit it I have done that in (red) . Additionally if the image is too over exposed or under exposed i have decided to cross it off In (blue) .If the image is out of focus I have chosen to cross it out in (pink) Finally if the image I think has too much negative space behind it which makes the images look quite bland and boring I have crossed out the space in (white)

Now having looked closer to these images, its evident that some are better than others in terms of the lighting quality the picture just how its presented visually and the context behind it.

Visually, when i was planning this photo shoot i could not have picked a better day in terms natural lighting, the glow in some of the images really make the image more welcoming to look at giving it quite a warm temperature as well, unless i’ve chosen to add them images into black and white. However if it wasn’t for the light of the sun the 3D effect i was after would not have been achievable.  I also like how some images have the shadows in the background because it fills the image more which is something i had a problem doing when i did the photo shoot. On the other hand some could say the space helps the image as it slightly draws attention to the small people in the image.

In terms of detail due to the drastic, golden effect of the sun i have been able to capture quite heavy amounts of detail like the individual lines and patterns from the grass and the goal even the close up details of the football and background. I captured these images on the quennevais football fields which actually adds a bit of value to the images as its where my brother began to play football. We would usually take him there in the afternoons and just have a kick about which now has lead him to having a passion for this area of sport,which now is involving as he’s just practiced for the island trials. Now he uses this time in the afternoons when he gets home from school to go out and practice with one or two friends which day by day is improving his skill and technique.

 

David Hockney:

Was born in Bradford, England on  9 July 1937.

Is an English painter, draftsman, print maker, stage designer, and photographer. He is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century.  Hockney’s of of   Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), sold at auction for £70 million, where it became the most expensive work for a living artist.  Hockney has experimented with painting, drawing, printmaking, watercolors, photography, and many other media including fax machine, paper pulp, and computer and iPad drawing programs to create his pieces of works.

Examples of his works:

 

 

 

My response to David Hockney’s:

For this I experimented with With using different Adjustments for example I used as filter called ocean ripple where I could select the piece of the picture I wanted then, then I applied the effect making it look like it is under water. The other effects that I have included is Inverted, the colours. Then I placed the different layers on the original photo to create a effect of loss of identity as everything as been cut to change the identity of the person.

Final images 

My response to Environmental portraits

In this environmental shoot i used a Canon EOS 1300 D on manual focus. The image was taken under natural lighting and therefore i had my white balance on the ‘cloudy’ setting, as well as having a shutter speed of 1/250.

The image shows a butcher in his working environment.

 

My response to natural lighting 

When taking this portrait image I used the manual focus setting on my camera so that I could adjust the ISO setting to 400 and the shutter speed to 1/250 to ensure that the images weren’t too under or over exposed. I also used the ‘daylight’ white balance setting so that the color balance was correct. The image was also taken inside however directly in front of a very large window which let in a lot of daylight, i also used a reflector so that the models face was evenly lit up.

 

My response to street photography 

In this street photography experiment, i used a  Canon EOS 1300 D and the image was taken in Manual Focus. Using Manual focus allowed me to change the white balance to cloudy as this image was taken in natural light, as well as being able to change the shutter speed to 1/250 and experiment with the zoom lens.

We don’t know what the man was originally doing before this photo as i took the image in a moving car.

 

My response to photo montage 

This image was edited using Adobe Photoshop.

 

My response to studio lighting 

In this studio photography experiment i used a Canon EOS 1300 D with a manual focus setting. The use of this setting allowed for me to change the white balance of this image to auto as well as being able to change the shutter speed to 1/250.

 

My response to identity and place 

These images were taken on a Canon EOS 1300 D on manual focus. My camera being on manual allowed me to be also to zoom in on the models to create a disorientated effect, as well as being able to change the white balance to fluorescent. No flash was used when taking these pictures.

In the images we can see that there is a loss of identity due to the movement of the models. The positioning they create gives a sense of confusion, loss and craziness. The black and white edit adds a darker feel to the image, as well as the darkness on the left hand side of the picture.

 

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Green box – using

red diagonal line – not using

red question mark – not sure to use at all

green question mark – not sure to use as a final

vertical lines – cropping

black scribble – not applicable

 

MY FINAL IMAGES:
After manipulating my images, these are the images that I want to send off to be printed. I will then rework them when they're printed off. I will rework the images by writing text on them, my idea is to ask the subjects what they think about that moment of time an write it on the image. I was inspired by Jim Goldberg's work, so I thought I would also re-work my images by adding both text and drawings into my work.

THE PRESENTATION:
To present my images I will be placing them on foam board because the crop of the images makes them different sizes, which wouldn't look very aesthetically pleasing on a mount. I will also be reworking into the images by hand-writing text onto them. I will also be hand-drawing outlines that i think will also make the images look more interesting. 
Another reason why I think having my photographs on foam board is a good idea is that I will have flexibility on how and which order I can arrange my images in. I can have them up as individual images in multiple locations or I can have them set out as a series. As the originals are printed out photographs, in real life photos are arranged in various orders, such as photo albums or in photo frames around the house/premises. Therefore, by having the flexibility of having the images on foam board replicates the flexibility you have when you have your photos printed out.

What are they?

A tableau vivant (often shortened to tableau, plural: tableaux vivants), French for ‘living picture’, is a static scene containing one or more actors or models. They are stationary and silent, usually in costume, carefully posed, with props and/or scenery, and may be theatrically lit. Tableau Photography is dependent on a defined NARRATIVE, theme or storyline.

Examples

Plan

• take photos conveying gender roles or gender differences
• have a male standing over a female just to suggest stereotypical/common ideology
• maybe have a woman cleaning and a man in the background?
• low lighting to suggest a dark and ominous setting
• mans head out of shot
• hard lighting from ring light
• woman in focus
• head height

Contact Sheet

Final Images