This was by far the biggest piece of work I have done for this project. I had to individually import, crop, export, edit, resize and insert 54 different photographs. This was a very time-consuming process, but I believe it was worth the time. It is telling a story of my entire family’s ancestry, going back as far as my great-great grandfather. It also includes my grandparents as children, growing up to have their own children, being my parents, leading to my parents with me.

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Whilst producing my collage, I wanted it to contain one central, bordered image that would have a lasting effect on whoever was browsing my work. For this reason, the image I chose was of the flowers lain on my Grandad’s coffin. Soft, but powerful. I applied a border by drawing a rectangle around the photo after the collage was complete. I coloured the rectangle black and applied a white border stroke around the edge to make it stand out more.

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After this, all that was needed was some slight readjustments to some of the images as there were a couple of minor gaps that needed filling. Once that was done I had a resulting product that I was happy with.

Francesca Woodman

Francesca Woodman’s work, even though her career was very short, has had an extreme impact on the methods of making connections between portraiture and mental health. I liked her work especially as you could never be sure on what the model actually looked like as they were almost always burred. Her use of long exposure times and unusual body movements from her models create an intriguing product that I plan to take aspects from using Adobe Photoshop.

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My Adaption Process

I produced these images by starting with the original colour photos in a folder in my media drive. These originals looked too grainy for what I wanted them to be. They also needed to be in black and white as this is what my artist reference displays, so I imported them into Lightroom to make some minor adjustments.

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I then decreased clarity, increased exposure and contrast and made the photos black and white. I also slightly cropped both images. They now looked less grainy and were easier to work with as the effects and tools I was wanting to use would look better, the smudge tool in particular as it is quite tricky to work with.

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The final images came out quite well, even though some areas look quite rough due to the harshness of the smudge tool. Regardless, I am still happy with the final result.

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Studio Passport Portraits

Ride Out Images

Contact sheets are useful whilst producing a piece of work as they show all images from an organised photoshoot, including the good and the bad.

Identity – being what or who a thing or person is.

Claude Cahun

Diamond Cameo

Passport Grid

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Multi-Exposure

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Yousuf Karsh

Yousuf Karsh was an Armenian-Canadian photographer best known for his portraits of notable individuals. He has been described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century. Here is some of his most famous work:

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Philippe Halsman

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About Tom and Annigna:

Portraits:

For my first indoor photoshoot of environmental portraits, I photographed my dad in his garage. He has worked there for around 27 years and the setting was very natural for him. The lighting in the garage is quite low in most areas so this became a problem I had to consider.

For my second photoshoot, I went to a gym/WCB centre in town called ‘The Rock’. Here, I am planning to photograph Tommy, a personal trainer with his boss and owner of the gym. Whilst I was there, Tommy was training with a customer who was happy to let me take photos of them training. The reasoning for this was because I went to the gym myself for a fair few months and knew that Tommy and Craig (the owner) wouldn’t mind if I asked to take photos of them.

For my third and final photoshoot, I photographed Susie, a hairdresser in the ‘Style’ salon, also in town. I had just had my hair cut and asked if she was happy to be photographed for my coursework. She had a customer booked in after myself so I only had 2 minutes to get what I could.