This is how I decided to display some of my favourite images from this topic. Although I do have other photos that I liked I choose to do these ones together because I thought the colour tones were quite similar so they worked really well together.
William Eggleston
Since the early 1960s, William Eggleston used color photographs to describe the cultural transformations in Tennessee and the rural South. He registers these changes in scenes of everyday life, such as portraits of family and friends, as well as gasoline stations, cars, and shop interiors. Eggleston looks at the world with the eyes of a documentarian rather than a curator: He shoots from unexpected angles or when the subjects are looking away. This creates the impression that the photographer isn’t there, and makes the images all the more intimate. He calls attention to familiar places, the people, and the objects that inhabit it. Here he has created a picture of an everyday scene. Shooting from an unusual angle, the mundane subject matter and cropped composition combines to produce what is considered a snapshot.
This is one of William Eggleston’s works. I have chosen this artist because his work may seem random but makes it seem alive with the vivid colours in the images. His photos show me that anyone can make any boring picture into looking more joyful. The lighting, texture and tone look beautiful and it doesn’t even look edited, it looks soft and natural.
These pictures reminds me of childhood because as a child I would always want to see the sunset and go on the scutter. The last picture is the original and the others are edited. I tried to make them as different as possible. I think this is connected with william eggleston’s work because he takes pictures of things that interest him most and edited them to make them look better and my favorite part of the day since a child was watching the sunset.
These pictures represent the road trips I would always have as a child. The first picture is the original and the others are edited. I changed lightings as much as i could so most them of could see more bright.
I decided to take pictures of the park since that’s one of the places I would be most as a child. My favorite photo out of all of these park pictures is the second one. Just love how it’s set.
My final piece is the photo above because I like the brightness of the picture. Also love how it is set and it makes it look alive.
Still life photography is a genre of photography used for the depiction of inanimate subject matter, typically a small group of objects. Similar to still life painting, it is the application of photography to the still life artistic style. Still-life photography’s origins reside in the early 20th century. Art photographers emerged such as Baron Adolf de Meyer. Most still lifes can be placed into one of four categories: flowers, banquet or breakfast, animal(s), and symbolic.
First still life painting:
The painting generally considered to be the first still life is a work by the Italian painter Jacopo de’Barbari painted 1504. The “golden age” of still-life painting occurred in the Lowlands during the 17th century.
Most famous still life artists:
Most famous artists these days:
Vanitas is a still life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre containing symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability. Vanitas is also a still life artwork which includes various symbolic objects designed to remind the viewer of their mortality and of the worthlessness of worldly goods and pleasures.
Memento mori is an artistic or symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death. The concept has its roots in the philosophers of classical antiquity and Christianity, and appeared in funerary art and architecture from the medieval period onwards. Memento mori is a Latin phrase meaning ‘remember you must die’. A basic memento mori painting would be a portrait with a skull but other symbols commonly found are hour glasses or clocks, extinguished or guttering candles, fruit, and flowers.
Photoshoot 1
This is the first photoshoot I did based on Formalism. This one is inspired by Walker Evans and Darren Harvey-Regan. However, some of the photos didn’t turn out with good quality. I also don’t appreciate the lighting and backgrounds so for the second shoot, I used different objects and backgrounds.
Here are a couple of photographs from this shoot that turned out well:
Photoshoot 2
In this photoshoot, I experimented with using different lights and unique objects to create circular shadows on the white paper. I like how these photos turned out and have different shape, patterns and lines from the shadows. For these photos, I used the studio light and positioned it in certain ways to allow the objects to create shadows. For the photographs with just the circle shadows, I put an object which had holes all over it, in front of the light to project circle shadows onto the white paper. I really like how this turned out.
Edited Photo
These are my favourite photo from this shoot, I like how the lighting was manipulated to make the photograph unique and eye catching. I slightly edited this photo by changing the levels and curves through photoshop.
Walker Evans
Walker Evans was an American photographer and photojournalist. These photographs are some of his formalism photographs, he has captured images of different tools against a white background. This allows the object to be the main focal point and be seen clearly. There are no shapes made out of any lights in these photographs as it is focussed on the whole area. These photographs are quite simplistic since the subject of the image is quite central, in the majority of his photographs. This leaves quite lot of negative space around the object. His photos are very monochromatic since it’s mostly black, white and grey ones with a couple of them having more yellow/orange tones.
Darren Harvey-Regan
Darren Harvey-Regan did similar work to Walker Evans as Evans inspired him. He used two halves of sperate tools and then joined them together to photograph. This put a unique spin to the past similar work, and modernised it. His work is eye-catching because of its beauty and quirks.
“It’s a means of transposing material into other material, adding new meaning or thoughts in the process. I think photographing materials is a way to consider the means of creating meaning, and it’s a tactile process with which I feel involved. Touching and moving and making are my engagement with
For the shoot I started out by choosing objects that I could make a nostalgic tie to, for example I used to play the violin and music has always been a big part of my family. I then added in some objects that looked cool or
I started off by thinning down my photos to the ones I thought where the best. that got me from 66 down to 12. However, I then further removed a photo as it wasn’t the best.
I then edited my photos to a basic level with pushing up the exposer in darker ones, altering the shadows so they looked a bit better and cropping them, I could see which ones I liked the most.
Picking the three that worked the best I then further edited them changing the temperature on some and sharpening the others to just get the letter right on the book without making the scratches on the violin to distinct.
Using colours and stars to identify which was my best and which was the best out of the three and these were my final pieces.
1) What is the etymology (origin & history) of the word photography?
Writing with light
2) What year was the first photograph made on camera?
1826 (Joseph Nicéphore Niépce)
3) When did the first photograph of a human appear?
1838 (Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre)
4) Who made the first ‘selfie’ ?
Robert Cornelius (1839)
5) When did the first colour photograph appear?
1861 (James Clerk Maxwell)
6) What do we mean by the word genre?
A style or category of art.
7) What do we mean by the genre of still-life?
An image that shows inanimate objects from the natural or man-made world.
8) What was the main purpose of the Pictorialist movement?
To capture moving objects.
9) How do we describe the term documentary photography?
Capture images that truthfully portray people, places and events.
10) What is exposure in photography?
The amount of light that reaches your camera’s sensor.
11) What controls exposure on your camera?
Aperture, shutter speed, ISO.
12) What control on our camera records moving objects?
Shutter.
13) How do we explain depth of field?
A view across a field.
14) What factors affect Depth of Field?
Lens aperture, distance from camera to subject, and lens focal length.
15) What is composition in photography?
The arrangement of visual elements within the frame.
16) What is your understanding of aesthetics in art?
Concerned with the nature of beauty and taste.
17) What are contextual studies in photography?
Consider factors outside of the image, as well as inside the frame.
18) How many images are captured on average every day worldwide?
4.7 billion.
19) Which portrait is the most reproduced in the world?
The Queen (Elizabeth II)
To create my virtual gallery I used Adobe photoshop as well as Lightroom to edit my photos before. I used the photos of my own belongings for my gallery.
To start I used the perspective tool and adjusted it to cause the photo appear to be on the wall.
Next I used the layer style tool and selected drop shadow and adjusted it to create a shadow around the photo to make it more realistic.
To make the rest of the adjusting simpler I created a new style which allowed me to apply the same drop shadow filter to the rest of my photos.
I am happy with my final outcome as it looks realistic especially with the light shining on the photos and the shadow.
this picture is in focus with a shallow depth of field, and the photo is a continous light, originally there was 2 continous lights coming from the side and i turned off one to enchance depth and shadows.
First Photo Editing Process
For my photograph, I first made the background purple whilst making the shadows darker and the highlights brighter so above the sunglasses is a lighter purple which also helps the reflection on the sunglasses because they had lighter parts on too! Also, used the vignette to create a shadow around the whole photo making it seem darker and surrounded.
Second Photo Editing Process
For my second photograph, I didn’t like how the shadows made it look so dark and gloomy and wanted some colours in the picture so I made the shadows on the right a turquoise colour with the highlights being red, and it gives this really cool split on the tower!
Third Photo Editing Process
For my third photograph, I didn’t change too much, I only changed a few effects in the Tone settings and the Presence settings. But I wanted a more brighter/warmer feel to the picture by making the background have a yellowish tint with bringing out the highlights and colours!
