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1 October 2023 Hannah Bridle Leave a comment

What is formalism?

Formalism is said to be “the design, composition and Lighting are dominant over Subject Matter. The photographer becomes a visual designer whenever a frame is captured”.

There are said to be 7 basic elements in photography which are:

1)Line-

lines are everywhere they connect shapes they draw you attention to objects in images

2)Shape-

there are multiple definitions of the word shape “the visible makeup characteristic of a particular item or kind of item” is one I like best. shapes are all around in your images you will have loads of shapes.

3)Form-

form is very similar to shape however shape is 2 dimensional and form is 3 so you have that added depth to the image which shape doesn’t have. There are 2 main types of form which are organic and geometric organic is more natural and nature based shapes and geometric are usually harsher manmade shapes.

4)Texture-

texture is said to be the physically appearance of an object. You can have lots of different types of texture like matte glossy bumpy smooth and rough etc… texture is something you can feel. Texture can also change depending on different situations like the lighting.

5)Colour-

colour is said to be “a phenomenon of light (such as red, brown, pink, or grey) or visual perception that enables one to differentiate otherwise identical objects“. colour has three properties which are hue (description of the colour) value (brightness/darkness) and saturation (intensity of the colour).

6)Size-

size is often described as “physical magnitude, extent, or bulk: relative or proportionate dimensions’. Size in images can be seen either as an illusion or relative. The most used size options are small, medium, and large. There is something called overlap which is when you have multiple objects and their size causes them to block off the other objects.

7)Depth-

Depth can be described as “the direct linear measurement from front to back“. Depth is thinking about the size of the object but also the space around it. The only time you won’t have any depth in your image is if you have a white blank background.

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Nostalgia Still Life Photos

28 September 2023 Hannah Bridle 1 Comment

I used colours to label and categorise the photos I used green for the images I really liked and definitely wanted to use and then yellow was for the ones I thought were ok and possibly would use and red for the ones that I definitely wouldn’t use.

this is the original photo before editing

for this image I did some basic editing so I cropped the image slightly and when changed the temperature of the image slightly because I thought the originally was a little bit too warm. Then I changed exposure and contrast. I also dulled down some of the highlights because they looked too bright making the image look really overly bright.

Overall I do really like the image I think the gold objects really stand out because of the colour contrast as everything in the image is black and white so the gold and even the read on the ashtray really stands out in the image.

When looking at the image I really like how I have the old fashioned camera in focus and then everything else like the photo and the vintage lighter not in focus. It makes the camera really stand out which I wanted to do originally but you can still see the other objects which corelate to the camera.

I think the contrast between the black and white works really well compared to the gold objects but also it matches quite well with the vintage camera. I think I maybe could have arranged my objects better I think they look kind of awkward in the way they are positioned at the moment.

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Introduction to still life

27 September 2023 Hannah Bridle 1 Comment

what is still life?

usually still life can be described as an arrangement of objects usually including fruits, flowers and then normally some sort of silverware/glassware.

still life originally started during the early 1600’s predominately in Dutch and European paintings.

Something that has majorly effected and impacted still life was colonialism because it meant that they could have new and exotic objects that normally they would not be able to access.

Something you often spot in still life paintings would be skulls, fruit, flowers, hourglasses and candles. You often have skulls because they suggest things such as death similar with hourglasses suggesting time and maybe lack there of. Then fruit and flowers contrast with that because they can suggest things like new life. However certain flowers actually can mean different things for example poppies represent sleep or death and yet daisies represent innocence and rose love and seduction.

Image analysis- Richard Kuiper

In this image you are drawn to the fruit in the middle of the photo as it is the lightest part of the image so the dark objects around it are almost framing it.

When using the rule of thirds you can see that the image is sitting along the top left on the lines.

I think the composition of the fruit basket makes it look like a very chaotic photo as it is just piled on top on the table with other objects underneath with actually giving the image more levels and depth.

Image analysis 

I think the lemons in the image are really bright with vivid colours and because it is the brightest part of the photo, so it stands out compared to the rest and has the darker background and table framing the fruit .Using the rule of thirds you can see that the fruit is centred straight in the middle hitting each line on the graph

Vanitas

Vanitas is a type of still life painting from the 1700’s where they would use symbols and objects to suggest things such as death and fatality.

This style of art would be like a reminder to everyone that you will die and you cant stop that.

Lots of the common objects have certain symbolic meanings for example a mirror can suggest self reflection and an lamp can often suggest the human soul.

In still life artwork there is something very closely related too it called Memento Mori. Its basically an object or symbol used as a reminder its usually depicted/represented by a skull. Its practically used/thought about in every still life piece of work.

The actual phrase translate from Latin to “remember you must die”. The phrase was often used by Catholics on things like graves and tombstones and memorial plaques.

This was an image analysis did in class where we were looking at both the technical aspects and the visual aspects.

We were focusing on the visual and technical aspects of the image so things like the focus on the camera and how everything is in focus.

We looked at the rule of thirds and how the darker parts of the image would be centring/surrounding the middle.

We also had to look at the image and figure out it we thought it was natural lighting or lighting done with tools like ring lights.

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Camera settings and understanding

25 September 2023 Hannah Bridle Leave a comment

Camera settings

For the first image I made the aperture quite low and then changed the exposure to a lot lower so it wouldn’t make the image too exposed like it is here where I had the exposure a lot higher again.

For this image I changed the shutter speed which effects how blurry the image is basically so the propeller on the plane when the shutter speed is really high so 1/4000 of a second means it’s not blurry at all but if it was 1 second you wouldn’t really even be able to see it because of how blurry it would be.

The main idea that you want is for the exposure meter to be around the middle on the 0 because that checks that your image won’t be too under or over exposed

So as you can see here the white arrow is pointing at the 0 meaning everything is balanced and it even says above “good exposure” so this is something you will want to check whenever you change some of the camera settings.

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