Me and my group went outside to cry capture different elements of texture, we went out with an open mind and explored around the outskirts of the school to see all the different types of texture which we could find in our daily life!!!
Here’s a photo we took of a crossing on the road, the road had moss growing over the top of it which was a really cool texture and created a unique and abstract pattern throughout it, this is the original photo.
This is the photo edited.
This is a photo I took of a metal fence.
In the background of the photo you can see cars and bikes next to a building which helps to translate which it was taken in a car park.
The photo has a grain texture which gives it a vintage feel.
This is my original photo I took off my model with a white background.
Here are the photos after I went into photoshop and edited double exposure onto them.
This is a photo taken off me, this is the original version and it was taken with 2 constant lights that had different coloured see through plastic sheets, one was orange and one was green.
Here is the photo after I edited it in photoshop experimenting with double exposure.
I took this photo of two students doing a photo shoot
I then edited it
I then edited some double exposures onto the photo.
me and my group went into the studio to experiment with lighting, we go two constant lights and put see through coloured plastic sheets over the lights, here is a unedited photo of me.
and here is the edited version:
I took these photos of my models, I put a pink see through plastic sheet and a purple see through plastic sheet over the constant light.
HDR stands for High Dynamic Range and refers to a technique that expresses details in content in both very bright and very dark scenes. It offers a more natural and realistic picture output even with a widened range of contrast.
Bracketing is the process of shooting the same image, shot, or scene multiple times using different camera settings resulting in different exposures. Cinematographers and photographers either bracket the camera’s aperture, ISO, or shutter speed for varying exposures.
Typologies are a body of photographs ( more than one or two ) that share a high level of consistency, so they are often placed next to each other to create a series of similar looking images. And grouping them together based on similar characteristics, often showing repetition and patterns. Typologies can be used to explore how small variations within a group can create meaning or convey information about the subject.
The Bechers
images by Bernd and Hilla Becher
Bernd and Hilla Becher started photographing together in 1959. Most of their work included architecture and had extensive images on water towers, blast furnaces, coal mine tipples, industrial facades and many other industrial architecture pieces.
1. How did they first meet?
Their first meeting was as students at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1957.
2. What inspired them to begin to record images of Germany’s industrial landscape?
the first area they went to was this area in Germany and it was an area that was going to be demolished and they wanted to preserve and record it for prosperity. – large format film camera technology a lot slower than digital camera ( same as ansel adams)
3. How did the Bechers explain the concept of Typology?
Hilla Becher came up with the concept when she was looking at biology and psychology books on of the people she looked at in particular was Karl Blossfeldt where they showed comparing plants to others and they decided to do that with buildings organising the buildings they were photographing into different patterns which helped them decide on how to make those grids. They would have to wait until the light matched the light in the other images they had to wait for over cast days so that they’re only focusing on the subject of the image rather than the background so the background wouldn’t blend in with the tone of the building. ( white background vs dark building) opposed to romanticism ( realism )
4. Which artists/ photographers inspired them to produce typology images?
Karl Blossfeldt he produced images of flowers and plants and would put them next to each other to compare the plants to each other for his biology students this helped inspired the Bechers to create typologies. August Sander was also an influence.
5. What is the legacy of the Bechers and their work?
why taught at a university which produced many famous photographers who were inspired by being taught by the Bechers and became photographers themselves such as Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Demand who are all typologists.
Photoshoot plan
There is a few (38) of the German bunkers by my house so I’m going go down there and take pictures of the bunkers form many different angles to try a replicate how typologyies were taken.
photoshoot
My Own Typologies // edited images
How I made these typologies is that I edited all the images that I wanted to use and opened up an untitled document for a blank canvas to be able to create the boarders and and line the images up with each other. To get all the images into the same untitled document I went in file-open and selected the images that I wanted to use for this typology as shown in the screen shot below and then I dragged the images into the untitled document and held CTRL T to be able to resize the images how I wanted.
They began collaborating together in 1959 after meeting at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1957. Bernd originally studied painting and then typography, whereas Hilla had trained as a commercial photographer. After two years collaborating together, they married.
2. What inspired them to begin to record images of Germany’s industrial landscape?
The first area they went to was somewhere in germany. The reason they focused on these landscapes was because it was going to be an area that would be demolished. They wanted to preserve the area from being knocked down so therefore they wanted to record it for prosperity. the subject was disappearing —> using a large format camera, lot slower than normal cameras, type of camera ansel adams used.
3. How did the Bechers explain the concept of Typology?
Hilla Becher saw it as, almost like making a movie. She came up with that concept she was looking at biology books and she picked up the idea from looking at other disciplines —> Karl Blossfeldt. Started making these pictures in the late 1950s. She got the idea by comparing one thing to another making it sort of —> symmetrical. If it was too bright Bechers would wait for a cloud to dim the lighting or wait another day, season and time setting to get the same background. They wanted an overcast day so they could isolate the building from the sky, similar to photographing people in a white studio. No funny gimmicks being used —> opposite to romanticism they wanted to create images that were real (realism).
4. Which artists/ photographers inspired them to produce typology images?
They drew inspiration from earlier German photographers like Karl Blossfeldt, August Sander, and Albert Renger-Patzsch.
5. What is the legacy of the Bechers’ and their work?
They were often labelled as conceptual artists and influenced minimalist and conceptual artists like Ed Ruscha, Carl Andre and Douglas Huebler.
As professors of The Dusseldorf School of Photography, they influenced a generation of German photographers who were their students (including Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth.)
Bernd and Hilla Becher Hochöfen (Blast Furnaces), 2007
With the rating system, I decided to categories it by group and what I think looks best. For the 1 star, I chose the images which looked overexposed and just overall not the best. The 2 star category was for images which have high and low exposure shots, this gives me a wide variety but overall not the best quality. For the 3 stars, this was for images in which looked the same or have potential to be edited better. The last two stars (4 and 5) are my favourite pictures I took which I think have potential to be edited even better and create good pieces of work.
The red rating system is so I can be organised with my individual joiner images so I can find them when needed in order
I decided to take one image from my 1 star selection and see if I could improve it. For this image I chose to edit it originally and then create a HDR image to see how it would look. I made sure the photos were different exposures to see the best effect. When doing this I also created 3 digital copies of the photo so it wouldn’t interfere with the original image. With the original image I edited I used a mask on the sky to emphasise the colour of it without it messing up the bottom of the image. This allowed me to create a deep contrast of light and dark by turning down the whites and upping the blacks.
For this image I just turned the exposure down and upped that shadows so the image would have more depth and have more of a dramatic sky. I also cropped the image so it would be straight and the horizon line would be properly horizontal.
CASE STUDY: Stephen Shore, Beverly Boulevard and La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, California, June 21, 1975, chromogenic colour print
technical:
square image, natural lighting, rule of thirds, maybe slight saturation, non grainy image, white balance = normal
wide depth of field due to large format camera
visual:
cars, signs, petrol station, mountains, lamp posts, pavement
road pointing to the mountain, nature is still there being masked by man made things, leading lines, chevron pointing out to the mountains and out of ‘hell hole’
red, white and blue mentioned a lot in the image, national pride, national colours as part of their branding, reminders of pop art
peace, serenity
concept:
nationalism, branding, pride
driving, needing to go to petrol station to drive, many petrol stations so cars can fuel and keep driving
contextual:
the environment, petrol not as popular due to the fumes, encapsulates the fact america needs cars to get around
taken at down level, sense of order and organise with a bit of clutter, juxtaposition
Stephen Shore, Beverly Boulevard and La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, California, June 21, 1975, chromogenic colour print:
Technical:
The photo has been taken with a large dynamic range.
The colours are really bright and pop out, the exposure would have been high.
Has captured various shadows.
Visual:
There are signs in it.
A petrol station, cars, petrol pumps, open sky, mountains…
Leading line towards the mountain.
The “Chevron” sign is pointing down and other signs are pointing in different directions.
loads of blue, red and white.
Multiple cars which everyone used at the time due o fuel being cheap and it being shown as the way to get to everywhere.
Contextual:
By having the town appear cluttered and showing so much infrastructure within the photo, it makes the town out to be a hellhole.
We can tell which it is a old photo due to the cars being vintage and that the town heavily relies on petrol/fuel due to everyone in the photo driving and so many petrol stations cluttered in the town and the photo, we also know that in this time fuel was dirt cheap and no one knew the environmental damages it caused and there were also no electric cars.
Conceptual:
loads of blue red and white which are national American colours.
The signs are pointing in different directions out of the photo which makes it seem like there pointing to ways out of the hellhole.
The road has a leading line towards the mountains showing that if we keep on driving down it we can escape the hellhole and enter the opposite which is the mountains/wilderness that aren’t man made and have no infrastructure and are open and not cluttered.
They began collaborating together in 1959 after meeting at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf school in 1957. Bernd originally studied painting and then typography, whereas Hilla had trained as a commercial photographer. After two years collaborating together, they married.
2. What inspired them to begin to record images of Germany’s industrial landscape?
The first area they went to was a spot in Germany was a area where thee was abandoned architecture that was going to get demolished so they wanted to preserve it by capturing it in photos, they were using a large format camera which means they weren’t able to take loads of images fast as they have to take one photo at a time meaning the whole process was slow and more carefully thought out.
3. How did the Bechers explain the concept of Typology?
Hilla Becher came up with it, she was looking at psychology and biology books, one of the people she looked at in biology was Karl Blossfeldt who published a famous book in 1928, they need to wait for the right light so a cloudy/white sky so they can clearly have the sky come out a clear white on the photo, they also photographed every drawing because they were conceptual photographers, they opposed creating images that used romanticism and wanted everything to look as real as possible, it was therefore the opposite of romanticism and was realism.
4. Which artists/ photographers inspired them to produce typology images?
The Bechers were inspired by:
August Sander – He took photos of people in different jobs, which influenced the Bechers’ way of organizing their photos.
Eugène Atget – He photographed buildings in Paris, which inspired the Bechers’ focus on architecture.
Walker Evans – He took clear, straightforward photos of buildings, which influenced the Bechers’ style.
Alfred Stieglitz – He treated photography as an art, which influenced how the Bechers approached their work.
New Objectivity – A movement that focused on clear, direct photography, which the Bechers followed.
Basically, these photographers and artists influenced the Bechers’ organized and detailed way of photographing buildings.
5. What is the legacy of the Bechers and their work?
The Bechers influenced artists such as Ed Ruscha and sculptor Carl Andre, perhaps their most pronounced legacy was among their students, who include Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff, and Thomas Struth— now known as the “Becher School.”
