In this task we were asked to take pictures of movement. I was mainly focused on the face but took pictures of other moving things. I used both fast and slow shutter speeds to show the theme of movement. The last pictures are what I wanted to show in my work, how the face moves when moving and when fast things go past with a slow shutter speed.
Levitation.
Move Yowa Yowa's image here and write: - a couple of sentences about Yowa Yowa - about the type of work she makes and how she makes it - your opinions about her work and why - how you will use her work to inspire yours Our inspiration for this task was Japanese photographer Yowa Yowa who took a photograph of herself levitating for a year. She uses a fast shutter speed and jumps to capture herself levitating. This work inspires me to try and capture a person levitating.
In this assignment we were asked to present a different kind of movement in the form of levitation. As you can see, I used a fast shutter speed to show hovering. Having flat feet was key in this as you would want your subject to look like they were floating. Having non-flat feet doesn't look as good as you can see from the picture on the far right. For me the best picture is the middle one because the one on the left you can see his strings moving a bit and the one on the right is shoes aren't flat. Good introduction to the task and tips for producing a good levitation photo! Explain which image you think is the strongest and why.
Zoom blur.
In this exercise we were presented the task of taking pictures of zoom blur to make things look like they're going from one place to another. A slow shutter speed was used so that when we zoomed out, we had enough time to actually zoom out. This task was inspired by London photographer Dominic Harris. The last picture was taken by Harris and it's what we aimed to achieve. The best picture I took is the first one because the zoom out effects is really good but I still think if it was zoomed out more it would look a lot more like Harris'. Explain how you could improve these images. Which image is your best one and why? Do you need to re-shoot to achieve the correct effect?
Francesca Woodman ghost pictures.
Here are my ghost-like pictures relating to the work of American photographer Francesca Woodman. Woodman took pictures of herself looking like a ghost or doing other creepy stuff however, she committed suicide at 22. She was mentally unstable or depressed and its clear to see because most of her work was completed in an abandoned house. Her intentions in her work were to make the viewer feel uncomfortable by creating claustrophobic spaces and the presence of a ghost. She did this by capturing herself as a ghost using blurred movement and sometimes not being able to see her face. Woodman is considering disturbing psychological states of not just her but other people who may also be feeling depressed. This is presented in the way she makes chaotic movements. Woodman wanted to explore her and others mental state and what a person might be feeling inside and how this could lead to suicide. All of her pictures are black and white to portray the theme of disease and decay and this is what helps her to prove her point of mental 'decay'. In Woodman's picture 'Space Providence' she turns herself into a ghost and covers her face whilst making a mysterious and bizarre movement. This image presents a figure in an uncomfortable and awkward position.
The 8 pictures you see were all taken from the task apart from the last which was edited in Photoshop. Our task was to take ghostly pictures just like Woodman. I made the image black and white (just like Woodman), changed the levels and also cropped the picture a bit so the blow dryer wasn't in the shot.
Romain Laurent.
Photographer, director and cinematographer Romain Laurent was born in 1983 and studied design in Paris. He was originally from the French Alps and since 2006 Romain has been taking pictures of Paris. Romain has directed many commercials for companies like Reebok and Volvo and also directed music videos. He creates inventive and impossible images and GIFs like the one below with the man with an arm in his head. He uses layers in photoshop to produce GIFs like the one below with the man and his moving glasses. His work inspires me to form together a GIF that moves in a creative way. Wonderful description of Laurent and his work! How do you think he produces the work? Please include a GIF image below, as well.
The GIF's below are the ones I made in class. The one on the left was the first GIF I made and the one on the left was the improved version. I focused on moving just one part of the body to make it look more GIF-like. I used a 1/60" for shutter speed and manual focus to capture these pictures.
1st Attempt.
2nd Attempt.
Light trails.
In this task we were asked to draw with light. For me sticking with simple templates was the way to go as it was quite hard to capture what we wanted with our experience in light drawing. As you can see, that is exactly what I did here with the light gun down below. Explain the process- what camera settings did you have?
1st Attempt.
Michael Bossanko is a photographer who focus' on this subject. In the summer of 2004 whilst he was in Greece, he was taking pictures of the night scape the he accidentally kicked his tripod. The moon became a stream of light across his screen and he was fascinated by this. He then used the moon to draw images and after his discovery he used torches to draw images. In the picture below, Michael clearly wants to portray PacMan. This could possibly be that he wants reflect on his fun childhood or he just wanted to picture PacMan as it's an iconic game. Bossanko does this by painting the whole PacMan scene with light to present how fantastic PacMan really is. He wants us to consider that this was the first proper big game and it influenced us a lot and that in this work he has completed it shows that it was dominant and was and still is known internationally. Always refer to a photographer by their surname, not their first name.
Here's more light drawing we took from another lesson. For this we really didn't have much time to take pictures so me and the people who I was working with, we only got 3 or 4 pictures. The settings for the light pictures are manual focus, manual exposure setting and shutter speed to 8 seconds (as my camera doesn't have the BULB setting). For the last picture I went into photoshop and adjusted the light levels as the glow sticks were not visible.
2nd Attempt.
Travelling without moving and light painting GIF's.
In this task, we made more complexed GIF's. The one on the left is a 'travelling without moving' GIF which means the models whole body moves place instead of just a feature on the face moving. The 'light painting' GIF was hard as every time you captured a frame you would have to draw the same picture with light again (in this case).
Movement Development.
In this section, I captured multiple pictures and put them together to create GIF's. In these GIF's I wanted to portray how the world and English government is going down the drain. I was not inspired by an artist and I didn't choose to because I wanted to portray something in my own way. I wanted to show the world and government falling apart literally by these two things literally being taken apart. I used fast shutter speeds and used the burst setting to capture the UK government being burnt down and the world being cut up.