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Tuesday, 21 October 2014
Portfolio Research: Gary Schneider
Sunday, 19 October 2014
Research: Portraiture.
I've been researching portraiture from the beginning and found a few links that I thought were interesting. The first one, here, has some beautiful close ups, from the head and shoulders up that focused on the detail in the models faces. The lighting in the images is soft, for the most part, and bring out the details in the faces of the models. The highlights that accentuate their faces is something that interests me and I wonder if I could accomplish something similar with natural light. I think the photographer was in a studio, just by how directed the light is.
This link, takes you to a page where the artist mixes design and photography. It is quite an amazing portrayal of portraiture in the form of ink in water. There is a lot of texture in the photographs and the composition in which the artist used is certainly different. I like the angles the photographer has used when he merged the two together. The faces look almost like smoke. This kind of presentation is different and certainly interesting, I'd like to have a go and trying to create something similar.
The photographs in this link are nothing too unusual. The models look almost statuesque, but there is a lot of detail and texture in the face. The lighting is what really stands out. Taken in a studio, I like some of the more direct approaches and the shadows they create across the faces of the models. The lighting isn't always the norm and for that the images are a little more unique. What doesn't really work for me is the expression's on their face or lack of. They don't give much away in terms of who they are and what this means to them. I'd like to be able to see a little more about them, to feel like I know something, but with these, I don't get that feeling.
This link, takes you to a page where the artist mixes design and photography. It is quite an amazing portrayal of portraiture in the form of ink in water. There is a lot of texture in the photographs and the composition in which the artist used is certainly different. I like the angles the photographer has used when he merged the two together. The faces look almost like smoke. This kind of presentation is different and certainly interesting, I'd like to have a go and trying to create something similar.
The photographs in this link are nothing too unusual. The models look almost statuesque, but there is a lot of detail and texture in the face. The lighting is what really stands out. Taken in a studio, I like some of the more direct approaches and the shadows they create across the faces of the models. The lighting isn't always the norm and for that the images are a little more unique. What doesn't really work for me is the expression's on their face or lack of. They don't give much away in terms of who they are and what this means to them. I'd like to be able to see a little more about them, to feel like I know something, but with these, I don't get that feeling.
Digital Technology Two (WK 3) Self Directed Task.
Think about and answer the following in terms of your portfolio project:
What were you thinking about when you made this work?
- I was thinking about ways to make my model feel more comfortable. I wanted them to feel okay and less pressured when I took their photograph. I was also thinking about different places to photograph them and how the weather would affect this.
What was going on in the world and did any of these events influence you thinking at the time?
-I'm actually not too sure. When using the tethered shooting, I wasn't thinking about much else, I was more concerned with trying to get the program to work properly, so that took a little more concentration than what it should have. When I photographed my friend, I had a lot more to think about, the lighting, the pose and whether or not it would fit with my previous photographs. I also then had the distraction of what we'd been talking about because we used the chance to catch up, so I guess I probably could have done a little better without the distraction of those thoughts and up coming events.
What photographic genre (and subgenre) does your work fit into?
- It's leaning more towards fine art, there is a little bit of portraiture in there too as I want to include more of the faces of my models. I had wanted to give it a more documentary feel, but I'm leaning away from that because of the ways in which I want my models to pose.
Who are your photographic influences? What photographic genre do these photographers fit into? What ideas or techniques do you take from these photographers into your own work?
-Sally Mann is probably one of my biggest influences. Her photographs are documentary based, but they're also very personal, so they do have a more intimate feel to them which is what I'm going for. With some of her photographs there's also a bit of mystery, you are't too sure what's going on or the relation of the figures in the photograph.
-Welead Beshty is another photographer I looked at, he shoots film and in the developing process exposes it and creates some weirdly coloured images. It's not always the images themselves that are interesting, it's the way he's exposed them to make them a little more unusual.
-Marti Friedlander, I liked her self portraits and it was the inspiration for my experiment with tethered shooting. Her documentary styled portraits were simple, but I really liked them. I liked how the entire image was in focus, but especially her hands and camera. The focus on detail, it was what I was looking for when doing my research into the smaller details.
Are you influenced by artists working in other disciplines? (eg: film or painting)
-I've looked at other fields when doing surface research. A lot of my pinterest involves, designers and painters as well as photography. I haven't really researched anyone in particular, it was just a way to get ideas, for poses and light and little things like that. I did take another look at the portraiture video and other ones similar on youtube to see the way painters portrayed people. I looked at mostly pose and where the figures hands were in the artwork.
What were you thinking about when you made this work?
- I was thinking about ways to make my model feel more comfortable. I wanted them to feel okay and less pressured when I took their photograph. I was also thinking about different places to photograph them and how the weather would affect this.
What was going on in the world and did any of these events influence you thinking at the time?
-I'm actually not too sure. When using the tethered shooting, I wasn't thinking about much else, I was more concerned with trying to get the program to work properly, so that took a little more concentration than what it should have. When I photographed my friend, I had a lot more to think about, the lighting, the pose and whether or not it would fit with my previous photographs. I also then had the distraction of what we'd been talking about because we used the chance to catch up, so I guess I probably could have done a little better without the distraction of those thoughts and up coming events.
What photographic genre (and subgenre) does your work fit into?
- It's leaning more towards fine art, there is a little bit of portraiture in there too as I want to include more of the faces of my models. I had wanted to give it a more documentary feel, but I'm leaning away from that because of the ways in which I want my models to pose.
Who are your photographic influences? What photographic genre do these photographers fit into? What ideas or techniques do you take from these photographers into your own work?
-Sally Mann is probably one of my biggest influences. Her photographs are documentary based, but they're also very personal, so they do have a more intimate feel to them which is what I'm going for. With some of her photographs there's also a bit of mystery, you are't too sure what's going on or the relation of the figures in the photograph.
-Welead Beshty is another photographer I looked at, he shoots film and in the developing process exposes it and creates some weirdly coloured images. It's not always the images themselves that are interesting, it's the way he's exposed them to make them a little more unusual.
-Marti Friedlander, I liked her self portraits and it was the inspiration for my experiment with tethered shooting. Her documentary styled portraits were simple, but I really liked them. I liked how the entire image was in focus, but especially her hands and camera. The focus on detail, it was what I was looking for when doing my research into the smaller details.
Are you influenced by artists working in other disciplines? (eg: film or painting)
-I've looked at other fields when doing surface research. A lot of my pinterest involves, designers and painters as well as photography. I haven't really researched anyone in particular, it was just a way to get ideas, for poses and light and little things like that. I did take another look at the portraiture video and other ones similar on youtube to see the way painters portrayed people. I looked at mostly pose and where the figures hands were in the artwork.
Research: Tattoo Photography. (WK 3)
http://www.cuded.com/2012/05/tattoo-photography-by-jake-raynor/
I went in search of artists that used photography that focused more on detail and tattoo photography was one of the avenues I looked at. I looked at tattoo photography because the photographs quite obviously focus on parts of someone's body. A lot of the time, the entire photograph is in focus, which differs a little from the approach I'm taking, but it still gave me some ideas for pose and light. What I liked about the photographs in the link above was that, besides the last photograph, they were mainly focused on certain aspects of the woman's body. There was a lot of detail in those areas and the lighting, while in a studio was quite soft and similar to what I wanted to accomplish. I also liked that in the first two photographs, it wasn't her face and eyes that were the main focus of the images, there was detail in her face, but the positioning of her hair and her pose meant that it wasn't the main focus.
I went in search of artists that used photography that focused more on detail and tattoo photography was one of the avenues I looked at. I looked at tattoo photography because the photographs quite obviously focus on parts of someone's body. A lot of the time, the entire photograph is in focus, which differs a little from the approach I'm taking, but it still gave me some ideas for pose and light. What I liked about the photographs in the link above was that, besides the last photograph, they were mainly focused on certain aspects of the woman's body. There was a lot of detail in those areas and the lighting, while in a studio was quite soft and similar to what I wanted to accomplish. I also liked that in the first two photographs, it wasn't her face and eyes that were the main focus of the images, there was detail in her face, but the positioning of her hair and her pose meant that it wasn't the main focus.
Richard Mosse. (DT2 WK3)
Watch the interview and answer the questions:
1) What genre/s does Richard Mosse's 'The Enclave' fit into?
- Documentary photography.
-Fine Art.
-War.
2) What is the history that relates to this project?
-Conflict in the Congo. The feeling of displacement which was one he was familiar with.
3) Is there anything in his own history that influences his work?
-He grew up around the conflict in northern Ireland.
-This was not his first time photographing and dealing with war.
-His own lack of advancement in other fields of photography spurred the move.
4) Why did he choose to use Kodak infared film for the project?
-It was military made film, used in areas such as the one he was in. The film was designed to reveal what was hidden, which is the reasoning behind the drastic colour change.
5) How does the use of this film fit into the documentary genre?
-Generally, it wouldn't, but because of the way he used and portrayed his photographs it still counts as documentary based. It would be easy -without knowing anything about his works- to just say that it was Photoshopped, but because of the way the figures and surroundings are portrayed it still fits into that category. The figures are cold and distant, there is no real interaction between the figures in the photo.
6) How many times has he been to the Eastern Congo for this project? Why do you think he has been back so many times?
-8 time in 4 years.
-His justification for returning so many times was that everything kept changing. The land and the people, they were constantly shifting.
7) What justification does he have for creating such beautiful images to represent such horrific events? Why would he be criticized for this? How does this differ from other war photographs?
-General war images are graphic and made to shock. He wanted to make photographs that were aesthetically pleasing to the viewer. He wanted to create a conflict of emotion within the viewers, to stretch and make them realise their own ethical standards. In making his images as beautiful as they were, he opened up the viewers self awareness, the viewer was meant to have conflicting emotions over the image, while their eyes liked it, their mind told them they shouldn't.
1) What genre/s does Richard Mosse's 'The Enclave' fit into?
- Documentary photography.
-Fine Art.
-War.
2) What is the history that relates to this project?
-Conflict in the Congo. The feeling of displacement which was one he was familiar with.
3) Is there anything in his own history that influences his work?
-He grew up around the conflict in northern Ireland.
-This was not his first time photographing and dealing with war.
-His own lack of advancement in other fields of photography spurred the move.
4) Why did he choose to use Kodak infared film for the project?
-It was military made film, used in areas such as the one he was in. The film was designed to reveal what was hidden, which is the reasoning behind the drastic colour change.
5) How does the use of this film fit into the documentary genre?
-Generally, it wouldn't, but because of the way he used and portrayed his photographs it still counts as documentary based. It would be easy -without knowing anything about his works- to just say that it was Photoshopped, but because of the way the figures and surroundings are portrayed it still fits into that category. The figures are cold and distant, there is no real interaction between the figures in the photo.
6) How many times has he been to the Eastern Congo for this project? Why do you think he has been back so many times?
-8 time in 4 years.
-His justification for returning so many times was that everything kept changing. The land and the people, they were constantly shifting.
7) What justification does he have for creating such beautiful images to represent such horrific events? Why would he be criticized for this? How does this differ from other war photographs?
-General war images are graphic and made to shock. He wanted to make photographs that were aesthetically pleasing to the viewer. He wanted to create a conflict of emotion within the viewers, to stretch and make them realise their own ethical standards. In making his images as beautiful as they were, he opened up the viewers self awareness, the viewer was meant to have conflicting emotions over the image, while their eyes liked it, their mind told them they shouldn't.
Week 3: Experimenting with Tethered shooting.
I had a lot of fun with this experiment. I used myself as the subject and attached my camera to my laptop. I had the camera sitting on a tripod and the laptop facing me with a wireless mouse. It was interesting getting a handle on the program I was using and the ways I had to move in front of the camera to get the positioning right. It was a good learning experience and I really liked the results. I would like to try again as there is one photograph in particular that I would like to use for my final presentation, but my hand was out of focus and that is one of the pain parts of the image that I would like to be in focus.
This final photograph is one of my favourites out of the three of them. It's a little dark here, but as I'm going to re-shoot, it isn't too much of an issue. What I like about this the most is the pose. In trying to work out how to use the tethering program and getting all of the settings in camera right, I wasn't too focused on the pose in the image. I do like the partial shot of the face, but I would've liked the focus to have been more on my hand rather than lip. I like the way the lip bar and ring stand out in the image, the light reflects off of them, making them a little brighter and a lot more noticeable. Also, when zoomed in on this photograph, you can see all the detail in the skin of my cheek, which makes it look quite nice. The image is a little soft, I was fiddling with the aperture trying to get the hand in focus and because I kept changing the aperture I had to keep changing the shutter speed as well, the images just kept getting darker and darker. If I have this problem again, I can lighten the image in post production or move my placement so there is more light on my face.
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Saturday, 18 October 2014
Research: Macro Photography.
I found a link here, with photographs of the human eye. The example of macro photography is astounding and I really love the detail in the photographs. I thought it was an interesting link and worth looking at. It was just something I stumbled across when looking for portraiture examples. I'd like to incorporate something similar either in my portfolio or as a side project as a study on it's own.
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