20/06/2017

TASK: Find a photograph and Upload to blog

WRITE: Write about weaknesses. INCLUDE THESE WORDS: Setting, composition, lighting, focus, character, meaning, colour, balance, contrast.

IN PHOTOSHOP, MAKE QUICK IMPROVEMENTS BY: 1. Enhance the colour. 2. Enhance the contrast. 3. Select and crop.

Nathan on Martin Parr

IMAGE ONE

This is uncropped. Natural. My first shot 

Obvious mistakes: 
I need a tripod or a gorillapod so that the camera could be even more steady.
I should have chosen to focus into the foreground or back ground but not both.
I must take the date off of the camera settings.
I need to take fifty photographs for one to work. I was luck to get these but the woman is moving too quickly and is blurred.
Good qualities are:
High colour and composition is full. there is a lot going on.
I think that the sign above is head is funny. I like the contrast of the door frame and position.
The only blue is in the sunglasses.

NOW: Low angle, medium close up shot.

 Cropped is better. I have enhanced both contrast and colour saturation. I added light. I love the depth of this and it reminds me of an early Martin Parr (See Below)

SECOND IMAGE: Two shot.

Needed to enhance the colour and add higher contrast and lighting.

I copped the date out and it now looks more intimate. Like I have stepped closer into the shot which I know is a trick of photojournalists.

Final Piece

I love my final piece and I have printed it too. It is modern and it could be a design for a product or CD cover.

CREATING MY IMAGE: Making changes in Photoshop

I have to show at least five changes

Firstly, I chose my photograph and I enhanced the colour slightly. By enhancing both the saturation and extending the contrast, I think that the photograph looks as though it was taken by a more expensive camera!

Of course I had to chose the colour of the background. Grey seemed to close the jumper. I had used the pipette tool and grabbed some grey off of the jumper, thinking that it would harmonious, but the character blended into the background too much.

I thought of who the character was. I wanted a bright and modern image. I wanted to avoid flag type colours and I did want to create an 'anti football' feel. The composition was easy. I knew that I wanted to reflect the artist's work and use a large figure, looking out towards the viewer.

I took the prop image of Messi, From a wall in a shop. I want to play games with the image of the most famous footballer and the message will be of something else. I had to include a minimum of five shapes and I wanted to reflect the idea of a football and/or bubbles ('I'm forever blowing bubbles!). Circles are more fluid than straight edge shapes which also feel somehow more violent and angry - which is definitely not the message that I want to give.

The circles, although they were making the composition well-balanced, were a bit boring. I made an image based on a bar code - the message here is that we are paying footballers too much.  But I made the bar code separately, using rectangles on the same yellow colour. I then cropped the bar code into another circle and cut and pasted it on.

Too many circles? I kept borrowing the same colours by using the pipette, and added some simple stars using the simple brush shape. It was important to keep limiting my colour so that I was able to almost create a brand or a really professional design.

I had to play with the idea of 'binary Opposites'. This is where in art, design and film-making, a theorist Claude Levi Strauss, believed that imagery and meanings had more impact to the viewer, when they played with opposites. Love v hate, peace v war etc. I decided to just play with the idea of showing a footballer, but picked another sport to type. We had to use a minimum of three words. This is not really binary opposites, but I love the idea that it is playing games with the viewer. Because I am tricking the viewer they might look even closer.

I created some graffiti shapes to enhance the modern feel of the piece and also to make the composition balanced. I created the graffiti on the white board. It was brilliant because working so large meant that I really felt as though I was spraying an aerosol. The letters were not trendy enough, so I changed the colour of the first letter. I was worried though that you couldn't read the word so I created dark lettering and super-imposed a brighter/lighter word on top. I had to make certain that both words were the same shape and then I just shifted the top layer by the keys on the keyboard, rather than the mouse.

A strange gap meant that I created a separate arrow and cut and pasted it on, resizing and moving into place. I flattened the image and thought that this was the final piece.

I loved it but it wasn't as trendy as I had imagined. I returned to the original artist and knew that I had to remove all saturation form the character.

Carefully, I selected an area and removed all colour from the character, and with real care and patience, I infilled by hand using both, pipette and paintbrush and fill tool.

The Seven C's

Creating a Powerpoint and using slideshare

Go to Slideshare

Sign up and create an account - this is where you will be able to upload powerpoints onto your blog.

Create a 5 screen Powerpoint

Title: Mise-en Scene
You must create the design and it must include text and 5 different pictures.

Slide one: A photograph of your own and 100 words about Setting
Include words composition, balance, 

Slide two: A photograph of your own and 100 words about Costume and make-up
Include words (or opposites) fashionable, wealthy, gender,


Slide three: A photograph of your own and 100 words about Expressions 
Include words (or opposites) mood, anger,,


Slide four: A photograph of your own and 100 words about Lighting 
Include words (or opposites) soft, focus, contrast, shadow, 


Slide five: A photograph of your own and 100 words about props
Include words (or opposites) meaning, semiotics,

TEN STAGE ANALYSIS

1. Genre: describe the theme, subject, 

2. Capturing light natural, artificial, soft, harsh, realistic, exaggerated, manipulated, filtered
3. Multi-disciplinary = science and humanities – manipulation of camera and function
4. Unique art form = Starts blank/improvement/removal from frame
5. Framing + focus: Camera sees the world differently (outside of the frame/notice other things)
6. Formal elements line, shape, curvilinear, composition, balance, weight, tone, contrast,
7. Chance/accident
8. Meanings across time - not fixed/historical context
9. Ideology neutral? abuse of power?
10 Warped sense of timing/hidden meanings/signs, signifiers, symbols

Check that you are up to date

Next:
Write the definition for Binary Opposition.
Your next photographic/adobe photographic piece must exploit binary opposition.


ANAYSE THIS IMAGE (on your blog or in your book)





Your next three photographs must include:
A portrait
A coloured back ground
A prop
A minimum of four shapes
A minimum of three words

COVER 04/04/2017

PRIOR LEARNING
3 photographs on blog and use mise-en scene to analyse each one (SCELP)
Choose your favourite and manipulate it in Adobe photoshop

1. Make your camera seem more expensive = enhance the color and up the contrast
2. Learn how to quck crop
3. use your cloning tool (remove blemishes/objects and add objects)
4. Use Font tool add words - especially binary opposite

5. (look up binary opposite and post the meaning)


Check that you completed Thursday 30 March homework
Check out the A* photobook Youtube clips and raise your expectations!

Up load all new homework images to your blog

A Level Photography Sketchbook A* examples: "New Realities"

A2 Photography coursework book - A* (full marks)

Homework coloured photography

​Take coloured photographs (you will only ever use/keep 5% so take many)

You must consider the following:

You must have two or more people in the shot

the people must only fill (proportionally) 33% of the frame

The shots must not be candid (staged and smiling)

Colour photographs using props

Some students are on catch-up
1. A* Sketch pad
2. Billingham or Parr pasges
3. Homework - compare the two images

PROPS 4. Post your favourite from your last lesson: make notes

PETER - what was the Point? Explain it. Take the photograph (How?) Evaluate Reflect

Who had the idea?
who owns the photograph?
How could it be improved?

5. Post your worst image and apply the same notes.

Print your post....... paper clip in your sketch pad

email your favourite to Ms Lim on alison.limerick@taw.org.uk

P1 Y9 Media

1.      On your own blog you must create a new post (include images)

Upload a photograph by Gillingham or Parr

Use the following headings to describe and analyse:

MISE EN SCENE

Settings

Costume

Expressions and mood

Lighting

Props

Also

1.      Create a post which describe focus (include images)

2.      

WHAT ARE THE SIMILARITIES HERE?

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE HERE?

Dear Students
please take a look at the photographs by Richard Billingham
and or Martin Parr

Send me an email

Tell me which photographer you prefer? describe a favourite photograph. attach the image.
Include the following words: Colour, subject, composition

Formal Elements

Art - line, tone, composition, balance, colour, texture
Photography - focus, line, light, repetition, shape, space, texture, value (tonal range)

Ten Stage Analysis

1. Genre
2. Capturing light
3. Multi-disciplinary = science and humanities
4. Unique art form = Starts blank
5. Camera sees the world differently (outside of the frame)
6. Formal elements
7. Chance/accident
8. Meanings across time - not fixed
9. Ideology neutral? abuse of power
10 Warped sense of timing

see this and more on www.photopedagogy.com

LM
1. Introduction to key vocab, ten stage analysis,
2. Representation and mis-representation
3. semiotics, signs/symbols, gestures, mise-en scene,


Colour and on location photography
Lighting
Movement and composition

Your inspiration and HW Martin Parr and Richard Billingham

WH 6 Weeks
1. Setting up a blog
2. The digital camera? What, How, Settings, Manual v Automatic.
3. Camera shots and camera angles: Close up, establishing, over the shoulder, long shot, dutch tilt, Point of View, wide shot,

The close up - Black and White - In the studio
The audience? Publish and market research your results.
Analyse photographs for meanings? (Use FB)

Your inspiration and HW see =  Andy Gotts