Pinhole Photography - Justin Quinnel

Justin Quinnels Website 

Pinhole photographer Justin Quinnel has some interesting techniques of taking pictures with all different objects that he makes into pinhole cameras. I may want to look at his website later in my project to help with ideas.

Task 5 - Adam Pizurny

Adam Pizurny’s set of images that experiments with people becoming the landscape is really interesting. I’d love to incorporate his idea into my final result.

Task 5: presenting multiple viewpoints: presentation and innovation

The brief is to take pictures of a landscape but I’ve seen a photographer called ‘Adam Pizurny’ that uses body parts to look like a landscape. He puts the silhouettes of people onto the photographs and in the end they look like hill’s or dark roads. The set of images are all black and white which I really like; I think works really well as it enhances shadows and makes the people in the image look more realistic. After attaching pictures to my Pintrest board ‘patchwork & fragmented images’ I’d like to present the different landscapes of the body in multiple lines as it will give it a flow as if it were an outside landscape. I think this will be more effective than a David Hockney’s style of photomontage as it will need to be clear for an audience to eventually see it for what it is. For the silhouettes of the people I’d quite like to use embroidery. 

Task 5 Research - David Hockney

David Hockney uses the technique of taking lots of photos of the same things from loads of different heights and angles. At first glance they almost look like paintings because the technique of distorting is quite unusual. This image in particular is an example of how landscapes can look different but still familiar even if they have a strong style. The piece being made from lots of close ups makes me think that Hockney wants his audience to look closer at their surroundings. This piece works so well for that reason and shooting the pictures from so close up allows the artist to have maximum detail into the landscape. My favourite part of the piece is the contrast between the sky which looks really smooth and the rough stones and rubbish at the side of the road. The road its self is shown in a way which makes you feel like you’re laying in the road. Hockney may have created this by lying in the road himself for this part of his work.

Task 5 - Pintrest Brainstorm

I have made a scrapbook type thing on the website Pintrest full of my ideas and research for my mini landscape project! It’s a great resource to use as I can add to it over time and go back to the project if I want to. 

Link: http://uk.pinterest.com/rubymillard/patchwork-fragmented-images/ 

Task 5 is about creating a longer experience of landscape….

Transition project tasks - Book Borrowing And Buying

The first book I have chosen to look at is a digital guide to photography. It tells you what lenses are suitable for certain subject arias, what lighting you will need and helps with ideas for a range of different projects. The book also has something about editing pictures on Photoshop on pretty much every page. This is quite an important area of photography for me to look at, as I prefer to add effects to pictures when I physically am taking them; it may be good for me to attempt some other methods on Photoshop. Overall it’s a great thing for me to have a look at as it will help me develop my skills in the subject.

The second book I have chosen to look at is ‘The Electric Image – Chris Kitze’. I picked it up purely because of its name. I’m usually a fan of film and black and white photography so I decided to look at something that was its opposite. The book itself is really well made; its bound with white thread and the outer cover is hard shiny card. When you look inside it greats you with pages of transparent paper covered in computer code, which I really like because it’s stylized. The images themselves remind me of light trail photography. They have the same colors and flow, it’s as if the trails came to life and created a city together.

Examples: 

Transition project tasks - Innovative photography techniques

Panoramic photography has been around for a while but some photographers have started to explore full rotation panoramic into a circular shape. It can make pictures look like they are from a different part of the universe or like you’ve fallen upside down off a chair and remember the whole journey. There known as ‘Little Planets’ or ‘Tiny Planets’ and I think that’s a perfect description of them. Its one of my favorite techniques that I’ve seen because it takes time to closely look at it and appreciate it for what it is.

Examples: 

These are images that I have found from doing a basic Google search as I’ve struggled to find a photographer that’s had a project exclusively using this technique. My favorite is the last picture of the beach because on one side is a road and on the other the sea. Over the ‘Tiny Planet’ is a plain that I think is brilliant and really makes it look as if the ground holds its self.

Transistion project tasks - Popular Photography Techniques

High-speed photography records fast moving objects and can show an audience things that aren’t normally visible to the naked eye. Photographers will shorten the shutter speed and use a flash to achieve the images.  People have shot apples being smashed and documented how they burst apart, water balloons have been popped with pins and animals shaking there wet fur dry. I think it’s quite a popular thing to do because the results can be striking. Sports photographers use high-speed photography for fast pace motor races. Scientists use it to look at gravitational effects and surface tension. High-speed photography is used by a wide range of artists to show things in a different and rarely explored form. 

Example:

Photographer Perou went to Mukuru, Nairobi to help photograph the charity Oxfam’s water and sanitation project. A group of volunteers set up a make shift studio in a village and threw water up in the air over the children that lived there. I think the set of images make a serious situation quite joyful and it’s as if it has given then children a break from reality for a while. It might numb the reality for people living in western countries such as the US, Sweden, France and the UK; but it gives the charity a positive outlook, which will attract people and encourage them to donate. Pictures of happy children make the charity look like they are improving the lives of the families, which they are.

The pictures themselves are full of energy. They have been captured at high speed in order to retain the natural movement of the water and the children simultaneously. The blue color choice of the background may represent clean water and be to be bold and to attract people. 

More information about the shoot: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/blogs/2013/08/a-day-with-perou