Digital Solarisation

Solarisation is photography term in which the image recorded on a negative or on a photographic print is partially reversed in the way it looks. Dark areas appear light or light areas appear dark.

Firstly to create this image we had to upload an image to photoshop that I thought would work quite well with this effect. I chose this image of the Orbit in the Olympic/Paralympic park. 

Once it was uploaded into photoshop I made the picture black and white, so it would work perfectly with the solarisation effect. Then I added curves into the photo to get a more realistic effect of the solarised outcome.

Then I added a lot more curves into the black and white photograph, this was the final out come. I really like the digital effect that is shown, because it looks sort of authentic and different to any other images I've seen using the Solarisation effects. Also when you look at the photograph is looks more eye-catching as a solarised image than a normal photo in my opinion. >>

After making the final outcome of the solarised image, I played around with the different effect and came across a effect that added 3 different colours to the image. I used the solarised image to added the colours because i thought it would work better with a edited picture. The two outcomes are below.   

Leslie David Inspired Work

Leslie David is one artist/photographer that incorporates paint and photos together to get a unique image. Here are two examples of her work using portraiture and landscape. 

Here are my experimentations of her work.

Ideas for first roll of Film

This was my idea spider diagram for my first roll of film to shoot. I thought about the different locations, shot types and lighting. The place i went to were around where i live, crystal palace park, croydon and beckenham. 

Formative Feedback & Target Setting

My target for this year is going to be to write more in-depth analysis about different artist and photographers to try and get the highest possible grade.  I feel I am able to achieve this target by choosing different artist and photographers to talk about and all about there work and how it inspires me to experiment with my work. 

Darkroom experiments

VIGNETTE

Here are some experiments that I worked with in darkroom using Vignette effect, highlighting areas of interest, and pressing printing.  

The Vignette effect is easy to accomplish as all you needed was to fold a black piece if paper in half and cut an oval shape in the folded crease. Once you had done that you the place the paper over your image or hover the paper above it in the darkroom to create the effect perfectly. I choose an negative image that I thought would work quite well as the house was the centre of attention.

HIGHLIGHTING AREAS

The next experiment I did in the darkroom was highlighting. This meant making a double exposure. By using a coin on a part of a particular to make it lighter than the rest of the image. You firstly get the correct exposure and time fro you print then reduce the time by half. Expose the image for half the time, after place a coin on your chosen area of interest, then expose the print for the remaining time. Place it in the develop until the photo is developed. The images I picked where to houses with Mini Coopers outside of them. I thought the cars and the lamppost would be a good area of interest to use. 

I really liked this effect so i decided to choose a different image and a ring to highlight the area. The image i choose was a stature of Joseph Paxton who built the Crystal Palace glass building. I added a moustache ring to the face. I feel it gave a little humour to the final outcome. 

PRESS PRINTING

Finally these images I used the effect of press printing. This meant that  I processed the photograph as normal by instead putting the whole piece of paper into the developer i paced an patterned objected in the liquid and pressed in on to the photo. I used a paint brush to dribble onto the photograph to create a different effect as well. Of course i waited until i was happy with the amount of image available to see and continued with the normal process. 

ENHANCED IMAGE - DIGITAL MANIPULATION

For some more experimentation work, we were asked to follow four tutorials on how to enhance photographs using different manipulation techniques. These effects were called Vignette, Instagram Nashville, The Ultimate Lomo and finally the HDR effect on Adobe Photoshop.

Firstly we have the Vignette effect, this constrains the image so that the edges around the main part of the picture is slightly black, giving all the attention to the centre part of the photo. I feel that the picture that I have used works really well with the Vignette effect. The reason why I decided to choose this photo of the Olympic/Paralympic flame for this digital manipulation was because of how powerful the photograph was on its own, but by just adding a tiny bit extra it make the image become more eye-catching, and worth having a second glade at it.  

This was the second 

photograph that I digitally manipulated was using the Instagram Nashville effect. Everyone has seen Instagram photos either on Facebook or Twitter and they all seem to like the effect that it does to the picture. Out of all the photos that I have taken of architecture I feel as if this photo of the Orbit in the Olympic Park, was the best one that would work well with the Nashville technique. The technique was very understandable, because the set of instructions were easy to follow about how to create the final outcome. I love how the red of the building is really bright and dominates the picture. This stands out quite a lot and it is very eye-catching. Also I really love the Nashville effect because even though everyone is using this way of changing the photo only recently, you can still can get a vintage style look photo. 

Next, I then had to recreate the Ultimate Lomo effect which I found the most difficult to master. I found that even with the different photos that I choose to work with this effect, I still didn't like how the final outcome came out. The photo that I finally choose was of the BasketBall arena in the Olympic/Paralympic park, with lots people walking past it. As for the first experiment i used the Vignette effect to create some of the black edges around the original picture, then on photoshop I played around with the different settings such as brightness/contrast, levels and curves to get an unusual result. It does look very effective when you look at it because of how white the building is and how detailed the people walking by are in contrast to the arena as well. 

The final experiment using digital manipulation was HDR effect, I also like this effect because it is very detailed and very clever in the way that it brought the different tones of the original photograph. In Photoshop I made a duplicate copy of the original image and depicted the mid-tones, hight-lights and shadows in the picture. I also adjusted the contrast and saturation in the image to get a better image. I really wanted to experiment with using the shadows and highlights so that it would bring the best out of the picture. Near the end of the HDR manipulation effect, I wanted to add a little bit of colour into it, by doing this it meant that I was making the picture a hint of one particular colour. I choose to go for a little bit of orange. My decision for this was because, when took this photo it was a hot summers day in the Olympic/Paralympic park, with lots of being walking around seeing this one lifetime oppatunity. Also in the background you can see the Velodrome. 

3 in-depth analysis.

Mood Board

1. Nina Chakrabati
2. Florian Imgrund
3. Dan Mountford
4. Suzy Allman
5. Chantal Rens
6. Leslie David
7. Pierre Cordier
8. Carlos Lopez
9. Bjork Vesperting Album
10. Julie Cockburn
11. James Gallagher
12. Michelle Thompson

The Enhanced Image Project - Architecture

This project brief is called 'The Enhanced Image Project'. The project is about following a chosen theme throughout the unit of coursework. This is by enhancing images with different experimentations and methods. The theme I have chosen is Architecture. This is following on the lines of the AS to A2 project and the summer homework. 

Portrait to Architecture

To start my AS to A2 project I decided I was going to based my project around Portraiture, however I found that a little bit difficult to develop further, so I changed my idea half way through to go on to Architecture. I feel I may achieve more in this theme than portraiture. 

SUMMER WORK

SUMMER WORK

1. Photo Collage
2. William Hatch Crosby
3. Amy Friend
4. Greg Sand
5. Rebecca Crew
6. Stacey Page
7. Stephen J Shanabrook

Stephen J Shanabrook

The final the artist that was very inspiring and yet very unusual was Stephen J Shanabrook, who squashes, folds and flattens photograph to get a distorted image. I chose two portrait images to distort. With the first photograph i rolled it around a glue stick to get a curved outcome, then ripped the edges to get another effect. For the second image i screwed up the images and put it under something quite heavy, so that once it was opened up again it would have lots of different fold marks, which gave the portrait a creative effect. I would like to make a few more images in this sort of way because it is easy to do and very effective. 

Stacey Page

Stacey Page is another artist that experiments with photos and embellishing them with embroidery thread, making images becoming more textured and more dominant when you look at it. For my inspire piece I used an portrait image of myself and added coloured thread to the facial features and a boarded. I found the process of threading through paper quite easy but got tiring after a while. I like the effect that it gives to the final image, as it different to to anything that I've seen before.