Shooting Plan

Here is my shooting plan for my first roll of film. It shows lots of ranges of building/houses and also cars. hopefully I will be able to successfully take images like these sketches. 

7 Day Photo Challenge

day 1: a house

day 2: your shoes

day 3: from a high angle

day 4: from a low angle

day 5: something blue

day 6: time

day 7: people

Idea Mood Board

Here are some photographers that I like and have inspired me for my personal project. 

1. http://www.behance.net/gallery/Girlography/229841
2. http://benthompsonphotography.com/photo_3540343.html
3. http://www.ethnotraveler.com/2012/08/more-little-dramas-more-little-nuances/
4. http://www.horsthamann.com/
5. http://www.flickr.com/photos/wecand/4174747991/sizes/o/in/photostream/
6. http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2012/04/04/7-night-photography-tips-for-the-architectural-photographer/
7. http://www.lourdas.co.uk/exterior_architectural_photography_london.html
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Idea sheets

Personal Project - 3 x Indepth Analysis

Here are my three in depth analysis of different photographic genres.

Personal Project - Mind Map

Personal Project Brief

Here is the Personal Project brief. The brief is basically explaining what we have to achieve using different techniques and materials. As my theme is Architecture I want to take a range of photographers.

Thinking Ahead....

Thinking ahead to the next project that is THE PERSONAL PROJECT. The project has to relate to the last project, so in my mind an the moment i may use the different techniques and experiments that I came across. I really liked the contrast of the Darkroom experiments and the digital experiments, so maybe that could be a possible area to delve into a little bit more.   

Changes to Final Outcome

For my final outcome, I made smaller version of the cutouts and placed them on a coloured background. As I placed them down on the coloured paper, and looked at it from a distance I it didn't really work well as I thought. So rearranged my final outcome and made some of the cutouts slightly bigger, getting a range of small and big popup designs. 

Evaluation of Final Outcome

Our project brief was to choose a particular area of photography that really interested us. I choose Architecture because I thought it would be a good opportunity to see different buildings, houses and statues around London and where I live. When I first heard of this project, my plan was to make my theme about Portraiture. However with different experiments that I created with portraits, I felt that it didn't really work well with he experiments, so i changed it to Architecture. The title of this particular project was called The Enhanced Image, this is meant by using different techniques or different experiments working well with the photographs we would going to take.

My creative journey through this project was starting off with a theme that i really wasn't happy with continuing with that theme, so i decided to change it to Architecture as i found that it was easy but more challenging to create more experiments with. When i finally changed my theme, i found that the experiment that i came across were a lot more exciting and more appealing. From start to finish of my ideas for my final project changed quite a bit from Portrait to Architecture, double exposures to 3D design. The research I did into the artist and photographers were very helpful because they gave me the opportunity to explore different techniques and making my outcome unique.

The artist and photographers that inspired me the most were Markus Kison and Leslie David. 

Markus Kison is a artist that i discovered in the AS to A2 project. He is an artist that takes photographs of people or buildings, then makes them into a pop-up design. This means that he cuts around the figure and pushes up the cut out image so it is standing. After that he takes photos of the 3D design in different angles to get a very professional outcome.  The other artist that I looked into was Leslie David. She is an artist and photographer that takes photos of buildings and people, then adds a splash of colour to the picture. When I say she adds colour to the image, i mean she puts paint onto the image and with an object rather than a paint brush she squishes the paint onto a part of the photo, giving the paint a detail and raised effect. My main focus was of course making pop-up photos with the Black and White prints then a small amount of detail went into making digital photos more effective with the paint. 

In my opinion, I think what i have done well is explored many different experiments digital and hand made techniques. I feel that the final outcome of my work was good. However I feel I could of put a little bit more effort into making the final design. This is because i felt like it was a last minute decision to add David's work into Kison's, as i felt i didn't do enough pop-up designs. I feel that my outcome that i did achieve was good, but if i had a clear idea in my head of the time i had i  would of worked a little bit harder to get the perfect result. 

What I know i can work on is the time issues, as i could of done with a little longer to get it they way i wanted it to me. I would of also made a lot more 3D pop-ups designs, and taken a lot more photographs of them. By having them at different angles and maybe making some digital pop-ups instead of just black and white images. 

In conclusion, i feel that i did my best to complete the Enhanced project. I loved doing all of different experiments some more than others. Working in the darkroom again with different techniques, and also a lot more digital experiments. All in all i have enjoyed this project because it has showed me that there are many way to enhance an image, some being so simple and some being very technical.   

Final Ideas...

Here above is a mind map of possible ideas for my final outcome. Underneath is a list of possible ideas that I may use to produce my final piece. I liked all of these ideas because they are very creative but one in particular appealed to me the most and hopefully the creativity of these will get me the best possible marks. 

Digital Double Exposures

For more experimental work using the effect of double exposure. I decided to make a digital double exposure, too see the comparison between darkroom and digital. 

I choose two images that i thought would work quite well together. Adjusting the opacity on one of the photographs and adding more contrast and more vibrance to the image so that you could definitely tell there were two photos in one picture. For the background picture, I ensured that I made the as contrasty as possible making all of the colours , become much more dominate and powerful. Whereas the second image i made the opacity slightly lower and make the contrast of the photo alittle sepia so it would define the difference between each layer. 

I do like this effect because it is very modern and unique but I do prefer double exposure in black and white more to digital because it you are actually make the double exposure yourself instead of letting the computer doing it.  

Creating a silhouette

After creating a sandwich print/double exposure, we then had to add a silhouette to the image. The silhouette i created was out of place paper and cut out a house, as it is related to architecture. I did like this experiment because it is very easy to complete. However, in my opinion i feel i could of made my silhouette a little more detailed and maybe choose a different sandwich print because you can really see alot of detail. All in all i feel i would like to do this experiment again because it it very imaginative and easy to complete. It also doesn't take up alot of your time once you have the correct times for the double exposed image. 

Sandwich printing

Sandwich printing is another word for double exposure in the darkroom. I basically choose two photos that i thought would work quite well together. I choose a stature and the crystal palace radio tower. I thought the outcome worked quite well, eventually. It was quite difficult to get the right times for the images because you would have to expose the piece of paper for much longer, than for just one print. 

I do like this effect, but in my opinion I feel that it is a great experiment but i would like to get the right balance of photos in the photograph. This is because my other experiment with sandwich printing didn't work out as well, this was because of the amount of detail that was in both of the images and how dark it was. However even though I do like the darkroom sandwich prints, i feel that digital double exposures are much more effective and easier to create, because you don't really need to had a correct timing or expose the negative on to photographic paper.  

Bleaching and Tie Dying prints..

For more experimental work, we were asked to bleach some photographs to get an unusual effect. I choose a black and white picture and a colour one as well. For the process of this, we had to wear rubber gloves at all times. Firstly began by added clear nail polish onto the picture in different areas of it. Then dipped the image into a bowl of bleach, then straight into water. Here are the outcomes of the bleaching process. In my opinion, if i could do it again i would be to than i had a lot more nail polish onto the black and white image because you cant really see image underneath it. However i do really like the colour image, as you can still see the picture with the bleach effect. 

Another technique was to add food dye to the black and white prints. To this photo i added green and a dark purple. I do like this effect because it was just using a paint brush to apply the colouring. In my opinion when you look at it, it sort of looks three dimensional with the blast of colour that it has on it. Even though it isn't a lot of colour, it is still very powerful and eye-catching.