Collection of 1 persons GCSE Art Photography Coursework

Mark 76Grade A/A*

Close Ups

• It looks like small images appearing bigger than normal

• You create one by zooming in very closely to focus on a small subject.

• I like Macro Photography because it shows fine details that would be otherwise unnoticed.

1. Use a ring flash or twin lite flash when shooting macroHaving the ability to keep the shutter speed at a fast 1/200th of a second allowed me to capture the moving insect sharply. It also allowed me to hand hold the camera without the use of a tripod2. Learn to focus manually As the hoverfly was constantly moving, I found turning off the lens AF (automatic focus) function made the job so much easier3. Learn to be patient4. Crop images tight for online viewing5. Try extension tubes6. Set shots up7. Use a tripod if you cannot shoot faster than the length of your lens.8. Just because your macro lens can shoot with an aperture of f/2.8 doesn’t mean you should

use it9. When shooting macro, shutter speed is more important than ISO.10. Learn to see11. Never give up. If you don’t photograph the shot you initially want, that’s ok.12. Make good use of backlight

Macro Photography: Top Tips and Techniques

• 13. Make good use of morning sunlight to capture detail not seen otherwise.

• 14. You do need to be careful not to capture lens flare though. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Trying numerous angles also helps to find the best position.

• 15. Continuous shooting is good when capturing movement shots

What 3 words describe any Macro Close Up Photography?Detailed, magnified and intriguing. Why is it important to have similar collections of objects to photograph?To have many examples of similar things helps identify strengths and weakness in the way the photos are taken.Can you describe a Macro Photo?A Macro Photo is a photo that has been magnified to show fine details that otherwise would not be seenWhy do Artists create Macros?To show intricate details that would be missed on the first glance.Why are Macros nice to look at?They Show fine details than otherwise would be missed How can a Macro be manipulated to show a message or meaning?By making the focus be on something personal or something happening in the world at the moment What effect do Macros, Close ups have on the audience?Makes the audience appreciate the small details in everyday life

Miki Asai

Miki’s macro photography focuses on the beauty of water droplets, and plays with colour and reflections with the effect of creating delicate images. I like her work because her focus of nature brings out soft coloured lighting that compliments her photos. This is something id like to use as well.

Niko Vass

Niko’s photography uses minimalism, bold colours and careful composition to set his portfolio apart from other macro photographers. The main subject of his work is often a single water drop. I like his use of minimalism to highlight the subject of each photos, where he also blurs anything irrelevant in the photo. Id like to adapt the way he displays his backgrounds.

Corrie White

“I can make liquids dance!” says Corrie’s profile. And that’s certainly true. These splendid high speed shots have frozen colourful liquids into sculptures. I like the way she capture the smoke and water and how she makes each photo make colourful and ecstatic as the last. I would like the experiment using colour in her style for my own photos.

Juliana Nan

Her work uses lots of soft and pastel colours and give the audience a feeling of calmness. I like her use of colours and how they focus of photos is sharp while everything else is blurred. I would like to adapt her use of colours into my own work.

Skulls

Used Filter-Stylize-Wind-(Stagger-From The Left)-Invert

Used Filter-Stylize-Find Edges

Used Filter-Stylize-Trace Contour-Invert

Crop-Stylize-Emboss

In todays lesson, we took macro photos of items located around the room such as coins and rope. We even sprayed water onto windows and took photos of how the light filtered through afterwards.

Texture Carousel

CropFilter-Stylize-Find Edges

Extrude

12-5-15

14-5-15

Homework-Texture Macro

Crop

Homework-Macro Food

Ansel Adams

Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist. His black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park, have been widely reproduced on calendars, posters, and books.

With Fred Archer, Adams developed the Zone System as a way to determine proper exposure and adjust the contrast of the final print. The resulting clarity and depth characterized his photographs.

The things I like about his photographs is his application if the Zone system, which bring out all the lighter shades to be seen more clearly, which would have easily gone unnoticed without. This gives his work more of art like feel, as they look more like they are drawings.

Rinko Kawauchi

Rinko Kawauchi Hon FRPS, born 1972, is a Japanese photographer. Her work is characterized by a serene, poetic style, depicting the ordinary moments in life.

What I like about her photographs is that all her subjects are just normal life, things that could simply gone uncaptured because of the mundane of it. She captures things as if normalcy is alien and she makes the onlooker see the beauty in simple and feel happy at the joy seen in unchanging normalcy.

Edward WestonEdward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1, 1958) was a 20th-century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers…"

With Weston’s use of lighting and black and white contrast, the subjects of his work give a feeling of loneliness and sadness, which is put simply down the colours he has used.

Homework- Macro Flowers

Homework- Macro Flowers

Flower Classwork

EXPERIMENTATION IN FILTER GALLERY

Inverted Version

DISTORTION

Illuminous Inversion

Variants

What do I mean by “framing” your macro images?Making the whole photo fill the frame without any blank spaces,

List 3 ways you could make your framing more interesting and creative?Angles, colours, blur technique.

What techniques could you use to make your work more visually interesting when photographing something mundane and ordinary?Juxtaposition , such as the flowers and skulls in Georgia O'Keeffe's work. Could also blur photo to give the photos more ethereal vibes. Could also use different angles to make the photo more interesting

Gradient used to darken the edges and make the subject more vibrant.

Gradient used on onside to symbolise death as the flower faces outwards to represent life

High Pass at 97.7

Turned photo black and white before using exposure

Used tilt shift downwards to highlight the flowers’ centre

Turned photo to black and white then brought the contrast and exposure levels down low

Inspired by Edward Weston’s work

Zoom Burst effect

Blurred the photo put duplicated the layer beforehand and then cleared it so the original photo shows the flowers in focus

Portraits

Formal – photos with purpose or meaning. Staged and the photos have an content to convey a message.

Informal- a unstaged photos that capture the moment. Sometimes the subjects are unaware of the photo being taken.

My own caricature

David Hockney

I would describe his work sort off abstract like and shows different emotions through his collages because of the time between each photo in the collage taken.

He is known for joining a number photos together to create one collage piece.

Gwon Osang

His style is very weird and odd but his sculptures are very lifelike and three dimensional, much unlike regular photos. I think the photographer did this on purpose to make his work come to life and be more real.

Gwon Osang Sculpture of David Hockney

Amanda Clyne

I like this artists work as I think her work reflects mirrors and each photo layered over the top of each other shows different sides of the subject face and personality. She shows the subject with never the same two expressions and uses her subject to a full advantage.

Experiment using photo joiningTaking separate photos of the same subject then layer the same features on top of each other creates a photo like Amanda Clyne’s

Transformation-Symmetry

These symmetrical portraits by Julian Wolkenstein I think were made to show the subjects “best side”.

When making the face symmetrical

Copy one half of the photo onto another layer and then flipping it to make it a mirror image of the original layer

Francis Bacon

I think his work is really weird. All his portraits are twisted and demonized and no longer resemble the human face, this could suggest that Bacon was more interested in the darker side of human nature.

Wes Naman

I like how the artists has distorted the subjects faces natural and without using edits. I like this because the photos feel more authentic and original. Some of the subjects have normal poses of smiles but other have experimented with poses and make up.

To create similar photos To Wes Naman I would have close up shots of peoples face creating different emotions with either the subjects or the background with a colour corresponding to said emotions. The subjects hair would either be tied up or slicked back so their hair colour/style would not be the focus of the photo.

Pop Art Research

Andy Warhol was famous for his Pop Art movement. The style he did was layered and he did not contain his colours in the lines.

Pop Art

Pop Art Finished Pieces

Typography Research – Pinterest

Words and Portraits – Pinterest

Faces Homework

Companionship

Sandra Eleta

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Dorothea Lange

My Companion photos

My Manipulations

Further Manipulations

Landscapes by Henry Bedford

A forestSnow Ice/frostWater ReflectionNatureTrees/sticks/twigs

Bits of greensWhiteBrownCloudy grey

• Camera- tripod- aerial camera• Photoshop• Internet/ Computer• Phones/Ipad• Cable• Apps

Clock close-up

Camera tilted on its side

View through window on to a window

Close up on computer

Blurred background

Slight blur

These photos all look like they were taken on the same day at the same place. The sky is dark at the forefront and lighter the farther away it is. There is also a view of green and yellow fields and plenty of trees. All the photos have three layers.

The first photo has a close up on the grass making the grass bigger in proportion but it is also taken at an angle that includes another two layers even though the main photo focus is the grass. n

I have chosen these photos as a good example of layers. The one above has good proportion as it shows the sky as large and the layer below small.

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Experiment

Hue/SaturationVibrancy

Colour BalanceBlack and White

This photo is of a red door and slightly shows its surroundings. I picked it because I liked the shade of red the door is painted. I don’t like that is shows other thing than the door because it distracts the main focus of the photo. A way I could think of improving this is to have the door the main focus and maybe the blur the rest of the photo.

• I think assessment objective 1 means to better understand things through research and see the emotional and social side to a picture. To show the examiner I can do this I could take photos of what may look ordinary places but are special to me and research different ideas behind photos like that.

• I can receive up to 20 Marks for this part of my coursework and mock exam

Sophie Baker

Frederick Church (Painter)

Gustav Willeit

Mountains mirrored in the water

Mirrored image

Manipulated

Natural

Traci Griffin

Manipulated mirrored imagery

Manipulating Symmetry Own Photo

Mirrored the image Flipped one way

Oblivious changes

Subtle changes

Erased Path

Added level

Double posts

Double blurred houses

I like panoramas because they show mass amounts of space and land and can show natural landscape beauty.Landscapes are used to give an almost 360 view of a landscape so the viewer feels more immersed in the photo, as if they are there themselves.

Panorama

Richard Silver

Fong Qi Wei

The photographer took several photos of the exact same place but at different times of the day. He then made a collage of these photos. He uses shapes such as rectangles and circles to cut up his photos and then selects a certain point of interest and build his words up from there, adding each shaped photos onto of one point. He also used the technique of building from light to dark and vice versa so his photos get gradually darker from the middle or gradually lighter. He used the shape (circle) because its smallest circle is a sunrise/sunset and the circle cut matches it.

Panorama shots

Use two layers and changed the colours of one layer. Then cloned the colours into places I thought would both stand out and be subtle.

• Panorama are used to create a more 3D looking world in photographs, to make the photo that is being viewed look more realistic and give the viewer a feeling of being immersed in the photograph.

Worlds

CoaL MINING thing

Remembrance

Photos edited by ,me.

• Why do photographer use black and white photography?

I think they use it to set a mood to a certain image. It gives a vintage or retro look to the photo and by taking away the colour it can be interpreted in a different way.

Black and White Photography

Ansel AdamsWithout using colour in his work , Ansel Adams make us look at photos differently. Instead of looking for how the colours complement each other, our attention is drawn to the texture and the shades of light and dark that the environment gives off.

I like his work because I think instead of just looking at the photo we get a feel for it instead.

Zone system by Ansel Adams

The Zone System is a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development, formulated by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer.The Zone System provides photographers with a systematic method of precisely defining the relationship between the way they visualize the photographic subject and the final results. Although it originated with black-and-white sheet film, the Zone System is also applicable to roll film, both black-and-white and color, negative and reversal, and to digital photography.

Photos by me

T-Shirt Research

I would give myself a B for my work this term. I tried use my own photos for manipulation but most of the I didn’t. I did all my research and my homework to the best of my abilities.

AO1GATHERING

AO2DEVELOPING

AO3QUALITY

AO4RESPONSE

TOTAL

GRADE

YOU

19 /20

15/20

10/20

13/20

57/80

DML

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Now mark your work (use instinct/memory – don’t get your work out!!!!)

What next? Give three suggestions of how this project could be improved.

1. Improve my framing because I take photos on funny angles2. Try to use my own photos more3. Research using various sources not just the one

Quotes

In this one I like the filter and lighting.

This is a selfie taken by the cast of the walking dead.

Animal selfies

• I agree with selfies because it is a way sometimes un-harmful way of expressing ourselves. Its kinda like saying and expressing how good you feel about your self and loving yourself and I think that’s something most young folk don’t have these days so I think selfies are a positive thing.

“Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there , and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something” – Chuck Palahniuck

Words to describe my parents:• Easy to deceive• Sometimes helpful• Sometimes okay• Lots of fighting• Lots of shouting

• I think Landscapes are about showing a dense amount of land all at once where no detail is needed.

Experimentation using same place different time photos (not my own). Using tools to cut and paste to merge all the times together.

Circular

rectangle

Diagonal

By cutting and pasting different section of the photo on top of itself and then only inverting certain layer the image takes inspiration from Maria da Silva

In these images the images that have not been inverted have been rotated 180 degrees

Matt Molloy

Manipulation in molly’s style

Molloy’s Piece

Black and White Landscapes

By layering a colour photo over the filtered image, it creates a new photo when the layer settings are changed

Use the elliptical marquee tool to make a circle around the image and then copy and past the inside of the circle. The Next step is to rotate the circle 180 degrees

By using Filter Gallery- Stamp turns to separate circle black and white. Then I merged the layers so it was all one image

Next I used the High Pass filter to change the effects on the image

Variant using different filters

Final Image

Architecture

Dystopian Books

Dystopia and Utopia

This piece was inspired by a book called The Giver by Lois Lowry. The book starts off as a utopia but as the novel progresses the main characters reveals the world to be more dystopian. The characters in the book do not see colours nor have emotions, apart from the main character, Jonas, who is given emotions and colours from the title character , The Giver. The piece is red because that is the first colour Jonas sees.

Homework- Looking Down

John Piper

• The subject of many of his painting include landscape and buildings such as churches.

• The effects the painting has on me is that they are rather eerie and spooky.

• The Colours used include are very dark and complimentary such as blacks and reds.

• The use of lighting includes shadows and lots of darkness but also specks of bright colours and soft lighting.

Hense aka Alex Brewer

Commissioned work for Atlanta BeltLine

I like Hense’s work because he uses mundane buildings that are involved in everyday life and instead of keeping them boring , he uses bright colours and over lapping patterns to make the buildings eye-catching and intriguing.

Inspired by the work of HENSE

Roland HalbeWorking independently since 1988, Roland Halbe started out shooting commercial architecture, but quickly became one of the most recognized professionals in architecture photography, earning international commissions from architects, agencies and all kinds of media outlets.

In 1996 he co-founded Artur Images, an online archive of architecture and interior images, representing over 200 photographers from all over the world including, of course, himself.

I like Halbe’s work because he uses block colours and interesting angles to create serene and minimalistic images that are pleasing to view. I want adapt his use of lighting to use in my own work.

Connie Zhou

Zhou bases her angles on the lines of the environment to create stunning visuals. The photos are normally one colour, usually monochrome palettes are used, but when using colours her work is very pleasing to look at.

Andy Marshallhttp://www.andymarshall.co/#!/index

Maria Helena Viera da Silva

Da Silva uses lines in her work to present multiple perspectives of the same scene

Using Da Silva’s StyleUsing the Polygonal Lasso Tool I created triangle shapes within the image and then inverted the colour in the triangles

When inverting over a n already inverted image, the resultant image will return to its original colours

By cutting and pasting different section of the photo on top of itself and then only inverting certain layer the image takes inspiration from Maria da Silva

In these images the images that have not been inverted have been rotated 180 degrees

Bridget Riley

Bright block colours and optical illusions with lines leave a lasting image of minimalist and simplicity.

Using Bridget Riley’s Style

Using the rectangular marquee tool I selected horizontal and vertical rectangles then inverted them. Next used the polygonal lasso tool to create triangles ands them inverted them into Bridget Riley’s style

Most of the photos have a blue hue because the camera was using a setting we were not able to undo

Copy the image and flip it to make it look symmetrical

Photo was taken with a blue filter

Apply this to one of the halves

Variations

More variations in the style of Maria Helena da la Silva

Photo taken with a blue filter

Duplicated and mirrored image

Duplication of the left three images

Variant

‘Fantastic’- Google Search

‘Strange’ – Google Search

Mari MahrChile 1941She now lives and works in London and Berlin

Flowers Covering Faces- Google Search

Jerry Uelsmann USA 1941

Igor MorskiPoland 1960

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=igor+morski&client=tablet-android-lenovo&hl=en-GB&biw=800&bih=757&prmd=inv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAUQ_AUoAWoVChMIpeLx69azyAIVxVkaCh31Hg-3

Double exposure

Michal Karcz

A selection of creations by Michal Karcz, a talented Polish photographer fascinated from an early age by painting and photography. With digital retouching, Michal Karcz turns his photographs into beautiful landscapes, strange and fantastic, at the edge of dream. His work appeals to be because he combines normally mundane landscapes to creative scenes that look like they come straight of a science fiction novel.

Mirror Inspiration

My PhotosMy Photos

In The Style of Mari Mahr

Final version

Double Exposure with own photos

Colour Dodge

Lighten

Hard Light Linear Light

Subtract

In the style of Michal Karcz

Layer 1

Layer 2

Experimenting Michal Karcz’s Style

Background edited out by the eraser tool before placing the photo on the layer below

Layer 1

Layer 2

BaseLAYER 1

Layer 2

Inspired by :

Constructing Multi-Layered Photos

Resu

lting

Imag

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Copy, pasted, and flipped the image horizontally to create a mirror image of the original.

VARIANT IM

AGEUsed colour balance on each crown of flowers to make the flowers distinct to the picture

MirrorPhotos

Further Experimentation

Eyes on separate layer and colours changed to purple before inversion

InvertedInversion

Filled the trees in with the sky

Used the clone tool to blend the colours together for a more natural look and subtle changes

Variant Style

Creating Clouds

Variants from Filter Gallery

The eye and the flower are compressed into one layer then duplicated. The copy layer is then rotated 180 degrees and moved below the original photo to create a mirror image. The cop image is then flipped horizontally to it is an exactly mirror and fits up to the original. Next the layers are merged to create one photo.

Variants

Duplication

Hue/SaturationKeeping the eyes on a separate means each eye’s colour can be changed individually

Double ExposureUSING OWN PHOTOS

TWO LAYER DOUBLE EXPOSURE

Further Development

Experimenting with Double Exposure

By changing the colour fill layer from the normal white to an intense red, it gives the double exposure photo another layer of colour which adds to the emotion of the photo and it leaves a more vivid reminder in the viewer’s head.

Changing The Colour Layer

Changing The Colour Layer Part 2

Double Exposure: Gradient

My Final Piece

Do I need to do more prep work? I need to learn new ways to experiment and manipulate photos in PhotoshopDo I need to take more photos?YesDo I need to do more research to get ideas?Yes I need to research more into artists who interest meDo I need to develop my ideas more?ProbablyDid I use my time well?Not reallyHow can I use the time better?By knowing more techniques in Photoshop, I can only hope to improveDo I need to re-order my slides so that I can see my own journey?No because I already do that

Mock Exam reflection