Inspiring Photographer

The photographer that inspires me is Barnaby Aldrick. He specialises UrbEx photography, which is photography of old industrial buildings, hospitals and asylums, that have shut down. His work stands out to me particularly becuase of how he mixes the UrbEx style with a light trail technique. In the photo bellow he states:

"I then decided to have a wee dance with my torch, over a 30 second exposure.  I love the way the torch patterns are reflected on the floor."



The reason I enjoy his work and would like to pass on some aspects to mine is because I think it's really unique and adds an aspect of beauty to these run down old buildings. The second reason is because I like the creepy feel that his work has to it. The main idea of photography is to trigger emotions and by invoking fear or unease, that's just what it does.

The Truth Behind Education

The objective given to us was to "Create a collage of B&W still photographs around the theme of education".

Our initial idea is to show the truth behind school and education in the form of a narrative. It's to show what really goes on in lessons instead of what parents and other adults actually expect. We're going to show three photographs that relate to each other. They will be periodically consecutive. Our brief idea at the moment is to show first a teacher preparing for a lesson, then how the lessons really turns out and finally the teachers reaction to the lesson.
First the teacher will be at a desk surrounded with papers, have a powerpoint open and basically planning the lesson for the next day. The teacher appears very stressed.
The second photo will be of the actual class taking place. The previously mentioned powerpoint will be up on the whiteboard while to teacher is shouting at students who are throwing paper, on their phones and messing around.
The last photo is the same as the second except the class is empty and the teacher has her head against the desk, worn out.

Photographic Film

Photographic Film on Prezi

By Lewis Woods and Rianna Dulake

Photo's depicting Conflict

Our task was to find a photo that depicted 'conflict'. These are my two photos.

This photo was taken for obvious reasons. It is an aerial view of tarmac next to a white tile. It looks like the darker side is trying to break through to the lighter side. It could be a representation of darkness breaking into light or trying to take it over. The dirt or dark in the middle looks slightly grey, mixing the two or shows them conflicting, looking for power over the other.

This photo shows a tall natural structure against a tall man-made structure, looking as if they are fighting for power. It makes more of an impact as the background are purely white clouds and the natural feature is dark and the man-made feature is more coloured. This strongly opposes popular stereotypes of nature v man-made. The two seem to be in conflict over who is taller and more important.

Photo Montage Project - Light.

Original Idea:


Our original idea was just to have the sub-theme of 'reflection', but as we progressed we realised there was a lot of correlation between the photo's leading us to decided upon 'reflection in light and darkness'. I first imagined the pieces having a mainly warmness or soft feeling about the photos. In terms of content, subject and form, I imagined water trickling gently with a glint of light reflecting off it slightly. The form being nice smooth objects emitting a warm glow of light. Finally, the subject being anything that produces a reflection such as water, metal, the moon and glass. Our original audience was a large variety, from people who can appreciate planned out photography, to people who just enjoy seeing a sight.

Production:


For my original idea, I were going to take a photo of the moon, as it reflects the suns light but coincidentally, it were the time of the month where to moon could not be seen. But even more coincidentally, when I were out with friends, I noticed cobwebs reflected by the sun. I noted down the time and returned the next day with my camera. I took various photos and decided on one. The subject of the photo dramatically changed from the moon, to the cobwebs, which in my opinion has more of a feel or impact to it rather than the moon everyone has seen. The form changed from the soft glow of the moon to the sharp reflection of the light. The cobwebs have more of an impact on people who can look past a picture rather than just try and guess what it is.

Exhibition:


At first I envisioned our photo's being displayed in pairs, one light and one dark, in a powerpoint presentation. But after a short talk with my group, I realised that they would need to be shown individually before being shown together. I believe you get to focus more on each photo rather than the one that stands out more when they are shown separately. This gives the viewer more chance to truly appreciate the originally not so striking images. To conclude what generally people think more about of the photos, we did a small research including six people; three interested in art and three not interested in art. The conclusion of the research gave us reliable accurate results proving that people who appreciate art or are interested in it could define the themes of our photos and the others could not.





This is our finished product.

Photography Light/ Reflection Project on Prezi

Idea's for our project.

For our photographic project on light, we had a sub-theme, reflection. We chose this as there are inifite possibilities and the photos you can take look amazing. We had many different variations and ideas of pictures, but we had to scrap most of them and just choose th best four. This was difficult as many of the photos we had to scrap were really nice. We also have another sub-theme, light and dark. Of the photo's we kept, two are in natural light and two are in the darkness. These were the main themes and ideas of our photos.

Subject, Content and Form.

Subject - The thing or person you show when taking the photograph. The main object in the photo.

Content - What is actually included within the photo. Including subject, scenery, camera angle, styles and effects. It's what we can see and decipher.

Form - How you define the object in the picture. For example, if you were taking a picture of a person, it would be their posture or the outlines of the body on the photo.

Light!

Light is an extremely important aspect in photography, a badly lighted photograph can ruin the best of ideas. Well lighted photographs can look absolutely amazing and stun whoever see's it.

Light is electromagnet radiation of which can be detected by the human eye. It is made up of 7 colours of which create the electromagnet spectrum. Light is sent out and received in 'packets' called photons and travels as waves.

What makes a photograph, a photograph?

A photograph can be many things. It could be a snapshot of friends in a park. It could be of your family on holiday in a group. It could be a massive landscape. It can be anything you want it to be. But what all of the aforementioned photographs share in common is the fact that they all have a purpose, they all have meaning. For every photograph you, me, or anyone on Earth takes, there is a meaning. And having a meaning is what makes a photograph, a photograph.

All photos are taken and uploaded by me.