Unexpected Perspectives
Looking at the world from unusual viewpoints can reveal unexpected perspectives. Ed Rusch's photographs of car parks. alexander rodchenko's observations of city streets and bill brandt's high Contrast images are all taken from unconventional viewpoints.
For this Exam topic i will be doing work for my chosen topic, unexpected perspectives and in the work for this topic i will going out and taking pictures using specific techniques suchas using camera features like panoramic's and other unique techniques to help me achieve the level of work im aiming for.
Initial Thoughts And Planning
When the choice of questions arose for me to choose from i automatically knew which suited my style of work and how i could achieve a high level of work through both quality and quantity.
My initial thoughts on this topic were that it may not be an easy task to have completed in our timeframe but reflecting on work i have now makes me think otherwise. to complete this topic i mustn't allow myself to get distracted and whatever chance i get to take pictures i will and afterward i will edit and upload to the site before the main exam starts. |
Initial Research
(The Work Of Other Photographers)
These are a series of images i collected of the exam subject i will be doing and some of these images i will try to recreate myself in photoshop and the use of Unexpected perspectives
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Research
Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment. His work has influenced many photographers.
became inspired by a 1930 photograph by Hungarian photojournalist Martin Munkacsi showing three naked young African boys, caught in near-silhouette, running into the surf of Lake Tanganyika. Titled Three Boys at Lake Tanganyika, this captured the freedom, grace and spontaneity of their movement and their joy at being alive. That photograph inspired him to stop painting and to take up photography seriously. He explained, "I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant."
became inspired by a 1930 photograph by Hungarian photojournalist Martin Munkacsi showing three naked young African boys, caught in near-silhouette, running into the surf of Lake Tanganyika. Titled Three Boys at Lake Tanganyika, this captured the freedom, grace and spontaneity of their movement and their joy at being alive. That photograph inspired him to stop painting and to take up photography seriously. He explained, "I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant."
Alexander Rodchenko: Research
Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko was a Russian artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design; he was married to the artist Varvara Stepanova.
His photography was socially engaged, formally innovative, and opposed to a painterly aesthetic. Concerned with the need for analytical-documentary photo series, he often shot his subjects from odd angles—usually high above or down below—to shock the viewer and to postpone recognition. He wrote: "One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again."
His photography was socially engaged, formally innovative, and opposed to a painterly aesthetic. Concerned with the need for analytical-documentary photo series, he often shot his subjects from odd angles—usually high above or down below—to shock the viewer and to postpone recognition. He wrote: "One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again."
Bill Brandt: Research
Bill brandt was a was a British photographer and photojournalist. Although born in Germany, Brandt moved to England, where he became known for his images of British society for such magazine as Lilliput and Picture Post, later his distorted nudes, portraits of famous artists and landscapes. He is widely considered to be one of the most important British photographers of the 20th century.
I personally like bill brandt's work because of how good his images were for the technology he had access to and this is what i want to apply to my style of work, the way he takes his images in
black & White but they come out crystal clear and the types of angles he uses on his images, for example in one image of a spiral staircase it is taken from two different floors that have a gap that allow you to see the floor between stairs.
black & White but they come out crystal clear and the types of angles he uses on his images, for example in one image of a spiral staircase it is taken from two different floors that have a gap that allow you to see the floor between stairs.
Traci Griffin:
Research
Traci Griffin is a female photographer who specialises in the art of Mirrored images and i have chosen to research her as i like how simple but beautiful some of her images are and i hope to apply this style to my work somewhere down the line.
My Unedited work
This is a collection of images i took from the top of the john lewis car park in liverpool one, i like this location particularly because it offers such potential for images across many different locations and angles and as shown in the images it is heigh enough to see over the majority of its surrounding buildings and this means that i can see things a lot of people can't.
THESE ARE SOME OF THE SPECIFICATIONS I USE ON MY CAMERA TO GET SOME OF MY IMAGES AND I LIKE THESE SETTINGS BECAUSE OF HOW THEY PROVIDE A CLEAR BUT WIDE IMAGE NOT ONLY THIS BUT I USE MY CAMERAS STABILISER FUNCTION TO HELP KEEP THE IMAGE STRAIGHT AND UN BLURRED.
Black & White Gallery of Images
Bill Brandt inspired Images (My Own Work)
these are some of the images i created in the style of Bill brandt
Rustic Images Following Bill Brandts Style (My Own Work)
Outdoor Perspectives
(My Own Work)
The images below are taken from my walk up moel famau and throughout sefton park. Bot locations i went to had their own interesting qualities that i exploited to get the image the way i needed, for example there was point up mol famau where i could overlook liverpool's river mersey and see clearly into the welsh hills and mountains. in sefton park i noticed halfway through that some of its water streams had overflowed and flooded some areas of the park and i took advantage of this by using the reflections the water was giving off.
Some Of My Unedited Work
Some Of My Edited Work
My Final Exam Work (Unexpected Perspectives)
For my exam work I will be completing work in the art of unexpected perspectives.
My idea on this topic would be to complete some images in the style of popular photographers, for example I have already created images in the style of Bill Brandt.
What I did to both capture and edit my images is that I went out into places like Sefton park to capture some outdoor wildlife perspectives through the use of reflections in water and low down shots through bushes and other shrubbery but as I entered town I had to capture a completely different set of images that I liked the look of simply because some of the angles I achieved were from the usage of a multi-story carpark and along the waterfront near the Liver Building and the Albert Dock.
Some of the images I took I really liked and thought adhered well to my style of photography consisted of when me and my dad hiked up a small mountain in wales (Moel Famau) and the views from atop were unbelievably pretty from the top. Some of the images I took I thought may not work was when I walked up near the Liverpool exhibition centre near the Echo arena on the waterfront and I think some of the images I took from there don't really work well as they don't show to much of the unexpected perspective photographs I need.
My idea on this topic would be to complete some images in the style of popular photographers, for example I have already created images in the style of Bill Brandt.
What I did to both capture and edit my images is that I went out into places like Sefton park to capture some outdoor wildlife perspectives through the use of reflections in water and low down shots through bushes and other shrubbery but as I entered town I had to capture a completely different set of images that I liked the look of simply because some of the angles I achieved were from the usage of a multi-story carpark and along the waterfront near the Liver Building and the Albert Dock.
Some of the images I took I really liked and thought adhered well to my style of photography consisted of when me and my dad hiked up a small mountain in wales (Moel Famau) and the views from atop were unbelievably pretty from the top. Some of the images I took I thought may not work was when I walked up near the Liverpool exhibition centre near the Echo arena on the waterfront and I think some of the images I took from there don't really work well as they don't show to much of the unexpected perspective photographs I need.
On this part of my page is a Contact sheet outlining a selection of images that I will be taking out of a large group and editing individually. I have selected these images specifically based on their appeal to fit into my type of editing style and what I think will look best on my website and as you can see the ones I won’t be using are crossed out and ones that I will use are circled.
B&W Vignettes
These are Images I made in the art style of bill brandt
Experimental Images
Basic Editing Styles & Techniques
Spot-Colouring
This is a breakdown of one of my pictures. I chose to break down this image because of how simple yet great the image looks with the spot colour enhancement. This image was taken atop the John Lewis car park overlooking the Albert Dock and the view from the vantage point showed potential to become a great image and I think I achieved that by enhancing the brightest available colours such as the Union Jack flag and some bright red street signs and car brake lights.
Polaroid Research Work
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, books, and the internet.
Adams was born in the Western Addition of San Francisco, California, the only child of Charles Hitchcock Adams and Olive Bray Adams. He was named after his uncle, Ansel Easton. His mother's family came from Baltimore, where his maternal grandfather had a successful freight-hauling business but lost his wealth investing in failed mining and real estate ventures in Nevada. The Adams family came from New England, having migrated from Northern Ireland during the early 18th century. His paternal grandfather founded and built a prosperous lumber business which his father later managed, though his father's talents lay more with sciences than with business. Later in life, Adams condemned that very same industry for cutting down many of the great redwood forests.
Adams was born in the Western Addition of San Francisco, California, the only child of Charles Hitchcock Adams and Olive Bray Adams. He was named after his uncle, Ansel Easton. His mother's family came from Baltimore, where his maternal grandfather had a successful freight-hauling business but lost his wealth investing in failed mining and real estate ventures in Nevada. The Adams family came from New England, having migrated from Northern Ireland during the early 18th century. His paternal grandfather founded and built a prosperous lumber business which his father later managed, though his father's talents lay more with sciences than with business. Later in life, Adams condemned that very same industry for cutting down many of the great redwood forests.
My Own Polaroid Work
This is one of the techniques I used to make one of my edited images. To get this Photoshop technique I needed to find an image I could fit inside a classic camera polaroid image and once I found the one I wanted I made It look the way I wanted using the curves tool, more specifically the Red, Green and Blue colour enhancements tool to make it look more detailed. After I used the curve tool I highlighted all the areas around the black fence and blurred them using the Gaussian Blur tool once completed I lowered the opacity of my image and placed it over the polaroid and lined up the image so when it was cropped it would look like it fits perfectly in the polaroid and then re-increase the opacity then flatten the two layers together.
These are some More examples of polaroids i made for my site