My Photo Essay Idea

I have chosen all the levels of tower block in college as the subject for my Photo Essay.

I am taking these pictures to create a photo essay.

The planned audience for the essay is...

I plan on taking pictures of corridors, door numbers and floor numbers.

Photo Essay

The following is a list of possibilities for my Photo Eassay and what that subject would consist of:

Buses
- Different types of buses.
- Different numbered buses.
- Bus Driver

Games
- Game covers
- People playing games
- Game shops
- Gamers

Copthorne
- local shops
- parks
- pub

Photography in a Day

Landscapes - Urban vs Nature

We were asked to take landscape pictures that show both man-made and natural parts of Crawley.

Playground

This a picture of the path leading to the playground. From this angle it shows that it has the grass and bushes on either side of the concrete path which is leading to the childs playground.

Social Documentary - Christmas Shopping

We were asked to take pictures of the busy crowds in Crawley.

Crowd

This is a picture of a fairly large crowd outside the shops so they can buy christmas presents.

Portrait

We were asked to take pictures of college students with the college as a background.

Car Park Roof

This is a picture of Nathan leaning on a rail with the college building in the back and from the angle you can see the sign on the side of the building.

Self Portrait

"Fabulous 99s"

This picture was taken outside 'Fabulous 99s' i like this picture because it is a full body portrait instead of a normal one with just the torso.

Portrait

Untitled#224, 1990

Photographer - Cindy Sherman

Birth Place - Glen Ridge, New Jersey

D.O.B - 19.1.1954

Photography Style - Portrait

Untitled #14, 1978

Influential Works

1.Untitled #224, 1990

2.Untitled #96, 1981

3.Untitled Film Still #14. 1978

4.Untitled #424, 2004

Untitled #96, 1981

Cindy Sherman produces portrait pictures some of which could be described as surreal.

Her work scares me a bit when it first comes on the screen but then it just looks weird.

Her work doesn't influence me because its quite weird and its quite scary.

PhotoShop

Today we were working with photoshop and using the various tools.

• Clone Stamp- The clone stamp copies selected parts of a picture.
• Marquee Select- This tool selects a shape of your choice allowing you to edit.
• Magic Wand- This selects objects in the picture by shade of colour.
• Lasso- This tool allows you to make a shape with the mouse so you can edit it.

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My Landscape Photos

All these pictures where taken from the top floor of the mall car park.

Big Tree (13/11/08)

When i went to take this picture i saw a train passing by but the camera wasn't on so instead i saw the tree and thought it would be a good picture.

Lampost (13/11/08)

When i was taking the picture it looked better in real life because i could see the church roof.


Crane and Church (13/11/08)

This picture was taken rfrom the other side of the mall car park so i had a better view of both the crane and the church roof.

Landscape Photography - Andreas Gursky

Photographer - Andreas Gursky
Birth Place - Liepzig
D.O.B - 1955
Photography Style - Landscape

Influential Works
1.Chicago Board of Trade II, 1999
2.Rhein II, 1999
3.Shangai, 2000
4.99 Cent, 1999

1.What does Gursky take pictures of?

Andreas Gursky takes pictures of landscapes. Landscape pictures are usually of natural scenery but Gursky usually takes pictures of manmade constructs.

2.How does his photos make you feel?

His photos don't make me feel anything because they are everyday things that don't seem intresting.

3.How have these pictures influenced you?

They haven't influenced me because i haven't taken any landscape pictures.

Rule of Thirds

Most landscape pictures can be divided into three, the top is often the background, the bottom is often the foreground and the middle (usually the pictures' focus) is called 'The Golden Third'. 'The Golden Third' usually contains the subject the photographer is trying to take.

For example, the picture above at its busiest in the centre, with less in the background and a fair bit of detail in the foreground.

Photographer - Robert Capa
Birth Place - Budapest
D.o.B - 22.09.1913
D.o.D - 25.05.1954
Photography style - Social Documentary

Influential Works
1.Troops landing at Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6th 1944
2.Soldier taking cover at Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6th 1944
3.Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936.
4.Boy soldier, Hankou, China. Late March 1938.

Robert Capa takes pictures of war and the effects war has on normal people.

His work makes me feel sad for the people who suffered during these times.

This person doesn't influence my photography because i try to be original with my pictures.

Camera Obscura

The Camera obscura, or Pinhole Camera, uses converging rays to make an image.

Questions

1. What did you see while you where in the Camera Obscura?
I saw the roads outside, upside down.

2. How is the Camera Obscura similar to the inside of a camera?
How is it different?

The Camera Obscura made things upside down, but it can't store pictures.

3. Why was the image upside down?
Converging Rays flipped the images upside down.

SLR Camera notes

The slower the shutter speed the the more light that hits the film.
The smaller the aperture the less light that hits the film.

Shutter Speed
Slow- 1 Second
1/30 second
V.Fast- 1/1000

The lower the number is the larger the aperture and the higher, the smaller.
(a low aperture will be blurred)

1/4 sec' + f/2.8 = white
1/4 sec' + f/4 = too bright
1/8 sec' + f/4 = too bright
1/8 sec' + f/5.6 = too bright/blurry
1/15 sec' + f/5.6 = too bright/blurry
1/15 sec' + f/22 = too dark

Depth of Field
-Foreground
-Backround

The smaller the aperture the greater the depth of field.

Notes from the last lesson

Semiotics and Representation

Semiotics - is the study of signs or image.

Connotation - is what an image means to you.

Denotation - is what is literally in the image.

Signifier - is the image that we see.

Signified - is the action we take when we see the Signifier.

The Art I Disliked

Soap and Stainless Steel- By Miroslaw Balka (1958)

I didn't like this "art" because it was boring and it was just soap on steel.

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The Art I Liked

Mr Collins from the ARP-By Peter Peri (1940)

I liked this sculpture because it was made from concrete and it looked quite realistic.