Construct Study

First

This artwork is a photo collage of a desert road. In the image there are road signs, cacti trees, rubbish and a road. The images are very natural to what you would see outside with your blue skies, green plants, light brown ground almost the color of sand, yellow and red stop signs. Throughout the image I think there are two types of leading lines, the first one going vertically through the image following the road side and the other one going horizontally through the image between the bottom of the sky and the end of the land just above the halfway mark of the image. Looking at the image the first thing I notice is the road. The image itself is made up of heaps of little rectangular or square shapes layered and rotated differently on top of each other; some shapes are larger and some smaller.

Second

In this photo there is a red flower and the flower's shadow reflecting onto a creamy white wall. There are also shadows of lines that could be from a window. The photo is all natural colors and the lightning coming into the image looks like it is from the sun. Looking at the image, the first thing I noticed was the red flower. Throughout the image the line shadows from the window can be looked at as the leading lines.

Third

The image is of a rugby game. This image is taken from a low angle close to the grass looking up at the player and stand. The focal point of this image are the rugby players. In the background on the stand there is a long sign that goes across the stand. This sign goes from one side of the image to the other to create a leading line. In the image the colors are all very natural and the green grass is the brightest color there.

Emulations

Why did you choose these images? 

I chose these images because I am planing to combined nature with human’s. I needed a background image that I can work with and edit in different ways that fit with in my folio work.

What your next steps will be for the development of your folio work.

Combined and overlay nature or flower photos within a head shot to create a series of work.

I was wanting to transition from light to dark so I have added faces screaming and neutral then layered them over top of each other. I added the black background to make it seen darker. I used Jerry Uelsmann as my inspiration.

Research Models

 

Contemporary- David Hockney

Focal point stop sign 

Leading lines side of road and horizontal line between the sky and ground 

Natural colours  

Traditional- Andre Kertesz 

Focal point flower 

Leading lines window shadow 

Bright lights, dark shadows, pop of red

Aotearoa- Ana Westra

Focal point player 11

Horizontal lines within the signs on the stands

  

 

Faking a darkroom-Daguerreotypes

Daguerreotypes photo was the most common photography style in the 19th century. Daguerreotypes were exposed onto polished metal plates which were easily tarnished and scratched, creating the main aesthetic of the photos. 

I had a go at trying to mimic the daguerreotype look. This type of style would be good if you're wanting a vintage look, if it was an image of a person and their face this type of style would show a lot of emotion because its very simple and detailed, it's also not overwhelmed from bight colours.

First photo shoot

 

Photo shoot #1

In the first photo shoot I really wanted to take photos of landscapes so I had something to build from and use later on when I start getting into using more layers and build on top of these images to create new ones. 

When taking the photos I tried to get different angles whether that be getting lower or higher or playing with different setting on the camera. Having some photos over-exposed or under-exposed, close-up or wide shot. In a couple of them mainly the ones at the beach I tried to play with the sun rays and shadows.

Some of the techniques I tried to use or keep in mind when taking photos.

Basic editing

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2

1)Original photo

2)Colour edited 

When editing I really wanted to make the image more brighter and vibrant I did this by playing around with the curves and levels. I also added a different sky to two of them so they had clouds. Next time I edited the images I’ll edited them not as bright because I think some of the areas in the second image with the bird specifically the sky are to bright 

Annotated bibliography

 

We had to create a document that had information relevant to our art work with links and information saying whether it was useful or not useful to us and what type of things you might find on this site. This was helpful when trying to come up with ideas for my folio and editing because I was able to pull ideas and inspiration from other peoples work styles 

Photograms

 

Contact-sheets

 Creating a Contact Sheet

Use these instructions with photoshop to create a contact sheet. Get your teacher to print this out so that you can annotate it:

• Framing devices

• Composition notes

• Techniques you have used
  

• What is working well?

• What can be done better?

Brainstorm and moodboard

 

In art this year I want to try and capture the life within nature by doing this my art will mostly be of kiwiana things, I plan on taking photos of landscapes (mountains, flowers, trees, insects etc).  When taking photos this year I want to play with natural shadows, reflections, and light reflections. While editing my photos I want the colour palette to be black and white with maybe some pops of colours. I also want to work on the layering of my images and different ways I can use layering to create different artworks. When looking at layering I will look at David Hockney and John Stezaker works and use their art to help come up with ideas. 

Update

I have now changed to doing surrealism photography doing a merge of landscape/cityscape, space and people. Im looking at Jerry Uelsmann and Duane Michals at how they use layering to create an art work, ill also be looking at Sarah Eisenlohr and Eugenia Loli for collage ideas.