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. 

Portfolio

    

Process of panel #1

Contact sheets for panel #1

Lockdown art

 Over lockdown in art I have been going out and taking photos of what I think would have a similar look to my panel 1 board. When taking photos I kept in mind the connections I would use that would tie my panel 1 and panel 2 board together. In my panel 1 there is a lot of power line creating horizontal lines throughout my art work, so I played on this taking photos that had power lines. I also took photos using other objects in the photo to create horizontal lines like fences and railings. 

Uploading the photos to the computer I then created contact sheets and started to edit a few photos.

Taking photos / Emulations

 Last term in art before we went on holidays I went out and took photos of building around our school. Playing around with the lighting, angles and focus, we done this to get use to using a camera. When taking photos I took a photo of the T block building and it turned out having a blue tint to it which I thought looked cool. We also started to do emulations and play around on photoshop. When playing around we had to choose one of our artist out of our Traditional, Contemporary and Aotearoa. When we choose one we picked a photo and then went to photoshop, in photoshop we had to edit our photo to have a similar look to the artist we chose. 

What have we been doing in art?

 In art last term photographers were looking at 'what is a photogram?' and ' what is negative and positive space'. We first looked at what positive and negative space is. Positive space is the subject or area of interest in the artwork. Negative space is the background or the area that surrounds the subject. 

When looking at what is a photograms we had a slide that we had to fill in about photograms.  Before looking at the slide we had to do a modern day "photogram" where we gathered things around school or in the class room, placed them on the photocopier and photocopied them. When photocopying them we played around with the settings on the copier. We played around with the colours, size and brightness. When we had done around 6-10 of them we had pick 1-2 to cut shapes out of them. Once we cut shapes out we had to either use paint or pastel to play around with the positive and negative space on the cut outs. We then went on to our slide and added to the slides. We had to add all our work we had done that related to the slide. Now that we were on the slide we had to play around with layering something on top of our cutouts. We then played around with the  contrast and brightness. Taking out details, adding in new details that could only been seen with the contrast and brightness being played around with. We then played around with recolour. All this was done using google slide and the editing effects that were on there. Is a series put together from all the previous slides. With some of the images I rotated them.