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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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. 

Portfolio

    

Process of panel #1

Contact sheets for panel #1