Openings within photography
Opening is something that I have done in my previous project intended to show what was behind the image. For an opening I believe it is setting two images not necessarily to include photos in front or behind other images but even to have one image create multiple images within it using frames such as doors, windows or even holes it can impact an image to create a strange hole of either emptiness or yet another image that creates a unusual connection or no connection at all.
W. Eugene Smith
The photo he had created had interested me, within the genre due to how I felt it was connected using mostly space to show there two entities within it. By having an opening show how it is only the two of them and of how coincidental that the two would appear between them and the strange mostly Sharp shape of the opening with a larger space on the lower half gives area to see around instead of looking at a mostly dark image with a line of two people they had an image to take in more information then just a pavement and the road. What needs to be questioned is why the shape visible is a bit like a leaf was it on purpose or by accident that it was done.
The photo he had created had interested me, within the genre due to how I felt it was connected using mostly space to show there two entities within it. By having an opening show how it is only the two of them and of how coincidental that the two would appear between them and the strange mostly Sharp shape of the opening with a larger space on the lower half gives area to see around instead of looking at a mostly dark image with a line of two people they had an image to take in more information then just a pavement and the road. What needs to be questioned is why the shape visible is a bit like a leaf was it on purpose or by accident that it was done.
The photos I had made during the photoshoot, are me mostly trying to figure out how to correctly use holes to take photos of other objects or people like Smith did. I began using a leaf and made holes to take photos. It however did make the images incredibly blurry. So after looking for objects to uses to cover the camera pieces, I took a whiteboard ink eraser and it has holes to hold pens. So I put the camera to take a photo through it and as seen with the photo on the bottom left. Within the holes were perfect two subjects focused across I just don't want the blurry part as I would like it to be all in focus and have just a white background. Something I realised is that when zooming in with something right on the camera the distance between the holes don't have a drastic increase or decrease so it is easier for me to take photos with subjects right on frame.
I have edited one of my photos to make it more darker and to make a part of the photo much more clear I had used the burn tool on the photo and it has made the entire photo much darker and slightly more sharper and I had used the clone stamp tool to clear space on the side to add a piece of the sky which I believe can be easily unseen through as being edited. I believe I had made the photo more clear and better looking and how the picture may have even made a added a subject with the sky, as I had made it much more noticeable.
photographic expedition
For this extended enquiry I need to go on an expedition so I would want to go to Tate Museum to find out what is within the shape of light as all I know is that it is about the past 100 years of photography and some abstract art how I feel like it will be displayed is in each room there would be a time period or an era of photography that will then move up each time someone moves to another room.
On my journey to Tate, I had accidentally missed a stop and had to go back which took 30 minutes, I went through and apparently there was a festival there too but would happen later that day so I took a few photos which show from when I was in the train to what was outside it to when I had to walk to Tate and when I had arrived had there I had bought entry to shape of light which went on about how photography was being developed over a century and how there were trends such as texture, surrealism and illusionary photos within the expedition it was probably the best expedition I have been in due to how the picture was so similar in one room but in the next room everything felt so different as it was focused on another genre.
photoshoot #2
I have edited my image of a vent to go vertical across the original it was to create more openings, I had accidentally made an interesting effect was made when the barrier of the vent crossed it would be much lighter then the barrier when by itself I think it makes the image better on how it contrasts between light and dark and helps with the genre of openings due to it creating boxes points and how the faded line connects them together.
Banjan Ader
Over the Summer
Over the summer holiday we had to make photographs relating to our option. I had probably not done as much as I should have, I could not find many subjects to take photographs of in the places I have been too as I spent most of my time inside. While the quality seems to be higher, the quantity is definitely something that I wish was improved as I did have more opportunities but didn't take many due to thinking it wasn't any good.
30 photographs out of school
triptych's and diptych's
Within the triptych I put images in where it makes it look like at a left middle and right viewpoint's where it makes it feel more like within the area of where people would be looking at so they would be seeing as if they are in and the openings within the photos feel in the area in which they seem (at least to me) have clear openings within them showing through what is there and what is not there.
Photoshop Openings
Quote
Photography cannot do much. It provides some level of information, yet it has no pretensions about changing the world.
- John Vink
A quote that I believe that relates to how photography works it doesn't change and has no thoughts about the image it simply gives us data and we interpret the data this gives such as an opening a hole in something it could have meaning but without the information given by the photograph we wouldn't know.
Lee Friedlander
Lee Friedlander Is an American photographer and artist in the 1960 and 1970 who mainly used black and white film He has done images on openings where he took photos outside of car windows he also took images through broken windows that had a dark lighting and blurry effect I think his photos looked like openings inside another opening.
Umbrella Photos
Henri Cartier-Bresson / I was walking behind this man when all of a sudden he turned around
Within the image is a man who appears to be above 30 in an old gentlemen coat who is next to a road with dead trees. Making this photo set in autumn, but it seems to be deep in autumn as there are no leaves on the floor showing that it was cleared away meaning with all the leaves gone in the trees and none on the ground it is at a late point in the season. The man seems to have something in his mouth it could be a cigarette or a pipe however it could be something else as it is not producing any perceivable smoke. The image itself is in a portrait orientation. It seems to be a candid photo as the subject isn’t aware of being photographed as he has a more relaxed pose then if he would have taken a photo off and as the title suggests this was an in the moment photo of when he would “when all of a sudden he turned around.”
The focus seems to be the man has he seems to be the clearest and sharpest. The lighting appears to be reflecting off the ground which shows it was raining and the light shows a great contrast towards how the man wearing dark clothing and the trees make the light reflecting off the ground and the sky much more noticeable. There is a repetition of trees repeating over and over in the path. The large space next the man makes it clear that there is no one else behind him and that the depth can be seen a little where a single person can be seen showing how distant the path is. Some of the most interesting part of the photo is how the man looks like the embodiment of a gentleman with an umbrella at his side, a top hat and the coat another part that is intriguing is how the trees create an opening to show buildings and or other parts behind the trees such as a person walking or the road itself.Some of the most interesting part of the photo is how the man looks like the embodiment of a gentleman with an umbrella at his side, a top hat and the coat another part that is intriguing is how the trees create an opening to show buildings and or other parts behind the trees like a person walking or the road itself. Overall, I believe this photograph was well timed at the right place as the trees being dead and the man looking straight at him, while the light from the floor showing the rest of the path makes the photo have an unnerving feeling. However, the photo feels misaligned being too much to the left as the subject doesn’t look like the man. |
8 Week Plan
- Week 1 - Review website and fix mistakes (e.g spelling and grammar).
- Week 2 - Research more ways to perceive openings by researching artists and photographs.
- Week 3 - Based on research gathered do a photoshoot then put on website and how I Incorporated elements from researched photos.
- Week 4 - Edit photos on photoshoot on Photoshop.
- Week 5 - Choose most successful photos and plan out final piece.
- Week 6 - Complete final piece, photograph, add to website and write evaluation.
- Week 7 - Review assessment objectives, check evidence on website.
- Week 8 - Check over other projects and change appropriately towards assessment objectives.
Full day course work
We had to try to do as much as we could and create a final piece within the time. I was nearly finished with the piece as I have taken and printed the photos, cut into them as I had wanted and put together what I want the final piece to resemble. All I think I need to do is scan it, print it and finally place it into mounts.
The image shows how the end pictures looks like.
The image shows how the end pictures looks like.
These two images have been put together by the genre of openings and the sub-genre of layers
Printer recolouring
Within the printer I have reinserted paper and printed the same image with different colours and the some colours are together they form a special mix such as the 1st image which created a rainbow effect from two colours. some of the photos I have used were turned upside down when printing so the photo had merged, but it has made an interesting effect on light parts of the photos. I feel like this keeps the openings
Final Product
I felt that to make the project go onto a wall and make it rearranged in three different ways would make the theme of openings show through even more due to the spaces between each other, as these photos have easily identifiable different layers which allow to see the openings and what was placed around it. It could have went better if the printer used worked more as occasionally, I would require printing and it just wouldn't be possible, I missed out hanging one more photo due that. Overall i think this went well due to how the colours go together and the theme of openings is much more noticeable then what I originally had thought was going to be seen.