This was a photoshop edit I thought I would add onto my blog, I took three different photos of my model moving using the shutter speed and layering them onto eachother decreasing the opacity. I thought it looked quite unique and scary.

David Wilson

David Wilson is a black and white landscape photographer looking at Cottages, Fields, Rust. His favourite seasons for photography are late autumn, winter and early spring when the sun's arc is low in the sky, each composition enhanced by highlight and shadow so when taking my shoot I am thinking about this such as angles and lighting. I like this idea by playing around with Loneliness looking at empty spaces and things like rust, showing decay - passing of time. It's forgotten about. Also black and white against landscapes with the sunlight can make a photo really stand out and look sharp. My ISO will be around 200 as I want these photos to look sharp and catch the sunlight and if I find some great close up shots of rust etc I will use depth of field to make sure this can stand out against the backgrounds.

My shoot will be based in Autumn/Winter and the timing of the day will be around 4/5 o'clock as the sun can be going down and the place where I am shooting I can take some photos with some great angles highlighting shadows and emphasising them.



This photo is great and I really like it. There is a hidden message in this photo which could be seen as not only is this photo showing rust as it's old but the cars its self are old which I think is really clever because it's showing how they are as seen as 'rubbish' and 'not wanted' anymore which follows my theme really well. This photo has been thought about such as timing of the day, exposure. I would say this was taken around 3 oclock so the sun can cause shadows such as in the middle of the cars and an ISO of around 200. I love the composition of the contrasting colours of black vs white.

David Wilson 1

 

This shoot I went out around 4/5 o'clock down to my grans farm/field. I hadn't visited her field in ages and it was really nice going down and experimenting with lighting and shadows. I got some great shots I couldn't choose which one I liked so I put numerous ones in. Majority of them have had the contrast changed a bit to emphasis the shadows and sharpened. I really like how this shoot went, I was very happy. They portray loneliness in a very unusual way as the photo concept (context) is quite strange such as the bath being in the middle of the barn and a gate with loads of empty space where nobody is around.

 

I would like to further develop this shoot with maybe photoshopping people onto it or actually taking a shoot with somebody down there and using the Uta Barth/Francis Bacon shoot re-developed of faces moving but with great lighting and it showing ambuigity of not knowing who it is or what it is.

 

This shoot wasn't in style of anything in paticular, it was a family friends wedding and I thought I would go along to take photos for inspiration, showing techniques and all experimentation. I put my ISO on 200 as it was a bright sunny day. I wanted to take my photos in black and white as I think wedding photography in black and white is lovely especially using natural day light against the white dress. This shoot could fit into my work as I am looking at loneliness but this is in contrast to being lonely this is showing love, family, friends and affection.

Mental illnesses

Here is a link to show you some back ground information on mental illnesses/

Articles

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2211169/British-workers-depressed-Europe-diagnosed-illness.html?ITO=1490

Loneliness theme

My images

Francis Bacon

 

My photoshop edit

 

 

These images were all in style of Francis Bacon of taking a human face and making it look disorted and different. He was able to do this by paintings where as I am doing with this photography so I came up with the idea of squashing a face against a window making it look unique and disorted. I took the photos in black and white as I think the shadows against the natural lighting looked really nice. I quite fancied trying a photoshop edit of layering my two images and changing the opacity to make it look quite confusing

 

Mary Celeste

The Mary Celeste was an American brigantine merchant ship famous for having been discovered on 4 December 1872 in the Atlantic Ocean, unmanned and apparently abandoned - one lifeboat was missing, along with its 7 crew. had been at sea for a month and had over six months' worth of food and water on board. Her cargo was virtually untouched and the personal belongings of passengers and crew were still in place, including valuables. The crew was never seen or heard from again.

Francis Bacon

This an additional painter for inspiration of my work I did for Uta Barth. He is a figurative painter known for his bold, graphic and emotionally raw imagery. His images are topics of being isolated in glass or steel geometrical cages set against flat, nondescript backgrounds which addapt beautifully to my theme of loneliness. I haven't looked at taking photographs against glass or objects and I think adding human form into this could be quite nice as it could be in style of Uta barth too but having somebodies face or body parts pressed against a window to make it look disfigured or anonymous.



This picture is great inspiration I did for my Uta Barth shoot 4 as I was looking at movement using my shutter speed on faces for making them look disfigured. The colours in this painting are very bold which was opposite to my shoot I did which was in black and white firstly but also quite dark.