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.

Lighting shoot

 

 

In school we tried out a lighting shoot using a box with black pieces of cards and lamps to find the best shot with shadows and colours. I tried different angles to see what was the best shot without over exposing this image.

 

I also experimented with depth of field especially on the letters on the pieces of paper to make certain parts of the letter/the words in focus, I did this by using a shallow depth of field.

 

The letters were meant to resemble letters of missing someone and feeling lonely.

 

Mini shoot in school

 

I was experimenting with natural lighting and people to see if I wanted to take pictures of them for my project. I wanted to put this photo on my blog as I think it is a really beautiful photo, the natural lighting definitely captures certain features such as the models eye and defines being natural!

Lois 1

 

This shoot did steer off Loneliness but I wanted to experiment with parts of the body as I think sometimes it can look really effective, my favourite part was the collar bone. I photographed two different models with different collar bones. I really like the lighting on these images as I worked around and focussed on lighting. The composition paticularly on the bottom image I think is lovely such as the line of the models neck/shoulder against the black background and the shadow on the collar bone.

 



Lois Greenfield

A photographer I found when looking at body shapes was Lois Greenfield. Now she focusses on dance and structure but she does look at body structures and form which I think can connect to my theme of loneliness. I wanted to look at body structures because I think beauty and body can reflect loneliness by parts of the body and i'm quite fascinated by it.

Lois bodyscape work is studio work usually against a white or black background sometimes grey and focusses on different shapes of bodies so backs, hips, legs. I would like to extend this into using the school studio to get professional lighting so they can cause shadows and highlight certain affects of the body to represent my theme.

She can work within black and white usually to create a affect, these photos definately stand out more and seem more bold and harsh where as the colour images have colours such as white, baby pinks, beige - more nude colours and seem more natural and less harsh.

 

I have chosen this photo of Lois Greenfields as I think this photo resembles loneliness in a completely different light, instead this photo shows love and affection. The colours are very suttle and studio lighting has been used but not so it causes big shadows and it contrasts and focuses on a certain affect and this is because this photo isn't focussing on ONE point its showing two people and showing the love so it's a suttle/natural picture.

 

I would definately like to look into studio lighting and taking this more professional with better lighting and go against loneliness but try a shoot with two people showing friendship or love - some sort of communication.

Uta Barth 4 (Francis Bacon Inspiration)

 

I was really inspired by a friends piece of work with movement, capturing by shutter speed and I thought it would be really cool experimenting this with peoples faces so they looked anonymous that you couldn't recognise them. I did this by using shutter speed of 2-3 seconds with their face moving side to side. I think this shoot could be expanded more by using studio lighting to make the photo more sharp and intense.

Uta Barth 3

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I was so happy with how this shoot came out! I had wanted to have the contrast of colours such as the dull sky against the lights off the cars. I took everything out of focus like Uta Barth and took the photo by thinking about rule of thirds. The car lights make the photo look like it's rain drops or someone is shining a bright torch which I like as it looks missleading.

The XX

The XX are a indie pop band, formed in London 2008 and are one of my favourite bands. Their music seems to involve guitars and pianos and one main male voice and one female voice. The music is very relaxed emotional and mind blowing I think and I thought this could apply to my theme of being loneliness.
The music has a real sense of emotion and thought when listening to it such as the instruments used but also the lyrics. Personally I feel you can listen to the music and zone out quite a lot and think about life which applys to my theme.

Photoshop/Photogram edits

 

 

 

 

I haven't really focussed on photograms ever throughout my photography course so doing this was really interesting as I only briefly went into it. I took photograms of my hands doing love hearts or just my hand flat or clenched in a ball then shone the light for about 6-7 seconds. All my photos and experimentations are in my sketch book.

 

I then wanted to go a bit further and take my Uta Barth images and edit them onto the photogram which I had scanned into the computer. I changed the opacity and feathered the image as I cropped it with the magnetic lasor tool.

 

I wanted to use these images in specific as they are black and white but I liked the thought as my theme is loneliness and it fitting in well with it because the hand and specifically the first clench (my second picture) is like a metaphor of not being able to escape or express, always feeling tight and closed in with no-one there.

Photograms / David Cross

Photograms were used in the 20th century by a number of photographers, particularly Man Ray, who called them "rayographs"

David Cross is a freelance photographer he has completed commissions for Eastern Arts, Shape East and has produced his dark room work in Cambridge. He focusses on his local landscapes and objects which I think could be a base for my theme of loneliness. He studies on photograms which I am looking at in school.

Uta Barth 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This shoot definately resembled Uta Barth more such as the colours and composition, I chose to take it on a sunny morning which worked really well as the lighting is beautiful and makes the colours stand out a lot more. Again I focussed induvidually on one person to reflect my theme of loneliness and apart from the first image I chose people in dark clothes to stand out against from the light blue skys and colours. I took the photos far away to get the best depth of field of it being completely out of focus then zooming in or cropping.