Photographer CopyRight: Activity 10
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Photographer CopyRight:
Date: 21/10/13
How Photography Copyright is related to the Law:
Photography Copyright, in fact all types of copyright are all very important for us to be aware of. Copyright is taking the work of someone else and then using it for your own personal use. For non-commercial use of photography copyright, taking another photographer's work and not saying were it is from, you might just get away with that, but just make sure you reference where you got it from or at least mention the artist's name.
For commercial use copyright, it is required by law, for you to get the photo and the permission of the artist or the company, to enable you to use it. If this doesn't happen, then you as the individual who has taken the photo without permission, you could end up in huge trouble and could receive a huge fine. If you want to use an image for commercial use and you can't find any evidence of which artist it came from, you have to make sure that you have sufficient proof, to enable you to use it.
Here are some extra bits of info linked to Photo copyright:
Photography Copyright, in fact all types of copyright are all very important for us to be aware of. Copyright is taking the work of someone else and then using it for your own personal use. For non-commercial use of photography copyright, taking another photographer's work and not saying were it is from, you might just get away with that, but just make sure you reference where you got it from or at least mention the artist's name.
For commercial use copyright, it is required by law, for you to get the photo and the permission of the artist or the company, to enable you to use it. If this doesn't happen, then you as the individual who has taken the photo without permission, you could end up in huge trouble and could receive a huge fine. If you want to use an image for commercial use and you can't find any evidence of which artist it came from, you have to make sure that you have sufficient proof, to enable you to use it.
Here are some extra bits of info linked to Photo copyright:
- If you are a self employed photographer, then you are legally the owner of the copyright of all your images. You are the owner and you have the power to choose if you want to lend out your images.
- If you work for a company firm as a photographer, say for example you work as a photographer for the NHS, then even though you are the artist, the company are the legal owners of the photographs.
- In some cases it is generally the photographer who is the owner of the copyright.
There is a certain and key word, that we photographers use to describe the action of breaking the rule of copyright of photography. This word is called = INFRINGEMENT
Example of an Infringed photograph:
What happened here was, the original photo that was taken by a photographer called Art Rogers. He titled his work of art "Puppies" It was said that internationally Jeff Koons took ownership of the photograph and renamed it "String of Puppies" For a long time Koons managed to sell a sufficient number of copies of his new image until he was discovered by Rogers, who immediately sued him. Koons denied all charges and stated that he had gone through proper channels to obtain the photo, fair and square.
The outcome was that the court found the similarities between the two images too close for a typical person to recognise it. Koon's defence was rejected under the argument that he could have used a more generic source to form his statement - without copying Rogers's work. Koons was found out for not having gone through the proper channels of copyright and was forced to pay a monetary settlement to Rogers.
This is what happens when you don't go through the proper channels. There are ways that we, as artists can stop. The main way we can stop people steeling us artist's work is by adding a watermark to our images, but we must put it a location that cannot me edited out, like if you have a picture of a beach with sand and sea, put the watermark on, overlapping the sand and sea, so that it isn't easy to clone out. Aka get rid of the copyright watermark,
Here is an Example of adding a watermark to an image.
By adding your CopyRight to your images, people now have a tougher challenge of editing out the artist's name, so as to make it theirs.
Photography tends to be protected by law and moral rights in all countries. Some countries have different rules to others. Just as a comparison, photography laws are very high in places like Britain and France, but in Spain and Gibraltar the laws are not as strongly enforced. Photography is restricted by the law through something called miscellaneous criminal offences. Publishing certain images is restricted by privacy laws. Photography of certain subject matter can be generally restricted in the interests particularly of the protection of young children.
The outcome was that the court found the similarities between the two images too close for a typical person to recognise it. Koon's defence was rejected under the argument that he could have used a more generic source to form his statement - without copying Rogers's work. Koons was found out for not having gone through the proper channels of copyright and was forced to pay a monetary settlement to Rogers.
This is what happens when you don't go through the proper channels. There are ways that we, as artists can stop. The main way we can stop people steeling us artist's work is by adding a watermark to our images, but we must put it a location that cannot me edited out, like if you have a picture of a beach with sand and sea, put the watermark on, overlapping the sand and sea, so that it isn't easy to clone out. Aka get rid of the copyright watermark,
Here is an Example of adding a watermark to an image.
By adding your CopyRight to your images, people now have a tougher challenge of editing out the artist's name, so as to make it theirs.
Photography tends to be protected by law and moral rights in all countries. Some countries have different rules to others. Just as a comparison, photography laws are very high in places like Britain and France, but in Spain and Gibraltar the laws are not as strongly enforced. Photography is restricted by the law through something called miscellaneous criminal offences. Publishing certain images is restricted by privacy laws. Photography of certain subject matter can be generally restricted in the interests particularly of the protection of young children.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Date: 06/09/13 Activity 3
Report on my visit to the M-Shed, Bristol, 04/09/13 visiting the Taylor Wessing Exhibition and the venue:
Before I came to visit the M-Shed in Bristol and see the Taylor Wessing Exhibition, I have never really seen a proper exhibition that is just specifically based on photography.
In the past, looking at other photographers work hasn’t always been very easy for me, because I have been advised to compare a lot of my work. On Wednesday, I saw a lot of very beautiful and attracting photographs that really caught me interest.
These two were the ones that really caught my eye and peaked my interest.
The reason why I like these two specific photographs out of all the others that were in the exhibition, is because they capture the most detail in photographic terms of aperture, time, exposure, colour clarity and most of all they tell a really powerful story. The one of Ai WeiWei with that ginger cat, leaning against his chest, is showing the artists true compassion for the cat and the cat has nine lives so there for Ai WeiWei has nine lives. The colours and the clarity of the photo are really strong. That’s what I like about photography, the strength and vibrancy of the colour and the clarity.
The second photo, what I like about that one, is the setting of the photograph. It really does look like Arjanit is on the run and keeping out of Kukes County. He is amongst all of the rubble and has taken off his shirt, revealing all of his scratches and scars. This photo tells a real story. Story telling inside photographs is one of the main aspects in photographic terms.
Apart from the work I liked at the exhibition, there was a lot of work that I think completely ruins the art of photography that was there, at the site, that day. That’s just my belief though. Other photographers may find it attracting. It’s the kind of photography where people are not wearing anything. That kind of photography to me, says that the photographer is publishing things on display that I think should be kept private.
The Venue its self:
The Venue its self was actually very impressive. The spacing of each portrait or landscape was very spread out so moving around the venue to see each photograph was very good, however there was one feature that I think that the M-shed could have improved. The lighting inside the venue where the exhibition was very dim and when you were looking at dark images it is hard to see beyond the dark detail. I would personally add more light to the exhibition, but adding more light can have effects on photographs that have bright patches of light. It makes the photographs fade.
All in all I really enjoyed the Taylor Wessing Exhibition. Its in a good location, easy to get to, not to complicated to find your way around and some of the work that was on display was really beautiful, inspiring and magical.
All of these drawings and words combined together, create some ideas on how me and my group can create a poster, weird looking, to promote the use of Durex, condoms to be precise.
Here is my own poster design, created for advertising the promotional use of Durex, the use of condoms.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Date: 13/09/13, Activity 6
All of the plans that me and my group made for the promotion of Durex (Condoms):
All of the plans that me and my group made for the promotion of Durex (Condoms):
Here is my own poster design, created for advertising the promotional use of Durex, the use of condoms.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Date: 15/10/13
Typography: = the style of Fonts:
Typography = the style of different fonts. All of the Fonts that we use on a Word Document, Powerpoint Presentation, Excel Charts, Blogs, Emails and the Internet, all of these fonts are different. In total there are about 265,978 fonts that are used. All used for different things. If you were typing a formal letter or you were writing out a proper document, you would use an appropriate text such as Calibri, Arial or Cambria. These are the best type of fonts to use when carrying out something out like this. This is also known as sans serif fonts. If you were advertising, using posters or using flashy fonts you would use fonts like Arial Rounded MT Bold, Times New Roman, or Apple Chancery , these are classified as serif fonts. Lets talk about colour effects in fonts. If we use the colour Red this instantly gives out a message that whatever has been written is important and must make you aware of what has been written. It's like the expression "That's put the cat amongst the pigeons" If things are written in Green then that can generally mean it's linked to something to do with medicine. Words in Black, then it's obviously just normal text, but if the fonts are different, like if they are bold, Italic, Underlined. These generally mean that these are key words or that they are quite important, within a text.
Evaluation:
There are many different things that we can do with fonts. They are a key part in digital technology. I have had some idea of how fonts worked in the past, but this has been the first time I have learned about them, in this much technical detail. Fonts create many things for us. Even now for this blog I am using a certain type of font and learning how it works. It's like learning the inside of a computer's internal software.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Date: 05/11/13
Mind-map, Drawings and little Paragraph about plans for my Positive Imaging for Jeans:
Mind-map and Drawings:
A Little Paragraph of what my drawing and mind-map explain:
Mind-map, Drawings and little Paragraph about plans for my Positive Imaging for Jeans:
Mind-map and Drawings:
A Little Paragraph of what my drawing and mind-map explain:
My 9 Images that I first chose to use:
My Three Photo of Jeans for Advertisement:
(PROCESS OF HOW I CREATED THE ADVERTISING LOGO FOR THESE 3 JEANS):
First I imported the two different photos into Adobe PhotoShop CS5 then I downloaded an image of the Doc Martens logo to my desktop from the internet, then I imported that into photoshop. The task for me at hand, was for me to add the logo picture to the jeans picture and then impose it, so that it looked like it was an actual logo on the jeans, so as to advertise the jeans for use and to show how creative Doc Martens are. I must say that it was quite an interesting task to do. Some of the technical skills that I needed to do this task, I had already learned about them, but some were completely new. The main one that I learned was in the layers pallet, how to change one setting from "normal' to either "screen' or "darken".
My Evaluation of What I did:
First I imported the two different photos into Adobe PhotoShop CS5 then I downloaded an image of the Doc Martens logo to my desktop from the internet, then I imported that into photoshop. The task for me at hand, was for me to add the logo picture to the jeans picture and then impose it, so that it looked like it was an actual logo on the jeans, so as to advertise the jeans for use and to show how creative Doc Martens are. I must say that it was quite an interesting task to do. Some of the technical skills that I needed to do this task, I had already learned about them, but some were completely new. The main one that I learned was in the layers pallet, how to change one setting from "normal' to either "screen' or "darken".
My Evaluation of What I did:
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Date: 08/11/13
Research on Dr Martens Jeans:
Dr Martens is a British footwear brand that specialises in really stylish footwear and other shoe care products and manufactures other accessories, such as clothing and luggage etc. Dr Martens is also known by several different names. In addition they are known as Doctor Martens, Doc Martens, which I thought was the actual name of the company, also they are known as Docs as well as DM's.
Doc Martens is well known for its creation of jeans in modelling. After having looked at quite a few of their pictures of people wearing jeans, I notice that they use a very flashy and arty way to portray their work of fashion.
To put it another way, they mostly use a dark background and use flashy on their camera, because most of those images come out quite brightly and the models generally tend to be people with short or long dark hair, whilst wearing bright tops and then dark jeans with with very bright and flashy footwear, generally bright red, yellow, pink and green.
History of Doc Martens: Originally, a man called Klaus Martens, who was a doctor in the German army during World War II, founded "Doc Martens" after he had a severe ankle injury and made himself a pair of special boots that were comfortable for him to wear. He did this by looting a fine piece of leather from a cobbler's shop. After the war, many germans did this in their own towns. After not making much success on his own, Martens met up with a fried of his from university in 1947, a Luxembourgern, by the name of Dr. Herbert Funck. Funck was keen on the idea to help Martens with is business and was intrigued by the new shoe design. He later went into business later that year in Seeshaupt, Germany, using discared rubber and other materials left from the Luftwaffe airfields. This is where the main trigger for 'Doc Martens" clothing started.
Youtube adverts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPbSVfHqbmc
Research on Levis Jeans:
Levi Strauss & Co, or LS&CO or just simply known as Levi's is a privately held American clothing company, known worldwide for its Levi's brand of denim Jeans. It was founded in 1853 when Levi Strauss came from Buttenheim, Bavaria to San Francisco, California to open a new west coast branch of his brothers' New York dry goods business. About 20 years on from then, Levi Strauss and a tailor of his, Jacob Davis received a U.S. patent to make the first riveted men's work pants out of denim: the first blue jeans. The kind of clothing that people in the old west of America would wear. Cowboy clothing to be more precise. The company briefly experimented (in the 1970's) with a public stock listing, but remains owned and controlled by the descendants and relatives of Levi Strauss' his four nephews to be more truthful. The company's HQ is still based in San Francisco to this day.
History of Levi Strauss: Levi Strauss stared his business of jeans making at the 90 Sacramento Street address in San Francisco. Quite surprisingly, he moved addresses more than 2 times. 90 SS was where he began then he moved to 62 SS, then to 63 and then 65 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, California, which is where the HQ is today.
Going back to what I mentioned, as to what happened to Levi Strauss and his tailor Jacob Davis in 1873, they decided to work together as one had received a patent from someone, but didn't have the money to fund it by himself, so the two decided to work together and had this huge project to undergo. The patented rivet was later incorporated into the company's jean design and advertisements. Contrary to an advertising campaign that Levi sold his first jeans to gold miners during the Californian Gold Rush (which peaked in 1849), the manufacturing of denim overalls only began in the 1870's.The company then created their first pair of Levis 501 jeans in the 1890's. A style that became to be known as the worlds best item of clothing to sell.
Youtube adverts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPfQusCCq2g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orY4FVCy-vc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEn_1aSi9CE
Research on Jeans:
The Clothing JEANS:
Jeans are pants or trousers made from denim or dungaree cloth. Most the word or term "jeans" refers to a particular style of pants or trousers called blue jeans and were invented by Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss in 1873. You can now by jeans in different colours than blue, but generally when people speak about them the generally mean that they are blue. Starting in the 1950's, jeans were originally designed for cowboys or as they were sometimes called the men of the wild west. They became popular among teenagers, ages 13 - 20, and especially members of the greaser subculture. Historic brands of jeans include "Levi's, Lee and Wrangler." Jeans come in various fits, including skinny, tapered, slim, straight, boot cut, narrow bottom, low waist, anti fit and flare. Jeans were originally invented for men, but they are for both men and women.
Worldwide Market for Jeans: North America has a global purchase for jeans at 39%. Following them is Europe at 20%, Japan & Korea at 10% and then the rest of the world at 31%.
Out of all the people on the planet, it is mostly Americans you have bought Jeans. In 2004 the Americans spent more than $14 billion USd on jeans and then they spent more than $15 billion USD in 2005. According to market-research firm NDP group, Americans bought $13.8 billion USD of mens's and women's jeans in the year 2011, 30th April.
Youtube adverts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPbSVfHqbmc
History of Doc Martens: Originally, a man called Klaus Martens, who was a doctor in the German army during World War II, founded "Doc Martens" after he had a severe ankle injury and made himself a pair of special boots that were comfortable for him to wear. He did this by looting a fine piece of leather from a cobbler's shop. After the war, many germans did this in their own towns. After not making much success on his own, Martens met up with a fried of his from university in 1947, a Luxembourgern, by the name of Dr. Herbert Funck. Funck was keen on the idea to help Martens with is business and was intrigued by the new shoe design. He later went into business later that year in Seeshaupt, Germany, using discared rubber and other materials left from the Luftwaffe airfields. This is where the main trigger for 'Doc Martens" clothing started.
Youtube adverts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPbSVfHqbmc
Research on Levis Jeans:
History of Levi Strauss: Levi Strauss stared his business of jeans making at the 90 Sacramento Street address in San Francisco. Quite surprisingly, he moved addresses more than 2 times. 90 SS was where he began then he moved to 62 SS, then to 63 and then 65 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, California, which is where the HQ is today.
Going back to what I mentioned, as to what happened to Levi Strauss and his tailor Jacob Davis in 1873, they decided to work together as one had received a patent from someone, but didn't have the money to fund it by himself, so the two decided to work together and had this huge project to undergo. The patented rivet was later incorporated into the company's jean design and advertisements. Contrary to an advertising campaign that Levi sold his first jeans to gold miners during the Californian Gold Rush (which peaked in 1849), the manufacturing of denim overalls only began in the 1870's.The company then created their first pair of Levis 501 jeans in the 1890's. A style that became to be known as the worlds best item of clothing to sell.
Youtube adverts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPfQusCCq2g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orY4FVCy-vc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEn_1aSi9CE
Research on Jeans:
Jeans are pants or trousers made from denim or dungaree cloth. Most the word or term "jeans" refers to a particular style of pants or trousers called blue jeans and were invented by Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss in 1873. You can now by jeans in different colours than blue, but generally when people speak about them the generally mean that they are blue. Starting in the 1950's, jeans were originally designed for cowboys or as they were sometimes called the men of the wild west. They became popular among teenagers, ages 13 - 20, and especially members of the greaser subculture. Historic brands of jeans include "Levi's, Lee and Wrangler." Jeans come in various fits, including skinny, tapered, slim, straight, boot cut, narrow bottom, low waist, anti fit and flare. Jeans were originally invented for men, but they are for both men and women.
Worldwide Market for Jeans: North America has a global purchase for jeans at 39%. Following them is Europe at 20%, Japan & Korea at 10% and then the rest of the world at 31%.
Out of all the people on the planet, it is mostly Americans you have bought Jeans. In 2004 the Americans spent more than $14 billion USd on jeans and then they spent more than $15 billion USD in 2005. According to market-research firm NDP group, Americans bought $13.8 billion USD of mens's and women's jeans in the year 2011, 30th April.
Youtube adverts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPbSVfHqbmc
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Date: 04/12/13
Presentation on Famous Photographer, Cecil Beaton:
Task: Our task was to create, practice and then to present a 2 minute presentation on a certain photographer that we were assigned to research. My photograhper was Cecil Beaton:
My Evaluation of the presentation on Walker Evans, Presented by Robert Perham:
Jacques Henri Lartigue (June 13, 1894 – September 12, 1986) was one of the most well known and famous photographers and painters, who originally came from a very wealthy French family and always carried his camera around with him. Whenever he didn't have his camera on him, which was on 1 or 2 moments in his time, he said that he would never get that particular shot again. It was once in a life time opportunity. Lartigue was known and famous for he is skills in photographing automobile races, planes and Parisian female fashion models. When the day came, and Lartigue asked his father for his very first camera, his father couldn't have been more proud and was extremely happy that someone in his family was keen on photography. As an extra bonus, once Lartigue had been given his first camera, whenever he photographed things or specific places, his father because of his great wealth and connections, always made sure his son had an front or up-row seat so as to to able to capture the most action. Lartigue always kept a diary of the work the had shot and would write about his photographs in it next to actual artistic drawings of what he had photographed.
The most interesting thing about Lartigue was that he didn't become famous for his photography or his art work in his home country of France. When Lartigue was in America, after WWII, someone saw his work that he had taken in his youth and immediatly thought that Lartigue had a true talent and an eye for photography. By this time, Lartigue was already over half way in age, yet he became famous and continued taking photo after photo after photo all the way up to his death in 1986, when he had reach the age of 92.
Examples of Lartigue's work:
What I thought about Lartigue's Work:
Lartigue's work as a photographer is actually one of the only photographers from, the 19th and 20th centuries that I am really attracted to. He expresses himself in such a way that its like a biography. To be able to have such a wealthy father who knew all sorts of people and had special contacts, ensuring that his creative son had an up-row seat, made is work look all the better. These particular photos of Lartigue's work are some of the ones that I took a real liking to. I could mention something about all of them but, there about three that stand out to me as a much more artistic and creative view. The image of the two old liner looking ships that use to take the long journeys across the Atlantic, with the woman in a boat in front of them, is one out of the three that I am really keen on. Maybe that's because I am fascinated by the old great and traditional transatlantic liners from the golden age and how they worked. Anything to do with the golden age of transatlantic travel, whether it was items, photographs, videos or even just bits and bobs, I am really fascinated by. It also makes me a little jealous that I was never able to see such beautiful works of art. The next image of Lartigue's that I am quite attracted to is the one just after the one of the three ships, the one the workers, working and standing in the trees all around the lovely old car. For me that is a true portrait of it's time period. It is quite hard to find those sort of photos taken by famous people, nowadays. I think that the setting of the photo is really great and that its got a really lovely atmosphere around it.
The last photo that I would particularly like to mention is the very bottom one of the ones I have uploaded. The one of the line of all the old gentlemen, sitting in this old pub, smoking either cigarettes, cigars or a pipe, probably in England, the little info take under the photo didn't mention the location of where it was taken, but I think it shows a true work of art relating to what gentlemen use to do when they had finished their days work. It has got a very deep death of field, due to the fact Lartigue was directly facing the sun and glass can magnify light quite a lot. Because of angle that some of men are sitting, it reminds me of the photo of Winston Churchill, that was taken of him, sitting at a similar angle holding a smoking cigar at his desk at no, 10 Downing Street, London during WWII, taken by famous photographer Cecil Beaton.
The Venue, the gallery itself:
Presentation on Famous Photographer, Cecil Beaton:
Task: Our task was to create, practice and then to present a 2 minute presentation on a certain photographer that we were assigned to research. My photograhper was Cecil Beaton:
Photo of me doing my presentation on Cecil Beaton:
Evaluation of my presentation done by my fellow class mate, Ben Jenkins
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Gallery Reports:
Date: 05/12/13
Gallery Report on "The Photographers Gallery" on the photographer Henri Jacques Lartigue and the venue itself:
Jacques Henri Lartigue (June 13, 1894 – September 12, 1986) was one of the most well known and famous photographers and painters, who originally came from a very wealthy French family and always carried his camera around with him. Whenever he didn't have his camera on him, which was on 1 or 2 moments in his time, he said that he would never get that particular shot again. It was once in a life time opportunity. Lartigue was known and famous for he is skills in photographing automobile races, planes and Parisian female fashion models. When the day came, and Lartigue asked his father for his very first camera, his father couldn't have been more proud and was extremely happy that someone in his family was keen on photography. As an extra bonus, once Lartigue had been given his first camera, whenever he photographed things or specific places, his father because of his great wealth and connections, always made sure his son had an front or up-row seat so as to to able to capture the most action. Lartigue always kept a diary of the work the had shot and would write about his photographs in it next to actual artistic drawings of what he had photographed.
The most interesting thing about Lartigue was that he didn't become famous for his photography or his art work in his home country of France. When Lartigue was in America, after WWII, someone saw his work that he had taken in his youth and immediatly thought that Lartigue had a true talent and an eye for photography. By this time, Lartigue was already over half way in age, yet he became famous and continued taking photo after photo after photo all the way up to his death in 1986, when he had reach the age of 92.
Examples of Lartigue's work:
Lartigue's work as a photographer is actually one of the only photographers from, the 19th and 20th centuries that I am really attracted to. He expresses himself in such a way that its like a biography. To be able to have such a wealthy father who knew all sorts of people and had special contacts, ensuring that his creative son had an up-row seat, made is work look all the better. These particular photos of Lartigue's work are some of the ones that I took a real liking to. I could mention something about all of them but, there about three that stand out to me as a much more artistic and creative view. The image of the two old liner looking ships that use to take the long journeys across the Atlantic, with the woman in a boat in front of them, is one out of the three that I am really keen on. Maybe that's because I am fascinated by the old great and traditional transatlantic liners from the golden age and how they worked. Anything to do with the golden age of transatlantic travel, whether it was items, photographs, videos or even just bits and bobs, I am really fascinated by. It also makes me a little jealous that I was never able to see such beautiful works of art. The next image of Lartigue's that I am quite attracted to is the one just after the one of the three ships, the one the workers, working and standing in the trees all around the lovely old car. For me that is a true portrait of it's time period. It is quite hard to find those sort of photos taken by famous people, nowadays. I think that the setting of the photo is really great and that its got a really lovely atmosphere around it.
The last photo that I would particularly like to mention is the very bottom one of the ones I have uploaded. The one of the line of all the old gentlemen, sitting in this old pub, smoking either cigarettes, cigars or a pipe, probably in England, the little info take under the photo didn't mention the location of where it was taken, but I think it shows a true work of art relating to what gentlemen use to do when they had finished their days work. It has got a very deep death of field, due to the fact Lartigue was directly facing the sun and glass can magnify light quite a lot. Because of angle that some of men are sitting, it reminds me of the photo of Winston Churchill, that was taken of him, sitting at a similar angle holding a smoking cigar at his desk at no, 10 Downing Street, London during WWII, taken by famous photographer Cecil Beaton.
The Venue, the gallery itself:
All in all the gallery was very pleasant to walk through and see what was on display there. However, its location was a little weird. For a very smart and modern gallery, it was located on Ramillies Street, London which looks like and dingy old alley way. Inside it was very well set out. The lighting inside the gallery where Lartigue's work was was divided up into two different areas. There was one small square in a corner of the room that was in complete and total darkness, because his work was being shown digitally on a screen, therefore, the less light, the better you could see the images, as they were quite old and had quite a bit of digital noise trapped inside them. The rest of the gallery, was bathed in quite dimmed light, but you could easily see the pictures and the other people around you. In the middle of the gallery there was like a digital set of eye sockets, like looking through binoculars where you could see samples of Lartigues work that could only be displayed digitally and needed some sort of magnification to see them properly.
All in all the gallery was very well thought out and designed well and particularly the gallery where Lartigue's work was, was very well laid out. It was a good visit and I wouldn't mind going again.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Gallery Reports:
Date: 07/12/13
Gallery Report on the Wild Life Photographer of the Year, made up of a different variety of photographers, and a report on the Venue itself:
Having already visited the M-Shed on a previous occasion to view the Taylor Wessing Exhibition, I thought that writing about the Venue would be very easy, but I was wrong, The conditions that were under taken for the day I visited it back in September, were very different for when I visited the gallery only a few days ago. This time, there was a lot more work on display and as well as photographs there were cases of insects, butterflies, stuffed animals, like a badger, a fox, 2 owls and a fare few other exciting animals. The lighting in the exhibition room this time was much brighter than it was for the Taylor Wessing Exhibition, but the images were much more clustered together because there were so much more images on display this time. My two visits to the M-Shed were both at different timings of the day. The Taylor Wessing Exhibition I went to see at around 10am, which was just literally after the exhibition just opened up, so we were the only people there. Where as when we went all went as a class, just a few days ago there were loads more people, even though it was only just gone 11am. It was probably that the Wildlife photographer of the year, was a much more impressive exhibition and therefore would attract a load more people. All in all the M-Shed is a very good venue and provides a great number of attractions to the public.
Gallery Report on the Wild Life Photographer of the Year, made up of a different variety of photographers, and a report on the Venue itself:
Being an exhibition that was made up of a number of photographers, instead of just one person like my report on Henri Jacques Lartigue was, this one was just like the Taylor Wessing Exhibition that I did a report for. This exhibition was some what, some of the most amazing work on photography that I have ever seen in my life. I had seem similar things in other places, but this was totally mind-blowing. The close-ups, the deep and shallow depths of field, the shutter timings and their locations were amazing. I suppose in the past I have always had a passion for wildlife, but this is the most amazing and stunning view that I have had of wildlife in my life. There is one photographer particularly who does specialise in wild life, who I have always had a passion for. Simon King, about 7 odd years ago, I did a project on some of his work and his abilities and skills, just made me even more fascinated by his work. Now by looking at this Wildlife Photographer of the Year's work, I have become even more fascinated by the work.
Here are some examples of the work that I saw at the Exhibition. Maybe once you have had a look at the them you will see, how blown away I was about these amazing works of art.
These photos are just amazing. Particularly the ones of the lion cup, the green sea turtle and the dugong feeding on the sea bed. Just wonderful and extremely magical. I know that I could never be as clever as those photographers were to get those sort of shots. Their colours, their depths of field, and their timing. What the artists must have had to go through, in order to get these photos is amazing photos is beyond me. My guess is that they were all taken over a long period of time and that the artists must have taken multiple shots in order to get just the right one.
I will be honest here, I have always found it hard to look at other artists work and to write about what I think about it. After seeing this particular exhibition, my way of thinking towards other artists work has become even more challenging because what these artists did, was extraordinary. Their work is truly beautiful, attracting, magically and most of all, very skilled.
I would now like to talk about my favourite image out of the whole exhibition.
This photo was called : "The pull of the Sea":
You are probably wondering, why out of all those amazing photos, why on earth did I choose this one. I chose it because it has a certain characteristic about, that is different to all of the others that I saw there. There is one other skill with photography that I want to try to practice and that is being able to capture shots where the water is smooth, silky and shiny. This image displays that really beautifully. The weather adds affect to that. If it was a sunny day, the effect would be the same, nor would it be as good. The grey clouds for this kind of photo is what makes it work. Also all of those blocks of ice, makes me think of crystals. I have always had a passion for crystals and even though these are blocks of ice, the resemble crystals really clearly and to be pull by this amazing water is just wonderful. In photography it is all based around lighting. This particular photo wouldn't look as good if the lighting was bright and clear. To have it dark and slightly misty, makes the scene of the photo more powerful and attracting to look at.
The Venue its self:
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Gallery Reports:
Date: 07/12/13
Gallery Report on the Exhibition on Display at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. The History of Photography.
Gallery Report on the Exhibition on Display at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. The History of Photography.
This exhibition that was on display and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, was also one of the most impressive exhibitions that I have seen. It had a range of photographs dating as far back to the days of the father of modern photography, William Fox Talbot who was alive from 1800 - 1877. This was the man who created modern film and developed the processes.
there wear a lot of impressive works on display in this exhibition and what i liked abut it is how it went in stages from the early day of modern photography to what modern photography is now at present day.
Here some examples of what was on display there.
All of these works were truly beautiful and were really amazing to look at. I found it really wonderful to be able to look at and through the aspects of photography over the years. The first photo is definitely a resemblance to a photo of Fox Talbot's. An enlargement version of a film negative that would have been take on a pinhole camera.
The one photo that really stood out for me was the one of bouquet of flowers. Sepia isn't the best way to display photographs, but in those days, that is what photographs came out as and there was nothing anybody could do to make it look a bit different. Now with modern technology, I can tell that the image has had some manipulation done to it or had some repairing done to it because if it hadn't the image would be all torn and worn out. The depth of field for that particular photo is also quite balanced. It has an equal amount of light and ark patches and as it was quite sharp, I can imagine that it had a shutter at around 1/60th to 1/80th of a second. You can't see it but I think that there was a little bit of digital noise captured in that photo as well.
The Venue Itself:
The V&A is an extraordinary museum of amazing artefacts and is full of history as well as day to day things. Where this specific gallery was, was in a high ceilinged room and had rather bright lights on but set to be very dimmed due to the light damaging the photos if they were exposed to large amounts of light for too long. I was very impressed at how well it had all be well thought out and how equally spaced out all of the photos and their information tags were. It was a very good exhibition and there were samples of work from all years past in all sorts of amazing places. Traditionally, it being a British gallery, there were samples of photographic work from both WWI & WWII. Something that I never tire of seeing, because I like to see what life was like during those days, even though I would have hated to live during both of those time periods.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
5 minute Presentations:
Date: 16/12/13
5 minute Presentation, Coach and Presenter forms:
5 minute Presentation, Coach and Presenter forms:
- My Coaching form, towards Robert Perham who is doing a presentation on Bill Viola
- Ben Jenkins's Coaching form, towards me and I am doing my presentation on Jeremy Makinson.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Book Review:
Book Review:
Date: 16/12/13
The Book I have chose is: "Still Life" by "Irving Penn"
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Date of Publication: 2001 by Irving Penn
The book in general and how the set of the book is laid out:
The book in general is quite well laid out book, however it is different to most of the other photographic books that I have had a look and explore through. It starts off with information about the book then it goes into about 5-7 pages of the Irving's life, some of it related to the work in the book, then immediately it goes into his work. Page after page it is just 1 photograph on each page, with just a little caption to the side of the image or on the opposite page. Normally when I have seen photographic books, They are generally of a layout that is all mixed up. This means that you will some times have a whole photo per page then with a lot of text on the opposite or next page, or you will have a photo then with text next to it or underneath the image. This book "Still Life, by Irving Penn" is one that I haven't see in a long time, which is merely just an image book. In general the book is really creative and demonstrates the artist's expressions really well. The atmosphere of the book is really good, and that is because Irving has set the book out in a mixture of coloured, black and white and sepia type images. This proves that he has tried different techniques. Even though the main theme of the entire book is STILL LIFE, he mainly branches his book out in a mixture of foods, cigarettes, flowers, bones and some other things.
(Are the photographs a disparate(mixed up collection) from the same photographer:
Is there a theme to the photographs:
Is it in Black & White or Colour or Both:)
The answer, are the photographs a disparate(mixed up) collection from the same photographer? the answer is yes. The answer, is there a theme to the photographs? the answer is yes. The answer, is it in black & white or colour or both? the answer is yes. All three of these questions, for this book "Still Life, by Irving Penn" are actually all combined into one, as they actually all relate to each other in a certain way. The photographs are a disparate collection, but the book is actually divided up in to certain specific themes and there is a mixture of the photos being in black & white, colour and both. At the end of the day all of the photographs themes combine together to create the theme STILL LIFE. It is important for a photographic book to have a specific or a set theme, but this book is specifically demonstrating the quality of the artists work and his ability of photographing close-up. Even though the book is focusing on the theme "Still Life" I have spotted another theme inside the book as a whole. Irving is demonstrating his technical skills in experimenting with deep and shallow depths of field in macro(close-up) photography. In total, this book Irving is demonstrating and showing his ability in capturing fine quality images using different techniques. As you can see some of these were studio shoots of things and others were done in their own set background. No matter what theme they come under as individual photographs, but what they all do are combining together as one whole theme.
A selection of photos from the book that I liked and then a description of why I liked them:
DESCRIPTION of why I chose these photos:
I know that there are a lot of images here and you wonder why I chose so many. I chose this many because all of them stood out really well in the book. They express themselves in a way that is really attracting to look at. They are a set of studio images and outside images, meaning that they were taken in their set location, like in a shop window. The all have great depths-of-field and good set exposures. They are all extremely creative ideas, some falling under the same theme, like food, bones, tobacco flora and fauna. The most attracting photo of the selection that I have particularly chosen is the one of the crystal diamond shape water drops coming out of the metal water tap. How he did that I really wonder. Its really creative and attracting. The ones of the tobacco are not particularly attracting to me personally, but they have a certain effect and style to them which makes them really cool and clever looking photographs.
Read the texts from the book and write a comment on what I read: (Write what effect its like looking at images & text from a book compared to the internet or in a gallery.)
The way that the texts are laid out in this book are quite simple. There are only 9 pages throughout the whole book, all starting at the beginning and ending before any images appear. All of which have a sufficient number of paragraphs of text on them. The texts are not broken up into long or short sentences and all the paragraphs have not got a line space between them. They have all been put together so as to probably make them all flow together, by keeping them together the author doesn't want break up what he is writing. In other words he doesn't want it to go off track. He has the autobiography first then he has all of the photographs, following on from what he has written. Generally when you go to an art/photography gallery, you have a big layout of text/information, just beside the main door and then the images dotted all around the gallery with little information labels attached to them or nothing at all. After the 9 pages of text/info, there is a photograph per page either labelled or not labelled. At the end of the end of the book, after all of the images, Irving has put a list of all his acknowledgements then the publishing information along with all the copyright stats. Generally, a normal photographic has all of its copyright and publishing info at the beginning of a book and not at the end.
In the past when I have looked at photographic books they have had all the pages of text and images all mixed up. You also get this kind of layout when looking at images on the internet, and sometimes in a gallery, but not all the time. This book particularly has a layout of its text and images that I feel is good for a photographer to look through. It gives a good perspective.
The way that the texts are laid out in this book are quite simple. There are only 9 pages throughout the whole book, all starting at the beginning and ending before any images appear. All of which have a sufficient number of paragraphs of text on them. The texts are not broken up into long or short sentences and all the paragraphs have not got a line space between them. They have all been put together so as to probably make them all flow together, by keeping them together the author doesn't want break up what he is writing. In other words he doesn't want it to go off track. He has the autobiography first then he has all of the photographs, following on from what he has written. Generally when you go to an art/photography gallery, you have a big layout of text/information, just beside the main door and then the images dotted all around the gallery with little information labels attached to them or nothing at all. After the 9 pages of text/info, there is a photograph per page either labelled or not labelled. At the end of the end of the book, after all of the images, Irving has put a list of all his acknowledgements then the publishing information along with all the copyright stats. Generally, a normal photographic has all of its copyright and publishing info at the beginning of a book and not at the end.
In the past when I have looked at photographic books they have had all the pages of text and images all mixed up. You also get this kind of layout when looking at images on the internet, and sometimes in a gallery, but not all the time. This book particularly has a layout of its text and images that I feel is good for a photographer to look through. It gives a good perspective.
Please include your own feelings towards the book, what I liked or disliked about it, What is its Mood?:
My own personal feelings towards the book is that it gives a lot of detail and atmosphere, to the individual viewer, looking at it. All of the individual viewers opinions being different as we all have different thoughts and feelings towards certain things. About 90% of Irving's still life work in this book I am quite keen on. His photographs of his cigarettes and of cigarette packets I am not too keen on personally, for myself as an individual, but the effects and techniques he uses are really clever and have a real effect on the viewer. I am a little confused at why he has called his book "Still Life, because some of his photographs, only a few though, don't really fall under that theme. Just a few would fit under a different theme of either food, rubbish, messy images and something else as well.
The mood that this book gives me when I look at it, particularly makes me feel quite attracted to artist. The processes that he goes that he goes through, must be really different for each image. Throughout the book, the majority of the images ante studio images, due to their white or black backgrounds. Only a few images are taken outside of a studio set. Having a mixture of studio set and non studio set images in a book gives a certain impact on the viewer, telling and showing them just what the artist can do with his camera. Whether its studio work, outdoor work, macro photography, portraiture or landscapes.
All photography books have different moods inside them. Generally when you look at a book of truly beautiful landscapes, you feel really happy inside, as you are seeing some of the sites where the photographer/artist has been. When you look at a book of clever macro photographs, you wonder as the viewer just how close did the photographer had to his subject in order to get his shot. If that was me, it would make me feel like, why couldn't I try to do that.
My own personal feelings towards the book is that it gives a lot of detail and atmosphere, to the individual viewer, looking at it. All of the individual viewers opinions being different as we all have different thoughts and feelings towards certain things. About 90% of Irving's still life work in this book I am quite keen on. His photographs of his cigarettes and of cigarette packets I am not too keen on personally, for myself as an individual, but the effects and techniques he uses are really clever and have a real effect on the viewer. I am a little confused at why he has called his book "Still Life, because some of his photographs, only a few though, don't really fall under that theme. Just a few would fit under a different theme of either food, rubbish, messy images and something else as well.
The mood that this book gives me when I look at it, particularly makes me feel quite attracted to artist. The processes that he goes that he goes through, must be really different for each image. Throughout the book, the majority of the images ante studio images, due to their white or black backgrounds. Only a few images are taken outside of a studio set. Having a mixture of studio set and non studio set images in a book gives a certain impact on the viewer, telling and showing them just what the artist can do with his camera. Whether its studio work, outdoor work, macro photography, portraiture or landscapes.
All photography books have different moods inside them. Generally when you look at a book of truly beautiful landscapes, you feel really happy inside, as you are seeing some of the sites where the photographer/artist has been. When you look at a book of clever macro photographs, you wonder as the viewer just how close did the photographer had to his subject in order to get his shot. If that was me, it would make me feel like, why couldn't I try to do that.
Final overall summary falling towards the book:
My final summary falling towards the book, is that it is a very informative, colourful, creative and a very stylish book of photography. It had a high impact on me because it was really colourful to look through and to see how many different ideas and techniques he used to complete his book. The choice of photograph that Irving chose as his front cover I thought was really clever. He had a selection of fruits and vegetables frozen and then he placed them up onto of each other to create some form of attractive shape.
It is a really informing book and it has actually inspired me to try out some of the techniques that Irving Penn has done, but keeping them to a limit without going to over the top. All in all a really lovely book on photography and has the potential to inspire many people who look at it.
On the day of the deadline/Review on 21/01/2014, I wrote notes on the discussion we had.
My final summary falling towards the book, is that it is a very informative, colourful, creative and a very stylish book of photography. It had a high impact on me because it was really colourful to look through and to see how many different ideas and techniques he used to complete his book. The choice of photograph that Irving chose as his front cover I thought was really clever. He had a selection of fruits and vegetables frozen and then he placed them up onto of each other to create some form of attractive shape.
It is a really informing book and it has actually inspired me to try out some of the techniques that Irving Penn has done, but keeping them to a limit without going to over the top. All in all a really lovely book on photography and has the potential to inspire many people who look at it.
On the day of the deadline/Review on 21/01/2014, I wrote notes on the discussion we had.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
5 Minute Presentation:
5 Minute Presentation:
Date: 06/01/14
Pre-week Presentation Peer Evaluation:
Ben Jenkins's Evaluation of my presentation on JEREMY MAKINSON:
My Evaluation on Rob Perham and his presentation is on BILL VIOLA:
City of Bristol College:
Pre-week Presentation Peer Evaluation:
Ben Jenkins's Evaluation of my presentation on JEREMY MAKINSON:
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Manipulated Images:
Manipulated Images:
Date: 06/01/14
Research on Manipulated Images: (Images have had their meaning changed by digital manipulation, for certain purposes.)
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What has been changed from the original to the published image, is quite easy to spot. What the artist has done is used the burn tool to darken the image which has made its contrast stronger and then the artist has used the dodge tool to light up certain areas like the edges of the clouds, the tall tree bush and then the trees and bushes in the background. Why they didn't published the original one is because maybe the artist thought that the manipulated one attracted more attention to the viewer.
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What the artist has done with this image is slightly different to the one above. They have pasted the image onto a different kind of background and even more weirdly, the photo looks actually more like a very clever painting. The soldier's coat is different, his hat is different and his face is slightly different. it is a completely different image with only one or two features from the original image.
(300 word analysis regarding the morals of
changing or manipulating these types of photographs that aim to deceive those
viewing it)
There are many reasons why an artist would
want to change or manipulate their image in order for it to look better than the
original. It has certainly happened to me quite a few times and I must say that
adds just that little bit extra to the image. Extra clarity, colour, exposure
and deep and shallow depths-of-field.
They would do it, to avoid propaganda, which is
information of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a
particular political cause or point of view. For example, he was charged with
distributing enemy propaganda. They could do it because of persuasion. For
example, if you are in a commercial news business and you have a particular
photograph in front of you and you think that it is not quite powerful enough
to attract strong attention, then you might want to make a few adjustments to
the photo, to make it more dramatic. As you can see from the first image that I
found on the Internet, that is exactly what the artist has done to his image.
Given it a more dramatic impact so that the viewer sees it as a more attracting
image.
It could be just moral judgment, meaning
one is concerned with what is right or prudent, that can be derived from a
story, a piece of information or an experience: the moral of this story was that one must see the beauty in what
one has.
It could be that you as, the artist could
have been influenced by others work and ideas and that you want to try them out
for yourself. You as the artist may have taken a few really good photographs,
but they just don’t have that little bit of extra detail, that you really think
that they should have. I have taken quite a few photos before that are missing
just that little bit of extra something.
Manipulating images is good because you can
see what they look like as a pair, the original and the newly modified one. For
news images, they should never be altered, because then that will mean that you
are lying about you image. It is well known and common for news
photographers/printers to do this even though it is not acceptable.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
5 Minute Presentation:
5 Minute Presentation:
Date: 13/01/14
5 Minute Presentation on Jeremy Makinson:
Evaluation of how the presentation went:
Well, all in all I believe that this morning's 5 minute presentation was a much better improvement on my presenting skills than my 2 minute presentation which was back in November. Maybe that's because this time I had a much wider time period in presenting the show and I didn't fell like there was too much in the presentation. All of the information and pictures that I had in the show, fitted nicely within a time lapse of 5 minutes. Also, maybe its because this photographer, Jeremy Makinson is actually a photographer who I have personally met and done some work with in the past. Its my belief, that if you personally meet someone, it has a much bigger impact on you than it does just researching someone in a book or on the internet. When I did my 2 minute presentation, I did enjoy it but it was on a photographer that I had never heard of before, but as I research him, I found out that he had taken some very famous photographs.
Besides that fact I wasn't feeling 100% whilst presenting my 5 minute presentation, I really did enjoy telling my fellow classmates how I knew Jeremy and how I liked his work. My peer accessor reckoned that I did much better for my 5 minute presentation than I did for 2 minute presentation. He rated my presentation at 8.5 / 10.
My commentary/script: (what I talked about in my presentation):
Me Giving my presentation on Jeremy Makinson, 1 photo before presentation started and then 1 photo taken as I started.
5 Minute Presentation on Jeremy Makinson:
Well, all in all I believe that this morning's 5 minute presentation was a much better improvement on my presenting skills than my 2 minute presentation which was back in November. Maybe that's because this time I had a much wider time period in presenting the show and I didn't fell like there was too much in the presentation. All of the information and pictures that I had in the show, fitted nicely within a time lapse of 5 minutes. Also, maybe its because this photographer, Jeremy Makinson is actually a photographer who I have personally met and done some work with in the past. Its my belief, that if you personally meet someone, it has a much bigger impact on you than it does just researching someone in a book or on the internet. When I did my 2 minute presentation, I did enjoy it but it was on a photographer that I had never heard of before, but as I research him, I found out that he had taken some very famous photographs.
Besides that fact I wasn't feeling 100% whilst presenting my 5 minute presentation, I really did enjoy telling my fellow classmates how I knew Jeremy and how I liked his work. My peer accessor reckoned that I did much better for my 5 minute presentation than I did for 2 minute presentation. He rated my presentation at 8.5 / 10.
My commentary/script: (what I talked about in my presentation):
- I talked about why I chose Jeremy as my selected photographer, specifically what he is best known for, what he has done, how I got to know him, and the work experience week that I had with him.
- I then talked some of the big years that he had experienced, particularly 1989, where he had two major things happen to him. 1st he had "The National Wedding Photographer of the Year Award" followed by being "Awarded a Fellowship of British Institute of Professional Photographers" and then in 1990 he was "Awarded a Fellowship of Master Photographers Association"
- I then showed and talked about the four different styles of work that Jeremy did. One of Jeremy's specific ways in photographing is using the natural surroundings around him
- I then talked about what aspects of Jeremy's work that I particularly liked and that one day I might like to try his methods out for my self.
- I then discussed my favourite image out of all the ones I had displayed out of all Jeremy's work and talked about why I specifically liked that particular photo.
- I then discussed the week of work experience that I had with Jeremy back in 2010.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Reading an Image:
Reading an Image:
Date: 16/01/14
Reading Images: (The saying "A picture is worth a thousand words" is never more true than with a photograph. Photographs have tremendous power to communicate information to people. But they also have tremendous power to communicate misinformation, especially if we're not careful how we read them. Reading photographs presents a unique set of challenges. Students can learn how to use questions to decode, evaluate and respond to photographic images.)
This task is about us students being giving an Image from somewhere and writing a 1,000 word essay, using certain pointers in our task sheet, guessing in what we see, then to go to the LRC to find the image in the book, "The Photo Book" and getting all of the true accurate information.
My Image, Photograph of the Beetles, taken by photographer Peter Blake:
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (often shortened to Sgt. Pepper) is the eighth studio album by English rock band the Beatles. Released in June 1967, the album, which included songs such as "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", and "A Day in the Life", now has over 30 million albums sold. Continuing the artistic maturation seen on the band's album Revolver (1966), Sgt. Pepper further departed from the conventional pop rock idiom of the time and incorporated balladry, psychedelic, music hall, and symphonic influences.
My Image, Photograph of the Beetles, taken by photographer Peter Blake:
Date: 20/01/14 – 25/01/2014
- What is in the Picture:
- (Who or What do you see)
What I see in the
picture is a large crowd of famous people, all standing together on brilliantly
coloured bandstand, with the name BEATLES across the front of the bandstand. I
can also see that the image has been slightly manipulated to look weird to the
viewer. I say that because there are some people in the image who are smaller
than others and even smaller than the bandstand. There are two possible
explanations at how this one particular image came together. The crowd of
people including the 4 music artists the BEATLES, were taken at a separate time
to the bandstand. That is just my theory though. It could be possible that Peter Blake, the
photographer of this particular image shot it as a whole to begin with.
- (When was the photograph taken)
- (What is happening in the picture)
What’s happening in
the image, is that we have got a huge number of people all wearing really
extravagant and vibrantly coloured clothing, all hustled together and standing
in their best posing position, all of them looking different. Some happy, some
grumpy, some looking like, why the hell am I doing this. Some of them looking
like they would rather not be there and some are looking like that they are
having the time of their lives.
With this particular
image I fond it quite hard to interpret and describe what is actually happening
in the image. Possibly other people may find interpreting this photo easier or
harder, but this is how I found it interpreting what exactly was happening in
the image.
- (Where was the photograph taken)
Exactly where the
photo was taken, I am uncertain of, just like when it was taken I was uncertain
of but the one thing I can say about where it was taken, is that is was taken
somewhere in the USA. The reason why I say the photo was taken in the USA is
because the group the Beatles is from America and the palm tree in the back
corner of the picture looks like one of those palm trees that you can only find
in America and the islands like Hawaii and the Caribbean. Also apart from the
group the Beatles, there are another bunch of famous American people in the
image. Names I am unsure of.
Location of where a
photograph is taken is always the main key part in an image. All of the photos
I have ever taken, the where part, related to image has always been my main top
priority in remembering and acknowledging.
- (Why did the photographer select these particular elements to
include in the photograph? What don’t I see?)
- (Why did the photographer emphasize certain elements and not
others? What’s in focus? Is only one person or element in focus, or are
many elements in focus?) – Documentary or Portrait.
- Why did the photographer take the picture at this moment? What
happened before or after the picture was taken?)
- (Why did the photographer take the picture from this angle? What
might the scene have looked like from another vantage point – from left,
right, behind, above or below?)
Why the photographer
chose these particular elements to include in the photograph is maybe because
this particular set up and these particular people stood out the most and they
where the highlight of a season. What I don’t see is any simple colours or any
simple clothing. This was obviously a special photograph taken at a special
moment in time and had to be set-up for this particular moment. The
photographer emphasized these particular moments as it was at the precise
moment that he clicked the camera shutter button, that everyone in the picture
was still, happy and all in focus. Because of the shape of this particular
image in isn’t set for a documentary or a portrait. There is only one thing
that I know of that uses this particular shape. This image has been designed
for a CD album cover. Why the artist took the image at this particular moment,
well what happened before is that all of the celebrities and objects must have
had to get into a comfortable position without upsetting the other person’s
space. After the image was taken, because everyone was so close to each other
and quite squashed together, they all probably took a deep breath of relief and
then all fell down on the display stand. Or they were positioned in a way,
which didn’t make all fall over each other.
Why the photograph was
taken from this particular angle, obviously to the photographers’ eye, it
captured all the people and objects in the most detail. Sometimes when
photographs have been taken dead straight on, they can have an impact on making
the photo look a little boring. At least it seems that way to some people but
not all. If the artist had taken the photo from right slightly or from the left
slightly, he might have lost site of some of the other people in the image and
some of them might come out looking a little squashed. In this case, this
particular photo works being shot straight on.
- (What is the photograph’s composition?
- What moment in time does the photograph capture?
- What is the setting of this photograph?
- What is the focal point of the photograph?)
The composition of
this particular photograph is set up in a way that we have got a huge crowd of
people all set-up standing on this amazingly coloured stand all posing and
smiling in their best way.
The moment in time
that this photograph represents is a particularly set to show how colourful and
creative some photographer/artists were during that particular time periods. At
least that is what I see before me. Because if its slightly grainy composition,
its colour and it’s location that is what I think the aspect “moment in time” means
to me for this particular photograph.
The setting of this
photograph is set in a very beautiful beach side avenue in America and has been
brought to life even more due to all of the amazing colours of the amazingly
decorated stand and the different types of dark and bright clothing that
everyone is wearing
The focal point of
this photograph is bang right in the centre of the image and slightly spreads a
little bit in each direction up, down left and right. There are some parts of
the image that you can quite plainly see that are not in focus and because of
the texture of the image it looks quite messed up.
Evaluation:
This is probably one
of the most challenging tasks that I have ever had to undergo in the education
of photography. Reading an image from quite a long time ago can always prove to
be a tough challenge, even if you are an expert.
This challenge opened
my knowledge in how to research a photograph from ages back in time and learn
what they are all about.
Hopefully, now in the
near future I hope that the next time that I am given an image to read and
identify, I will have a much clearer idea of how things work and not have too
much of a challenge.
Information from the Site "Wikipedia" about the image:
| Released | 1 June 1967 | ||||
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| Recorded | 6 December 1966 – 21 April 1967, EMI and Regent Sound studios, London | ||||
| Genre | Psychedelic rock, baroque pop,[2]rock[3] | ||||
| Length | 39:42 | ||||
| Label | Parlophone (UK), Capitol (US) | ||||
| Producer | George Martin | ||||
| The Beatles chronology | |||||
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| The Beatles North American chronology | |||||
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Pastiches' of this image:
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
(Communication in Art & Design)
(Communication in Art & Design)
Graffiti
Debate Essay
Date: 30/01/14 - 10/02/2014
Title: Is Graffiti ART or is Graffiti not
ART:
For over 50 plus years there has been
debate on whether Graffiti is art or Vandalism. There have been various
discussions, debates arguments both for and against and I have discovered that
we can now say that is equally 50% for both FOR and AGAINST.
Unless you are a believer in art itself,
you cannot really see the creativity that Graffiti gives to certain people.
From looking at other people’s opinions and thinking about my own I agree with,
that Graffiti is art, when it is done in the correct area. If it is done by
just on person, I can see if that he or she has done it alone, that can be
considered a little bit of a bad thing, but over all Graffiti is a beautiful
thing and can be considered a way of one’s certain expression and there is also
a very strong sense of freedom involved when creating Graffiti.
However there are many people in this world
who believe that Graffiti is illegal and should be banned in all places. They
say, “if the person is so interested in
painting on buildings and other property, they should do it on paper or
official murals. Then I would call it art. Doing something illegal should not
be called artistic and beautiful in any way, shape or form. It is wrong and
shouldn’t be done. Everything beautiful should be right” and legal. In many
ways what the people against Graffiti say is correct in certain aspects.
Tagging and painting over property can have serious repercussions. If it is
abandoned property and has been long dead for a while then it is acceptable to
make it your work of art in any way of expressing yourself. If it were in an
area of residential homes then you would have to be a lot more careful.
If you were caught tagging over someone’s
residential area, the repercussions that one would receive would be huge, receiving
fines at an unbelievable height.
You must always be careful. If you are
going to go out and tag something or create something, at least have some sort
of idea where you can do it, where it isn’t considered to be vandalism. At the
same time, people who are for Graffiti and think that it is one’s personal way
about expressing ones self, would think that if you just did Graffiti in an
area that not many people go to, people wouldn’t see how creative and
interesting it can be. Graffiti can actually bring out the talents of many
people.
People who are for Graffiti would probably
see this display as an amazing work of art and would think that someone or a
group of taggers have been really busy to create this mural, whilst using their
expressed feelings. That is what most creative people would think and see.
However if this was a residential area, as we can see there are public rubbish
bins in the photo, so if someone or a group of people were coming through here
and they were anti Graffiti then this would be a huge problem.
Some people say that Graffiti is wrong.
Although it might be wrong and people say that it is, that doesn’t mean that it
isn’t creative art. If someone makes a huge mural with awesome detail and colour or
just the simple colours of black and white, would you not call that person an artist?
Some people would definitely call him/her an artist. On the other the hand,
someone who doesn’t have a creative side to their mind would think it is just
vandalism. “Art is created by commission or on the property the owner wants the
art made on. Most graffiti is done without the consent or permission of the
owner of which the graffiti appears on.” People say that graffiti is one of the
hardest forms of art because erase it like you can on paper. People have mixed
minds.
(Famous Arts, related to
Graffiti):
Some works of Graffiti have actually become
quite famous and have attracted quite a bit of attention to the public. These
particular images, all taken from different spots in Bristol, UK have actually
had quite a large impact on people and have captured a lot different feelings
towards them. 2 of them I have actually used for my own purposes when I did my
GCSE photography examination. I used the one of the teddy about to through
something at the police guards and then I also used the one of the naked man
hanging out of the window, trying to stay hidden.
The other two I have never see before but I
think that they are quite creative and have different impacts on different
people. I don’t know so much about the one of the little girl sitting
underneath the two red shaped heart balloons. All I can say about it is that it
is really creative and colourful and the artist was shot in the act. The one of
the sign “Graffiti is a crime” with the boy standing on the man’s back, I find
quite a bit ironic, because that symbolises the big debate whether Graffiti is
art or not. The sign says it is and yet a boy and a man have been sprayed on
below the sign. That is how is see this particular tagging.
This debate whether Graffiti is art or not
art, will continue to go on for years to come. People will continue saying that
it is a way of expressing one’s creative self and some people say that it is
vandalism and disrespectful and shouldn’t be allowed.
My Opinion on Graffiti:
My opinion of graffiti has changed over the years. When I first
started seeing Graffiti, I thought that I was quite a weird thing to see and I
didn’t really see the point of it. It was basically just messy art in my
opinion. Over these last few years, I have seen more and more Graffiti and I
have sort of taken a small liking to it. I can see that it is a creative thing
to do and that it is a way for people to express themselves in a certain way. What
I still don't understand about it is that ,why they do it more and more and the
years go by. Yes I know that it is a little bit of fun but at the same time it
can have a bad effect on people. Sometimes when I see really nasty pictures and
nasty swore words I think, why do they do this. They are just being a bit
stupid.
This debate will continue to go on for years to come and some day,
maybe the 50, 50 percentages may change to one side or the other. For now I
think that those who enjoy tagging should continue but just be careful about
where they do it and those who think that it is vandalism and disrespectful
should keep on telling high people that this needs to stop one day.
(Bibliography)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLvWJ7jaQgU
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwVMRwfroqc
- http://www.debate.org/opinions/is-graffiti-art
- http://rethinkurban.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/slashthis.jpg
- http://www.nathanielsmithphotography.com/Portfolio/gallery/i-L5mhcLB/0/L/IMG_0880_1_2_tonemapped-L.jpg
- http://onebigphoto.com/graffiti-street/
- http://c300221.r21.cf1.rackcdn.com/bristol-graffiti-my-30ft-wall-at-upfest-1343425015_b.jpg
- http://news.images.itv.com/image/file/80055/article_9c8db5e161d05565_1345387733_9j-4aaqsk.jpeg
- http://www.danielpomfret.com/graffiti/album/slides/Banksy%20Street%20Art%20Facade,%20Stokes%20Croft,%20Bristol%203370.JPG
- http://artfulhelix.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/banksy.jpg
- http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/images/localworld/ugc-images/276268/Article/images/18963480/4841119.jpg
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_graffiti
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Triptych:
Date: 24/02/14
Triptych Photographs. An image where you have 3 separate parts of one image split up to form the photograph.
Triptych Photographs. An image where you have 3 separate parts of one image split up to form the photograph.
For this exercise we had to do two different triptychs. 1 triptych of 3 separate photographs showing different things of something that represents that particular person in general, then we had to take an image of somewhere and split that up into the 3 separate parts the centre image being a square shape and then the two sides being a portrait shape.
Triptych of the three things that represent me:
Triptych of the three things that represent me:
A watch, Gibraltar and a map of Spain
I chose these as my triptychs because I always wear this particular watch, I visit Gibraltar quite a lot and Spain is actually my home country.
Triptych of a certain location, split up in the the 3 separate pieces. One square shape in the centre and then 2 portraits on the side.
The view from the top of the road, leading to my grandparents house, Marbella, Spain.
Evaluation of this little project:
I have never done triptychs before, but I had done something similar to a project I did for one of my AS Level coursework. To finally have the official name makes me think and feel like I now have a clearer understanding of what this particular exercise meant. Taking the photograph is the easy part, doing the adjustments in photoshop os the hard bit, but actually when you look at the picture it is quite simple process. What you have to do is, in photoshop, is open the image and then split it up into three different parts. The centre part, being a square shape and then the two outer parts being a portrait shape. You then have to combine them together, make sure when doing this process, you check the line connections and line the photo up. Then you push them apart to create the seperted triptych. All in all a really enjoyable exercise and and is something that I want to try out for my self a lot more often. When some one other than my self, sees these images then would see my as someone who always likes to know the time and travels a lot to other countries.
