City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
(Reflections with Shop windows, Mirrors and Water):
Date: 04/03/14
Contact sheet of all the images I took:
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Being introduced to a new topic called Reflections, by capturing them in Shop Windows, Water and through a mirror.
Today I went out and about with my little handheld camera, so as to be able to use one hand for holding the camera and the other hand to position the little mirror that I took with me. I took a few little shots of reflections through shop windows and did get a few good ones, but my reflection shots, using the little mirror came out better and I decided to focus on that for the main part of my shooting.
Contact sheet of all the images I took:
First Original Image:
Photoshop Process:
Finalised Image:
2nd Original Image:
Photoshop Process:
Finalised Image:
3rd Original Image:
Photoshop Process:
Finalised Image:
Evaluation of Mirror Reflection Shoot:
For my first shoot of reflections, with using a mirror, I thought that it was quite a really interesting process. To go out with just a little mirror and photograph parts that could be reflected was really fun. A lot of the things that I shot with the mirror came out really well and I thought that it had been an really creative activity. Apart from shooting with a mirror I also shot a few things that were reflected out of the window of certain shops. I got a few good ones, but they didn't come out as well as the ones that had been reflected with using a mirror.
The next time that I go out and shoot I am going to focus on shooting through shop as well as hopefully, maybe some water reflections as well.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
(Reflections with Shop windows, Mirrors and Water):
Date: 13/03/14
Research on Specific Reflection (experimental imagery) photographers:
Tom Storm, known for capturing reflections inside bubbles.
Quote: “World in a Bubble” is a very nice project by American freelance photographer "Tom Storm", who has been going around the world, camera in hands, in order to take pictures of bubbles and capture their reflections. Crowds form whenever he is working, as he follows these floating bubbles with his camera pressed onto his eye. “It’s photography. It’s a great social experiment. It’s a show. It’s all Natural”. There are no digital manipulations aside from cropping and exposure adjustments, and the results are very surprising. Here are some of his pictures. Enjoy! - See more at: http://www.zillamag.com/art/world-in-a-bubble-by-tom-storm/#sthash.C2remdnz.dpuf
The artist:
Research on Specific Reflection (experimental imagery) photographers:
Tom Storm, known for capturing reflections inside bubbles.
The artist:
What I think of Tom Storm's work:
In all of the assignments that I have written, mentioning where an artists' work is creative, when I look at Storm's work, I see that he goes beyond the level of extreme creativity. His work is extremely creative and artistic and fantabulous. To be able to capture the fullest details of a reflected image inside the small sphere of a bubble is unbelievable. It's like it's impossible, but he can somehow capture it. His work is by far, some of the best artistic and creative work that I have ever come across. I could never be able to try to do what he does.
Eugene Atget, known for photographing reflections inside shop windows.
Quote: "Although he studied drama in Paris in the mid-1870s and was an itinerant actor for some years thereafter, Eugène Atget's theatrical sensibility found its best outlet in a more deliberate, contemplative, and purely visual art form. In the late 1880s, he began photographing whatever artists needed as models for their work, and by 1898 he had established a practice in Paris. He became obsessed with making what he modestly called "documents" of the city and its environs, and compiling a visual compendium of the architecture, landscape, and artifacts that distinguish French culture and its history. Except for a brief attempt to capture life in the streets early in his career, Atget rarely photographed people, preferring the streets themselves as well as the gardens, courtyards, and other areas that constituted the cultural stage."
The artist:
What I think of Eugene's work:
Well, Eugene's work is much more simple because his style of reflections are taken through water and through shop windows. "Quote" (Shop window, mannequin images from Paris, that was borrowed, by the surrealist movement to widen its appeal by including photography into their ever-growing artistic techniques) Particularly his shop window works. How he gets the clarity of the two different things is amazing. He captures what is in the shop window and also what has been reflected by the shop window's glass. From looking at the sample of his work, I really like the ones of the three mannequins and particularly the one of the young girl's hand and another person's face. During his time, his work was considered really creative. Nowadays you don't see many people trying to do that style of photography.
Ira Fox, known for his photography reflections in puddles:
Quote: "Here in the UK, we are internationally renowned for our poor weather.
Seasoned pros with umbrellas at the ready, we hop, skip and jump over puddles getting to our destination in no time.
And although we talk about the rain endlessly when safely inside the four walls of our home, office or the pub, it’s rare that we actually stop to take it in.
Luckily for us when others are cowering in shop doorways and drying their hair in bathroom, New York based photographer Ira Fox heads out against the crowd of rain macs, armed with a camera.
The result is a stunning series called Reflections, which captures the beauty of adverse weather conditions in famous Union Square, New York.
Taking pictures of puddles, Fox has captured images of an underwater world in the mini pools of water. The mirror images create a beautiful contrast to the gritty metropolis of the world they invert.
So next time we have adverse weather conditions (probably this afternoon), don’t just moan about it, grab a camera and take a second to appreciate its beauty..."
The artist:
What I think of Fox's Work:
With regards to reflections, Fox's work with puddles I find really clever. How he can just get those sharp details and clear colours in the blink of an eye with just the right people or objects being reflected is just really clever. I have never heard of Fox before, but I have seen examples of other photographers work who do take photos of puddle reflections. His particular reflections in photography, are not that easy, because most of his work seems to take place in the streets and we all know that photographing in the streets isn't easy. A while back I tried a few small photographs of reflections, by using our swimming pool at night and using a contrast barrier. With the original in colour and then the reflection in black and white and then the other way around.
Fox is work, I agree that it is creative, but its not the style of photography that I am particularly keen on to try for myself.
Andre Kertesz, Known for his photographic reflections, using mirrors.
The second part of my reflections project, shooting into the windows of shops and cafes to capture their reflections.
Contact Sheet:
Fox is work, I agree that it is creative, but its not the style of photography that I am particularly keen on to try for myself.
Andre Kertesz, Known for his photographic reflections, using mirrors.
Quote: "Known for his extended study of Washington Square Park and his distorted nudes of the 1930s, Andre Kertesz was a quiet but important influence on the coming of age of photojournalism and the art of photography. For more than seventy years, his subtle and penetrating vision helped to define a medium in its infancy. Though he spent most of his life in the United States, his European modernist sensibility is what made him great, and that is what he is remembered for today."
The artist:
What I think of Kertesz's Work:
Even though I do see how this man is creative and how he goes about it, his work of photographing women in the nude, I am not fond of. Any kind of nude photography, I do not like at all, although I know that famous photographers as well as Kertesz, have become very famous for it. From looking at Kertesz's work I do see that he puts a lot of thought and effort into it, in order just to get the right angles and positions and I do agree he is very talented but, the matter of the fact that he specialises in nudes, makes me feel a little bit weird. I will give him credit for his creative thoughts and maybe this is his personal way of displaying his personal way and feelings towards photography. I don't know. We all have our own ways of doing things.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
(Reflections with Shop windows, Mirrors and Water):
Date: 16/03/14
The second part of my reflections project, shooting into the windows of shops and cafes to capture their reflections.
Contact Sheet:
First Original Image:
Photoshop Process, to make it look like it has been experimented with:
Final Image:
2nd Original Image:
Photoshop Process, to make it look like it has been experimented with:
Final Image:
3rd Original Image:
Photoshop Process, to make it look like it has been experimented with:
Final Image:
Evaluation:
This being my second shoot, I had a much clearer idea about what I needed to do and how to achieve it. I went up round the street in Bristol called Park Street, which has all of these amazing shops windows with different things on display. Out of the three shop windows photographs, that I have selected here, I think that the third one is the best one, then the first one followed by the second one. I just feel that the third one captured more of a creative and experimental detail. The trick to it is by using the selection tool to select the particular area of the mannequin that you want, adjustments change the saturation and then inver the selected part of the image: then select the inverse and then that gives you the new image:
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
(Reflections with Shop windows, Mirrors and Water):
Date: 17/03/14
The third part of my reflections project, shooting into the reflections created by water.
Contact Sheet:
Photoshop Process:
Final Image:
2nd Original Image:
Photoshop Process:
Final Image:
3rd Original Image:
Photoshop Process:
Final Image:
Evaluation:
Just as the same as the shots of the window reflections, I had a much clearer idea about what I needed to do and how to achieve it. I went up round Bristol. The trick to it is by using the selection tool to select the particular area of the mannequin that you want, adjustments change the saturation and then inver the selected part of the image: then select the inverse and then that gives you the new image. I would say that the first one of the reflections, really captures more attention that the other two. Just because, maybe the colours are much more vibrant and enlightening.
The third part of my reflections project, shooting into the reflections created by water.
Contact Sheet:
First Original Image:
2nd Original Image:
3rd Original Image:
Just as the same as the shots of the window reflections, I had a much clearer idea about what I needed to do and how to achieve it. I went up round Bristol. The trick to it is by using the selection tool to select the particular area of the mannequin that you want, adjustments change the saturation and then inver the selected part of the image: then select the inverse and then that gives you the new image. I would say that the first one of the reflections, really captures more attention that the other two. Just because, maybe the colours are much more vibrant and enlightening.
Evaluation of the whole reflections Project:
This whole project on reflections has been a really interesting process. Capturing reflections in different ways is really creative. Although I captured a really cool reflection with the shop windows style, I must say that I really enjoyed using the mirrors to create reflections and then of course the water reflections are really fun, because of their really funny shapes that you can capture within the water. Reflections work in many different ways and can be seen in many different perspectives. They are one of the most magical things to capture, photography wise. They are true art, very creative and can be very personal as well as public.
The 3 final images:
Best Mirror Reflection:
City of Bristol College:
This whole project on reflections has been a really interesting process. Capturing reflections in different ways is really creative. Although I captured a really cool reflection with the shop windows style, I must say that I really enjoyed using the mirrors to create reflections and then of course the water reflections are really fun, because of their really funny shapes that you can capture within the water. Reflections work in many different ways and can be seen in many different perspectives. They are one of the most magical things to capture, photography wise. They are true art, very creative and can be very personal as well as public.
The 3 final images:
Best Mirror Reflection:
Best Shop Window Reflection:
Best Water Reflection
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
(Pinhole Camera Work,):
Date: 20/03/14
Pinhole Camera Work. This is where we go into the past and do photography, from when it was first researched. This was how photography first developed into this world as we know it. Before we had the beautiful world of digital photography, photographs were captured in a completely different way. you would have light sensitive paper, put inside a little box, which would have a small hole through a reflective surface and that would capture the light and then shine it onto the paper inside the box. One of the key, main rules when doing this type of old fashioned photography, the inside of your camera(B0X) has to be in complete and total darkness, otherwise your photos will come out completely black or in some cases, just white.
My Camera:
Pinhole Camera Work. This is where we go into the past and do photography, from when it was first researched. This was how photography first developed into this world as we know it. Before we had the beautiful world of digital photography, photographs were captured in a completely different way. you would have light sensitive paper, put inside a little box, which would have a small hole through a reflective surface and that would capture the light and then shine it onto the paper inside the box. One of the key, main rules when doing this type of old fashioned photography, the inside of your camera(B0X) has to be in complete and total darkness, otherwise your photos will come out completely black or in some cases, just white.
My Camera:
A complete failure of a camera because, somewhere light kept on coming into the box and only 1 of the photos I took came out decent quality.
My Replacement Camera:
I took about 5 photographs with this camera and even though no light comes into the container at all, only 3 of the photos came out, decent quality.
My Good Quality photos:
Out of the 11 photos that I had taken in total, these were the only 5 that came out with enough decent quality in them. 1 more than others.
My Bad Quality Images:
These 6 images I would have preferred to come out much better, either light was coming in from somewhere else in the box apart from the lens hole or I either had the lens cover open for to long or not long enough.
Throughout the whole process, the first 5 photographs that I took, were ranged between a 20 second gap down to 10, then up to 15 seconds, then up to about 35 and then to 25 seconds. The next 6 I kept around 25 to 35 seconds, because that seemed to work well with the certain camera that I was using.
Photoshop Process to get the Negatives turned to Positives:
Negatives:
New Positive (Good Quality) Images:
Negatives of (Bad Quality) Images:
Photoshop Process:
New Positive Images:
Evaluation of First Pinhole Camera Shoot:
Going back in time, back to the old fashioned way of modern day photography, to when it was first invented back in the 1880's is something that I thought I would never do. Of course, when I first started doing photography, digital cameras hadn't come into stock by then, but we did have reals of film and even then I still enjoyed it.
This kind of photography though, is far beyond what I expected it to be. To me personally, this was like discovering a new modern way of doing photography, even though it is actually the old fashioned way.
I will admit that today, this kind of photography is considered very creative and and very interesting, but isn't something that I particularly want to pursue because for me digital is the way forward. I don't mind this old wet photography and I think that there are some fantastic learning curves that comes with it but it's just not for me personally.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
(Pinhole Camera Work):
Date: 25/03/14
Research on Pinhole Camera Photographers:
First, lets start with the father of modern photography: William-Henry (Fox) Talbot:
Info about Fox Talbot:
William Henry Fox Talbot (11 February 1800 – 17 September 1877) was a British inventor and photography pioneer who invented the calotype process, a precursor to photographic processes of the 19th and 20th centuries. Talbot was also a noted photographer who made major contributions to the development of photography as an artistic medium. His work in the 1840s on photo-mechanical reproduction led to the creation of the photoglyphic engraving process, the precursor to photogravure. Talbot is also remembered as the holder of a patent which, some say, affected the early development of commercial photography in Britain. Additionally, he made some important early photographs of Oxford, Paris, Reading, and York.
By the time that he died, He became known and famous for as, The Father of Modern Photography:
Samples of his work:
THE LATTICED WINDOW:
This photograph has come to be known as the oldest photograph captured, in the negative above. It was the very first one that Fox Talbot took with his first camera. This window is actually in the centre of Fox Talbot's house, called Lacock Abbey, where he lived in Lacock, Wiltshire, UK.
Other Samples of his work:
Talbot's Cameras:
What I think of Talbot's work:
Fox Talbot is by far one of the most interesting photographers that I have come across. How he must have done his work and captured all of those incredible negatives is amazing. When I went to Lacock Abbey to see his work and where he lived, I was really amazed. For a long time I thought that photography was really tricky, but once I saw that how Talbot had done it, I knew that I had it easy. How he did his photography, is very different to how we do it now. These little cameras of his look just like little boxes, compared to the big professional cameras that we use to this day.
How he managed to get those really cleverly sharp, negatives is really amazing.
Fox Talbot's House:
What do I think of Quinnell's Work:
Even though I have only recently heard of Justin Quinnell, I think that his work is really extraordinary. Someone who still works in the old fashioned way, the way that photography was originally developed. How he gets those amazing flashes of light is really incredible, because with a pinhole camera you have to be judgemental at the exposure times. If the image comes out completely black, then it has been exposed for too long and if the image comes out completely white then it hasn't been exposed for long enough. How Quinnell just gets the flashes of light just right and the darkened shape of what he is photographing just right is really incredible. Some of his other work, which is capturing an image inside someone's mouth I personally find a little weird, but then again photography is designed to be weird, creative and experimental as well as sensible and clear.
Words From the week:
Research on Pinhole Camera Photographers:
First, lets start with the father of modern photography: William-Henry (Fox) Talbot:
William Henry Fox Talbot (11 February 1800 – 17 September 1877) was a British inventor and photography pioneer who invented the calotype process, a precursor to photographic processes of the 19th and 20th centuries. Talbot was also a noted photographer who made major contributions to the development of photography as an artistic medium. His work in the 1840s on photo-mechanical reproduction led to the creation of the photoglyphic engraving process, the precursor to photogravure. Talbot is also remembered as the holder of a patent which, some say, affected the early development of commercial photography in Britain. Additionally, he made some important early photographs of Oxford, Paris, Reading, and York.
By the time that he died, He became known and famous for as, The Father of Modern Photography:
Samples of his work:
This photograph has come to be known as the oldest photograph captured, in the negative above. It was the very first one that Fox Talbot took with his first camera. This window is actually in the centre of Fox Talbot's house, called Lacock Abbey, where he lived in Lacock, Wiltshire, UK.
Other Samples of his work:
What I think of Talbot's work:
Fox Talbot is by far one of the most interesting photographers that I have come across. How he must have done his work and captured all of those incredible negatives is amazing. When I went to Lacock Abbey to see his work and where he lived, I was really amazed. For a long time I thought that photography was really tricky, but once I saw that how Talbot had done it, I knew that I had it easy. How he did his photography, is very different to how we do it now. These little cameras of his look just like little boxes, compared to the big professional cameras that we use to this day.
How he managed to get those really cleverly sharp, negatives is really amazing.
Fox Talbot's House:
Justin Quinnell:
Info on Quinnell:
"Justin was born and lived in Bristol in the UK. He first took up a camera at the age of 11 and years later completed his BA (hons) degree in fine art photography at Derby Lonsdale College.
For the past 15 years he has been a freelance photographer and lecturer, but has also been head of photography at South Bristol College, a school teacher, worked in a wood, promoted cycling and managed a safari camp in the Maasai Mara in Kenya.
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He has been teaching and practicing pinhole photography for over 20 years having taught at all levels from primary to university level and at over thirty universities in the UK. He has done lecture tours of both the US and Australia.
Currently a part time lecturer in photography at University College Falmouth he is was also recently artist in residence at Knowle West Media Centre where he has just completed the Sunrise Project, He is also currently being commissioned to take a series of 4-year duration images for Bristol NHS Trust. He was Keynote speaker at the recent Altphotosymposium at the Edinburgh College of Art and will be doing a few select lectures in the US in May and June.
He has had many exhibitions and publications of his work from The Smithsonian Magazine to Dentistry Today and he was pinhole photography consultant for the Rachel Weisz - Mark Ruffalo movie 'The Brothers Bloom' and on NASA's website. He has made TV appearances (The One show, Jonathan Ross show, Blue Peter, Radio 4 'Today') and has had two books published of his work, 'Mouthpiece' and 'Make your own paper camera'. A third publication, 'Make your Own Pinhole Camera' will be published in June.
He lives in his hometown of Bristol with his wife Chrissy and two little kiddies, Louis and Rosa.
He has been the UK publicist for world pinhole day since its inception 13 years ago"
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Samples of his work:
Even though I have only recently heard of Justin Quinnell, I think that his work is really extraordinary. Someone who still works in the old fashioned way, the way that photography was originally developed. How he gets those amazing flashes of light is really incredible, because with a pinhole camera you have to be judgemental at the exposure times. If the image comes out completely black, then it has been exposed for too long and if the image comes out completely white then it hasn't been exposed for long enough. How Quinnell just gets the flashes of light just right and the darkened shape of what he is photographing just right is really incredible. Some of his other work, which is capturing an image inside someone's mouth I personally find a little weird, but then again photography is designed to be weird, creative and experimental as well as sensible and clear.
Words From the week:
The City of Bristol College, College Green, Dark Room:
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City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
(Pinhole Camera Work):
Date: 31/03/14
2nd Shoot with a Pinhole Camera:
Using this Camera:
My second set of Negatives:
Evaluation of my Second Shoot:
After my first shoot with the Pinhole Cameras, which was a mixture of failure and success due to another area of light being shone through within the camera, I believe that this shoot was a much better turn out. I had good exposure times and knew where I had to keep the lens shutter open for long periods and short periods. As you can see from the negatives above, I got some much better, clearer and sharper images. Maybe, this time was much better because I have a much clear idea in my mind about how to take the photographs using the pinhole camera, then the developing process and also because there were only about 6-7 of us students redoing the pinhole work, where as the rest of the group wanted to have a go at doing the digital version of the pinhole.
Photoshop Processes:
1st image:
City of Bristol College:
2nd Shoot with a Pinhole Camera:
Using this Camera:
Evaluation of my Second Shoot:
After my first shoot with the Pinhole Cameras, which was a mixture of failure and success due to another area of light being shone through within the camera, I believe that this shoot was a much better turn out. I had good exposure times and knew where I had to keep the lens shutter open for long periods and short periods. As you can see from the negatives above, I got some much better, clearer and sharper images. Maybe, this time was much better because I have a much clear idea in my mind about how to take the photographs using the pinhole camera, then the developing process and also because there were only about 6-7 of us students redoing the pinhole work, where as the rest of the group wanted to have a go at doing the digital version of the pinhole.
Photoshop Processes:
1st image:
Process:
Final Image:
2nd Images
Process:
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3rd Images:
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4th Images:
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5th Images:
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Final Images:
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
(360 Degree Panorama):
Date: 22/04/14
Panoramas: First shoot (without screen garb editions):
Research into Panorama Photography:
Panoramic Photography is an extremely clever technique in the field of photography. It is mage by using specialised equipment or software, that captures images with elongated fields of view. It is sometimes known as wide format photography. The term has also been applied to a photograph that is cropped to a relatively wide aspect ratio. While there is no formal division between "wide-angle" and "panoramic" photography, "wide-angle" normally refers to a type of lens, but using this lens type does not necessarily make an image a panorama. Referring to that there are two ways in which you can create panoramic photography. How to do that, is by using a wide angle lens which can capture a lot within the image. That is the equipment side of panorama. The software side of panorama, is to use and standard angle lens or a standard telephoto lens and turn 180 degrees around or 360 degrees and then open all of the images in photoshop and combine them together like that. I know that It takes a long time to do that process, but that is generally how you start out with learning how to do Panoramic photography. An image made with an ultra wide-angle fisheye lens covering the normal film frame of 1:1.33 is not automatically considered to be a panorama. An image showing a field of view approximating, or greater than, that of the human eye – about 160° by 75° – may be termed panoramic. This generally means it has an aspect ratio of 2:1 or larger, the image being at least twice as wide as it is high. The resulting images take the form of a wide strip. Some panoramic images have aspect ratios of 4:1 and sometimes 10:1, covering fields of view of up to 360 degrees. Both the aspect ratio and coverage of field are important factors in defining a true panoramic image.
Famous Panoramic Photographs:
Martin Edwards Panoramic Photography:
Panomania
How to create a Panorama:
Well, the first thing that toy have to do when creating a Panorama is to get your lining up correct. when looking through the frame, what ever is on your left side, will then be on your right side if you are going in an anti-clockwise direction, and if you are going in a clockwise direction, what ever is your right side will become the left side of the photograph. If you are doing a 360 degree panorama, then make sure, each time that you move the camera, check your marking lines. Once you have gone all the way round, but there are some parts in the last image, which are also in the first image, then you have to edit out the photos in Adobe Photoshop, by merging the photos together. In the end they should all line up neatly.
Panoramas: First shoot (without screen garb editions):
Research into Panorama Photography:
Famous Panoramic Photographs:
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| An 1851 panoramic showing San Francisco from Rincon Hill by photographer Martin Behrmanx. It is believed that the panorama initially had eleven plates, but the original daguerreotypes no longer exist. |
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| View from the top of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, Albumen prints, February, 1864, by George N. Barnard |
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| Centre City Philadelphia panorama, from 1913. |
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| A panoramic photograph of the Camp Nou stadium, Barcelona in January 2011. 3D Panorama: Some cameras offer 3D features that can be applied when taking panoramic photographs. The technology enables the camera to take shots from different angles and combine them, creating a multidimensional effect. Some cameras use two different lenses to achieve the 3D effect, while others use one. Cameras such as Samsung NX1000, and Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX1 offer the 3D Panorama mode. |
I love the way a camera will dutifully record whatever is in front of it, yet the resulting photograph can look nothing like that. Photography can show us things as they don't appear in reality, and it can show us an exciting alternative way of seeing.
Many of these panoramic photographs are like that. They are 'straight' pictures, made with a Horizon 202 panoramic camera and unmanipulated in the darkroom or computer; but they look really different, and have an energy, movement and colour which make them something more than the simple recording of a scene.
The photography itself is done using long exposures, often in bright sunlight, with a Horizon 202 panoramic camera, pictured. There is always an element of chance with this kind of photography, and this unpredictablility is part of the process. I generally use a colour negative film which gives saturated colours.
(ALL QUOTED FROM Martin Edwards Website, http://www.martinedwardsphotography.co.uk/panoramic/panoramic.html)
Examples of Martin Edwards's Work:
My Panorama Work:
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How to create a Panorama:
Well, the first thing that toy have to do when creating a Panorama is to get your lining up correct. when looking through the frame, what ever is on your left side, will then be on your right side if you are going in an anti-clockwise direction, and if you are going in a clockwise direction, what ever is your right side will become the left side of the photograph. If you are doing a 360 degree panorama, then make sure, each time that you move the camera, check your marking lines. Once you have gone all the way round, but there are some parts in the last image, which are also in the first image, then you have to edit out the photos in Adobe Photoshop, by merging the photos together. In the end they should all line up neatly.
Evaluation of this first shoot:
This being my first shoot of proper panorama, I found it really enjoyable. The most interesting part was being able to turn the long panorama into a small orb shape. One orb looking like the photo is internal and then with the photo looking like it is external. After I have done my second shoot I will have screen garbs, explaining how this process is done and how it differs from the first shoot.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
(360 Degree Panorama):
Date: 05/05/14
2nd Shoot of Panoramas:
Final Panoramas:
Evaluation of Second shoot:
This being my second shoot of proper panorama , I found it much more enjoyable and entertaining, than the first one, because this shoot was to be an inside shoot rather than an outside one. As well as creating the 3 different types of panorama individually, I really enjoyed combining all three of them together and displaying them like a face, but with no nose.
Evaluation on PANORAMA Photography:
This is the first time that I have ever explored deeply into the world on Panorama. It is truly one of the most magical and astonishing aspects of photography that has ever been scene. To take a whole set of photographs and string them together to create a one whole photo is really clever. As far as I have researched panorama, there is only one problem with Panorama photographs, which is printing them. Because they are so wide and not high, they can be complicated to print. There is no problem with putting them on the computer, because you can always zoom in and out to see the details of the image.
This being my second shoot of proper panorama , I found it much more enjoyable and entertaining, than the first one, because this shoot was to be an inside shoot rather than an outside one. As well as creating the 3 different types of panorama individually, I really enjoyed combining all three of them together and displaying them like a face, but with no nose.
Evaluation on PANORAMA Photography:
This is the first time that I have ever explored deeply into the world on Panorama. It is truly one of the most magical and astonishing aspects of photography that has ever been scene. To take a whole set of photographs and string them together to create a one whole photo is really clever. As far as I have researched panorama, there is only one problem with Panorama photographs, which is printing them. Because they are so wide and not high, they can be complicated to print. There is no problem with putting them on the computer, because you can always zoom in and out to see the details of the image.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Date: 05/05/14
Word of the Week:
Word of the Week:
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
(Hockney Joiners):
Date: 06/05/14
Research (David Hockney Joiners, The basis of Cubism):
I must say that David's work is some of the most bizarre photography that I have ever come across in photography. It is a little bit similar to some work that I did for my AS-Level course work, which I called Fractured Pieces. I will give David credit for being extremely creative and imaginative within his work and he has become really famous across the plant for it. It is work that I do like and would certainly like to try out for myself.
The Basis of Cubism:
Hockney Joiners, The traditional way of creating a Hockney Joiners photo:
Contact Sheet:
Research (David Hockney Joiners, The basis of Cubism):
David Hockney, OM CH RA (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. He lives in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, and Kensington, London. Hockney maintains two residences in California, where he lived on and off for over 30 years: one in Nichols Canyon, Los Angeles, and an office and archives on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood.
An important contributor to the Pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century.
The Basis of Cubism:
Cubism was an innovative art movement that was developed in the early part of this century in France. It was greatly influenced by the talented french artist, Paul Cezanne, but pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
The style of cubism is the basis of many modern art forms, such as abstract art. When Cubism emerged in Europe, it was met with harsh criticism because of the angular, cubic style. But, Cubism was a response against realism in impressionism, describing the irrationality of human experience. Cubist artists would shy away from detail and concentrate mainly on the form or shape of an object by breaking the object down into geometric shapes. Replacing a detailed face with rigid lines and shapes. Some pieces had dull, mundane colors, while others used colors dynamically to enhance the form of the object. Other cubist artists used fragmentation and overlapping to push the object further away from physical reality, sometimes to the point where the object was not identifiable.
(Quoted from http://charles_hom.tripod.com/cubhistory.html)
To me this is a really funky style kind of art work. Sometimes I wonder, how in the world do the artists accomplish this work. Picasso's work especially. How did he do this, where did he learn and what inspired him. How can images to look like a total mess come out looking so artistic and creative. It is really clever. It is really fascination art work.
This clever process can be done with many different types of creativity. Photography, Painting, Textiles, Design Technology and possible IT. It is all a really clever, creative and imaginative process and skill
Hockney Joiners, The traditional way of creating a Hockney Joiners photo:
Contact Sheet:
Photoshop Process of 1st Image:
Final Image: (2 rows, 3 columns)
Photoshop Process of 2nd Image:
Final Image: (3 rows, 3 columns)
Photoshop Process of 3rd Image:
Final Image: (3 rows, 3 columns)
Photoshop Process of 4th & Last Image:
Final Image: (3 rows , 4 columns)
Favourite 2 Images:
Why I chose these as my Favourite Images:
- Both have Vibrant colours.
- Strong Depths of Field.
- Clever contrasts.
- Different Texture Appearances:
Evaluation Of Hockeny Joiners:
This has been a really fun topic to study. It has been a little bit similar to Panorama, but instead of just one line of of photographs, we have multi-lines, all of the have to ore a less match up with each other.
It has a strong effect on the viewer when they see these kind of photos. They wonder what they are looking at. For me, sometimes I think that I am looking at multiple images and then sometimes I think I am looking at just one image. It is quite a confusing work of art/photography, but it is really powerful way of displaying creativity.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Date: 12/05/14
Word of the Week:
Word of the Week:
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
(Experimental Imagery)
(Experimental Imagery)
Date: 12/05/14
Hockney Joiners for cheats:
Original Photo:
Photoshop Process of how to create the same image with the Hockney Joiners for cheats" Effect.
Hockney Joiners for cheats:
Original Photo:
Final Image:
Evaluation Of Hockeny Joiners for CHEATS:
This has been a really fun and mind blowing topic to study. Setting a-side the original and traditional way of doing Hockney Joiners photographs, this way is really clever. However, with this process, it is really super important that you focus on each and every step, because if you go one minor step wrong, you have to restart everything again. That can be a really pain. Particularly the part where, you now have all of the little squares and you have to separate them, by copying the same technique over and over again for each little square until you finally have done all of them. If you see any of the little squares that look a different colour than all the others that means there could be two errors. 1 is that you could have done the copying technique twice on that photo, or 2, you missed out that little square.
Evaluation of whole Experimental Imagery Process:
I must say, ever since late February, early March which was when we started all of these experimental process, it has been a really thrilling adventure. I have discovered more things in creative photography and I have defiantly become more creative and imaginative myself throughout this whole process. It is something that I will always remember and won't hesitate to go back on and research again. It has been a really fun process and I would recommend it to everyone.
Evaluation of whole Experimental Imagery Process:
I must say, ever since late February, early March which was when we started all of these experimental process, it has been a really thrilling adventure. I have discovered more things in creative photography and I have defiantly become more creative and imaginative myself throughout this whole process. It is something that I will always remember and won't hesitate to go back on and research again. It has been a really fun process and I would recommend it to everyone.
