Today I got some photos printed to play around with, seeing what they looked like layered on top of each other and raised against each other. I think this is the idea I'll use for my final outcome and exhibition - tomorrow I will design some exhibit spaces varying them on what my space could look like and what kind of space I'm allocated.
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After thinking more on my artist research I decided to place this quote over my wall. I felt a really deep connection with the quote and feel like it really resonated with my work as I couldn't really find another photographer that looked at contrasts in the way I've been looking at them. The quote reads 'I am not interested in rules or conventions' - the full quote ending in 'Photography is not a sport' said by Bill Brandt. It really connects with me for the way I want my work to stand out from other people's and I'm willing to do whatever it takes to achieve that.
Today I started to do some drawings from my shadow photos as I was planning on focusing on them for my potential final piece but after drawing some of them I've decided that they're not actually that interesting. I thought drawing the photos would pick out some interesting shapes that I could work with but even using a few different mediums didn't really do it for me. Honestly I feel like the drawings are less than exciting and I just hope that playing around with my images in Photoshop will open a new door for me conceptually that I'll be able to follow to create a really exciting final outcome.
This week I've been editing the macro photos I've gotten to really show off the colours and the detail within the images. I really can't wait to take some of these into Photoshop to play around with zooming in on them to pick out some of the tiniest details that only the macro lens could capture and our eyes struggle to see.
Just a quick update as today I've finally gotten around to re-writing my project proposal. I've written it to both fit my new project and to give an idea of what my new project is about as well as what I'll be trying to accomplish with it. I think my proposal has to be a strong point of my project as I have less time because I changed it so it really has to show what my intentions are.
As you can see here, I've put together a mapped out collection of my images - and linked them to what sets they belong with on my mind map. I've then written some notes about my images and what I was thinking when I was taking those photos - also reflecting the topics that I was trying to capture. There will be close ups of these notes in my sketchbook.
What I really want to talk about though is the 'panorama' I've created. If you click on the final image of the slideshow you can see it in better detail and I've tried really hard to capture the contrasting weathers. There are a few images in there that can capture this on their own but if you put the first photo and the final photo next to each other you'd have no idea they were taken just seconds apart. I've tried to link them up as best I could but because I didn't have a tripod to swivel my camera and I was doing it by hand not all the photos are perfectly lined up - I may take the photos into Photoshop to try and link them up so that the panorama is seamless. Just a short post to show that just a small difference like cropping and rotating a photo can really improve the overall quality of an image. With this particular photo I've cropped to improve the composition of the image, placing a little bit more emphasis on the shadows, and cropping out the majority of the darker parts in the background seems to have given the photo a little bit more contrast and makes the shadows seem darker. You can also see some finer details, like the small 'hairs' on the leaves around the closed daisy and the moss. I also rotated the photo to slant the grass more - I wanted to place emphasis on the larger blade of grass as it was crossing the photo and I wanted it to look more interesting. Below is the final edit of the photo where you can really see the detail.
Today I finished off editing my first and second sets of photos, I used Photoshop Lightroom as all my photos needed was some lighting and colour fixes and some needed cropping. Above you can see I've improved exposure, contrast and colour - exposure on over exposed and under exposed images as well as contrast to bring out some of the shapes a little better. I also improved the colour on some of the more natural photos to bring a bit more life into yellowed grass and leaves and to give the blue sky that little bit extra. Later on I'll take some of these photos into Photoshop to have a play around with different effects and to see what I can do to improve on them.
I went out and took some macro photos today, focusing in on small objects but making sure that it was still obvious what they were. I also took photos of these things from more of a distance so that the size of these objects was put into perspective. Once I've done some editing and colour/light correction to these photos I think I'll take them into photoshop again to zoom in on them and see how obscure I can get the photos to be without them becoming blurry.
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Martha Longcroft
19 year old artist, photographer and jewellery maker. For now this blog will be a place for me to reflect on my Final Major Project for the Foundation Diploma I'm studying. Archives
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