References

• SALLY MANN, 2003, What Remains
• JUSTIN QUINNELL, 2006, Mouthpiece
• http://www.pinhole.nl/pages/pinhole-pictures-studiodioramas/2010/dripping-landscape.php
• GILBERT AND GEORGE, 2002, The Dirty Words Pictures 1977
• http://www.jasperjames.co.uk/project/people-and-places-2/
• http://equinoxgallery.com/artists/fred-herzog/art/90164
• http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/visual-arts/henri-cartier-bresson-a-question-of-colour
• http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/visual-arts/tim-walker-story-teller
• http://timwalkerphotography.com/portraits.php
• ANITA SINNER, JADE OWEN, 2011,Visual Life Writing: Witnessing Jade's Story Through Pinhole Photography. Available From: http://content.ebscohost.com/pdf27_28/pdf/2011/QQM/01Dec11/67664365.pdf?T=P&P=AN&K=527608168&S=R&D=aft&EbscoContent=dGJyMNLr40Sep684wtvhOLCmr0qep7NSsau4TbGWxWXS&ContentCustomer=dGJyMPGnrkiwrbRMuePfgeyx44Dt6fIA
• GAIL BAYLIS, 2008, Or, When Is A Boring Photograph Not A Boring Photograph. Available From: http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?sid=5275a922-c74f-412e-93b6-642a26fe206f%40sessionmgr113&vid=13&hid=112

Week 10: Time And The Image

For my image I chose to take multiple images and layer them on top of each other to convey that time had passed. I went down to the dock in Southampton and waited till there was a boat passing and set my camera up and took 8 images as the boat passed through the water. I chose 6 images to use, I opened them into photoshop and started to edit them together. I was pleased however I didn't think that it showed how time had passed so I chose to change the opacity of the images so they were fading away. I also decided to crop my image down so you could see the boat in more detail and I found that the old pier featured in the imaged worked as a sort of timeline of the boats journey back to the dock.

My 6 images

My final image

Week 9: Time And The Image

In this session we were looking at narrative and how it may show time to help/inspire us for our own time and image photograph. To begin with we watched the directors cut of the ending sequence of Donnie Darko, the sequence itself goes back in time highlighting the important moments. But it also has images layer and placed on top to show what is going on. I thought it was quite a clever way to show time passing and it was also interesting seeing what other members of the group picked up on. 

This week we also hung the work we had produced last week. This time as there were so many images we hung the work in a slightly different way. For one thing we used drawing pins instead of bull dog clips as they were smaller and the bull dog clips would have detracted from the image as they are quite large. But like last time we used a laser level to make sure our images were straight and lined up properly.

The work hung up

Week 8: Image Processes

We were asked this week to attend an exhibition and choose an image from that exhibition to focus on and research around it so we could produce a write up about it.

I went to two exhibitions at Somerset House in London, the first Tim Walker: Story Teller and the second Cartier-Bresson: A Question Of Colour. I found both to be very interesting yet different exhibitions as Tim Walker is primarily a quirky fashion photographer where as Henri Cartier-Bresson and the other featured photographers in the exhibtion are street or documentary photographers.

Tim Walker from the exhibtion Tim Walker: Story Teller

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Fred Herzog, Harry Guyaert from the exhibtion Cartier-Bresson: A Question Of Colour

In the end I chose an image from the Cartier-Bresson: A Question Of Colour exhibtion. The photograph I chose is an image by Fred Herzog called Crossing Powell taken in 1984. Fred Herzog had a range of images in the exhibtion all of which I found to be beautiful prints that proved Cartier-Bresson wrong and colour photography did have a place within street photography. As the main reason it caught my eye was the vivid lighting at first then with this image in particular the painting like quality to it. I also like the idea of a photographer capturing a seeming normal or boring moment and making it into a piece of artwork and I think that is exactly what has been done here.

When we had our image chosen we had a template to follow so we could insert our image and write up the necessary information.

Template                              .

My final write up                              .

Week 7: Hanging Work

Again this week we were hanging the work we had produced in the previous week, we gathered all of our separate digital layering images together and set them out side by side on photoshop in a grid of 3 images x 4 images to create one large image. 

We printed our work large scale so to get as much detail as possible, but as the prints were so large we had to take care not to kink or damage them so we wore white gloves to protect them. We then used the same tools as before, a laser level, bulldog clips and nails.

An example of how the work was hung

A photographer that uses digital layering frequently in his work is Jasper James, a photographer who layers together and landscape with a portrait image to create one image. I think the work he creates is very beautiful, charming and mysterious. I like how simple it is and how you can clearly make out both photographs.

City Silhouettes by Jasper James

Week 6: Digital Layering

In this week we continued the work that we started in Week 4. We first watched a film called 'The Eye' about photographers Gilbert and George's work. We focused on them because of how they set out and presented their work. They used a technique close to tiling where they put photographs side by side to create one large image. 

Dirty Words by Gilbert and George 1970's

I found their work very striking and thought provoking, I think the use of black and white with the sudden shock of red makes the images instantly eye catching and also quite sinister looking then when you read the words you see the deeper more emotional meaning. I think their work is designed to shock and it certainly achieved that with me.

We then went on to create our own images and started layering our own photographs of our meaningful objects that we photographed in week 4 using photoshop. This is my finished image.

I didn't just want to produce an image of the objects layered on top of one another, I wanted to make a scene and make them interact with one another. I found it quite hard to make the images work with each other and make them look natural.

Week 5: Hanging Work

In this session we hung the pinhole photography we had produced over the last few weeks. First we had to decide what images should be shown as a few of the images hadn't come out properly and were just black and as we only had limited we had to get rid of a few.

We then used a laser level to set up our exhibition and make sure it's straight. We used bulldog clips and nails to hang the project, it took us quite a long time to get the composition right and we continually experimented with different combinations of images until we were happy with our results.

The hanging in process

Our pinhole image

Also in this session we finished off our wet collodion images by cleaning the dust off the back of the glass with a wet paper towel, before spraying them black using black spray paint. This made all the images look a lot neater, cleaner and more professional. We also hung them as a complete set of 12 images using a grid made up of 48 nails, which you simply slotted the pieces of glass into. To the left is a photo of my group's wet collodion portrait, I am happy with our final outcome especially as none of us had ever produced this kind of image before.

All the wet collodion  images