Theme 1 - Inside
Picture 1: This photo was taken with a collection of photos taken at a wedding in November on a cold, but sunny day in a converted barn house. It is a photo of a ladder attached to the roof with lights, flowers and leafs across and hanging down from the ladder. This piece of work is from a wedding of a close family member, which makes it quite close to me.
When taking this photo I made sure that the photo exposure wasn’t too night, therefore I took the photo in the opposite direction to the sun. The focus was the lights hanging from the old ladder.
In Light Room I made the blacks darker and made the picture look like it was more like summer. The original orange colours in the photo, like within the light bulb, I made it brighter to highlight the two lights. Also the greens on the leafs over the ladder was changed into a brighter green to have it in the background of the image to compliment the orange/yellow lights.
I am pleased with the way I successfully focused the image into the two lights with the flowers and leafs which also compliment each other. I shouldn’t have made the entire image too tinted with orange and need to bring it down a small amount. I think the contrast in the multiple different colours gains the viewers attention.
During editing this photo, I learnt to not overuse curtain effects and that in most cases ‘less is more’.
When taking this photo I made sure that the photo exposure wasn’t too night, therefore I took the photo in the opposite direction to the sun. The focus was the lights hanging from the old ladder.
In Light Room I made the blacks darker and made the picture look like it was more like summer. The original orange colours in the photo, like within the light bulb, I made it brighter to highlight the two lights. Also the greens on the leafs over the ladder was changed into a brighter green to have it in the background of the image to compliment the orange/yellow lights.
I am pleased with the way I successfully focused the image into the two lights with the flowers and leafs which also compliment each other. I shouldn’t have made the entire image too tinted with orange and need to bring it down a small amount. I think the contrast in the multiple different colours gains the viewers attention.
During editing this photo, I learnt to not overuse curtain effects and that in most cases ‘less is more’.
Theme 2 - Leading Lines
Picture 1: This photograph shows a beach taken at sun set leading through the sand dunes to the ocean on a summer evening in August.
My photo links to the given theme of 'leading lines' as I have taken a photo of a beach which rough lines to the ocean. This is effective because unlike most of the other photos taken, there isn't obvious lines leading to the end point.
I didn't use Photoshop or Light Room in this image because the faint colours compliment each other and isn't too in the views face. I made sure I didn't take this photo when the sun hadn't set yet and I made sure I din't take the photo directly to the sun as the light was too bright for the image and exposure was too much.
I am pleased with the way I took a high quality photo on a phone, with good colours which compliment each other and that it was necessary to have to edit the image in Light Room. However, I believe I could have made the general image a little brighter and the colours may be a little too soft, making the image a little brighter, especially at the lower part of image, it would make the leading lines clearer for the viewer.
During the the taking of this photograph, I learnt of the importance of lighting within an image, which creates a good quality image which may not even need editing. On the next stage, I will experiment how I could edit this image to make the leading lines clearer and to see the effect of possible make the top part of the image clearer.
My photo links to the given theme of 'leading lines' as I have taken a photo of a beach which rough lines to the ocean. This is effective because unlike most of the other photos taken, there isn't obvious lines leading to the end point.
I didn't use Photoshop or Light Room in this image because the faint colours compliment each other and isn't too in the views face. I made sure I didn't take this photo when the sun hadn't set yet and I made sure I din't take the photo directly to the sun as the light was too bright for the image and exposure was too much.
I am pleased with the way I took a high quality photo on a phone, with good colours which compliment each other and that it was necessary to have to edit the image in Light Room. However, I believe I could have made the general image a little brighter and the colours may be a little too soft, making the image a little brighter, especially at the lower part of image, it would make the leading lines clearer for the viewer.
During the the taking of this photograph, I learnt of the importance of lighting within an image, which creates a good quality image which may not even need editing. On the next stage, I will experiment how I could edit this image to make the leading lines clearer and to see the effect of possible make the top part of the image clearer.
Theme 3 - Window Worlds
This photo shows a beautiful sky of the sunset out my bedroom window. This image is about the beautiful views of the outside world, and could show what we have been missing throughout lockdown.
My idea links to the theme of 'window worlds' through the image because of the photo being taken through a window to the view.
In Light Room I cropped the image to remove the large parts of the surroundings of the window to remove any unnecessary parts of the image which could draw the viewer way from the window/the view outside the window. I also darkened the blacks to make the focus of the image to the sunset at the top of the image and made the dark yellow/orange colours of the sunset brighter.
I am pleased with the way I edited this image where it draws the viewer to the the image without anything being too bold and in the viewers face. I learnt how to edit the image in a way which isn’t too bold for the viewer.
My idea links to the theme of 'window worlds' through the image because of the photo being taken through a window to the view.
In Light Room I cropped the image to remove the large parts of the surroundings of the window to remove any unnecessary parts of the image which could draw the viewer way from the window/the view outside the window. I also darkened the blacks to make the focus of the image to the sunset at the top of the image and made the dark yellow/orange colours of the sunset brighter.
I am pleased with the way I edited this image where it draws the viewer to the the image without anything being too bold and in the viewers face. I learnt how to edit the image in a way which isn’t too bold for the viewer.
Theme 4 - Extreme Close Ups
This photograph shows a close up of spider on its web.
My idea links to the given theme of ‘extreme close-ups’ as I have taken a closeup of the spider using a depth of field to blur the back ground and foreground to highlight the spider in the middle. In Light Room I then made then browns brighter to make the spider be the main focus of the image and make sure that viewers look at the spider first. I am pleased with how I focused the image to the spider with the clear depth of field of the image, which draws out the spider, highlighting it. |
Theme 5 - Looking Up
Picture 1:
This photograph is of a branch of a small tree in winter in a dull, cloudy sky.
My idea links to the given theme of 'looking up' as I have focused the photo to the dead looking branch with what seems to be no life due to the lack of leafs with it looking up to the dull, cloudy sky which almost looks like nothing, like a white background.
In Light Room I transformed the image into a monochromatic photography in order to create a bigger contrast between the branch to the cloudy sky in the back ground. I also cropped the image down to focus the image more into the branches and made the black in the image darker to contact the background even more. Lastly, I brought the image into photoshop where due to the plane white background I could use the paint brush tool to paint over a black part of a building which was caught within the image.
I am pleased with the way I used photoshop to remove an unneeded part of the image to make sure that the viewers focus is on the main branch of the photograph.
During editing this photo I learnt how to remove something out of an image using different tools within photoshop and that each tool can be used in different scenarios.
This photograph is of a branch of a small tree in winter in a dull, cloudy sky.
My idea links to the given theme of 'looking up' as I have focused the photo to the dead looking branch with what seems to be no life due to the lack of leafs with it looking up to the dull, cloudy sky which almost looks like nothing, like a white background.
In Light Room I transformed the image into a monochromatic photography in order to create a bigger contrast between the branch to the cloudy sky in the back ground. I also cropped the image down to focus the image more into the branches and made the black in the image darker to contact the background even more. Lastly, I brought the image into photoshop where due to the plane white background I could use the paint brush tool to paint over a black part of a building which was caught within the image.
I am pleased with the way I used photoshop to remove an unneeded part of the image to make sure that the viewers focus is on the main branch of the photograph.
During editing this photo I learnt how to remove something out of an image using different tools within photoshop and that each tool can be used in different scenarios.
Theme 6 - Playful Constructions
Experimentations
This is the image I took in New York, Town Square and took images of bubbles from a magazine. This mix of the two images is meant to create a creative image of bubbles floating around town square.
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The main image in this is also from New York, highlighting the lines heading down the street to make it seem endless. The second image of the light is meant to contrast the black & white image and to be lighting up the road.
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These two images are from two of the main cities in the world, London and New York. The paperclip is meant to visually show the connection between the two cities.
Gallery Visit
Christopher Thomas: Bittersweet
I visited the online Christopher Thomas’ ‘Bittersweet’ photography gallery in preparation for my A level studies in Photography. It is located at the Hamiltons which was established in 1977. In these photos you can find a dark and a deep temperature. They have multiple different focuses from a discovered bar in Galveston, Texas to an abandoned fairground ride near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine. The photographs show a mixture of feelings and thoughts between sadness and joy, youth and experience and more. They all show cinematic tension and a lack of humans with objects that would usually be used by us, suggesting an air of abandonment. What interested me the most is that Christopher Thomas doesn’t want an ending on his collection of ‘Bittersweet’ and wants to carry it on for the rest of his life. This series is about feelings, sad ones, happy ones and everything in between. It is about joy and fear, it is melancholic and warm, it is about gain and loss, it is about the beginning and the end of life and the whole time in between.” – Christopher Thomas |
“In ‘Bittersweet’ we are invited to imagine the drama inherent in the clues running through each scene… There is an unavoidable sense of decline in this series which the passage of time inevitably inflicts on places and structures that were once full of activity and are subsequently falling into ruin. But many of these photographs will raise a smile of recognition and return us to carefree, youthful hedonism. Age brings experience and disappointment, but ‘Bittersweet’ reminds us of rites of passage from the simple thrill of ice creams on the beach to our early love affairs and dancing through the night until dawn.” – Joshua White ‘Bittersweet’, 2020
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Bae Bien-U: Memories of Wandering
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