still life.product. studio

Level 5 photography
Still life- product
Studio


To get the lighting right, had to make up a mini box of a studio where you block some light on the Bowens to make a strip in the middle of the two Bowens to get a subtle light on product. Have two booms to clip two pieces of black paper over Bowens and leave  strip in the middle for balanced light to get through, if have no other boom, uses celetape on paper to bowens instead. Clean the glass before use because the lights will pick up the dirt and fluff and grease and then place paper underneath the glass onto a table. Will need a white screen behind the two dark boards to absorb the lift and reflect it onto the back of the product, this will work by having a bowen behind the white screen.

still life. vanitas/ nature motre. symbolism and meaning within still life

Level 5 photography
Still Life- Vanitas/ Nature Motre
Symbolism and meaning within still life

Skull- Symobolises death

Fruit- Represent the sweet and sour within life, which in paintings usually use a citrus fruit. Citrus fruits used to show how life can be,when fruit is ripe it is ready to eat but when it is over ripe it is rotting away and gone.

Flowers- Transience of life. They depict in paintings the expensive object as a reminder that life is temporary and moral considerations deserved more attention than material things.

Timepieces-   Clock and watches are used to signify the passing of time, time is limited, therefore use it wisely, reminds people of their own mortality. Symbol of the temporary nature of our lives and how fragile it can be

Abundance of food-  Represent wealth and a luxurious life, fruit and flowers don't last forever just like a life won't

Wine and Goblets-  Represent material pleasure and belongings, also show wealth and luxury

Mirror- A clear symbol of the vanity that should be avoided.

Books- Human Knowledge and its temporary nature

still life. Evaluation

Level 5 photography
Still Life
Evaluation

For the two weeks of each project the behind of I have produce was aiming to fit with each genre whilst also finding my own style of photography to help me choose whether I want to do fine art or commercial. The first project I was introduced to is food with Richard which the class and me have not met before in person but have learned a lot on how to improve editing using the curves as I did not realise that I could use the ink pickers on the image to brighten an image or making the whole image contrast. Doing the food photography I based it around on what I would actually eat so that I do not put in the bin if not my taste, I did enjoy a little but not to experiment more into my independent learning agreement as I like photographing people and so far perfumes, food photography looks so simple but no it is not, there is a lot of time to put into it and have a great eye on lighting food either being natural light or in the studio but I didn’t use the studio for food I did it in the natural light to be in my comfort zone.  I was influenced by my own ideas and what I had in my flat so that my funding for the 5 projects which overall helped to keep me motivated to work. My final outcome meets the requirements of the still life brief as I have printed 8 finals which all in gloss and sized 12x16 (A3) I just printed them out in the university asking the technicians to print my Tiff files which are in good quality and not too much money and presented in a portfolio box and labelled my prints and placed the prints in sleeves so they don’t get scratched or dirty. I would say I have developed skills in the studio when I was photographing products which I really liked but the lighting set up has still not really been taken in but probably due to not having much self -confidence, but do know how to set up the equipment’s to reflect light right using booms, clipping paper correctly to make the lighting subtle and keep in light using the white boards. One big goal I have achieved during this project is getting social context and colour balancing right in Photoshop but I do need to remember to shoot in Raw on my camera so I can enhance my images professionally, the tutors have time managed much better by only giving two weeks which is motivating if I have an idea in head quick but for documentary and independent learning agreement It was great to think up on meaning or story however digital montage was very difficult to attempt but think because didn't really know what the tutors were after so I felt like I was editing and hoping for the best and have to self- taught on cutting and composition the elements to fit together without defined lines, luckily I knew some manipulating skills but to be honest there is Youtube tutorials on editing skills so not the end of the world. How I did my digital montage I have related my work to Julia Geiser where she cuts into bodies in half and replace it to an piece from another source from internet e.g. rock. Julia likes to replace the human body to animals and cutting off the face.  There was a lot more self direction on this project which was challenging as I didn’t really motivate myself however I did overcome when having to do the tutorials on what I have achieved, without those tutorials I think it will be more of a struggle because not really discipline myself into doing it and leave it to last minute. I was challenged by the writing of an Independent Learning Agreement as this was something I have not done before and coming up with my own mini brief was daunting but is good practice for next year. Reflecting though my work I would of reshoot my food to be hands on food styling and push myself to go to the studio using the lights and glass to reflect the food and be lighten up and use the materials like the marbles and wood cut up work tops and balance it on stands and place my food so I will feel what an actual food photographer do to sell his images to food companies and could of gone to restaurants and asked if I can photograph their food and take out light from the workshop and use capture one on location. The Vanitas module was good team building exercise and to see if working in groups is for me but has taught me on how to make your own version from a 17^th Century painting which was fun but not for me to do for next year, being in groups wasn't everyone’s things as everyone has different ways in seeing a masterpiece so have to deal with commitments to opinions and not cause arguments and if something in the set up needs changing you have to have a necessary reason and be very strong in your own opinion and use your voice and go with instincts. Personally wanted my work to be able to have a connection with the viewer about the social context about my single mother project as socializing and still having fun with friends and feel like there is someone there that to be loved while have a child would that man look after someone else’s child and would the child accept that the mother has moved on and found a new father and the real father not cared and the love was just not there and seeing the child could possibly be a sad resemblance of memories of the mother but will feel that the love is gone and feel the child will not accept that and push the father to go back.

still life. what is digital montage

Level 5 photography
Still life- digital montage
What is digital Montage

Photomontage is the process and the result of making a composition of photographs by cutting and joining images into a new image. The technique is through an image editing software 'Photoshop' which images that are placed into the montage is from various sources, as parts of different photographs or fragments of printing and from internet, to give the illusion that the elements belonged together originally or allow each elements to retain its separate identity as adding meaning to the composition by selecting, editing and piecing together separate sections of films, photographs, internet sources to form a continuous whole. A photomontage may contain elements of real and imaginary. Combined photographs and digital manipulation may set up a conflict between aesthetics and ethics, in fake images that are presented to the world adversing can lead to mislead viewers to subjects.

Contemporary photograph editors in magazines now create digitally, by being easier to come together with editing and pasting in images to adobe photoshop as this programme allow faster workflow and more precise results. They also allow artists to undo errors, the current trend is to create images combine painting, theatre, illustration, and graphics.

still life. ILA. Sarah Cwynar

Level 5 photography
Still Life- ILA
Sarah Cwynar

Sarah's work looks very interesting as she has brought in a bunch of items that create a personality  and the first image could be about a women or male obviously this person likes to shop and travel and pictures is their treasure. the person is clumsy and likes drinking tea and reads newspapers to find out about the world, I guess the hand is representing that the newspaper is the main bit of her life as she likes to keep up to date with the events and dangers around her or him and could be just paying newspapers for up coming jobs or travels of places she not been yet and take pictures. There is coins in the picture too, maybe to show that she not got a lot of money but the money she has she uses it for something to pleasure whether it be updating her camera or traveling to boost her portfolio. Picture of the women could be of the person who photographed this image or it is part of her family, there is a male photograph in this image too which could be a model she done to do some portrait pictures to persuade an employee to give this person a job or again some one she cares about for example family or friend.

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All of Sarah's work is all about a person which my project is about but there is two images that is different to the first image which she has used colours instead of looking bold. She uses objects that is very common to be kept in the house so she is photographing all cheaply or has a budget on what to spend to produce portfolio so then she has enough money for her living style.

still life. ILA. Pinterest research on Brooke Holmes

Level 5 photography
Still life- ILA
Pinterest research

On this Pinterest research I come across over head shots and placing objects on coloured card to make tiles or just a one colour backdrop which Brooke Holmes has done but he chooses objects to reflect the persons personality  being what he or she wears, what does the person do daily. I looked at how sweets and toys can be displayed in the image to represent a child interests so I get an idea on how to place the child's personality in my single mother project either by putting all the toys on shelves and have mannequin dressing as a mother going out to party and a bottle of alcohol near it. I could do a collage of the toys and candy mixed like the style of Emily Blincoe but with the mother side in a style like a grid but be careful in choosing the right colours so that the grid collage effect won't go all random and look as if I have just put much thought in the image by placing not contrasting colours objects and then the viewer be too distract in reading the image about the mother and childs daily life. Having spills like how Mizuki Ono to have action in the image and look as if the person I am doing about seems to have just done her daily life and I have recorded it into an image, the spills can be seen how the mother has her fun and imagine how messy her party life is or the spills could be about the child where the child may get tantrums and acts on it with damaging the house or the items which are very personal to the mother that makes the mother not have a strong bond with the child.

BROOKE HOLMES

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Mycrica Bergqvist

EMILY BLINCOE

BEN BLACKHALL

 Jcupani

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Mizuki ONO

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SEAN FENNESY

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Marianne Maguire

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still life. Documentary. Social Context

Level 5 photography
Still Life- Documentary
Social Context

It is vital that I have included in my documentary still life mini assignment is that the image must have a social context which means the objects refer to the society and how people see things and relate to it. Documentary still life is about having a heavy meaning within a specific genre and focus on peoples lives or events that could be explored if interests me to my idea of documenting student life. Documentary still life can be a way of making an absent portrait of someones personality or telling a story visually through an image on there every day life and hobbies and interests etc.

I feel that my student life holds a social context as much as the photographer Irving Penn as I have been focusing on how he has set up his objects and tied them all together to resemble each other to subject of social gatherings. I wanted to do student life for my documentary project as I wanted to show in ways how young adults in studying wastes their money on drinks and possibly betting to get the stress of their minds and actually feel like they are living life having fun while still young because just working all the time and when your older you look back and see that you have missed out on socializing with different personality traits in people and develop a strong human being learning the dangers around you, find yourself in style and interests and learning things from others and learn from mistakes from being stupid, find love and learn from the hurt. When looking back and all you did was work could bring back boring memories of the studying life of university  but really you should be able to balance out the social and the work and make memories and make use of those young years as possible.