#constructed photograph

[koenvlecken]

  NYTimes : “The world has caught up to Gregory Crewdson. In his large-scale photographs, which are produced with a movie crew in bravura Hollywood style, the people stare off into space, cloaked in solipsistic misery.

The lighting is so portentous and the isolation and hopelessness so exaggerated that these scenes have always reminded me of Technicolor film stills from a 1950s melodrama — a kitschy imitation of life.

Until now. In the current locked-down world, (...) Mr. Crewdson’s overwrought images seem like faithful representations of our frazzled psychological state.”

An Eclipse of Moths, Gagosian Beverly Hills. ... “And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out”

[resistancecoefficient]

[gambinijournal]

My favourite images from the first test shooting at home. My personal Series project will be self-portraits, as I always did feel anxious at the front of the camera. I would like to challenge myself, explore, perform and show completely different me. Unrecognisable! Since my course started I have been introduced to many male photographers, and just some female photogs. Two woman inspired me to play and trick a viewer through self-portrait photography. Adrian Piper and Cindy Sherman. In test home shooting I used old flash lights which were very powerful and there was any possibilities to get low light right. My flat it is not big enough to put lights farer back, even if I flash back of the wall it is still strong light. So I decided for next shooting I will use the studio.

[gambinijournal]

COLOUR PRINTING

  There are some differences between black and white printing and colour printing. As we could have a red light in darkroom while making bw prints, in colour practise we cannot expose the paper on any of the lights, all process has to be done in darkness.

  While printing colour images we must control also the colour balance and the density. so first when we are doing test stripes we are looking for a right exposure. When this is achieved then we start correcting the colour.

  Contrast can be adjust partially through the printing process but it is the paper which you are going to choose gives the best result: 

- kodak Supra - normal contrast

- kodak Portra - low contrast

- kodak Ultra - high contrast

  BLUE, GREEN and RED are the primary colours of light. All three primaries combined make WHITE  light. If you combined two primary colours you will get third colour known as a complimentary colour. The relation between primary and complimentary colours is a basic to know how to process colour printing. 

All range of colours can be create with combinations of yellow,magents and cyan. You should only use two filters. Do not use cyan (why??). While printing remember that long exposure reducing the contrast and lowering the colour saturation.

[jacquelinemulvaney]

Sam Taylor Wood

12.12.19

Sam Taylor Wood is a film maker, photographer and visual artist. She created a series of self portraits where she was suspended in harnesses, digital manipulation was used to remove all he traces of these to make it look as if she were floating in the air, shadow from the train was also removed to create some interesting looking images.

[jacquelinemulvaney]

Taking a break

7.11.19

After spending a lot of time reading for my essay, I decided to take a break and watch a film. The film was called ‘yesterday’ and was the story of a world wide power cut of a few minutes that resulted in everyone in the world forgetting that the Beatles ever existed. ( Everything in my life seems to come back to the projects I am doing haha). One musician did remember the Beatles and their music and decided to cash in as the creater of the music. This meant the music companies had to recreate the album covers ! Of course they were far far away from how the original covers looked and the music artist was horrified ( he was a fan ), this showed me how important original designs and ideas for covers were, some would argue they could actually make or break the album. By the way the film was good and worth a watch !

[laurenejohnson99]

The Constructed Photograph

#1 SHOOT - Trial images and my favourites from Constructed Photograph shoot. This shoot was done in the studio, mirror hung with string and motivated red and blue lighting, the red done using coloured gels and the blue created by the reflecting the light off of a blue plastic material - creating a more subtle blue moonlight colouring.

As a group we agreed that the image is lacking narrative - the idea was that Ozzi has been waiting for Miro in his home, he's now come home to her (unknowing she’s there) and the tension of that strange moment - the family portrait is to make the viewer question their relationship and who's initiating whatever going to happen.

The group and I have agreed after this shoot that the image should be taken in a home, the studio felt to fake and I really felt that the black wall was taking away from a homely feel. 

[kelseyphotogjournal]

Individual Project Shooting

After being unsuccessful with booking a studio as they were all booked up, I decided to make my own make shift studio using a white background and the studio lights in a room and planned my shoot from there. 

While there were many complications which occurred while shooting, such as models no longer being available, lighting equipment not working properly, not enough space or issues with the film camera, after many hours of shooting I was able to fill many roles of film with captivating pictures which I believe portray my idea perfectly. 

Although I did not stick to my original 5 brands, Nike, Adidas, Calvin Klein, Supreme and Ralph Lauren, I feel as though I still showed my idea through some of these other popular brands like Palace. 

If I were to do this project again, I would like to get a chance to shoot in the studio before anyone else so I could show my ideas full potential. I also would like to be more prepared in case any models would drop out again and have back-ups that I could rely on.