Fishing and Photography

 Here are two photos I took when I was fishing a few weeks ago. I think the actually look okay considering that I took them on my phone. This is the original photo on the right I like it but I think that it is to long and there is to much sky

 I decided to crop the picture so there was not as much sky in it. Which I think works well. I then put a filter on it which makes the center more focused and the edges a little out of focus. after doing this i decided to enhance the colours and try and brighten the photo a little. I think the edited version looks a lot better tan the original photo. 

This is the other photo I took that day. The reason I took this photo is because I loved the reflection of the trees and clouds in the water. Another reason I took it was I loved the different colours in the sky and also the contrast between the orange rod and the blue and greens.  

Messing with Aperture,ISO and shutter speed

last week we were given cameras and told to take pictures with different aperture.The definition of aperture is - an opening, hole, or gap. In the photography world it is pretty much the same. Aperture is how wide or how narrow the shutters is. The wider it is the more light is let into the lens like image at the at he bottom and the narrower the shutter is the less light it let into the lens like the photo at the top. Through all the photos I took I had the iso - 200 an the the aperture f/8. 

In this picture the shutter speed was set to 1/320. this is a very slow shutter speed this is why it is dark. The reason for it being as dark is that the the shutter opens and closes so fast that there is not very much light let into the camera.





In this picture I have changed the shutter speed to 1/125 which sounds like a lot but it  only lighted the picture slightly
This middle picture is my favorite I think the lighting in this one works the best.The detail on the rusty bell and also on the bricks shows up lot better in this lighting  
  

I changed the shutter speed to 1/13 which is really really slow. This has drastically changed the amount of light that is in the photography










Here is another example of shutter speed changes

 Here is an other example of a slow shutter speed. in this photo it was at 1/6. I think it works relatively okay I like how the center of the plant is very detailed and and around the edges it is blurry and out of focus.

Here is an example of a quick shutter speed - 1/100.this is why it is a lot darker. I really like how This picture has came out. I like the dark green and vibrant red.

Funny Selfies

 on Wednesday the 24th September we were shown this picture of 8 Victorians, it is a very unusual picture because of the faces they are pulling. It was not often that Victorian people were photographed in this way. they were usually photographed looking there best.

after we were shown this we were asked to take inspiration from it and create our own images like this. 

These are my inspirational creations 

photography 17/9/14

On Wednesday 17/09/14 Niall sent us out to take a few photos. I think these are some of the best ones I took. At first when we were told we were doing photography I was not really looking forward to it and didn't really have an interest in it. That was until I
 started looking at different photographers and started taking photos. These are the first few photo I took and I began to find it good fun and i liked the different  things that you could do with the camera.

The top left is the first photo  took when we went out that day. I actually really like it, which i was surprised about. I like how I can control what the viewer of the photo see's. like how they can only see the view point through the the bin and the cannot see what is happening around about it.       

Here is a picture of a park picnic table. I chose to photograph the table in this way because I liked the way the two pieces of wood take you further into the picture. I also like this picture because of how interesting the old paint and wood looks at the front of the photo. I also like the view point I took this picture because it makes you think a little because it does not look like a picnic table from this angle .  

I think this photo (on the left) is very interesting and different, I took this one from a birds eye view. I think it will make the viewer think a lot because it is hard to figure out what it is. I like the depth of this how close the right hand side looks and far away the left side looks.  




I really like this picture because it is a picture of such a simple object. I think the reason it looks as interesting as it does is because it is from an unusual angle. There is not many people would look at a cone from this angle in every day life.

I also like this picture it is from an ants view point. I really like the texture of the sand stone wall on the left hand side I also like hoe the left hand side is in focus and the right hand side isn't it makes the left hand side look as if it is sticking out.

I really really like this picture because of the way the steams of the leaf are lighting up and the edges of the leaf are really dark. I really like the colours I love how good they look together

I also really like this picture. i really like the contrast between the skin tone and the vibrant purple hair. I also like the reflection of the computer screens in the eye.

Well established and Popular art

Last Thursday at college we were shown a video of an artist called jack vettriano, who was a millionaire because of the amount of paintings he had sold but the weird think about him is that he is not considers as a well established artist because none of his work is displayed in any art exhibitions.

Why is this?

I think the reason that vettriano and other artists are not established because they sell there own art and do not hold any pieces back from the public, where as artist who are moving there work through art exhibitions and art dealers they do not release all of there paintings to the public so that there work looks more rare and also so the other pieces of art by them increase in value. I think art critics and dealers are just high end business men who want to make big money.

Where as I think vettriano and other artists like him just paint likable situations and scenarios that people can relate to and dream about themselves being the person in the romantic scene. 

Photography

 Here is two examples of photos I have took at college. In these photos I have been plying with depth of vision. In the picture on the left I have concentrated the focus on the flowers behind the fence. which I really like because it gives the picture more depth. Where as in the picture below I concentrated the focus on the fence posts in the foreground which i think also works but I do not think it works as well as the other picture. I like the colours in both  because I think the turquoise in the foreground works well with the bright and vibrant pink greens and reds in the background.

Photomontage - Hannah Höch & Raoul Housman

In exploring specialist techniques and viewpoint I have been looking at photo-montage I have looked at some photo-montage artists like 

John Heartfield
Hannah Höch
Kurt Schwitters 
Raoul Housmann

My two favourite artists from this four are Hannah Höch and Raoul Hausmann because I liked there work the most.

Hannah Höch

The piece of work I looked at by Höch was;
"Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany", 1919-1920.

I really like this piece. it is very busy, it looks very mechanically inspired because of all the buildings and all the gears  and bolts in it, I also think this photo-montage is advertising Dada and is against anti Dadaists because it is covered in the word Dada. I think it is against anti dadaists because in the top right corner there is paper cut outs which read die anti Dada.

Raoul Housmann

The piece of work I have been looking at by Housmann is this;

ABCD (Self-portrait) 1923–24

I really like this piece I like how he has put himself into the photo-montage and the different things round about him.

I decided to take this forward and this is the idea that I came up with 

I took the same sort of idea, I used photo shop to crop the picture of my head and change the colour to black and white. I then placed things about me round me, like that I really like bananas so I decided to put a banana in it I then changed the writing at the top to my second name, I basically tried to portray myself in a photo-montage.