Unit 7 proposal

Main idea to incorporate into unit 7 is Zeitgeist i aim to show this through an array of images, (this should include features which are unapparent  in previous decades and alter the current society as it’s situated at the moment) the images should represent people from a previous era and also include people in 2015, some of my aspects to consider for the unit are ,technology, the time of year, architecture, fashion and how the economy could counteract with these. My main theme is people in general and how all these changing factors alter them, I would like the resultant 60 second moving image to show this and the majority of the images to be easily differentiated from other images which are to act as a comparison to help show my overall theme of ‘change’

Irving Penn

Irving Penn is an American photographer specializing in still life and portraiture, Penn studied at the Philadelphia museum school of art after this penn worked as a freelance artist he began working for vogue magazine however wasn’t asked to work on the design and photography of the magazine until later on in his career.                             Penn has worked on a variety of photographic subjects such as metals foods and even bones.

The still life photography that Penn has produced is well known and his composition within his images is renowned for being highly organized and having great aesthetic and artistic quality.                           I think Penn’s work on fruit is well light and has great compositional factors making his work look organized and interesting simultaneously, the work Penn has produces on food is somewhat strange as the textures he used don’t really work together but uses them anyway and lights them with strong white light making the images look bright and clinical however the textures of food and other subjects create a positive juxtaposition, i think this is unlike any other kind of still life photography.

Fruit placed in negative carrier

This particular set of Photograms were created using oranges that me and my set group had dried, meaning they could be placed directly above the photographic paper, or wedged inside the negative carrier so that unique shapes and patterns on the fruit could be enlarged in detail, in these images i think it’s important to look at specific details and characteristics that fruits provide for specific photographic purposes, and their variety of uses in many forms such as studio and darkroom, by doing this i could see how fruit could be photographed in different ways using alternate methods from the photographic industry.

*Image details

the photograms are reasonably exposed by the projector’s light (10s, 9s ,7s) the black areas on the images are the absences of material where nothing is present and cannot have light cast through it, the areas where veins and texture are seen is  translucent material but still thick meaning it is not allowing as much light to travel through onto the underlaying photographic paper which gives a lighter area for the photogram.

The white speckled areas appear clustered but slightly disappeared around their edges this is actually mold forming around the orange’s skin, this also was sufficiently built up and allowed little light to travel through the orange where the mold was present.

the images were successful for what i was experimenting with hover i wanted to look more at the effects of continuous lighting on fruit and how the fruit is illuminated and how the light can expose certain areas more than others depending on the density of the object photographed.

Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz is an American photographer who currently resides in in San Francisco California, she descended from an eastern european background, Annie’s grandparents were jewish immigrants from Romania, her father was stationed in the Philippines in the 1960’s during the Vietnam war, this is where she took her first photographs.

During high school she developed several more interests in Art such as music and painting, post graduation she Attended the San Francisco Art Institute where she then went on to study Painting. in 1970 Leibovitz began taking photographs for the rolling stone magazine

Shaun, weekend Task

 

 

 

New target

•Maintain blog posts for all units.
•Blog tutorials Friday sessions.
•Upload all current material including briefs, images and research

Task 1 Photographic lenses and their focal lengths

In optics a focal length measures the exact point in which light converges through a photographic lens or other optical equipment, this is usually measured in mm for greater accuracy when adjusting the lens to focus on a subject, the light is converged (directed) by a set of three points, called nodal points, nodal points allow light rays to  be vertically directed into the film plane.

The nodal points commonly referred to as cardinal points, these determine the outcomes of photographs through the placement of the nodal points, using nodal points allows us as photographers to understand images to greater depths and how the photographic and lens system in controlled and effected by focal length.

To work out the focal length of an image we control it through adjustment of the lens in mm. 18MM would allow a short focal length but had the ability to convert more light as its lens in larger allowing more light rays to transverse a focal length of 30MM-55MM would allow the cameras mirror plane to select a varied point of light to which it can focus on and record, focal lengths can exceed well up up 1700MM which would on a camera allow a photographer to record images which are of a greater distance of about 50MM, photographic equipment significantly goes up in price when the focal length is of great depth.