Ladd’s photo that I chose to analyze was one of his street photography, this is one of which he took on a train. I decided to choose this one because of difference and the relation to me and current times. In the photo I love how they use the difference in people like size, age, ethnicity and style too. It just shows, when on a train, you are all, “in the same boat” all together, going somewhere, just the feeling of equality shown in the pictures makes you feel, comfortable, and theme of closeness helps you feel this when really looking at the photograph. As well as this I can see it as showing what “the American Dream” actually is, it is sometimes not the perfect but everyone is together, and they are doing in what they want to do. Looking at the image I would describe it as Chaotic as well as meaningful, the chaoticness is this photo helps portray the feeling of being enclosed just like how the people in the photo feel. It is also quite an intense photo, this is because of the amount of people. The light source in this photograph is very natural as it comes from the window behind the people. The lighting quality is quite soft and dim as it is natural sun light coming from the top of the window. It also helps that the photograph has been taken from a long view point ad there is so much to take in from this photograph the highlighting from the sun gives people this form of a glow. This photograph is in black and white and I think that Ladd has chosen very well in making it black and white, this is because there is so much patter in the photograph colour would have overpowered it. But the black and white just brings out this large tone range. The strongest element of this photography I believe is the angle that it is taken, as we are looking up at them we are taking it all in. I believe that the genre of this photograph is Documentary, this is because it tells the story in which people live there lives and the difference between them all, but for this one moment, on the train they are equal. I believe that this imagery is a way to tell everyone there is no need to argue or fight, because a lot of the time we are equal.
'Exploring visual rhythms and patterns of cycles in the environment (visit to London)
When talking these photos i wanted to show the rythm and cycles that can be seen in london. There are many visual cycles and rythm that can be seen. l started looking at trains and the constant journey that people have to take on the commute to london. There are so many things can be seen on the commute. Firstly, when on the train people are like clone, they all are dressed the same and doing the same thing. My 1st picture shows people on the train, either sitting crossed legged or reading paper i just like the way that it showed how things can be so like a pattern on the train. Then after looking at the floor i looked up, and saw how the lights were like a rythm. The are all in straight line and i love thw way that after playing with the contrast the lights were the only think that could be seen. The visual rythm of these lights just show the repatition that is on a train i think. the way that every one is in a line one behind the other and soo repetative. This is just like people at the train stations, they are always told how to walk and which way, and for most people they take that journey every day. Finally the last picture is of the moving train i was inspired buy the artist jeferee ladd. He took a set of photographs in london in black and white and took pictures of peoplel on trains, and of trains. These were the photographs that he took.
Exploring the idea of recycling objects - visit to LASSCO, an antique centre and reclaimation yard
These photographs were taken from an old house in london call LASSCO'S it has this nice patterend old clock and made me think. It inspired me to look in to the cycle of life, and how people say our body is like a clock, "bodyclock' and that every day it is ticking away, we are getting older and older and dying bit by bit. I thought this way of thinking was beautiful in the way that people think we are like a clock ticking away and this inspired me to do my expretents with these photographs. The full clock i decided to experiment by projecting the clock on to some ones body to show the idea of the body clock. These photograph's were taken in the exam.
When looking at this photograph by Sokolsky it inspired me to take my next set because i love the way that the projected picture tells the story as it is projected on her face. I thinks that the perspective of this photographs works really well as the only light source is from the projector. The colour's in this photo really highlight the models beauty. And this is what really inspires me that maybe i could take a photography of someone, and highlight them in it and make it work really well.
The pictures above are of 2 of the girls face of which i took in one of the studios, then with just the full clock i took them and overlayed them onto the photogarphy. this was my outcome .
I also did another experiment with the half of a clock, what I decided to do was to bury it in the ground and see how over time it will decompose and break down into a old tattered photography. This photograph came out perfectly after the second attempt. After wiping off the mud and letting it dry naturally. This was my final out come of the experiment.
The second experiment was to combine the two picture of the clocks and the faces with the clocks on top, I did this by individually layering the pictures.
Then after taking these photographs in London we wanted to take some objects and try and get some macro photographs. After creating our idea on what we wanted to photograph, we took it in the studio to take some pictures. I decided that I was going to carry on the theme of rhythms of cycles in life, and stick to my clock angle. I chose a clock which had some empty space between it so I was able to bend and burn the metal frame around it to that it was entwined as the outside were vines. This connected well to my idea, as there are many routes in life in which you can take, and this is like a tree/plant. As a tree/plant has many different branches/ vines, so does life, I think this related beautifully and thought it would be the perfect thing to photograph.
I also took a picture of a pocket watch which I believe is Generic representation of life its self, it is so complicated and intricate that it is cased beautifully, as in us.
Finally I experimented with the picture of the clock in which I burnt. I thought that bleaching it would create this burnt effect with large gaps of white in it. I think that is a way to show how some people have certain gaps in there life, and will be with them forever, be it a death of someone, or a dream in which they could never achieve.
Rhythm of cycles in a person’s life. After looking at all of the clocks I was thinking about how life itself actually works. There are many factors in a persons life which effect the way they live, two of which are big points if you have or haven’t got these. I firstly looked at things that can shorten you like and make the cycle end faster. The main cause I believe is smoking. Just like an add to stop smoking I wanted to show the grubby, gritty side of smoking which people always talk about. The model was asked to just take as cigarette and just smoke it as they normally would. Using the help of a macro lenses I capture the details of there skins and the smoke coming out of there mouth. The skin using Photoshop I made look in a bad state.
On the other hand people say money makes the world go round. I believe that this is true in some case. This is because with this we can buy certain things to prolong our life, like medical treatment and help, also some say it can buy you happiness and some say I cant, I think that both are true, in some aspects you are happy when you get something, but on the other hand money is not everything. In this I wanted to show the happiness that you would get if you found what you got in this photo. I done this by getting around four hundred pound and photographing it scattered about. But after taking them I think they looked quite boring so both I edited to seem more exciting, The 1st I took the picture of the money then flipped it vertically and layered it on top so there was the illusion and details of more money. The second is also layering but I have taken the queens face off of one of the notes in a photograph, enlarged it, and then layered it over the top. So the queen’s face is sitting on top of the pile of money
On these photographs I done some experiments on them, I printed off the photograph of the money and put in-between more money so there was the illusion of it actually being just money. I also got the picture of the cigarettes and used them as an ashtray. When my friends were smoking I got them to drop there ash on top of the photography and try burn a hole through it too. I bleached on of the smoke photographs and also took a macro lenses and laid it on top to enlarge the ash part of the cigarette.
Final choices from the exam
These photo's were taken/edited in the exam timings.
These photo's were taken/edited in the exam timings.
Evaluation
When starting my project, we took a visit to London, wherewe went to look at examples of rhythm of cycles within the environment. I thinksome advantages of doing this to start of my project, was i was able grasp someearly ideas. From these ideas I was able to evolve them into the ideas that iused in my exam. The only disadvantageof this set of photographs is I went to London not knowing what I wanted totake pictures off. Once I did get to London, I was able to create some ideasusing my environment. If faced with going out to take some photographs again iwill try and get n idea of photograph that I want to take. Because when inLondon i took some many photographs that were hardly connected. After being in London we went back to take some photographin the studio of certain items. I thought they were successful, as I believethat they were taken well and the items that I chose connected well to the ideathat I created. After taking the photographs of the clock, I thought you couldnot tell how the burns on the metal, and paper, so I was able to correct thison Photoshop to make it show up and give it more of a depth. I was quite happywith the photographs that I took and the experiments that I did; after all ofthis I really wanted to explore my own ideas because I felt that I could bemore imaginative and really bring a personal viewpoint into the work. My own Ideaswas looking clocks and they sayings “body clock” this phrase inspired me in mynext set of photographs as I thought I could be creative and explore differenttypes of photography. I think that theartists that I chose related well and inspired me to take some goodphotographs. The actual examalso went quite well, I was able to create some really good final out comes,and I kept my timings well, so that I had time to take some photographs, andedit them. I was able to do some reallydo some really good experiments with photographs, and with my knowledge of PhotoshopI was able to create some good photographs by combing ones that I have taken.
When starting my project, we took a visit to London, wherewe went to look at examples of rhythm of cycles within the environment. I thinksome advantages of doing this to start of my project, was i was able grasp someearly ideas. From these ideas I was able to evolve them into the ideas that iused in my exam. The only disadvantageof this set of photographs is I went to London not knowing what I wanted totake pictures off. Once I did get to London, I was able to create some ideasusing my environment. If faced with going out to take some photographs again iwill try and get n idea of photograph that I want to take. Because when inLondon i took some many photographs that were hardly connected. After being in London we went back to take some photographin the studio of certain items. I thought they were successful, as I believethat they were taken well and the items that I chose connected well to the ideathat I created. After taking the photographs of the clock, I thought you couldnot tell how the burns on the metal, and paper, so I was able to correct thison Photoshop to make it show up and give it more of a depth. I was quite happywith the photographs that I took and the experiments that I did; after all ofthis I really wanted to explore my own ideas because I felt that I could bemore imaginative and really bring a personal viewpoint into the work. My own Ideaswas looking clocks and they sayings “body clock” this phrase inspired me in mynext set of photographs as I thought I could be creative and explore differenttypes of photography. I think that theartists that I chose related well and inspired me to take some goodphotographs. The actual examalso went quite well, I was able to create some really good final out comes,and I kept my timings well, so that I had time to take some photographs, andedit them. I was able to do some reallydo some really good experiments with photographs, and with my knowledge of PhotoshopI was able to create some good photographs by combing ones that I have taken.
