Jan Groover
-Jan Groover creates a dramatic as well as mysterious images.
-She does this by her ability to turn ordinary objects into something alluring. -She makes the viewers question whether the identifiable things are truly figments of our mind, which also creates a sort of illusion. -Jan Groover has uses a large format camera and she uses utensils and various fruits and vegetables placed on table or a sink in a primarily dark room. -The arranged items and their surroundings create dramatic scenarios |
Best edits
WWW: The images were in focus
EBI: used different materials with more patterns
EBI: used different materials with more patterns
Form over Function
To take photographs of objects while capturing their geometry and form, paying attention to the composition and keeping it simple.
The artist
André Kertész is a photographer from Hungary who was born in 1894. Kertész created Fork in 1928, a year after leaving Hungary for Paris, where he immersed himself in the avant-garde circles of the Dadaists and other artists. He deliberately made the picture simple, while Kertész focuses on the formal composition of the photograph.
André Kertész Fork, 1928
Set 1
Best edits
www and ebi
WWW: Images were in focus, good lighting
EBI: Used a variety of different objects to make it more interesting
WWW: Images were in focus, good lighting
EBI: Used a variety of different objects to make it more interesting
Ordinary to Extraordinary
Edward Weston
Weston used a Graflex 4x5 version camera. The benefit of using this camera was that the camera allowed to see subject matter in the right format before taking the photograph.Weston's philosophy about the photography was to bring the beauty out of ordinary objects, he developed his own photographic language.The issues that Weston encountered when photographing the pepper was he couldn't get the right aperture, he lacked depth of field on F64 so he created his own aperture. The exposure for the pepper photos was 4-6 hours, he used natural light.The long exposure affected the image by the movement of light over the coarse of the image being taken so the pepper was lit from both sides, gave it a luminous quality.
|
Pepper no. 30
|
1st response: Natural Light
In this task I was required to take pictures of vegetables and fruits from different angles using natural light.
Best edits
WWW: Strong contrast and good focus
EBI: Some of the images were too dark, and if I had controlled the light better
EBI: Some of the images were too dark, and if I had controlled the light better
2nd response: Artificial Light
In this task i was required to take photos of fruits and vegetables and different objects using artificial light.
Best edits
WWW: Images were in focus, strong contrast
EBI: I had controlled light better, the composition was more tightly cropped.
EBI: I had controlled light better, the composition was more tightly cropped.
Homework
I responded to Andre Kertesz
Best edits
WWW:The subject I chose to photograph suited the theme as the theme ordinary everyday objects
EBI:The object and location was not interesting enough, and if the images were in focus.
EBI:The object and location was not interesting enough, and if the images were in focus.
Hockney's Joiners
David Hockney is connected to the Pop Art, art movement. This movement was interested in responding to Popular Culture.Hockney created Photojoiners that consisted of photographs taken of the same object from different perspectives. The images were then collaged together to recreate the place, person or object even though the overall appearance may look distorted. This work connects with the Cubist movement, one of Hockney's major aims.Hockney was interested in the way people see and represent space and time, he was responding to the world around him. His aim was to create a whole image form smaller images to represent how we see the world, he shows all the different angles.He sometimes lays out the images in a neat grid, sometimes he overlaps the images.
|
joiners that are in a grid. |
joiners that are overlapped |
Hockney used a cubist perspective, an approach popularised in painting by Pablo Picasso(who was his inspiration) where the viewpoint continually shifts as your eyes move around the composite picture. Cubism shows an object from different angles showing different perspectives
|
Pablo Picasso Still Life with Chair Caning, 1912 |
David Hockney The Desk, 1984 |
Photojoiner of a chair
WWW: it fill well together
EBI: if it was neater
EBI: if it was neater
Hockney portrait
Homework: Hockney room
WWW: pictures fit nicely together
EBI: if i had not blended the edges
EBI: if i had not blended the edges
Eating Sequence
WWW: Managed photoshop well so that the images appear on the same document without seeing the edges of the frames
EBI: the brightness was the same, and if the image was less blurry
careful editing to put the images in one . Well done!
EBI: the brightness was the same, and if the image was less blurry
careful editing to put the images in one . Well done!
Luke Stephenson response
WWW: I used a tripod to avoid camera shake.
EBI: if the images were the same size
EBI: if the images were the same size
Ute Barth: Light and Focus
WWW: The location and time of day was appropriate for the task
EBI:The subject I chose to photograph did not necessarily fit the brief as it was not interesting enough
EBI:The subject I chose to photograph did not necessarily fit the brief as it was not interesting enough