Reflections
First Response
Second Response
In this second response I manually reflected the person using photoshop and then kept on reflecting it by putting the previous image in the corner of a sheet in photoshop, the flipped it horizontally over, and then copied it downward to create this cool pattern effect.
Kitchen Still
Jan Groover
Jan Groover (American, 1943 – 2011) was among the very best still life photographers since the medium’s invention. Groover created her famous Kitchen Still Life in 1978 and 1979. Using a large-format camera, she transformed colanders, knives, spatulas and baking pans into objects of beauty that still hold a visual interest that transcends their common use. Her seductively modern colour palette of greens, pewter, bronze and brown tonalities permeates the space dissected by kitchen paraphernalia. Here are some examples of her work.
Overview of Setup
I first thought I would set up different utensils and put them in unique places so that when photographing them I would get cool and different angles you wouldn't normally see. Furthermore, I added some texture to my image with some coffee which added amazing shadows and detail. I tried to recreate Jan Groovers work and I think it turned out quite well as you can see below.
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Paul Eis
Here are some examples of Paul Eis's work.
Paul Eis' photos have lots of colour because he thought that buildings looked too boring. I tried to do the same thing and did a gif.
Here are some of my attempts
Simplified Images
Thomas Danthony
Thomas Danthony was a photographer who specifically focussed his skills on simplified images. Here is some of his work below.
David Hockney
David Hockney is connected to the Pop art movement. This movement was interested in responding to Popular Culture.
Hockney created photo joiners 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 would cleverly compose patchwork of photos and call it 'joiners'. Hockney's connection to cubism was after he had completed one of his photo joiners he said he owed much to cubism and said he found it to be 'turn on'.
Hockney created photo joiners 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 would cleverly compose patchwork of photos and call it 'joiners'. Hockney's connection to cubism was after he had completed one of his photo joiners he said he owed much to cubism and said he found it to be 'turn on'.
What went well: I managed to connect all the photo making it look like the subject you were meant to see. Also I managed to do what I wanted where I wanted to make the chair not loo completely normal but still slightly real.
Even better if: It would have been better if the photos where more seamless when connected, and there wasn’t a white background prominent. |
Second responce
In this task I was required to take different perspectives of an object, I chose a cactus, and combine them to make a mix and match of different perspectives into one collective shape. This relates to David Hockney's work as our image layouts are quite similar. My intention was to create a Hockney piece as authentic and like his photos as I could.
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This second time, to add on to my 'even better if' I decided to cut some of the photos to make it seem more seamless when one photo is above another. Also when I took the photos and tried to have a plain background to make the wooden cactus stand out more.
Pinterest (inspiration)
Cornelia Parker (Tate exhibition) / Future shocks (exhibition)
Geometric Portrait
Gordin Magnin
Gordin Magnin is an LA based artist who uses fashion images and turns them into a unique collage of "altered found images" with his use of geometric patterns. His background consists of a Masters degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture, a bachelors of science in structural engineering from the University of Nevada, meaning that his skill is entirely self taught and his experience is fewer than other artist who have manipulated images for a longer length of time to get to this level of skill.
He describes his work as "precise, intricate, geometric and destruction". His alteration of single images using precise geometric cuts and operations completely re structure the form of the original photos, and due to the majority of his photographs being portraits, the repositioning of geometric shapes cause deceptions at first sight as the eye is not used to features of the face being in strange places, which is what makes his work so unique and individual. His use of black and white colouring accentuates the features of the face even further due to the quality and use of shadow in his photographs.
His aim of work is to break down the expectations of perfect looking models and to challenge the industry's perception of beauty (he says "he tends to make the beautiful ugly") who said that his work was too extreme for them. He uses similar digital manipulation of images with exactly the same concept as when models would be altered to look unrealistically fake in campaigns and advertisements etc but I believe exaggerates that to mock the industry.
He describes his work as "precise, intricate, geometric and destruction". His alteration of single images using precise geometric cuts and operations completely re structure the form of the original photos, and due to the majority of his photographs being portraits, the repositioning of geometric shapes cause deceptions at first sight as the eye is not used to features of the face being in strange places, which is what makes his work so unique and individual. His use of black and white colouring accentuates the features of the face even further due to the quality and use of shadow in his photographs.
His aim of work is to break down the expectations of perfect looking models and to challenge the industry's perception of beauty (he says "he tends to make the beautiful ugly") who said that his work was too extreme for them. He uses similar digital manipulation of images with exactly the same concept as when models would be altered to look unrealistically fake in campaigns and advertisements etc but I believe exaggerates that to mock the industry.
The task: Look at the presentation of Gordin Magnin's work and, using a photograph taken in the studio, follow the step guide to create your own portrait inspired by his work.
Almar Haser - Cosmic Surger
Cosmic surgery is imagined as a medical procedure that people can choose in the not so distant future for aesthetic enhancement, mood alteration, and to thwart increasingly pervasive methods of surveillance. Combining photography with collage and origami, Haser's playfully odd portraits consider the link between identity and image in a culture of visual bombardment. She suggests a fundamental shift in the way we understand ourselves and the world around us, picturing the possibility of a trans-humanist future.
"Experimentation has shaped my identity as an artist. I’m always thinking about different sculptural approaches to photography and how I can build layers into the work. I never know exactly how I’m going to produce the work until I’ve spent hours experimenting. Most of the time it’s a happy accident that shapes the final piece."
"Experimentation has shaped my identity as an artist. I’m always thinking about different sculptural approaches to photography and how I can build layers into the work. I never know exactly how I’m going to produce the work until I’ve spent hours experimenting. Most of the time it’s a happy accident that shapes the final piece."
Lightbulb - Alma Haser from Stephenson& on Vimeo.
WWW: I managed to create the shape by cutting and sticking tabs and corners of different shapes together to make an abstract 3D shape which I could then orientate to warp and change the images composition and the faces details. I think it turned out pretty well.
EBI: I struggled to take a good picture of the object on the face. Sometimes I would have a bit of the white part of the paper on the edge, which I don't like.
EBI: I struggled to take a good picture of the object on the face. Sometimes I would have a bit of the white part of the paper on the edge, which I don't like.
Fragmented Buildings
Patrick Cornillet
Cornillet is a painter, not a photographer.
In this series, he has painted architectural elements isolated from their environment and reconstituted in the form of objects on a white background.
The concrete makes us aware of the material and of the remains left by the humans and of time passing by.
Even if the architectures seem austere, spaces seeming uninhabited, dehumanised, Cornillet creates a particular poetry and a mesmerising mysticism.
In this series, he has painted architectural elements isolated from their environment and reconstituted in the form of objects on a white background.
The concrete makes us aware of the material and of the remains left by the humans and of time passing by.
Even if the architectures seem austere, spaces seeming uninhabited, dehumanised, Cornillet creates a particular poetry and a mesmerising mysticism.
First Attempt
Second Attempt
Tate Modern - Cezanne
Development 1
Ansel Adams
Adams, Ansel (Feb. 20 1902 — Apr. 22, 1984), photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. The grandson of a wealthy timber baron, Adams grew up in a house set amid the sand dunes of the Golden Gate. When Adams was only four, an aftershock of the great earthquake and fire of 1906 threw him to the ground and badly broke his nose, distinctly marking him for life. A year later the family fortune collapsed in the financial panic of 1907, and Adams’s father spent the rest of his life doggedly but fruitlessly attempting to recoup.
An only child, Adams was born when his mother was nearly forty. His relatively elderly parents, affluent family history, and the live-in presence of his mother’s maiden sister and aged father all combined to create an environment that was decidedly Victorian and both socially and emotionally conservative. Adams’s mother spent much of her time brooding and fretting over her husband’s inability to restore the Adams fortune, leaving an ambivalent imprint on her son. Charles Adams, on the other hand, deeply and patiently influenced, encouraged, and supported his son.
Natural shyness and a certain intensity of genius, coupled with the dramatically “earthquaked” nose, caused Adams to have problems fitting in at school. In later life he noted that he might have been diagnosed as hyperactive. There is also the distinct possibility that he may have suffered from dyslexia. He was not successful in the various schools to which his parents sent him; consequently, his father and aunt tutored him at home. Ultimately, he managed to earn what he termed a “legitimizing diploma” from the Mrs. Kate M. Wilkins Private School — perhaps equivalent to having completed the eighth grade.
The most important result of Adams’s somewhat solitary and unmistakably different childhood was the joy that he found in nature, as evidenced by his taking long walks in the still-wild reaches of the Golden Gate. Nearly every day found him hiking the dunes or meandering along Lobos Creek, down to Baker beach, or out to the very edge of the American continent.
When Adams was twelve he taught himself to play the piano and read music. Soon he was taking lessons, and the ardent pursuit of music became his substitute for formal schooling. For the next dozen years the piano was Adams’s primary occupation and, by 1920, his intended profession. Although he ultimately gave up music for photography, the piano brought substance, discipline, and structure to his frustrating and erratic youth. Moreover, the careful training and exacting craft required of a musician profoundly informed his visual artistry, as well as his influential writings and teachings on photography.
'A good photograph is knowing where to stand. ' 'Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas.
An only child, Adams was born when his mother was nearly forty. His relatively elderly parents, affluent family history, and the live-in presence of his mother’s maiden sister and aged father all combined to create an environment that was decidedly Victorian and both socially and emotionally conservative. Adams’s mother spent much of her time brooding and fretting over her husband’s inability to restore the Adams fortune, leaving an ambivalent imprint on her son. Charles Adams, on the other hand, deeply and patiently influenced, encouraged, and supported his son.
Natural shyness and a certain intensity of genius, coupled with the dramatically “earthquaked” nose, caused Adams to have problems fitting in at school. In later life he noted that he might have been diagnosed as hyperactive. There is also the distinct possibility that he may have suffered from dyslexia. He was not successful in the various schools to which his parents sent him; consequently, his father and aunt tutored him at home. Ultimately, he managed to earn what he termed a “legitimizing diploma” from the Mrs. Kate M. Wilkins Private School — perhaps equivalent to having completed the eighth grade.
The most important result of Adams’s somewhat solitary and unmistakably different childhood was the joy that he found in nature, as evidenced by his taking long walks in the still-wild reaches of the Golden Gate. Nearly every day found him hiking the dunes or meandering along Lobos Creek, down to Baker beach, or out to the very edge of the American continent.
When Adams was twelve he taught himself to play the piano and read music. Soon he was taking lessons, and the ardent pursuit of music became his substitute for formal schooling. For the next dozen years the piano was Adams’s primary occupation and, by 1920, his intended profession. Although he ultimately gave up music for photography, the piano brought substance, discipline, and structure to his frustrating and erratic youth. Moreover, the careful training and exacting craft required of a musician profoundly informed his visual artistry, as well as his influential writings and teachings on photography.
'A good photograph is knowing where to stand. ' 'Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas.
Development 2
Development 3
Nicholas Kennedy Sitton
Nicholas Kennedy Sitton is a San Francisco-based photographer who uses a technique similar to the special effects used in the box office hit, Inception. We love the abstract form and twisted pattern that Sitton achieved through cutting and rotating the image segments slightly.
Final Development
The picture at the top is a warping effect of a combination of 5 images. By grabbing a circle in photoshop, rotating it slightly and then making a new layer, creating a smaller circle and rotating it slightly more, over and over again, I would do this to create a cool warping effect. On the waves photo, it is a way to emphasise the waves and make them look quite cool. I also lined up some images on both projects to create a smooth border on the transitions of one image to the next. The Thames and City Warp Project is a creation of 52 warped sections taking over 10 hours to complete. Each circle is a calculated size down to its pixel radius. Furthermore, it is a development of the previous projects and so it is a combination of the Ansel Adams waves, the Ocean Project and the Nicholas Kennedy Sitton Warping Project. I think the combination of these two projects is a great example of what the fragment topic is all about.