Initial shoot- St Thomas park

Essay Introduction- I remember when

I remember when…

This essay is about memory and how memories have inspired photographers and artists to do what they do today. About a month ago, after a clear out at mum’s house, I came across many family albums, and found so many photos of me and my sister growing up. Day trips places and holidays we went on. After looking through these photographs, it inspired me to do my project on memories, and the recreation of these memories. Events artists may have witnessed or experienced through childhood can affect how they show it in their work. Every memory is an experience which can be either good or bad. Memories have inspired and influenced a variety of different artists to express their emotions and past through their artwork, it can be a way of escaping bad memories or revisiting good ones. I have begun by looking at Taryn Simon and her “the innocents” project, recreating scenes of people being accused of crimes they did not commit. And also Steve Pyke who photographed his two sons Jack and Duncan over a few years, capturing memories of them growing up.

Project prosopal

For my photography final major project, I am going to produce a visual documentation of people, places and objects that have sentimental value to me. They could be, childhood memories, childhood days out, family members, other loved ones or sentimental objects. And also, maybe recreate photos that hold a lot of memories in them.

I am going to photograph these by using a variety of photographic techniques, including shutter speeds, aperture and lighting, I will record these settings in my book. I will also be using experimental techniques to show a variety of different techniques in my progression. Techniques such as HDR, levitation and cyanotypes. I am using these techniques not only to show progression but to also improve my skills.

I will display my research, shoots, and shoot evaluations in my sketch book. And for each shoot, I will pick out my favourite image and write a small essay about how this photo displays a memory. For my final images and their essays I will present them in a separate book.

Research for my project will include appropriate places and why they are relevant, visits to places, photos, relevant photographers and their relevant projects, and maybe a few artists too. I think my final piece will be suitable for a gallery to be viewed by other people who have an interest in documentation.

Collections- Nine Check Shirts

For our new brief, "collections" I decided to use my boyfriend as a model. He has a variety of different colour and style check shirts. I thought this would work really well. I used the "exactitudes" and Hans Eijeklboom as my inspiration. I was very happy with how it turned out.

The Harvard System

A system designed specifically to site reference sources accurately and thoroughly when writing an essay or other written piece. 

The Harvard system is used to accurately reference sources, make quotations accurately from sources and organise bibliographies. 

The system is used to tell the viewers of your written piece, of your own understanding of what you're talking about and support it.

Two Examples of Referencing:

1)"When you think about it, it's impossible to keep using film, the demand is too high for the instant gratification and excitement that this new era of photography brings. With consumers crying out for more and more digital technology, the manufacturers have to meet this demand, with the lesser sought after film cameras taking a back seat."

Reference; Stubbs, N. (2005) 'Digital Photography is Here to Stay', http://www.all-things-photography.com/digitalphotography.html, (5, Feb 2oo5) Accessed 30/01/2014

2)"One method of making an HDR photograph is to combine multiple images with different exposures together. This tutorial will explain how this photo was created and in using the same process, how you can create your own HDR photos."


Reference; Moeggenberg, N. (2006) 'http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-hdr-photography, (29,August 2011)Accessed 30/01/2014

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Digital Portfolios I have found...

Good Website layouts-
wix.com

1) http://www.esteralazowska.com/

2) http://www.rudylamotte.com/

3)http://www.baddguyryry.com/

4) http://www.timhearneart.com/

 5) http://www.scribblesandsplotches.com/



Digital Portfolio Research

          

       Advantages-

• the website you make is free
• Running the website is also free
• Very simple to make
• Easy to find by people who link similar media
• You can promote the website to get more visitors on your website
• Easy to add more photos to
• You can easily add or remove as many photos as you wish

 

         

         Disadvantages-

• Being in a community of artists you might not to be acquainted with
• might be hard to find your website/art portfolio.
• viewers might be distracted with ads and other artist’s art.
• In most cases Search Engines don't find your website
• Being free usually means that there are limitations on design and size.

 

 

New brief - Collections

Our new brief is called "collections" we are looking at a variety of photographers who take the word "collections" and do different things with it. Some photographers I have looked at, such as Taryn Simon has taken a collection of photographs, either of the same object repeatedly or similar objects. But there are other photographers I have researched who gather a collection first and then photograph the actual collection itself instead of having a collection of photographs, such as Olivia Parker.

So far for this brief I have come up with three different Ideas, 

My first Idea is to go around a variety of different beaches along the coast and photograph the strand of the beach and the cliffs if there are some. I will be doing this shoot on my analogue camera because I think when taking landscapes, the grittiness of film images works a lot better.

My second Idea is to take photographs of all my rabbits. I have 6 rabbits in total, and I wanted to add something a little bit sentimental and personal to this shoot. So I’m taking my photographs in the style of Beatrice Potter's Peter rabbit. I am going to get blue ribbon to loosely tie around their necks and see how it looks. This idea is a bit of a hit or miss idea. But if it is successful I think it will be really good. 

My third idea, I was thinking about all the different collections my family and friends have and thought about my boyfriend. He has a very large checked shirt collection. He has about 12. So I thought this idea would work really well in the studio with a completely white background behind him so you are completely focused on him, it would work quite well and I think it’s a good opportunity to show studio skills a bit more.

Portfolio.

PDF File.

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format used to represent documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating system.Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout flat document, including the text, fonts, graphics, and other information needed to display it. In 1991, Adobe Systems co-founder John Warnock outlined a system called "Camelot" that evolved into PDF.
While Adobe Systems made the PDF specification available free of charge in 1993, PDF remained a proprietary format, controlled by Adobe, until it was officially released as an open standard on July 1, 2008, and published by the International Organization for Standardization as ISO 32000-1:2008. In 2008, Adobe published a Public Patent License to ISO 32000-1 granting royalty-free rights for all patents owned by Adobe that are necessary to make, use, sell and distribute PDF compliant implementations. However, there are still some technologies used in PDF files that are defined only by Adobe and remain proprietary (e.g. Adobe XML Forms Architecture, Adobe JavaScript).

PDF was developed in the early 1990s as a way to share documents, including text formatting and inline images, among computer users of disparate platforms who may not have access to mutually-compatible application software. It was among a number of competing formats such as DjVu (still developing), Envoy, Common Ground Digital Paper, Farallon Replica and even Adobe's own PostScript format (.ps). In those early years before the rise of the World Wide Web and HTML documents, PDF was popular mainly in desktop publishing workflows.
PDF's adoption in the early days of the format's history was slow. Adobe Acrobat, Adobe's suite for reading and creating PDF files, was not freely available; early versions of PDF had no support for external hyperlinks, reducing its usefulness on the Internet; the larger size of a PDF document compared to plain text required longer download times over the slower modems common at the time; and rendering PDF files was slow on the less powerful machines of the day.


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