In the start of
this project I was lost. I did not really know where to start and it was really
hard for me to think of an idea. It is always easier for me if I know what I am
doing. I started off with shooting some bits of video that I wanted to create a
narrative from, but it was not getting anywhere. I did know from the beginning
that I wanted to do something with dreams & memories because it is a quite
broad theme and anything could be done with it. I kept researching and found
some other photographers that shot dreams. They all had very big budgets to
start with and amazing sets that were quite hard to get hold of for me. This is
why I carried on my research. Then I found a photographer called Tami Bone that
also shot dreams. Her photographs were very simple looking but are really good
thought off. She has really good compositions and are all shot in squares. I
finally started taking photographs and edited them in a similar way than her. I
started off like that but they still did not have a proper them e that would
connect all the images with each other. Then I decided to shoot buildings in my
images. The focus of the whole frame did not always lie on the buildings but I
have tried to include buildings in all of my images. After that I started
researching old castles and buildings as well and went to shoot in Yorkshire. Finally
I knew exactly what I was doing and started getting into it. I still edited
them in the same way that I did in the beginning to give the same feel as in a
dream. I have produced a total of 14 final images and I am quite happy with
them. I did not enjoy this project in the beginning but after I knew what I was
doing I did enjoy everything I did for the project and I would definitely do
something like that again in the future.
Photography & Video 2406 Still & Moving image
Thursday, 10 April 2014
Wednesday, 2 April 2014
Artist statement
My work is about
dreams and memories. How you would see them in your dreams, all blurred out and
mostly in black and white. All of them based around buildings and castles. They
have been edited in a similar style as a photographer called Tami Bone that has
also shot dreams.
Tuesday, 1 April 2014
My final edited images
Here are all my final images. I have edited them in black and white and blurred most of the frame like a dream would actually look like and just mostly focused on one particular thing. I am quite happy with the results and think they look quite dreamy.
Saturday, 29 March 2014
My final un-edited images
Following are the images that I am considering to make my final images. I have not edited them yet. I am planning the make them all in black & white and blur them roughly like Tami Bone's work. I will see what works best.
Friday, 28 March 2014
Scarborough Castle
For this project, I decided to go to Yorkshire to shoot some castles. The first one that I came across was Scarborough castle. I really liked shooting there and think I did quite well considering the fact that it was really bad whether and it was also very foggy which is the reason why many of my images did not turn out as planned. Following are a few shots.
Thursday, 27 March 2014
My project proposal - first draft
For this project I will be producing eight final images
inspired by Tami Bone. My original plan was to do moving image but I changed my
idea and decided to produce still images. I have chosen to work on the theme
‘dreams or memories’. I have looked at many photographers that have done work
related to that. But all those photographers have worked with big budgets to
produce one image such as Gregory Crewdson and Joshua Hoffine. Those are the
type of images that I would not be able to produce in this time frame and
because of the equipment needed as well.
I will be take images of things that have lots of lighting
going on in the background. This will enable me to produce the effect that Tami
Bone has created more effectively. She has made use of the Bokeh Blur on Photoshop,
which is mostly effective when a lot of lighting is included in the image.
I have done a few experiments before taking my actual images,
which is how I got to know that the lighting part is really important. She has
turned all of her images into Black & White as well. I might include a tint
in a few of them because it also gives a dreamy effect to the photograph and
some images are not really effective when just put in Black & White.
I do not want too much going on in the background either
because it just makes a mess behind the object photographed. Most of the images
will be photographed outdoors again because of the different lighting sources
that I would be able to photograph on the background.
After taking the photographs I will be editing them on Photoshop.
Not too much editing will be needed. I only need to keep one aspect of the
image in focus and blur the rest out with field blur and than the Bokeh effect
after that.
The image of Tami Bone look really simple but there has been
thought about it a lot. An example of that Is the image with the dog. It is
perfectly cropped and amazingly composed. There is obviously more work in the
editing process in those imaged rather than the shooting.
I have found another photographer called Ganesh H. that has
produced similar work as Tami Bone with similar techniques on Photoshop. I have
been looking at his work as well along with Tami Bone’s work to get more
inspiration of what I should do with my work.
I will be producing a total of eight to twelve images and I
will present them neatly in a photo box. I will be putting white borders on the
photographs as well just to make them look more professional.
I have a total of four weeks before my hand in date. I will
be managing my time accurately and try to get everything shot and edited before
Easter. I will allow the first few weeks for shooting and posting more research
onto my blog. The following weeks will be left for the
editing of the images and getting them ready for assessment.
My work
Following are a few more photographs that I have taken in Brussels. I really love the story behind the buildings that I have shot there. Grand Place is a very old place in Brussels. It is a tourist place. A lot of people come from very far to visit the place and the streets around that area look very old and beautiful. The man that got the big long building built, spent all his life savings on the building. He was very happy because he knew it would be beautiful and the best one around but when he saw the building, he realized that one side of the building was longer than the other and the long thing minar was not in the middle of the whole building. He was very depressed and went on the top of that same building and jumped down and died.
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