ENVIRONMENT - 1.3
Landscape photography refers to photographic scenes that are predominately about the physical landscape and, although this may involve people, the focus/subject is the environment.
The following tasks are designed to help you document your environment whilst teaching you specific photographic techniques and skills.
The following tasks are designed to help you document your environment whilst teaching you specific photographic techniques and skills.
Holiday Homework: Look Up
Take 20-30 photos in response to the theme, 'Look Up'. Use your phone or camera to photograph buildings, forests etc from a low vantage point.
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Reflecting and Mirroring
Task 1
Using the work of Andy Yeung for inspiration create a series of mirrored images from the 'Look Up' images you took during the holiday.
If you haven't taken any photographs follow these instructions:
When photographing remember to pay attention to the following
Task 2:
Upload all images taken to weebly and then load your favourite image into photoshop. Once you have done this follow the steps to create a mirror image.
Task 3:
Create an artist section on the Artist Andy Yeung. Upload at least three of his images (include their title and date) and write about his work and his process.
Using the work of Andy Yeung for inspiration create a series of mirrored images from the 'Look Up' images you took during the holiday.
If you haven't taken any photographs follow these instructions:
When photographing remember to pay attention to the following
- The cropping of your picture - make sure to use the edge of buildings to create a dramatic effect
- The ISO - Make sure it is set to a minimum of 400
- Get low and experiment with different angles and crops
Task 2:
Upload all images taken to weebly and then load your favourite image into photoshop. Once you have done this follow the steps to create a mirror image.
Task 3:
Create an artist section on the Artist Andy Yeung. Upload at least three of his images (include their title and date) and write about his work and his process.
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Composition
Task 1
Create a collage for each of the four different compositions outlined in the Slide document above.
Task 2
Find compositions to photograph that reflect your collages.
(Document this on your weebly. Pair the collage with your relevant image.)
This youtube clip clearly explains the rule of thirds.
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Contact sheets
We would like you to make a contact sheet each time you present images on your weebly. These will be followed by your chosen edits.
Make sure that you create a contact sheet for each set of images you take. Follow the guide below...
Make sure that you create a contact sheet for each set of images you take. Follow the guide below...
Framing the environment
When looking at an environment we are often distracted by the many different parts that make up the scene. We can miss interesting details that are right in front of us. Today's tasks aim to make you look closer and create more interesting compositions within your work Task 1 Look at the work of John Divola and create an artist section on your weebly demonstrating an understanding of his work. Analyse three of his images in full Task 2 Using the frame template provided go around school and photograph your chosen environment using the square as a means of capturing interesting detail. In addition to using the template try photographing through windows and doors to create a frame around your chosen area of interest. Use the work of John Divola as inspiration Homework Try the technique at home and use it to capture your home environment. Take a minimum of 24 shots that can be downloaded in the next lesson. |
John Divola - Zuma series.
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In the 1970s, Los Angeles photographer John Divola began photographing in abandoned, often dilapidated houses. With his series Vandalism (1973–75) and Zuma (1977–78), however, he didn’t just photograph houses. Here, Divola describes how he manipulated the environments with painting and other interventions as a way of “vandalizing the tradition of photography.”
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Strata
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The Task
Search out ‘visual strata ‘in a wide range of contexts. Search around the school environment and look for examples of layers, Piles, Patterns, staking, and ripping. Photograph your finds and make sure to keep a tight crop to add to the abstract nature of the task.
Upload your images onto weebly and explain what it is you have photographed
Create an artist section on one of the Artists featured in the Power point.
Search out ‘visual strata ‘in a wide range of contexts. Search around the school environment and look for examples of layers, Piles, Patterns, staking, and ripping. Photograph your finds and make sure to keep a tight crop to add to the abstract nature of the task.
Upload your images onto weebly and explain what it is you have photographed
Create an artist section on one of the Artists featured in the Power point.
Wild Concreate - Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze
Focusing solely on the phenomena of trees sprouting from residential buildings in Hong Kong, Wild Concrete compares the living conditions between plants and humans. Such peculiar sight of ‘wild concrete’ is by no means exclusive. They can be found everywhere in the heart of the city: roots spiralling down the external pipes of a Mong Kok loft; shoots lurking behind a window frame of an apartment in Central hills; or branches spreading across a residence in Sham Shui Po, collapsing it from the inside out.
The Task
Walk around the school and look for areas where nature has started to take over the man made environment. Flowers sprouting from cracks in the pavement ivy growing up walls green shoots sprouting under doorways.
Capturing the natural growth in the man made environment experiment shooting at different angles and viewpoints.
Take a minimum of 24 images make a contact sheet and upload this and your chosen edits onto weebly
Create an artist section on the work of Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze analyse three of his images and demonstrate how he has influenced your visual practise.
Walk around the school and look for areas where nature has started to take over the man made environment. Flowers sprouting from cracks in the pavement ivy growing up walls green shoots sprouting under doorways.
Capturing the natural growth in the man made environment experiment shooting at different angles and viewpoints.
Take a minimum of 24 images make a contact sheet and upload this and your chosen edits onto weebly
Create an artist section on the work of Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze analyse three of his images and demonstrate how he has influenced your visual practise.
The Formal Elements
In these tasks, you are going to practice taking photos by focusing on some of the formal elements, a term used by artists/art critics traditionally within the fine arts, to refer to the elements within a composition and generally include the following: line, tone, pattern, texture etc.
Task 1:
Look around the school and capture images which you think can illustrate the elements listed below. Upload them onto your weeblys and give each image the correct heading.
Task 2:
Choose 2 of the formal elements illustrated below to focus on and limit yourself to only recording from the environment in this way.
Homework
Design a 30-45 minute walking route in your local area and follow it whilst taking photos that show a strong understanding of one of the formal elements.
A good summary of the formal elements can be found by visiting this site by ArtsEdge, which has informed the above definition.
Task 1:
Look around the school and capture images which you think can illustrate the elements listed below. Upload them onto your weeblys and give each image the correct heading.
Task 2:
Choose 2 of the formal elements illustrated below to focus on and limit yourself to only recording from the environment in this way.
Homework
Design a 30-45 minute walking route in your local area and follow it whilst taking photos that show a strong understanding of one of the formal elements.
A good summary of the formal elements can be found by visiting this site by ArtsEdge, which has informed the above definition.
Good,Bad,ugly
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Richard Wentworth
Barry Lewis
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Colin Winterbottom
In Colin Winterbottom's theme 'elegant corrosion', he experiments with lively textures, and studies rusting, corroding objects. His work is presenst in an abstract way and is full of different contrasting colours and tones.
http://www.winterbottom.com/gallery.php?gallery=18
http://marthaphotography.weebly.com/close-up-abstraction.html
Close up abstraction
Create images that present small details that would normally be overlooked but in actual fact can hold enormous artistic inspiration. Look again at Colin Winterbottom for inspiration.
Create images that present small details that would normally be overlooked but in actual fact can hold enormous artistic inspiration. Look again at Colin Winterbottom for inspiration.
Development 1
- Identity your 9 favourite images taken over the course of the project.
- Write a word that describes the quality of each image.
- Present it like the example below
Development 2
- Once you have created your different descriptions choose three themes that you wish to develop further.
- You must then create a set of observation for each theme; each set must be photographed in a different location.
- Create a map for each location.
- Each set of observations should have a minimum of 24 shots
REVERSE LENS TIPS FOR CLOSE UP SHOTS
Reversing a lens is an inexpensive way to gain macro abilities. A lens is typically reversed with a reversing ring, but if you are more concerned with fun than quality, you could definitely free-lens the thing or DIY it. Lenses are symmetrical in the sense that a beam of light that travels from the world to the camera can, in theory travels from the inside of your camera to the world. This is how projectors work. This is also, how reversing a lens works for macro. Instead of taking big things (e.g. models) and projecting them onto the relatively small sensor, it take small things and projects them onto the (now) relatively big sensor. |
Development 3
Close Up Far Away - Final piece
In the project so far you have photographed different environments and picked out small details that would normally be overlooked. For the final development of your project you are to use the composition laws you have learnt in class to create a series of pictures that show your chosen environment from both a close up and far way veiwpoint. (see examples below)
Task 1
Choose your favourite development words to form the basis of this final development .
Task 2
Take two sets of observation each set should have a minimum of 24 shots
Final presentation
Choose your favourite 6 set of images and place them on your weebly under the title final piece.
Task 1
Choose your favourite development words to form the basis of this final development .
Task 2
Take two sets of observation each set should have a minimum of 24 shots
Final presentation
Choose your favourite 6 set of images and place them on your weebly under the title final piece.
The flat, colour shape is an effective way to separate the two parts, highlight the textures and remind us that we are looking at a flat representation of a place, a picture.
Follow the steps below if you want to add a similar effect.
Follow the steps below if you want to add a similar effect.
Editing in Photoshop
Basics
Advanced
These instructions explain how to alter the contest / tone in just PART of an image.
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What's Next?
GO through the powerpoint above and choose your three favourite photographers. For each photographer upload three images and analyse the images in full. (Use the proforma below to help you)
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Task sheet for the enviroments unit
High Contrast
Keld Helmer-Peterson was a Danish photographer who was inspired by Albert Renger-Patzsch, the experiments at The Bauhaus in Germany and by Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind at the Art Institute of Chicago. He achieved fame for his colour photographs but he also published several books of black and white images that explore dramatic contrasts of tone.
In some, we are only presented with images that are black and white. All mid tones have been removed. He created and found these images, using both cameras and flat bed scanners to achieve the effects he was looking for. The books encourage us to consider the space around the image and the accompanying text as integral to the meaning of the work.
In some, we are only presented with images that are black and white. All mid tones have been removed. He created and found these images, using both cameras and flat bed scanners to achieve the effects he was looking for. The books encourage us to consider the space around the image and the accompanying text as integral to the meaning of the work.
Cinemagraphs
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Development
Once you have completed each workshop task above you need to determine a development for your project. The presentation of your development must include a rationale (reasons why and links to the theme), connections to relevant contextual information, photographers and any other visuals forms.Look through the powerpoint below to help make your choices
Once you have completed each workshop task above you need to determine a development for your project. The presentation of your development must include a rationale (reasons why and links to the theme), connections to relevant contextual information, photographers and any other visuals forms.Look through the powerpoint below to help make your choices