The selfie-Robert Cornelius’ Self-Portrait: The First Ever “Selfie” (1839)- This was the first ever known selfie and since then has been a prominent part of photography.
What is a selfie?- Selfie is slang for self-portrait. People now use mobile devices to take their self portraits.
Task- This task is designed to encourage to encourage me to get know some famous examples of self-portraits to help me create my own examples.
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The reflected selfie-
Task- Once i had looked at some examples, i had to experiment with my own reflected surfaces- not just mirrors.
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The Obscured Selfie-
Task- This is where the photographic selfies in which the subjects face is obscured, This effect is specific to photography and doesnt occur much in paintings.The camera flattens three dimensional space so that something in the foreground can appear to be on the same level as something else in the background.
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The Shadow Selfie-
Task- A shadow is like a photograph of ourselves, an image made by light and the absence of it. Photographers are particularly sensitive to effects of light and so have long been interested in their own shadows. Experiments with your own Shadow Selfies, exploring a variety of effects and compositions.
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Lighting in portraits-
Lighting is crucial when taking photographs as it can make an astronomical difference to the look of your portraits.There are lots of different types of light for example natural daylight, Tungsten, LED and many other artificial lights.The different types of lighting allows you to manipulate the photo in any way that you want in order to create the best photo with different textures and vibrancy.
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Fill Light-
Hair Light-
Set Up-
Task- In this task I used the studio light to see what difference the position of the light makes on my model and the overall image.Thr hair light lightens the whole image more and brightens up the models hair and face.The main light creates a shadow on the face. Finally, the fill light gets rid of the shadow and shadows on the models face.
Myra Greene- Character Recognition
Myra Greene is an American artist who has worked on a number of projects, mostly photographic. Among them are Hairy Projects, The Beautiful Ones, Character Recognition, Self Portraits, My White Friends, and Sketches for Something. Through her work, Greene prompts thought-provoking questions about how individuals are often judged based on skin colour and other physical characteristics rather than on their character. Greene's introspective and race-conscious collections have been exhibited in galleries and exhibitions across the country.
In class we concentrated on character recognition for our project, Greene adopts the wet-plate collodion process, a 19th-century photographic method that was implicated in the history of colonialism and slavery and used as tool for ethnographic classification. Greene amplifies and examines these preoccupations by photographing her own nose, lips, ears, and skin as if dismembered from the rest of her body.
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Valerie Kabis- Contrasted gallery
She is interested in how shapes are created by limiting light. By experimenting with light, shadow and variations in focu, Kabis created a series of dark and provoking images.
The process- I took photos of my partner in front of the main light.I took still, moving and mirror shots of him. This allowed me to get a variation of photographs and therefore why it was a success.
Evaluation- The final 2 photos are my favourite, they are both moving shots and especially with the last photo the shadows it really creates a huge contrast between the light and dark on his face and neck. In the second photo I experimented not blacking out the background however I definitely prefer it when the background is blacked out as it makes the black and white contrast harsher.
Lewis Khan, GeorgeTown-Documentary Portrait
Georgetown Documentary is a view into the life of a South London resident called George. Lewis and George lived close to each rother and often saw each other and just gave a nod or a simple hello. Occasionally George would join in playing football in the street with Lewis.
These portraits of George were taken over a six-year period. Portraits can be taken anywhere and often the most powerful images are taken of everyday life
My Task- To capture 3 different people and environments. Then upload all of the photographs onto my Weebly. My chosen 3 are shown below:
1st Response-
HOY OFFICE-MR LEWIS
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SCIENCE STAFF ROOM-MISS G-J
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LIBRARY-LIBRARIAN
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Ben Watts-The Big Up Portrait
Big up portrait includes many photos of famous actors, artists, skateboarders, children and other street characters. Ben Watts is a London born photographer who started the big up portraits in 1990 when he moved to NYC. The project started as a couple personal snapshots that continued to build over dozens of years. These photos also contain sharpie notes along with tape and other mixed media which gives the portraits unique.
1st Response-
Here I created a collage of Mohammed Ali, I incorporated not only photos of him but also cut out important quotes he has said or that are part of his poem. I also focused on zoomed in on parts of his body, especially his hands.
WWW- Very close response to Ben Watts style collage.
EBI-Need to incorporate more of the other part of him, civil rights activist not just the fighter. |
2nd Response-
Here is my response, which is a collage of all of my family and friends in my life.
WWW-Used different colours and textures as a background to my images. EBI-Need to incorporate not just pictures but words and quotes. |
David Cairns
1st Response-Portraits of London
2nd Response- Portraits of Florence