Final piece photographs

The photographs that i have decided to use for my final piece are these 3:

i have decided to display my photographs a a little photo essay first being the light switch because first when you enter the bathroom you turn on the light, then secondly the sink drain with the water running as after you turn on the light you turn on the tap. Lastly the final photo will be the sink plug as you put in the plug after you use the water.

Rosangela Borgese

Rosangela Borgese is a photographer from London She has taken some photograph of the everyday which are related to the photographs that i am experimenting with.In her photographs she experiments in different ways of taking photographs.

i like this photograph because to me it seems obvious as to what it is but at the same time it doesn't.

i like this photograph because of the blur of colours in the backgroung and the fact that nothing in this photograph is completley in focus. Also because you cannot really tell what the object is.

 i like this photograph and i think this one really relates to my work as she is using dept of field, as the water droplets are so in focus and the background is out of focus as this is an extreme closeup, also this relates to my work as in one of my previous photographs i was trying to capture movement of the tap running water and this is an action shot too. 

changing the colour

i used one of the black and white photographs that i took for experimenting with my final piece and used photoshop for changing the colour of the photograph and seeing how it affected the original photograph.                      

The colours i used for this photograph were very light, i didn't use too much colour and in doing that it kept in most of the detail in the photograph, as with most of my other experimentation.

However in the photograph i used alot of colour and in this photograph quite alot of the detail is lost because of all of the colour that is used.

after i experimented with changing and adding colour to my photographs i have decided that i prefer black and white photographs i feel that adding colour to them takes away quite a bit of the original detail in my photographs.

More experimentation

i experimented more with Edward Weston's style and then i also experimented in photoshop with some of my original edward weston inspired photographs.

In this photograph i used the burn tool in photoshop to make the shadows look some what darker. and i also changed the brightness and exposure of the photograph to make the change from the left side being so dark and gradually getting lighter so noticeable.

This photograph i took is of a different light switch i desaturated the photograph and again changed the brightness and exposure to make the shadows of the photograph much darker.

This photograph i experimented with in photoshop and i used the burn tool to create more shadow around the light switch.

This photograph is of  the sink drain i tried to get a action shot by having the water running and taking the photograph just before it hit the bottom of the sink. i desaturated the photograph and made changed the brightness and exposure a little to create more shadows within the photograph. I took this photograph using a digital camera and i changed the settings on my camera and used a close up setting to get more depth of field in my photographs as i am doing close ups , so basically i was changing the shutter speed faster to capture the action in the photograph which is how i can take the photograph using an SLR camera, just by changing th shutter  speed and making it faster.  

Experiment in Edward Weston's style

These are photographs that i have taken of closeups of everyday items around my home, i experimented in the style of Edward Weston, i changed the colour of my photographs to black and white like the styles of Edward Weston and Robert Frank.

I started by photographing my light switch, i tried to change the angles at which i took the picture, in this photograph i decided to include the whole light switch in the picture with the camera facing the light switch straight on. i like this photograph because you can really see the detail on the wall and it contrasts with how the light switch looks smooth. The white in this picture also looks really prominent compared to the dark wall.

In the photograph i tried to use cropping in at an different angle, i decided to only use about one quarter of the actual light switch in my photograph to make it look more interesting.

I took this photograph of a sink plug i like the contrast in the photograph of the sink plug and the detail you can see on the compared to the sink in the background in which the texture looks really smooth. Also i like the colour contrast in the picture, that the plug is almost jet black and how the sink in the background is so bright. i like how in this photograph there is the rule of three and how the sink plug is on the left side of the photograph.

This photograph i took of my light switch again, like my first picture i wanted to include all of the object in my photograph, but unlike the first picture i didn't take this one head on, i decided to take the photograph at an angle at the side of the light switch. I like the way that the colour on the left side of the photograph s so dark and then as it gets to the right it gradually gets lighter.

This photograph is of a door handle i have taken and i have taken it at an angle when i have cut off almost half of the handle and most of the image is of the door ,but the attention goes towards the door handle. i took this photograph straight towards the handle.

This is another photograph of a door handle i took this photograph at an angle where i have cut off the bottom of it and also at an angle where the biggest part and the attention of the photograph is the actual handle itself.

Final piece plan

This is a plan for my final  piece. i will be taking photographs of closeups of everyday items around the home in edward weston's style.

Other photographers i will be looking at will be Manray, and also robert frank as he photographs in black and white, and even though Edward weston photographs mostly in black and white i like the tomes of the photos of Robert Frank.

Inspiration

The inspiration that i had for my final piece was the artist  Edward Weston as in my final piece i am planning to do close up photographs of everyday things that i find around the home. Also i have taken Robert frank as inspiration as well as his photography is all done in black and white, and for my final piece i will be documenting my photographs in black and white. 

this is a photography by Robert frank and he photographs all of his photos n black and white and his photographs have a lot of tone and depth to them.