Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Next Intentions
For my next photographs i will experiment with Edward Weston's style of photography and take photographs of everyday items you see / find around the home, or on the streets. My photographs will be in black and white as that is the style of Edward Weston.
Edward Weston
Edward Henry Weston born the 24th of March 1886 and died January 1st 1958 was a 20th century American photographer. Edward Weston was born in Chicago and then moved to California when he was 21. Initially his work was typical of the soft focus pictorialism that was popular at the time. Within a few years, he abandoned that style and went on to be one of the foremost champions of highly detailed photogenic images.
Over the course of his career, Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of subjects that included landscapes, still lifes, nudes, portraits, genre scenes and even whimsical parodies.
Monday, 24 January 2011
Photo Essay Photographs.
These are photographs i have taken for my photo essay. They are images that the intent of are to tell a story.
These photographs that i have taken are to represent my weekend morning, things that i generally do every, or most weekends.
The first photograph that i have taken is an
establishing shot. I took this photo of my street to set the scene and to start off my photographs.
The third photograph is a close up of a cup of tea, i took this photo to represent having breakfast as after i get up i eat breakfast. i took this photo at a slightly high angle so that in the photograph you could see the tea inside the cup.
The fourth photograph i took is a close up of my toothbrush, i took this level to my toothbrush so that you can clearly see all of it, i used flash so that the background would be darker and all of the attention would be focused on the toothbrush.
This is the last photograph in my photo essay
It is a photograph of me leaving the house with the door and wall in frame, and the door slightly closing.
These photographs that i have taken are to represent my weekend morning, things that i generally do every, or most weekends.
The first photograph that i have taken is an
establishing shot. I took this photo of my street to set the scene and to start off my photographs.
This is the second shot, i took it at a high angle and it is a close up shot of my mobile phone showing the time. i took this shot because the first thing i do when i wake up is look at my phone to see what the time is.
The third photograph is a close up of a cup of tea, i took this photo to represent having breakfast as after i get up i eat breakfast. i took this photo at a slightly high angle so that in the photograph you could see the tea inside the cup.
The fourth photograph i took is a close up of my toothbrush, i took this level to my toothbrush so that you can clearly see all of it, i used flash so that the background would be darker and all of the attention would be focused on the toothbrush.This is the last photograph in my photo essay
It is a photograph of me leaving the house with the door and wall in frame, and the door slightly closing.
Friday, 21 January 2011
photo essay plan.
This is my plan that i drew for my photo essay, it is going to be photographs that tell a story of my weekend morning.
Thursday, 20 January 2011
Photo Essay
My definition of a photo essay would be a series of photographs of which the intent is to tell a story.
Types of shots:
Close ups:
The close up, or portrait shot is when the subject of the picture is in focus and the background is out of focus, close ups specifically on people focus on faces and heads and only go down to the neck.
Detail shot:
a detail shot is a closer, tighter image of details that are relevant to the story. In this case the details are of the nails of this person.
High angle shot:
This shot is taken from above the subject of focus, this can have an effect of making the viewer of the picture seem more powerful.
Medium shot:
a medium shot is an image that get's closer to the action, and generally tell what the story is about. in medium shots the subject is generally shot from the waist up
Low angle shot:
a low angle shot is taken from below the subject of the photograph, this has an impact of making the subject more powerful.
Types of shots:
Close ups:
The close up, or portrait shot is when the subject of the picture is in focus and the background is out of focus, close ups specifically on people focus on faces and heads and only go down to the neck.
Detail shot:
a detail shot is a closer, tighter image of details that are relevant to the story. In this case the details are of the nails of this person.
High angle shot:
This shot is taken from above the subject of focus, this can have an effect of making the viewer of the picture seem more powerful.
Medium shot:
a medium shot is an image that get's closer to the action, and generally tell what the story is about. in medium shots the subject is generally shot from the waist up
Low angle shot:
a low angle shot is taken from below the subject of the photograph, this has an impact of making the subject more powerful.
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Text in photographs
Steps of how i added text to one of my photographs.
1. i chose the picture that i wanted to add text to and opened in up in photoshop, i also chose to make the photograph black and white.
2. Then i chose the text icon which is the capital T from the list of icons displayed on the left hand side of the screen.
After that i clicked on the layer of my text
And then i chose the colour and size and font style of my text, in this case i chose to make the text red and the size 72 and the font style caligraphy.
Then i clicked on the layer of my text and clicked on the effects button (fx) to then change the style of my writing.
i then had to rasterise my text to that i could change how my image looked/.
afterward i stretched my text to make it bigger and easier to read then the i changed the perspective and tilted to text to make it look more interesting.
Lastly i clicked on the effects button again and edited my text by making it more 3 dimensional.
1. i chose the picture that i wanted to add text to and opened in up in photoshop, i also chose to make the photograph black and white.
2. Then i chose the text icon which is the capital T from the list of icons displayed on the left hand side of the screen.
After that i clicked on the layer of my text
And then i chose the colour and size and font style of my text, in this case i chose to make the text red and the size 72 and the font style caligraphy.
Then i clicked on the layer of my text and clicked on the effects button (fx) to then change the style of my writing.
i then had to rasterise my text to that i could change how my image looked/.
afterward i stretched my text to make it bigger and easier to read then the i changed the perspective and tilted to text to make it look more interesting.
Lastly i clicked on the effects button again and edited my text by making it more 3 dimensional.
Thursday, 13 January 2011
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