Documentary!
The Brief -
This project is all down to us. We have been told that it's a personal project and that it has to link to the theme that was chose for our last project. My theme was documentary so this time I want to explore this more in terms of what documentary could represent, whether it be people or landscape and how they change. This project will help us develop our chosen area with many different techniques and I hope to achieve a nice range of photographs to compliment this brief that we have been given.
Mindmap of ideas -
This is my mindmap that I have created to show my many ideas that I have for this project, showcasing what Photographers that I have looked at to get inspired and do something similar to what they have done.
Idea Sheets:
A few ideas?
I want to do this project on myself and the things that I like, as it'll be interesting to see what sort of things I can document from my life and what sort of interesting ways to capture different scenes. Below are some of the ideas that I have had to come up with a final outcome.
- Some ideas that I have had to begin forming my own first ideas is to go along the with the idea of memories, but this time do it about myself and focus on things that can be close to my heart instead of doing it about some one or even something else because it could be quite tricky.
- Another idea that I have that I want to do is something to do with Light painting and Glow sticks. I find this idea really interesting and the ideas that can come out of Light Painting with glow sticks can be really interesting. I want to try and incorporate some other techniques in and possibly, with this idea, get people that I know to do some literal light painting with glow sticks in the dark and film them, documenting the work that they have done and then I can put that along side the outcomes that come from this. This'd be hard to do because it involves going in the dark and making sure that I get someone to write with a glow stick that is bright enough to write with and that my digital camera can pick up the light.
- One idea that can link to this is Jar Art and the fact that people can store memories in jars and create surrounding relating to that idea.
- Another idea that I have is using different macro shots of different items, such as money and keys, to get different depths of field and different looks at different items but not giving away what the item actually is.
- One idea that I have, also, is to revisit my AS Project of journeys and combine both Macro and Documentation together to document my different journeys that I have but in a close up style and therefore I don't give away my location and I have to make people work to guess what it is instead of just handing it to them for them to look at, shrug of and move on.
There would be different experiments for digital photographs such as Vignetting and Double exposure (On Adobe Photoshop) and there would be also darkroom experiments on prints such as Vignetting and toning and burning. For darkroom prints, I would also use a range of different contrasts to see what photograph was better. The only problem with using darkroom prints is that they are always going to be black and white prints, unless I toned them with a bright colour.
Shooting Plan:
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| My intended shooting plan |
Moodboards of artists and ideas:
Jar Art, Collage
1) Lin Osbourn
7) Abba Richman
Macro Photography
1) Inspiration
2) Inspiration
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| Landscape photography |
Stephen Shore - Documentary Photographer
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| House photography |
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| Light painting on the face |
Louise Hughes, Oxford Brookes University - Electron Microscopic Photography
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| Close-Up photography |
Louise Hughs comes from Oxford Brookes University and takes these interesting close up shots of Macro
6 Day Photo Challenge
My Shoes
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| My shoes on the ground |
From a High Angle
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| A bench, me looking down on it |
From a Low Angle
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| Looking up the stairs |
Something blue
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| Blue signpost |
Time
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| Keyboard and Watch. Keyboard spelling out Time in bold letters |
People
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| People inside The Magical Ice Kingdom at Winter Wonderland |
Experimentation & Photographs
Jar Art - Glow Stick style
Glowing pictures
Macro Photographs
Progress Review
I have used a different type of material to experiment with and that being glow sticks on photographic paper. The outcomes to this have been interesting and pretty unique in that the ink inside a glow stick can be used to create a variety of images and if put on photo paper, the ink contains a substance that causes light, therefore exposing the parts of the paper that's been 'inked' over. I quite enjoy experimenting with this and I possible hope to do some more of this, possibly in my own time to create some unique and different outcomes. Techniques that I have experimented with is Macro photography and as above, I have used my own personal items to come up with some different shots of what I could do for my final outcome. I enjoyed doing Macro photography because it's something I can explore with different photographs and come up with some new and original ideas.
The technique that I have enjoyed using and experimenting with is Macro photography. This is because I feel that there is a lot of ideas that can come from this sort of photography and it is widely available to do because of the fact that I am doing documentary and I could use anything and anyone that I have access to. Experimentation is fun with digital photographs because you are able to manipulate them so much with editing software such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator I think that I can possibly find a relatively good and easy tutorial that wouldn't take me ages to complete and yet still get an interesting and unique outcome.
The technique that I don't think really would work well again would be using glow sticks because it would mean having to buy a few packs, just for a really bright colour to come out, like a blue which has been really effective before, however, when I have been using different colours to see if they would come out they haven't really shown up and it's a sort of let down because I was hoping they'd all be as bright as each other. However, although that having not so bright colours come alive on the paper, it is a good way of experimenting when I use the glowsticks on photographic paper and come up with outcomes that show that the paper has been exposed, but get this shadow on the page, where the light has been and has cast shadows so I think there is potential in using the glow sticks ink literally as painting and creating images with light, which is what photography means (it being the practice, art or science of creating durable images with light or other electromagnetic radiation).
Pursuing these ideas further, I can combine both Macro photography and the use of glow stick inks and the outcomes could be interesting, but I would have to think on how I would combine them, because of the use of normal paper doesn't work as I have tried it before and I didn't get anything come up and the paper got soggy. Using my ideas from my AS project, using images of my journeys that I have been on, I could edit them on photoshop, using techniques like selective Vignetting to add a different feel to the picture. Also, in conjunction with selective vignetting, I can use different tones to give different looks, such as a brown/ old school style.
Over the holidays, I intend to take many different photos, but I don't know what of. Maybe just documenting my Christmas holidays and I shall look around online at what people do in their spare time. I shall also look on Flickr to possibly find some good inspiration of what to do to commence the new year.
More Experimentation with digital photographs
Evaluation
The brief that we got given for the Personal Project was simple, it was meant to be our own project based on what we wanted. However it had to follow something from last year so I carried on with Documentary and also moved towards the Contemporary ideas that I used documentary together with contemporary to create my final outcome. I think that this was an interesting thing to do because it shows that I've discovered another strength of mine. I came up with a range of ideas and it was just generally thinking on what idea that I wanted to carry on with. I liked many of my ideas and I would go back to them and explore them in my own time.
The journey that I've been on with this topic has been a interesting one because I have explored many different areas, such as light photography and macro photography. I particularly enjoyed macro photography because it helped me think about going to abstract photography. I researched many different people, from landscape photographers to macro photographers to an artist as such who created a photomontage of the same shape and size pictures and I think that these certain sort of outcomes are really original and that they are interesting to look at to try and figure out what people are looking out.
The artists/photographer that inspired my final outcome was Sharon Elphick and she inspired me to create the hexagon shapes and turn my work into something abstract and contemporary because it really looked interesting to me and I think that it suited what I enjoy doing, such as Digital work and I think my final outcome turned out like I planned. The only bit that I disliked about my final outcome was the fact that it looked distorted and that it looked unfinished without more hexagons at the top.
I done well in the idea of cutting out the hexagons and following the template rule and also that I managed to use the same template hexagon without destroying it and that I also stuck it down all in the right places so that no two hexagons were the same and that they were next to each other. However, I think that I could've used different pictures and different colours of the pictures to create something more visually interesting.
In conclusion, I enjoyed the overall aspect of the personal project because I liked how this brief gave us the control over what we did and how we accomplished it and I think that this gave everybody different and unique ideas that haven't been done before.
The journey that I've been on with this topic has been a interesting one because I have explored many different areas, such as light photography and macro photography. I particularly enjoyed macro photography because it helped me think about going to abstract photography. I researched many different people, from landscape photographers to macro photographers to an artist as such who created a photomontage of the same shape and size pictures and I think that these certain sort of outcomes are really original and that they are interesting to look at to try and figure out what people are looking out.
The artists/photographer that inspired my final outcome was Sharon Elphick and she inspired me to create the hexagon shapes and turn my work into something abstract and contemporary because it really looked interesting to me and I think that it suited what I enjoy doing, such as Digital work and I think my final outcome turned out like I planned. The only bit that I disliked about my final outcome was the fact that it looked distorted and that it looked unfinished without more hexagons at the top.
I done well in the idea of cutting out the hexagons and following the template rule and also that I managed to use the same template hexagon without destroying it and that I also stuck it down all in the right places so that no two hexagons were the same and that they were next to each other. However, I think that I could've used different pictures and different colours of the pictures to create something more visually interesting.
In conclusion, I enjoyed the overall aspect of the personal project because I liked how this brief gave us the control over what we did and how we accomplished it and I think that this gave everybody different and unique ideas that haven't been done before.
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