Component 1: Abstraction
Introduction
The Task:
To create an introduction to abstraction page.
Abstraction in photography is all about creating unique photos from ordinary objects. In a lot of these pictures, you can't (if at all) immediately tell what the ordinary object being shown is.
Here are some different examples of abstract photography:
To create an introduction to abstraction page.
Abstraction in photography is all about creating unique photos from ordinary objects. In a lot of these pictures, you can't (if at all) immediately tell what the ordinary object being shown is.
Here are some different examples of abstract photography:
I think that the key aspects of abstraction are:
- Repetition - In the first photo, the dots are a pattern, both in the shadow of the dots and the real ones. The flowers are still a pattern, but the irregular pattern in flowers is what makes it interesting.
- Line & Shape - All these photos are good displays of different shapes and lines. Smooth shapes, like the dots, and wiggly lines, like the flowers and people have different effects and make the photograph more interesting and intriguing.
- Close Up - Like the flowers and dots, you can't see the whole shape. You can't tell whether the dots are on a table, wall or floor.
- Space - The use of space in abstraction is important, how small or big something appears changes what the viewer would think it is. For example, because the first photograph is so close up, you can't tell what it is and I think this is what makes it more abstract.
- Angles - This for me is the main factor to a good abstract photograph. The different angles make it out of the ordinary and harder to make out.
- Texture - All of the photos seem smooth, the metal surrounding the dots look smooth, the petals of the flowers look smooth, and the blurriness of the third photograph make the people look smooth.
- Tone - I think that only the first photograph has tone, because the bottom section is darker than the top. I think the different shades and tones of colour make a big difference to abstract photographs, and can draw the eye to different places on the photo.
- Focus - I think this is another important thing to remember for abstraction. The photo doesn't have to be in focus, but whether it is blurry or in focus makes the photograph look completely different. For example, in the first photo, all of the dots are in focus, and this really shows off the regular and repetitive pattern they have. For the second photo, the flowers aren't in focus, and the way the photo gets more blurry as it goes out draws your attention to the middle of the picture. The third photograph has the same amount of blurriness everywhere. I think this makes the photo more interesting, and not just a couple of people. For me, the blurriness in this photo is what makes it abstract because it changes the usual familiar lines of humans into shapes we aren't used to seeing on people.
- Repetition - In the first photo, the dots are a pattern, both in the shadow of the dots and the real ones. The flowers are still a pattern, but the irregular pattern in flowers is what makes it interesting.
- Line & Shape - All these photos are good displays of different shapes and lines. Smooth shapes, like the dots, and wiggly lines, like the flowers and people have different effects and make the photograph more interesting and intriguing.
- Close Up - Like the flowers and dots, you can't see the whole shape. You can't tell whether the dots are on a table, wall or floor.
- Space - The use of space in abstraction is important, how small or big something appears changes what the viewer would think it is. For example, because the first photograph is so close up, you can't tell what it is and I think this is what makes it more abstract.
- Angles - This for me is the main factor to a good abstract photograph. The different angles make it out of the ordinary and harder to make out.
- Texture - All of the photos seem smooth, the metal surrounding the dots look smooth, the petals of the flowers look smooth, and the blurriness of the third photograph make the people look smooth.
- Tone - I think that only the first photograph has tone, because the bottom section is darker than the top. I think the different shades and tones of colour make a big difference to abstract photographs, and can draw the eye to different places on the photo.
- Focus - I think this is another important thing to remember for abstraction. The photo doesn't have to be in focus, but whether it is blurry or in focus makes the photograph look completely different. For example, in the first photo, all of the dots are in focus, and this really shows off the regular and repetitive pattern they have. For the second photo, the flowers aren't in focus, and the way the photo gets more blurry as it goes out draws your attention to the middle of the picture. The third photograph has the same amount of blurriness everywhere. I think this makes the photo more interesting, and not just a couple of people. For me, the blurriness in this photo is what makes it abstract because it changes the usual familiar lines of humans into shapes we aren't used to seeing on people.
Photograms
The Task:
To create photograms using small everyday objects. "A Photogram is an image made without a camera by placing objects directly onto the surface of a light sensitive material (such as photographic paper) and then exposing it to light." To make the photograms, I went into a Dark Room where the only light is a red light, and I placed photographic paper under the enlarger. For my 1st photogram, I placed a feather in the enlarger, and on the paper I used a small, patterned jar. For my 2nd photogram, I used three leaves and a perfume atomizer on the paper. After I had placed my objects in the positions I wanted, I moved the lens on the enlarger and exposed my objects and paper to the light (for 3 seconds), I moved my paper into chemicals, to develop it and make the image come out, for around 10 minutes altogether. I then put the image into water for a while, and finally left it to dry. My favourite photogram was my first, because i really like the effect the feather gives across the paper, and I think it gives the image an abstract feel. I think the photogram effect is more interesting than just plain black and white photos. I would definitely use this technique again. |
Shadows
The Task:
To take pictures of objects' shadows in an abstract way and edit them.
Jaromir Funke
Jaromír Funke was a Czech photographer. He was a leading figure in Czech photography during the 1920s and 1930s. Funke was born in Skuteč to a wealthy family. His father was a lawyer and his mother was Czech.
Here are some of his photographs:
To take pictures of objects' shadows in an abstract way and edit them.
Jaromir Funke
Jaromír Funke was a Czech photographer. He was a leading figure in Czech photography during the 1920s and 1930s. Funke was born in Skuteč to a wealthy family. His father was a lawyer and his mother was Czech.
Here are some of his photographs:
I think he uses shadows in such a way that for some of them you can't tell what object is being used. This, for me is what makes it abstract.
My favourite photo is the second one because as well as using bottles as the object in this photo, I think that he uses reflection in a very clever way.
The use of reflection makes it more abstract as the bottles are in different angles and sizes. Towards the left side of the photograph, it looks like the shadows are being cast onto wood, this adds the element of texture, a much needed feature in abstract photography.
My Photographs
For my photo, I used a shell, a perfume bottle and a mirror to reflect the light from the lamp.
To set it up are used a lamp and white A3 paper to cast the shadows onto - I think the white paper helped because it made the shadows stand out much more than it would on the plain wooden desk, although the desk would've added texture to the photograph, like my favourite of Jaromir Funke's photos.
I took photos from different angles experimenting with the different shaped shadows my objects made.
Here are some of my photos:
My favourite photo is the second one because as well as using bottles as the object in this photo, I think that he uses reflection in a very clever way.
The use of reflection makes it more abstract as the bottles are in different angles and sizes. Towards the left side of the photograph, it looks like the shadows are being cast onto wood, this adds the element of texture, a much needed feature in abstract photography.
My Photographs
For my photo, I used a shell, a perfume bottle and a mirror to reflect the light from the lamp.
To set it up are used a lamp and white A3 paper to cast the shadows onto - I think the white paper helped because it made the shadows stand out much more than it would on the plain wooden desk, although the desk would've added texture to the photograph, like my favourite of Jaromir Funke's photos.
I took photos from different angles experimenting with the different shaped shadows my objects made.
Here are some of my photos:
My favourite photo is the first one because in the second one it does have shadows, but you can see the objects and I think this is what makes it less abstract.
Here are some of my edits:
Here are some of my edits:
WWW: I think the composition of my photographs was good, and I think experimenting with different colours on Photoshop helped me exaggerate the certain features of the shadows (e.g I could changed how much the shadows stood out with the use of colours)
EBI: I think that I could have tried out different objects and explore the different shadows they would've made and I think I could have taken more photos and chosen more examples of Jaromir Funke's work to write about.
EBI: I think that I could have tried out different objects and explore the different shadows they would've made and I think I could have taken more photos and chosen more examples of Jaromir Funke's work to write about.
Line in Abstraction
The Task:
To explore different artists and to take and edit photos in their style.
I think that lines in abstraction and photography in general are important. They can cast the eye to different parts of the photograph. The same photograph with lines in different focuses and apertures can look completely different, or be more or less abstract.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Meatyard was born in Normal, Illinois. After his marriage to Madelyn McKinney, he moved to Lexington, Kentucky, to continue his work as an optician.
Meatyard bought his first camera in 1950, mainly to photograph his son. He eventually found his way to the Lexington Camera club in 1954. It was at the Lexington Camera Club that Meatyard met Van Deren Coke, an early influence behind much of his work. Coke showed work by Meatyard in an exhibition for the university called "Creative Photography" in 1956.
Here are some examples of Meatyard's work:
To explore different artists and to take and edit photos in their style.
I think that lines in abstraction and photography in general are important. They can cast the eye to different parts of the photograph. The same photograph with lines in different focuses and apertures can look completely different, or be more or less abstract.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Meatyard was born in Normal, Illinois. After his marriage to Madelyn McKinney, he moved to Lexington, Kentucky, to continue his work as an optician.
Meatyard bought his first camera in 1950, mainly to photograph his son. He eventually found his way to the Lexington Camera club in 1954. It was at the Lexington Camera Club that Meatyard met Van Deren Coke, an early influence behind much of his work. Coke showed work by Meatyard in an exhibition for the university called "Creative Photography" in 1956.
Here are some examples of Meatyard's work:
My favourite of these photographs is the last one because the lines cast your eye to the shadow of the woman standing in the middle. Although it isn't very abstract and you can tell that it was a woman, I think the placement of the lines makes it different and unusual compared to the rest of his work.
Here are some examples of my work in the style of Ralph Eugene Meartard:
Here are some examples of my work in the style of Ralph Eugene Meartard:
Harry Callahan
Harry Morey Callahan was born in Detroit, Michigan, he worked at Chrysler when he was a young man then left to do engineering at Michigan State University. He eventually dropped out, returned to Chrysler and joined its camera club. Callahan started teaching himself photography in 1938. He became friends with Todd Webb, who was also eventually going to become a photographer. In 1941, Callahan and Webb visited Rocky Mountain State Park but didn't return with any photographs. In 1946 he was invited to teach photography in Chicago by Lazlo Maholy Nagy. He moved to Rhode Island in 1961 to create a photography course at a university, teaching there until he retired in 1977.
Here are some examples of Callahan's work:
Harry Morey Callahan was born in Detroit, Michigan, he worked at Chrysler when he was a young man then left to do engineering at Michigan State University. He eventually dropped out, returned to Chrysler and joined its camera club. Callahan started teaching himself photography in 1938. He became friends with Todd Webb, who was also eventually going to become a photographer. In 1941, Callahan and Webb visited Rocky Mountain State Park but didn't return with any photographs. In 1946 he was invited to teach photography in Chicago by Lazlo Maholy Nagy. He moved to Rhode Island in 1961 to create a photography course at a university, teaching there until he retired in 1977.
Here are some examples of Callahan's work:
My favourite of these photographs is the first one because although the other two have different lines, in different shapes and different patterns, the first one is the simplest and I think that's what makes it interesting. In a lot of Callaghan's work all that he uses are lines, there is no shadow, texture or anything else that you'd expect in a photograph.
Here are some examples of my work in the style of Henry Callahan:
Here are some examples of my work in the style of Henry Callahan:
My favourite artist was Ralph Eugene Meatyard because although Henry Callaghans work was very interesting, it was also very simple and I felt like I couldn't do a lot with new ideas and different compositions. With a lot of Henry Callaghans work, there isn't much shadow with the lines on the white backdrop. I felt like the shadows in Ralph Eugene Meatyard's work made the photographs all the more abstract.
This is my favourite of the photos that I took because I think all of the lines of the window cast the viewer's eyes towards the girl, The plain black round the outside makes the centre much more interesting. I like the effect of the black and white gives to the clothing, and the hair of the girl.
Although this photo isn't very abstract, the repetition and line is what do you usually find in an abstract photo. I think if I zoomed in and cropped certain parts of this photo it would make it abstract.
WWW: I looked at both artist's work and tried to recreate their photographs. I also looked into the photographers backstory and found out about them.
EBI: I could've shown the editing process and written about how I edited the photos, and what effect the editing had on them.
Although this photo isn't very abstract, the repetition and line is what do you usually find in an abstract photo. I think if I zoomed in and cropped certain parts of this photo it would make it abstract.
WWW: I looked at both artist's work and tried to recreate their photographs. I also looked into the photographers backstory and found out about them.
EBI: I could've shown the editing process and written about how I edited the photos, and what effect the editing had on them.
Aperture Shoot
The Task:
To take pictures in and out of focus with different apertures.
Here are the original photos:
To take pictures in and out of focus with different apertures.
Here are the original photos:
Here are some of my favourite photos after editing:
I really like these photos because it shows the texture and different shades of each one. All of them have leaves in them, I think leaves are a really good central point and a good thing to use in abstraction photography as they have different lines and textures - two key points in an abstract photo.
The last photograph is my favourite because as well as the texture of the leaf, using different apertures in this shoot really helped me get the effect I wanted. (The higher the aperture the more blurry it is, and there is a smaller area in focus. If the aperture is low, more of the picture is in focus).
High aperture example: Picture 1 of the above
Low aperture example: Picture 3 of the above
WWW: I explained how aperture works and how I used it in the photos, and also how the aperture had an effect on the photos.
EBI: I think I could've written more about my favourite picture and linked it to a photographer.
The last photograph is my favourite because as well as the texture of the leaf, using different apertures in this shoot really helped me get the effect I wanted. (The higher the aperture the more blurry it is, and there is a smaller area in focus. If the aperture is low, more of the picture is in focus).
High aperture example: Picture 1 of the above
Low aperture example: Picture 3 of the above
WWW: I explained how aperture works and how I used it in the photos, and also how the aperture had an effect on the photos.
EBI: I think I could've written more about my favourite picture and linked it to a photographer.
Patterns and Repitition
The Task:
To analyse examples of a photographer's work, and to create examples of my own work and edit them.
Nick Albertson
Nick Albertson was born in 1983 in Boston, and is a photographer based in Chicago. Rubber bands, plastic straws, paper napkins, and other everyday items are what he likes to base his work in, but in an abstract way. "In my work I strip utilitarian objects of their functions, repurposing them to create complicated, layered compositions. Items usually relegated to the background of our lives are foregrounded for the viewers’ visual examination." - Nick Albertson's website.
To analyse examples of a photographer's work, and to create examples of my own work and edit them.
Nick Albertson
Nick Albertson was born in 1983 in Boston, and is a photographer based in Chicago. Rubber bands, plastic straws, paper napkins, and other everyday items are what he likes to base his work in, but in an abstract way. "In my work I strip utilitarian objects of their functions, repurposing them to create complicated, layered compositions. Items usually relegated to the background of our lives are foregrounded for the viewers’ visual examination." - Nick Albertson's website.
Analyzing My Favourite Photo
My favourite of these pictures is the one of elastic bands. The contrast between the orange bands and the black background makes the ongoing lines of the bands stand out, and the way every band is the same makes the repetition more obvious and stand out too. The bands don't look as if they have been placed, they just look as if they've been thrown out over a surface and then taken a photograph of, I think this makes it imperfect and interesting. The simplicity of a single band isn't eye catching or interesting to look at, whilst the look of many bands gives an intriguing and complicated effect (maybe even abstract if the photographed was cropped) I think to make this photograph more interesting, different coloured bands would make it brighter, but might make the photograph seem less repetitious as the colour of the bands would be irregular. Both the photographs featuring elastic bands are quite similar, but I prefer this one because your everyday elastic band is the same orange/beige colour, and I like the imperfection of the black and orange photograph. |
Here are my recreations of Nick Albertson's work, and some of my own takes of "patterns and repitition":
The editing process:
After - Editing - Before
Shutter Speed
The Task:
To explore slow shutter speed and to research photographers who have used it in their work.
My Examples:
In the dark room we used the LED lights on our phones and moved them around at a medium/fast pace and took photographs at a slow shutter speed to create these patterns.
To explore slow shutter speed and to research photographers who have used it in their work.
My Examples:
In the dark room we used the LED lights on our phones and moved them around at a medium/fast pace and took photographs at a slow shutter speed to create these patterns.
My favourite of these photographs is this one, because two LED lights were used, the lines the cover up more of the space. One thing about this photograph that stands out for me is there isn't a focal point. The lines in this photograph don't guide your eyes to any main point, and I think although that is a key part of an abstract photograph, to have something different makes it better for me.
Although there is no obvious focal point, my eyes are focused on the centre. The part of the line in the centre is almost glowing, and that's what makes it stand out more. I think this photograph is messy, in the way that none of the lines are straight, and there aren't any clear patterns to the lines. In my opinion, the messiness of the photograph makes it all the more interesting. |
Minor Martin White
He was born on July 9, 1908, and died on June 24, 1976 in America. He started in Oregon in 1937 and carried on until he died in 1976, White made thousands of black & white and color photographs of landscapes, people and took abstract photographs too. His photographs had "technical mastery and a strong visual sense of light and shadow" to them. He taught classes and workshops on photography at: the California School of Fine Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in his home. He lived his life as a gay man afraid to express himself because he feared loosing of his teaching jobs. After his death in 1976, White was named one of America's greatest photographers. |
My favourite of these photographs is this one because you can tell it is a person, but it's a more dark side, the blurriness makes it less human-like and more ghost-like, or not natural. I think that there are two focal points of this photograph, and I couldn't decide which was the main one. The first is the shadow's torso, because it's the biggest part of him and stands out much more than any other part (e.g: the head). The second focal point would be the door, but neither of these "focal points" are in the centre, so it's hard to tell which stands out more.
I think there could be a story behind this photograph, the stillness of the rest of the photo makes the motion of the man stand out. The door could present questions, and the darkness of the doorway stops the viewer from being able to see what is through it. |
WWW: I analysed the photographs well and researched Minor White thoroughly.
EBI: I think I could have fixed the white balance before taking the photos of the light, so the background would appear less blue.
Shutter Speed
The Task:
To explore fast shutter speed and to research photographers who have used it in their work.
My Examples:
To explore fast shutter speed and to research photographers who have used it in their work.
My Examples:
My Favourite Photograph:
This is my favourite photograph because I managed to catch the splash just as it was at it's biggest. I had my camera on multishot and the top right corner looks slightly more blue because I didn't have the white balance setting correct to the setting and daylight I was taking the picture in. Although it isn't abstract, I could have made it look more abstract by cropping it along the top, so only the bottom of the shoes and the falsh are visible. I don't think this looks like Eadweard Muybridge's work, and I think to make it better I could have copied his work or made examples of my own based on his work. |
Eadweard Muybridge
He was born on 9 April 1830, and he died on 8 May 1904. His real name was Edward James Muggeridge and he was an English photographer famous for his work in photographing motion in fast shutter speed, and early work in motion-picture projection. He changed his name to Eadweard Muybridge, because he believed it to be the original anglo saxon form of his name.
Here are some examples of Eadweard's work:
Here are some examples of Eadweard's work:
End of Absraction Project
Inspiration for Shoot 1:
Water in absract portraiture
Water in absract portraiture
My Edits:
My photographs compared to a photographer:
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I think my shoot was quite similar to the photographer's, but to make it closer to that of the inspiration, I would have turned the lights off in the room I shot in, and just relied on the flash of the camera to create the shadow look on the face.
What I think went really well with this shoot was the timing. I managed to catch droplets of water just as they were falling off of a nose, or rolling down a cheek. In the inspiration, the water creates lines under the cheekbones that give it a more abstract effect. |
This is my favouite photograph because I think I caught the droplets in the right place, and I'm happy with the idea and the way this shoot turned out. However, I do think this is the least abstract of all my shoots.
I used makeup to add shine to the eyelids, and I think it made it look better. Origionally, I was going to pour a cup of water over the model's head for an effect more like the photographer's work. But I find the droplets looked better to me, and were easier to take photos of as they fell. Although this was the least abstract, this was my favourite shoot. |
Inspiration for Shoot 2:
Colour in abstract portraiture
Colour in abstract portraiture
How I created the photographs:
I took normal photos of my sister and my friend, with brightly coloured lines on their faces. I then printed these photos off, cut out eyes and other facial features from magazines, and then stuck them on the photos. I tried to make the eyes, noses, mouths and eyebrows best fit what was actually in the pictures. I then scanned the pictures onto my computer to put them on my website.
I tried editing them but I thought the pictures looked best when you could see the constrast in colours of the magazines against the people in the photographs.
I took normal photos of my sister and my friend, with brightly coloured lines on their faces. I then printed these photos off, cut out eyes and other facial features from magazines, and then stuck them on the photos. I tried to make the eyes, noses, mouths and eyebrows best fit what was actually in the pictures. I then scanned the pictures onto my computer to put them on my website.
I tried editing them but I thought the pictures looked best when you could see the constrast in colours of the magazines against the people in the photographs.
My Edits:
My work linked to the photographer's:
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I think my work link very well to the inspiration because much like the photographer's work, the skin colours of the magazines don't match the model's skin.
Next time I try this, I want to stick the cutouts from magazines onto the models' faces, for a more seamless and weird effect. |
This is my favourite picture because the magazine best fits into the photo, much better than the other ones. And although it isn't the same skin colour, I think that makes it all the more interesting in that you can tell it's different, but it still fits into the photograph. I prefer the coloured version of this photograph, and I liked using this method because it makes the people's faces in the photo distorted and looking unusual.
I don't think it is very abstract as you can still see that it's a face in the photograph. |
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Inspiration for Shoot 3:
Distortion in absract portraiture
Distortion in absract portraiture
I enjoyed taking these photographs as I took an idea we had learnt in class of placing cling film over the lens, but it didn't work that well so I put cling film over the model. I still wasn't happy with the result to I sprayed water over the cling film and that gave the desired effect.
My Edits:
My work compared to other photographer's work:
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I think my work links well to the photographer's, but the transparent cling-film used in the inspiration looks better than my work in my opinion, because it is stretched across the model's face, pulling her nose in and giving an abstract look.
I enjoyed this shoot and I think combing ideas of previous shoots could improve the shoot overall. |
This is my favourite photo because I like the effect the combined cling film and water gives and I want to use it again, maybe experimenting with the whole face, like the photographer above.
To make the shoot look more abstract, I could combine my previous shoot idea with this one. If I were to do this shoot again, I would have done it in natural light or used something to create shadows, much like the photographer I took inspiration from. Abstract photographs usually include shadows and use of light so I could've payed more attention to that. The main focus of this shoot was texture, and I think the cling film on the model looks better than the images with the cling film on the mirror. |
Review:
I think that in this project I successfully portrayed abstraction, especially in shoot two. For my next project I want to combine some of these ideas to make an even more abstract piece. Looking over the shoots, my focus was abstraction in portraiture, and I think I conveyed that well in the first two shoots, however in the last shoot, I would say the focus was more on the cling film than the model.
Overall, I am happy with the outcome of these shoots (especially the second one), and I enjoyed exploring the different ideas.
Shoot 4
For this shoot I focused on the texture of bubble wrap. Generally, texture is the most interesting part of abstraction for me, so I enjoyed doing this shoot and I think it displays abstraction well.
My edits:
My work compared to other photograpehrs' work:
I think my work is similar to that of the photographer's work in that the shoot as a whole worked well, and I later found that throwing the bubble wrap over the model's head worked better than just getting them to hold it up in front of their faces.
I really liked this shoot, but next time I'd like to try and imitate the photographer's work, in this case I could have placed the bubble wrap on the model's head and copied the inspiration exactly. |
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My final piece:
This is my favourite of my final pieces so far because I love the way the bubble wrap makes the eyes of the model look. I think it looks really abstract and I would want to do this shoot again.
Because I am looking at texture, I think it would be a good idea to do this shoot again but change the lighting, or the way the bubble wrap is being held by the model.
Because I am looking at texture, I think it would be a good idea to do this shoot again but change the lighting, or the way the bubble wrap is being held by the model.
Shoot 5
I enjoyed taking these photographs, however I think I should have used better lighting and tried to avoid the light reflections on the glass. I think that the glass I used later on in the shoot worked better and was an improvement on the thin plastic I started with.
My Edits:
My work compared to other photographer's work:
I think my work is quite close to that of the photographer's. The only difference and the only thing I would change and like to improve on is the quality of lighting.
Other than that, I think the positioning of the nose and other facial features made this shoot abtsract. |
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My favourite photo:
This is my favourite photo because I like the distortion the glass creates on the face. The right eye is my favourite part as it looks as if it has been cut in half or doubled. I think this is a very abstract photograph and I'd like to take more photographs with the same glass. I edited the photo into black and white because I thought it looked simple, and I wanted the focal point to be on the eyes and nose.
I think that further editing using two different colours could bring out the distortion of the faces through the glass.
I think that further editing using two different colours could bring out the distortion of the faces through the glass.
Shoot 6
In this shoot, I gathered different textures and placed them over the model's face. Although I enjoyed this shoot, I don't think this was as abstracts as some of the other shoots I have completed.
My Edits:
My work compared to a photographer's:
I think that my work links well with a photographer, but I could have experimented with the model turning their face as to make it more interesting.
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My final piece:
Shoot 7
For this shoot I decided to do the same and try and improve on previous shoots, but this time including shadows.
My Edits:
My final piece:
I think that this is one of my favourite 'final pieces' for the shoots I have completed, because although it isn't as abstract as some of the other shoots, I really enjoyed taking the pictures and I'd like to do it again.
Shoot 8
This shoot was, what I think, a worse version of the shoot before, because I tried to improve on it, but I ended up making it less abstract.
My Edits:
My work compared to a photographer's:
I think this shoot is the one that is closest to that of the photographer's work that I based it on. The only major difference in this comparison is the contrast - the photographer's work has a wider range of greys, whites and blacks, whereas mine is mostly grey and black.
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My Final Piece: