Latest Plan for Next Shoot

Latest Shoot for Panel 3

I decided to start playing with focus in my panel 3. I find it really hard because I am such a perfectionist, but Im getting there. 

New Plan for Panel 3

Panel 1 and so far Panel 2

Identifying Each Series of Work - Panel 1

This is identifying each series of work, and working out there relevance in my folio.

1. For the first circled group this uses apeture and focus to show the fight of the depression. The shaking of the face shows how the mind can go crazy from depression.

2. The next series of photos are close ups of the face. These pictures show expression of how one can act with a crazy mind. The strong shadows show darkness. The awkwardness of the face represents the mind. 

3. The next 4 photos shows the black blanket as symbolism of the pain and depression, and how its waying him down. 

4. The last photos show clenched fists which represent the punching, and the feeling of blood pumping (veins) and feeling under pressure. 

Arjan Benning Face and Ear Shots

These shots are the next line of my panel 2, meaning I just need to finish the last of my panel next, maybe with photos with an open space, going back to the Sequencing style of shooting. Also maybe using white clothing to show innocence, and freedom, to show contrast and difference to the other photos.

Recent Shoot-Arjan Benning

I took some photos using the ideas of Arjan Benning, where he used pegs to make letters. I thought I would just experiment with the pegs first, then see if I like the look of the letters next. I love how these turned out, especially the hand ones. So I'm thinking that I will do this again maybe on different parts of the body, like face, arms and back. I didn't love the face ones i've done so far, but I will take some more, maybe with bigger pegs and make them work. 

Latest Shoot - Kelly Nipper and Walead Beshty

I had another go at using Walead Beshty as an artist model but the photos just didn't turn out. So I started using Kelly Nipper and looking at her photos. I think I will return to looking at Walead Beshty and try again. I like how Kelly Nipper uses movement and posture to show still photos of dancers. In my next shoot I'm going to go deeper in looking at Kelly Nipper, and imitating her techniques to fit into my work. 

Walead Beshty - Research

Walead Beshty is an London born photographer but is based in Los Angeles.

Beshty earned a Bachelor of Arts from Bard College, then went on to get a Master of Fine Arts at Yale. His first solo exhibition was in New York in 2004 which was successful.

I am looking at his work, ''The Phenomenogy of Shopping and Dead Malls'' which is situated at Contemporary Art Centre, Long Island City, NY. 

I really like how these are so weird and unusual and I think the concept of putting the body in awkward situations kind of fits in with the rest of my work. I want to try this with Logan but put him under the blanket, to still keep the dark theme coming through. I tried to take some like on my latest post, but I didn't like the look if them, so I am going to try it again using different lighting and in a different setting. 

Latest Shoot

This is my latest proof sheet, I'm not using these on my folio because they we're unsuccessful and I dont really like them. #fail

Artist Model Drawing Task

 Focal Point

 - In these photos an my drawings the focal point is the move moving the rocks, because there is a white boarder, it draws the eye to the image. Also the pyramids along the back draw the eye to the middle of the photo

Eye Level View

- The eye level view is perfect because it shows everything that is necessary in the photo. If it was from a birds eye view, the focus would be taken away from the man and put on the pyramids because it is the biggest part of the picture. 

 Landscape Format

- Allows the Pyramids to be seen in the photos. If the photo was portrait it would make the background smaller, and less a part of the picture. Which would make the concept irrelevant.

 Symmetry

- The photo is quite symmetrical not in the way that its the same on both sides, but in the way that the subject matter is very evenly placed, apart from the man.

 Rule of thirds 

 - The landscape of the Pyramids is along the line of the rule of thirds, so it does apply here.

 

Worksheet

1. My work is about the struggle of being in a dark state of mind. The blanket represents the pain and pressure from society to be the best. I want to develop this further with Logan breaking about of the blanket, and showing him as an individual, with the blanket standing next to him, side by side they work, but one cannot try and take over another.

2. Duane Michals, Eileen Cowan, Bill Brandt, Walead Beshty.

3. Sequences for Duane Michals. Eileen Cowan for the strong black and white contrast. Bill Brandt with the close up of hands and face. Walead Beshty is for the photos that I have taken but not yet added to my blog.

4. Panel 1 - FINISHED.

5. Dont have enough photos to have extra, I will work on taking some more over the next week or two.

Panel 1 FINISHED!

This is my final choice for panel 1.

Latest Shoot + Proof Sheet

I re-took the latest photos, and I prefer these ones a lot. I've used Duane Michals and Kellp Nipper, also with references to David Hilliard and Eadweard Muybridge. These photos use sequences and stick to the high contrast and difference between the darker and lighter pictures.

Panel 1 Plan with Artist Models

This is a plan of my first panel , with all my artist models.

Latest Shoot - Duane Michals and Eileen Cowan

This is my latest shoot. I've used Logan with a plain black top on and a light background to make the photos look of high contrast and harshness. 

I really think using an all white background is a contrast in what i have done in the rest of my work, where I have used black and negative space. I think these relate well with Eileen Cowan's work as my photos are showing high and obvious contrast between positive and negative space.

Duane Michals uses slowed down shutter speed quite prominently in his work which is the technique i was experimenting with in these photos. I want to develop this further and go back to my original idea of using sequences in panel 1.

Research: Implied Human Presence

Implied human present is a photo where you can tell that someone has been in the photo, whether the person has made a mess, or made a track or made there mark on something, but there is actually no human in the picture.

Andy Goldsworthy is a sculpture, artist, photographer. He uses nature and the raw materials around him to create sculptures by arranging leaves, ice, rocks, flowers and grass. He uses shapes such as circles. As his work is made of all natural materials, they will deconstruct and over time be destroyed, so he uses photography to keep a record of his works. He also uses bright coloured leaves prominently to capture the eye and the circle shape lures you into his work. He also uses and ombre effect where the outside of the shape is darker.

Some examples of his work is:

source:  http://www.iamparagon.com/2009/06/artists-that-inspire-me-andy-goldsworthy/

Richard Long is an English sculpture, artist and photographer and is one of Britain's best known 'land artist.' He has had many exhibitions that have been seen all around Europe, USA and Asia. Long uses splashes of paint,mud and stone to create his artworks, and uses hes hands and fingers to create texture and movement in the paint or mud. Along with Goldsworthy he often uses circles to make the sculpture look more clean-cut, even tho he works with mess and makes mess doing his work. He uses nature and places rocks, stone, tree cuttings etc in his work. Also Long uses rectangular shaped and swirls. I think that with the sculptures the finger strokes he uses in his sculptures and painting give a presence as they can look like finger prints or trails of someone. He makes his artworks seem like tracks that someone has walked on.

Some examples of his work:

source : Richard Long, The guardian article,