TV Drama Poster

Poster layout idea

Future Library

Above: Before

Below: After

Squid attack

 

 Above: Before

Below: After

Burning sky

 Above: Before

Below: After

Crawley Future Initial pictures

(L3) Photography Project Treatment Form

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17PzkILAfgbXWSvJOsYJl2JzFvcJjOWEyIgehhaAyge0/edit?usp=sharing

Attempt at flooding the empire state building

Tried to make a image of the area around the empire state building being flooded using different layers and messing about with opacity 

Blur and sharpen

On the sky and the mountains at the back i used a blur of 85%
The hills just in front of the mountains were blurred at 50%
The hills that are nearer the front are blurred to 20%
The foreground is blurred to 50%
The village is sharpened at 50%

 I blurred the background to around 80% - 100%
I blurred the landscape around the dragon to around 60% to give the effect of the heat
I sharpened the dragon by 40%

 i sharpened the moon, fox demon and the wolf in this image while blurring everything else by 100%

broken glass photoshop and crawley future ideas

 

 Ideas for Crawley in future:

Tower block in different types of future:

Apocalypse
Neon lights and stuff
Global warming
Crater

Photoshop Lesson 1

L key - Lasso
Q key - Quickmask
Modify the edge of selection  = Select/Modify/Expand
Turn the selection into a layer= cmd/ctrl J
Move the Layer to another Photo= Move tool =V key drag to another photo
Scale the layer= cmd/ctrl T
Copy the Layer= cmd/ctrl J

2. To what degree should an image manipulated to go into a fashion magazine?

Photographs for fashion are often manipulated before they go into the magazines. Manipulating photographs is happening more and more for magazines as it is now easier to manipulate the photograph before the photoshoot and also after the photoshoot.

Manipulating the photograph before the photoshoot can be make-up or dressing the models in the clothes to changing the set so that the image will look unique.

Manipulating a photograph is almost always edited in programs like photoshop after the photograph has been taken.

When Images are edited in photoshop it can completely change who the person in the image is and thus change the perspective of the image as a whole. A usual thing to change in photoshop when it comes to fashion photography is making the length of a person’s neck longer than it naturally should be. It makes the models look less human when the image is in the magazine, however this also makes some people think that a person should naturally have a neck that long.

Another edit that is normally done in photoshop is editing the face so that it is thinner which on an already really thin model can make the models look unhealthy. This would also change peoples mind on what models actually look like as the images in the magazines aren't real as such.

Either way i believe that manipulating an image like they do for fashion magazines is unacceptable as sometimes they go all the way and take the head from one picture and put it on the shoulders of another body.

Most of the models used for fashion photography are size 0. Pretty much no normal person is size 0. This makes the images in the magazine misleading as something that fits them will most likely not fit a normal person. This can also get people to think that their body image isn't right and they will try their best to be size 0 so that they can feel like one of the models in the magazine.

The only time that they would use a plus sized model is if the person modeling is famous. This is pretty much only bring more attention to the magazine. another thing that is probably done using plus sized models is taking the head of the model and putting it on a size 0 body. this would not work as well mainly as most people know who most of the plus sized models are as they are normally celebrities so most people will know who they are. an example of them using a celebrity as a plus sized model is when they use celebrities like Beyonce.

However some images are manipulated in creative ways like setting the scene of an image to make the clothes fit with the set. An example of this is the tea party image from Vogue, it is also a good example of how alot of money and time had been put into making the image look really good only for it to be thrown to one side because the editor of the magazine didn’t particularly like the image.  

Portraiture

Application, Context And Tech
In your posts you will need to discuss  the journey that Portraiture has taken over its' history. For example the movement from Rich and Powerful people having expensive portraits made for them to the works of Portraiture photographers depicting the inner conflicts and catching their subjects in moments when they are least prepared. 


Portraits used to be painted by artists and would have mainly been of the rich and famous. The camera was a revolution when it came to portraiture as it was quicker than a painter and could be taken in a couple of minutes instead of the couple of months that it would have taken a painter to capture an image of a person. As cameras became more and more advanced, different groups of people were able to have portraits taken of them. portraiture used to be pretty much only for the rich and famous and was now pretty much for everyone.
Portraiture had also started to give the person behind the camera more control over the person who is having the portrait taken.

Tony Vaccaro:

Vaccaro is an example of a photographer who gave himself a little bit more power over his subject. however he also used the idea of the waiting for the opportune moment to take a picture of what the person was really like. For example he was asked by Pablo Picasso to take a portrait photo of him. Vaccaro stood there and watched as Picasso started making poses that he knew of instead of acting like himself in front of the camera. To get Picasso to act like himself Vaccaro pretended that the camera wasn't working, at this time Picasso stopped acting and Vaccaro had snapped the picture.

Photojournalism (War - Eddie Adams and The Execution)

Eddie Adams and "The Execution"

Eddie Adams had been a combat photographer in the US marine corps. One of my most well known photographs is one called "The Execution". This was a picture of a man who at first glance looks as though he was being interrogated but in reality he had just been shot and the photograph was shot at the exact time the bullet entered his head.

There was also a video of this event but it doesn't have the same impact as it happens really quick whereas the photograph is a still shot of the event just as it happened. The image is burnt into the mind of the person looking at it and it shows the look on the man's face as he is shot.

You can see the look of the soldier's face as he flinches at the sight of this man being shot and also the lack of expression that the man with the gun has. with the video you can't see these expressions as it all happens too quickly but the image allows people to see what happened at that moment and whoever is looking at the image can see all the expressions of the people in the image.

The Photograph allows people to look deeper at what is going on and the feelings that could be running through the minds of all the people in the photograph.

Photojournalism (War - Tony Vaccaro and Robert Capa)

Robert Capa/Tony Vaccaro

• Describe the different circumstances that these photographers experienced as Photojournalists in WW2 
• Find and upload to your blog some work of theirs

Robert Capa

Robert Capa was hired by life magazine to take photographs of the front line and had the choice of dropping in and out of taking pictures of the war. He was the only photojournalist to go with the first wave of the D-Day landings however 3 rolls of film had been ruined because the editors of life magazine had rushed trying to develop the film. He was seen as the greatest war Photographer as he saw photography as so important that he would take pictures in the middle of the war.

This image is of a loyalist fight that was shot in the head during the Spanish civil war.

Robert capa had two rules for his photography:

the first rule was : get close

the second rule was : get closer


Tony Vaccaro


Tony Vaccaro was a sodldier photographer who took pictures during world war II. Vaccaro always had his camera at the ready so he could easily take a picture when it was about to happen. Tony Vaccaro was closer to the action than capa because of him being a soldier. During one of the battles Vaccaro had to develop the film on the battlefield and he didnt have a dark room so he waited for a clear night and developed the film in helmets however most of these images were destroyed by the military because they showed dead U.S soldiers.

After the war he stayed in Germany to record the aftermath and the reconstruction of germany.

He was told to use the standard issue Speed Graphic camera

This camera was slow and could only take two pictures at a time before new film was needed to be put into the camera. so Vaccaro decided to use Argus C3 over the speed Graphic.

Vaccaro had to use the Argus C3 as he did not have the money to buy a leica like Robert Capa had.


In other words Robert Capa had alot more money than Tony Vaccaro and also had the privileges of jumping in and out of the action whereas Vaccaro had to be in the thick of it as he was actually a soldier. They also had completely different views on what war was like and Vaccaro's view on was sounds alot more logical and sensible compared to Capa as Vaccaro had to sit through the war and watch as it unfolded while Capa got to jump in and out of different parts of the war and came to the conclusion that it was glorious. This was because he had not experienced war to it' fullest like Vaccaro had.

The images from either of the photographers could be seen as unreliable due to the fact that Vaccaro's were censored and quite a few of his photographs were destroyed because they showed American soldiers dead. Capa's photographs can be seen as unreliable as Capa was able to jump in and out of certain parts of war and only took photos of things that made war look glorious. 

Henri Cartier Bresson

• Photojournalism - Explain what it is

-I think Photojournalism is recording an event or an action using photography to describe the event. it sort of gives meaning to the idea that "pictures speak louder than words".

 
Henri Cartier Bresson -

• Why is he famous?
• Why is his work significant in Photojournalism?
• Find and upload to your blog some work of theirs
• What Camera/Technique did he use 

Henri Cartier Bresson is famous because his pictures were about being in the right place at the right time. He would sit and wait somewhere for something to happen. an example of this is the picture
above which shows a picture of a person riding a bike and is shot from the top of a staircase.

His work is significant to Photojournalism because he had caught pictures that other people would have never thought of trying to catch.

The idea of sitting and waiting for the opportune moment was a completely new technique at the time and the fact that Bresson had one of the new Leica Cameras meant that he could easily capture these moments. The Leica camera was a step forward in photography technology as it was one of the first instant capture cameras that was also smaller than some of the other cameras as well as also being pretty much silent.

Introduction to me

i have been using my phone recently to take pictures, my phone is an LG Viewity

I hope to learn how to take pictures from a professional point of view.
i would like to be able to take pictures of marine life, other wildlife