Colour

Colour

"the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way it reflects or emits light."

Colour can also be linked to Emotional, Physical and Behavioural properties. 

Martin Parr

Martin Parr is a British documentary photographer and photojournalist. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, satirical and anthropological look at aspects of modern life, in particular documenting the social classes of England, and more broadly the wealth of the Western world.

The first photo is good in representing Martin Parr's style of using highly saturated colours to present the style of a cartoon and less serious world. The second photo is more chaotic with its use of colour and still has the highly saturated colours in there.


Contact Sheet

Selected Images

Improvement Needed

 This photo is too over exposed and does not focus on the blue of the sign. If I was to retake the photo I would adjust my settings so it wasn't over exposed

This photo is just out of focus on the orange bin bags so the subject that I wanted to focus on is out of focus. If I was to re-take the photo I would make sure it was in focus. 

AO3: Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions, reflecting critically on work and progress.
The majority of these photos turned out as I wanted, I manage to achieve a good series of images that I happy to use. My intention with this shoot was to shoot images that contained a subject with a primary or vivid colour so I could link it with Martin Parr, his images has a large contrast overall so I would have to develop them further to achieve his style. With these photos I want to use photoshop to create more contrast to link the photos more to the work of Martin Parr. 

AO2: Explore and select appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes, reviewing and refining ideas as work develops.

With this photo I want to change the contrast using curves within photoshop and change the saturation using the hue/saturation tool within photoshop. 

I adjusted the saturation and contrast to try and create a Martin Parr style. I reached this image and I felt it matched his style.

This photo has a high saturation but the cherries do not have a high enough saturation compared to Martin Parr, to make the photo more like his style I will use the hue/saturation tool to change the saturation then go on to change the contrast with curves. 

I changed the contrast and saturation to match the style of Martin Parr and eventually recently this photo that I felt was close to his style.

This photo has a good range of colours but does not have the saturation similar to Martin Parr, I am going to change the saturation with photoshop and edit the contrast.

I adjusted the contrast and saturation until I reached this image that matched Martin Parr's style. 

With this image I want to use photoshop to bring out the open sign's colours using the hue/saturation tool. Also using curves to bring the image closer to the style of Martin Parr. 

 

I raised the saturation and adjusted the contrast using curves creating an image that was similar to the style of Martin Parr.










AO1: Develop ideas through sustained and focused investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and critical understanding.

AO4: Present a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and, where appropriate, makes connections between visual and other elements. 

Portraiture

Portraiture

"A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person."

What makes a good portrait?

• Lighting
• Framing
• Person
• Interaction
• Props
• Camera Position

The camera settings I expect to use when shooting portraiture is an aperture of f1, a shutter speed of 1/125 and an ISO of 200. 

The photo is incredibly dark and has a harsh contrast using the bottom and top of the tonal range only. His face shows no happiness and only a serious and determined mood. The tonal range and mood of the photo relates to the personality of him being powerful and serious.

Image Bank

Alec Soth

Alec Soth is an American photographer who makes "large-scale American projects" featuring the midwestern United States. His work has often been compared with Walker Evans. He has produced various books which have been published by various major publishers and self published through his own business. 

Each one of this portraits focuses on using a low aperture like f4 to create a narrow depth of field to highlight the subject. Each photo uses negative space and makes the person the first thing the viewer looks at. 

The first photo (top left) uses negative space to make the person the key aspect of the photo. He also uses muted colours for the background and saturated colours on the subject to make the viewer look at her first, this could have been done in editing or lighting on the actual day of the shoot. 

The second photo (top right) uses negative space again but instead there is more negative space than subject space. This allows the viewer to focus on the idea the area that the subject is in which suggests that Soth wants the view to focus on the environment that the subject is in rather than the subject itself. There is also a use of props (planes) which gives a deeper look into the character of the subject. 

The third photo (bottom left) is similar to the second in that it has more negative space than subject space. The photo is clearly a portrait as a person is the subject and in centre frame but the photo itself suggests that it wants us to focus on the surroundings is where the Soth wants us to focus on. Again there is a use of props that give an insight to the character of the subject. There is also a use of juxtaposition as he is wearing a suit and his a very rundown area. 

The fourth and final image (bottom right) is a much more simplistic photo. The subject is giving a dead pan look straight into the camera which gives the viewer a depressed representation of the subject. The photo itself is a group shot but the background is blurred out making us only focus on the main subject at the front. The writing on the collar of the mans shirt also gives religious connotations. 

All of these photos gives me a style of abstract street portraiture that I would like to apply to my future shoots.   

Selected and Edited Images

AO3: Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions, reflecting critically on work and progress.

My intention with this shoot was to achieve the portraiture style achieved with Alec Soth’s work. I wanted the low depth of field which blurred the background and allowed for full focus on the subject. I also wanted to make sure that I got the dead pan look that was in most of Soth’s work.

AO2: Explore and select appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes, reviewing and refining ideas as work develops.
I used my cannon 5D and manual mode. I made sure that I got a high aperture to achieve the low depth of field, this meant I had the blurred background and in focus subject. The shutter speed was kept high to make sure that the all movement was paused.

AO1: Develop ideas through sustained and focused investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and critical understanding.
My research into Alec Soth was vital in my process of recording portraiture. Seeing Alec Soth’s inspired my own shoots to shoot on a location with a low depth of field to achieve the style he had created. The dead pan look which set the tone of the photo was also important to me and inspired by Soth’s work.

AO4: Present a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and, where appropriate, makes connections between visual and other elements.  

Over all i think that my photos resembled the style of Alec Soth and was a good portrayal of

portraiture. I managed to get the low depth of field that made Alec Soth’s work so good and I also

managed in some of my photos to achieve the dead pan look that set the tone of the photo.