Below is my final series for washing, the ritual.
I'm very happy with how my final series turned out. I think its visually appealing and portrays the idea of washing being a daunting and never ending task.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Artist Model- Domestic Photography
Laura Letinsky
I Did Not Remember I Had Forgotten & Morning and Menlancholia series.
Her work alludes to human presence without including any actual figures. I really like how this is similar to our brief of photographing a ritual.
I particularly like the shadows reflected from the objects in the photograph against the wall in the background.
This image shows the pre-presence of humans having being involved/present in the space shown. I found in all the messiness of the food left behind the photograph is extremely visually appealing and i really like it as a photograph.
This photograph reflects the presence of two people having eaten. I really like the deep red colour and the domestic idea portrayed through the photograph.
This simple yet effective layout has created a lovely composition to view. I really like the simplicity of it.
Once again the lighting in this photograph is really nice and greatly adds to the image. Also the simple composition used creates such a powerful image.
I Did Not Remember I Had Forgotten & Morning and Menlancholia series.
Her work alludes to human presence without including any actual figures. I really like how this is similar to our brief of photographing a ritual.
I particularly like the shadows reflected from the objects in the photograph against the wall in the background.
This image shows the pre-presence of humans having being involved/present in the space shown. I found in all the messiness of the food left behind the photograph is extremely visually appealing and i really like it as a photograph.
This photograph reflects the presence of two people having eaten. I really like the deep red colour and the domestic idea portrayed through the photograph.
Martina Mullaney
Below is the series Dinner for One, these photographic images address loneliness through the decline of the daily evening meal.
Her work has a contemporary look and shows how less can be more.
This domestic photography also shows the ritual of eating, and traces of a human presence. Furthermore I really like these images as though the photographs there is an idea being shown not told.
I really like the lightening in the top three images, it gives the feel of loneliness and emptiness and makes you hold a certain emotion towards these photos.
This photograph gives off such an emotional feel, i love how the emotion has been shown and not told.Below is the series Dinner for One, these photographic images address loneliness through the decline of the daily evening meal.
Her work has a contemporary look and shows how less can be more.
This domestic photography also shows the ritual of eating, and traces of a human presence. Furthermore I really like these images as though the photographs there is an idea being shown not told.
I really like the lightening in the top three images, it gives the feel of loneliness and emptiness and makes you hold a certain emotion towards these photos.
This simple yet effective layout has created a lovely composition to view. I really like the simplicity of it.
Once again the lighting in this photograph is really nice and greatly adds to the image. Also the simple composition used creates such a powerful image.
Willy Ronis- a french photographer
I love this image, the boy completing his ritual of cleansing combined with the tones and shadows creates a extremely visually appealing photograph.
Setting up images for printing
Steps for Printing Images
1-Open up images through camera raw and into photoshop.
2-For each image go to image size and change resolution to 300dpi, then change the height to 11.5 (make sure constraint proportions is on and width will adjust appropriately).
3-Go to canvas size an make the height 12 and the width 8.
4-Save images as a TIFF so that they can be printed.
Printing Options
(in matte or glosse)
-WPS- Printing at 8x12= $6.95 (with a operator)
-Image Lab- Printing at 8x12= $15
Artist Model- Domestic Photography
Sian Bonnell
-is an established and widely respected UK photographer.
Sian Bonnell works with found objects and household articles; placing them out of context within the rural and coastal environment where she lives, as well as constructing imagined landscapes in the studio. These interventions are then photographed as documents not just of the object but of an event.
I really like how simple everyday domestic objects have been taken and have had a quirky little twist added to them.
Serving Suggestion
Kaput!
I really like this image, theres great depth of feild and the idea of the fork in the fan is extremely quirky and isn't apparent straight away.
-is an established and widely respected UK photographer.
Sian Bonnell works with found objects and household articles; placing them out of context within the rural and coastal environment where she lives, as well as constructing imagined landscapes in the studio. These interventions are then photographed as documents not just of the object but of an event.
I really like how simple everyday domestic objects have been taken and have had a quirky little twist added to them.
Serving Suggestion
Kaput!
I really like this image, theres great depth of feild and the idea of the fork in the fan is extremely quirky and isn't apparent straight away.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Narrowing......
The following are the narrowed selection to which i'l be choosing one of the photograph's to complete my series, the ritual of washing.
Portrait!!!!
Pictures of the washing machine spinning the clothes in portrait!!
The below images are all actually alot better than the ones that i took in landscape and without a doubt fit in much more with the series.
I really like the photographs of the close up of the washing in the machine while spinning, the colors and distortion of the washing i find very visually appealing.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Editing task
I've put these into the editing category of direction of subject gaze and line composition of the angles.
These photographs i've put in the editing category of depth of field and focus on the foreground images.
Further narrowing
After class discussion these four images below are definite.
The angles work well together, especially as there is an apparent angle in each of the images. The first image correlates washing as a task, as the foreground is in focus rather than the pile of washing, this works well with the end picture which shows the pile of folded washing in focus yet still portraying the idea of washing being a never ending task.
The colors of the photographs do have to be manipulated so that they are more in suit with one another.
Also the fifth photograph is still to be of the washing machine spinning the washing however i have to retake the picture in a portrait format.
Narrowing final selection
Below are what i feel are the main selection for my final. Although there are 2 of both the colored clothes on the washing line and of the washing machine spinning i plan to chose the best one of each that works in best with the series.
At the present i'm thinking that i won't have a traditional linear display/ layout mainly due to the fact that the image of the washing machine spinning is landscape and am therefore instead thinking of having a miss-match layout like that of below....
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Artist Model- Domestic Photography
Giorgio Barrera - Through the window
Beyond the panes, the residents, aware of the photographers presence, are busy in their everyday activities, as they await the flash units arranged inside the room to be remotely activated by the author, whenever he sees fit, so that he can suitably light the scene and at the same time take the shot.
These photographs really appeal to me as they photograph people going about everyday things from a far away distance, yet we still are able to get the idea of what they are doing. Alike showing rather than telling our ritual and how we feel about it these photographs do the same.
Beyond the panes, the residents, aware of the photographers presence, are busy in their everyday activities, as they await the flash units arranged inside the room to be remotely activated by the author, whenever he sees fit, so that he can suitably light the scene and at the same time take the shot.
These photographs really appeal to me as they photograph people going about everyday things from a far away distance, yet we still are able to get the idea of what they are doing. Alike showing rather than telling our ritual and how we feel about it these photographs do the same.
Photographers
Katarina Grip Höök
URTID is a series of landscape photos taken on Gotland. She has worked with the prehistoric feelings she gets from the land itself, but is also about herself, and her childhood, her own prehistory when living on this island.
"I believe that the first landscape of our childhood leaves a strong impression inside us, so that we will always harbour a longing for those places."
Although these photographs aren't ritual based i really like the idea of how she portrayed her feelings through her images alike how we have to portray how we feel about our ritual that we photograph.
The lighting in these photographs and the tone of them makes for extremely appealing images.
I love the feel of these images, having them black and white makes them seem very personal and elegant. When i look at these images i feel as though I'm emotionally attached to them.
He's primarily a photographer of environments rather than people.
URTID is a series of landscape photos taken on Gotland. She has worked with the prehistoric feelings she gets from the land itself, but is also about herself, and her childhood, her own prehistory when living on this island.
"I believe that the first landscape of our childhood leaves a strong impression inside us, so that we will always harbour a longing for those places."
Although these photographs aren't ritual based i really like the idea of how she portrayed her feelings through her images alike how we have to portray how we feel about our ritual that we photograph.
The lighting in these photographs and the tone of them makes for extremely appealing images.
I love the feel of these images, having them black and white makes them seem very personal and elegant. When i look at these images i feel as though I'm emotionally attached to them.
Walker Evans
He's primarily a photographer of environments rather than people.
I really like the tone and feel of these two photographs, in both images you have to really look to see what's being told and shown, especially in the bottom image.
Different make up of series.....
These images don't show the steps of the ritual of washing but i really like these images. I feel they show the idea of washing to be a daunting/ intimidating task.
These images just show the laundry liquid being poured into the machine, still in the looking upward angle, these by themselves could make a series whether or not it would fit the brief i would have to check. Especially as they are quite repeatative.
Unfortunately i took the photographs of the washing machine spinning in a landscape format rather than portrait alike the rest of the photographs.
Putting together a series
At this stage im looking at putting together a series of photographs that illustrate my chosen ritual; washing and how i feel about it....
These select images below are particular ones that i like and they also show the steps involved in the ritual of washing however some don't work in all that well, for example the following changes need to be made to make them work in better
These select images below are particular ones that i like and they also show the steps involved in the ritual of washing however some don't work in all that well, for example the following changes need to be made to make them work in better
- the blue washing basket with the yellow sheet seem to be of a different colour scheme compared to the rest
- also the image of the washing machine spinning ideally needs to be in portrait form alike the rest of the images
- arrangment of the photographs would have to be in suit with the angles in the shots as some of them clash
These are also photographs put together that create a nice series, however there are several repeats of pictures which could blemish the over all look.
The angles of the two pictures in the centre of the contact sheet work very well together i feel
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