This is my favourite photo because the lines go in many different direction and they layer each other which make an illusion of some of the lines looking further back than others. Also the colour contrast between the black and white makes each of the look more enhanced then if they were all white or all black.
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This photogram has an aspect of the formal element texture. This can be seen from all the different grounds of the photo (back, mid and front ) in the background they used texture and repetition to get the background, these are the elements I've chose because if you were to reach into the picture you would be able to fell the fern looking back drop and all the edges and organic shapes of it the repetition is because he has layered the fern looking object over each other. For the mid ground he has used texture again and line, this is done by the two dark black lines just out of centre to the photo and the texture is through the bow on a stick which has a shine to it so if you were to touch it it would feel slightly plastic like but a smooth type of plastic.
For the front it is very textured because of the shiny gem looking thing which has been broken which give it a clean cut, but the gem looking thing also looks like it has been edited in because of the boarder around it. His practice: He first started as a photographer, and worked up a lot of black and white prints so in time he would cut them up and and find the main parts of each photo and make a new photo from many old. He would create collages out of these old photos. |
Constructed Landscapes:
What you can see in this picture are steep hills and mountain sceneries. The outline of orange and white reminds me of fire and it sightly looks like the mountains are being burnt away. The title 'constructed landscapes' suggests that the photographer has taken different mountains and hills from different areas and places on the mountains to create a new picture and make one big mountain terrain. Talmor might use different locations to get alternative textures, contrast and depth in her constructed versions of theses photos that she creates from many photos. The different photos she has taken and cut up are all from different places around the world and pieced together, all of her pictures are completely made up of nature and taken away all person made thing such as buildings and people by using a sharp knife to cut the negatives to make it only nature, in this case mountains. |
Today Dafna Talmor showed us how she makes her constructed landscapes with positives instead of negatives (the way Talmor does her constructed landscapes is through coloured negatives not positives.) through a workshop she taught. She talked us through her practice and before she started making her constructed landscapes which was interesting to see how she came about making her constructed landscapes. With mine I wanted to have a theme with each one I made. I didn't stick with the nature theme but I did make sure they had order so it didnt look messy. To achieve the final produce the materials I used we 35mm positive slides, a lightbox, scalpel, cutting mats, coloured cellophane and sellotape. I used these materials and cut ups full positives and constructed them into a newer and more abstract slide. The decision I made weren't very extreme because I had an idea before I started cutting things up (which was having a thereto my images). I think the Tallis habit I used the most was persistence because cutting up all the images it was very fiddly and small so I had to be careful not to accidentally cut something I needed.
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Threshold concept #8
"Photographs consist of formal and visual elements and have their own ‘grammar’. These formal and visual elements (such as line, shape, repetition, rhythm, balance etc.) are shared with other works of art. But photographs also have a specific grammar - flatness, frame, time, focus etc. ‘Mistakes’ in photography are often associated with (breaking) the ‘rules’ and expectations of this grammar e.g. out of focus, subject cropped, blur etc. Some photographers enjoy making beautiful images but others are more critical of what beauty means in today's world." |
To me this image baffled me because its quite a organic shape and took me a white to identify what it was but after a while I realised that it was just toothpaste smeared on a sheet of glass to reflect against the glass and confuse the viewer. It helps me think about my Puzzled 'em project because it has given me ideas on how to display my objects on glass to make it harder to identify.
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I quite like this image because it is something everyone probably just has lying around somewhere and no-one even thinks about them but when they are put into a more interesting position they seem to become more fascinating.This could help me with my Puzzled 'em project by just taking everyday mundane objects and make them more interesting.
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Material by Peter Fraser 2002
Peter fraser worked around the world on many different technology sites. Fraser would photograph "low status material" underneath his bed,the behind of his refrigerator and many other 'forgotten' places to take these photo. After numerous months of working with the idea of these awkward and forgotten places he started to begin to work with the taking images of his equipment in laboratories. I really like how vivid his images are, and how they've been taken in such way making the photos look so in focus and bright while being so close to the object in the photo. I find the way he takes photos interesting and would like to try and imitate photos like these in the puzzle 'em project. |
This is my favourite photo that I took today because it looks unusual. I like how out of place everything seems , for example in the background everything is tilted slightly to the right however the subject in the photo (the person) is a lined with the edge of the camera which makes her to not be tilted. I also like how the angle of the mirror got to captured the ground and how it looks as if I have taken that fragment out from where it goes and rearranged it to what it is now. Although it isn't strictly the same as what Leister did it is the same concept where hes blocked of an area to make the focused part seemingly less important then what others would deem to be the more interesting and important part and made the less important look better then it is. If i could change one thing about this picture I think I would slightly move the mirror to the left to cover what is being held in the persons hand, other than that i wouldn't change anything about this photo.
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