3 Week Project

I found this project quite difficult because I had to come up with my own theme/idea completely to create a series of 8 photographs. I wanted to look at photographing found objects in order to use a shallow depth of field which is something I enjoy including within my photos. I therefore decided to look at textures but I wanted to get some quite close up shots to make them look abstract in order to get the audience to think about what the objects could be. The next stage I went through was narrowing down what textures o look at, for example: in food, around the home, in the natural environment, animals, people e.t.c.
I decided on the idea of textures in the environment so I began to take photographs of these, I then developed my idea further by layering textures to create a new one, I experimented doing this with the camera but found that it did not work as well as I hoped so I overcame this by using Photoshop. These final images can be found below.

 

 

I created my final 8 photos using Photoshop, I decided to layer the same image over the top of another to get this effect, however the second photo was a more zoomed in copy of the original, I then changed the background image to be black and white to create a mixture of colours and tones. I think this worked out well because there is still a sense of abstract within the photos as it is not obvious what they are. Overall I did enjoy this task as once I had decided on a topic and how I could make my photos look interesting I found lots of way to photograph, I feel that this shoot was successful as I experimented with different angles and perspectives as well as layering techniques as I then continued to experiment by layering interior textures with exterior textures and also changing the colours of my final 8 photos completely into monochrome tones.

 

My experiments:

 

As part of this project we also had to come up with ideas on how to promote/advertise yourself, I decided to advertise myself to an age range of 18-25 year olds and promote myself in a way that would be suitable for that group. My aim was to create an Instagram account to promote my images and I would advertise this page using other social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. I chose this idea because most people now use these sites, therefore I thought it would appeal to my target audience and also be public for anyone to see.

Instagram link:  

http://instagram.com/hannahsphoto

Freedom and Liberty

FREEDOM-Ability to act freely: a state in which somebody is able to act and live as he or she chooses, without being subject to any undue restraints or restrictions.

LIBERTY-Right to choose: the freedom to think or act without being constrained by necessity or force.

This topic began with watching 'The Naked Rambler', a nudist named Stephen Gough who walked from Land's End to John O' Groats as an introduction to the new topic 'Freedom and Liberty'. To begin with I started generating ideas by brainstorming which aspect within this I would like to photograph, I also created a mood board of inspiring images to help me come up with a final idea. Some of my initial ideas included freedom and the natural world, for example open fields/landscapes and the nature within them such as birds, however I found that this was too obvious. I then looked at religion and how that can be seen as a form of freedom, as part of this I researched Shirin Neshat and her images from 'Rebellious Silence' which made me think of the idea of freedom of speech. Once I had decided upon this I then began to think how you can portray speech in a free way which drew me to the idea of graffiti and how people use it to express themselves.

These photographs are my best photos from this photo shoot, I really enjoyed doing this topic because I found it interesting researching the photographers and also going out to the location where I took the photos. What I like most about these images is the brightness of the colours and also how bold they are, furthermore I enjoyed walking through the tunnel looking at the different drawings and the writing because of the effort and detail that goes into each individual piece. I think I could improve my photographs by putting my own twist on them more and looking at different angles and perspectives as well as going closer to the subject and picking out unusual aspects in the locations.