Experimentation

Experimentation

Vignette
Vignettes happen naturally when more light reaches the center of an image than is reaching the edges. Although you can change an image into a vignette style by using Photoshop. 
Optical vignetting occurs in all lenses. Depending on the optical design of the lens, it can be quite strong on some lenses, while being weak on others. It can commonly be seen with wide angle lenses and those used with wide open apertures. 
Physical vignetting is caused by a something stopping light from hitting the sensor. It can be caused by anything preventing the light from coming into the sensor. For e.g. A filter.




Cyanotype
Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print.

The cyanotype process can be created by:

Mixing chemicals
The cyanotype is made up of two solutions.

• Potassium ferricyanide and Ferric ammonium citrate are mixed with water separately.
• The two solutions are then blended together

Preparing the canvas

• Paper, card, textiles or any other naturally absorbent material is coated with the solution and dried in the dark.

Printing the cyanotype

• Objects or negatives are placed on the material to make a print. The cyanotype is printed using UV light, such as the sun, a light box or a UV lamp.

Processing and drying

• After exposure the material is processed by simply rinsing it in water. A white print emerges on a blue background.
• The final print is dried and admired.

Solarization
Solarization is used to create extreme cases of overexposure but is known as an effect that is applied in a darkroom to black and white images. The visual effect of a solarization is that it inverts the image to make it look like back to front. So the white an black in the photograph is switched around. This is to make a mono photograph look like a cross between a positive and a negative image. Inverting an image is a common process used on photoshop in modern days so Solarization is not as common.

Polaroid
Polaroid cameras don't look modern when it comes to camera. They are designed to be like old fashioned cameras which still take good colorful pictures swell as black and white. As you can see from the photo below, the picture is still colorful, however the color is not as dramatic and as vibrant and the modern photos.

Project Plan

Project Plan

For my project i plan to shoot at Preston College. For my project i plan to create a scanogram and using the theme of 'Broken' by scanning an old watch that has been smashed up.  This is created by using a scanner and putting various objects onto the scanner and scanning it. This is a great way to shoot objects because it shows a lot of detail within the objects. The reason i have chosen to do scanography is because i think that it is a bit different to what other people might be doing. I have researched different types of scenography. In creating scanograms, you can scan objects like the photo below, however you could do something more creative and slide objects or parts of your body across the scanner. Another idea is to have a theme to what your scanning.

Photographers

Matt Wisniewski

Wisniewski's pictures are very unique and different. His work is made by using photos of landscapes, the sea, forests, patterns etc, then using a photo of a model and collaging them together. Quite often he likes to transform the models hair or part of their face into different objects and shape it into the same as his face would be. Wisniewski said that he likes them because it looks 'pretty'. I like his work because he is very Creative and i like the use of imagination that he puts into his photos. The models on most of his photos are shot in front of a white background, however some of them are collaged different so that the landscape is in the background and the face is merged in.

David Samuel Stern

These images are made by weaving together two photographic prints of the same subject. These are known by photographers as Joiners. They are an attempt to join portraits with a sort of uniqueness that comes across as a blurry effect that makes it look like the subject in the photo is in two different settings at the same time. By making these joiners it gives the effect of a slow shutter speed that catches their movement as they move their head from side to side.

Stephanie Rubiano

Stephanie Rubiano’s love for nature and Victorian photography becomes easy to see due to  her  collages, which are shown in shadow boxes. She also likes to leave little funny and poetic texts in her portraits. 

Stephanie Rubiano lives and works in Texas. After working as an environmental scientist for 5 years, she gave a twist to her career and became a fulltime artist. Her works have been shown in galleries throughout America.

Michael Weber

Michael Webers photography is quite unique. This is because he makes the perfect scenery photos and illuminates them to make every little detail visible. I would argue that he's really creative in what he shoots. I would argue that a lot of his work is edited on Photoshop. This is because the colors in his photos are very luminous and rant natural. It looks like a lot of Hue/Saturation has been added to these photos.  

Jennifer Loeber

I would argue that Jennifer Loeber is a good and colorful photographer. She likes to shoot young people and mainly naked pictures of men and women. I would say her work is quite explicit in the way that she shoots a lot of people with their clothes off.

Installation

Installation

Installation is using three-dimensional (3D) objects that are designed to transform the perception of a space. Installation needs imagination in order to see a project before it has been created or even designed. It is made to look like so many different things including wildlife or a creative deign.