Fantastic And Strange.
I choose fantastic and strange because when I looked at the work from the people on the exam paper they caught my eye, the images looked creative and weird to me but at the same time I found the images exciting and amazing. The theme made me want to be even more creative because I saw that there was so many different techniques I could use and lots of choices to be creative.
Pinterest.
My Mind.
Research
Mari Mahr
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I am looking at Mari Mahr because her work looks very similar to what I am interested in. I like it when objects are blended together but I think that it looks even more interesting when the objects are very different and dont usually go together such as the tree and the person although they could both be considered natural objects. I want to further experiment by blending images together.
This is one of the images she has done. I liked this image because its very strange, I really like the way it has been composed for example I like the way she has placed just a head in the middle of trees. This image has a lot of contrast the blacks are very black and the whites are very bright makes the face stand out more. There is more contrast in between the trees and the face because the trees are very dark and bold and the face is very light and soft. |
Penny Jensz
Double Exposure
Antonio Mora
First Experiment
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WWW: What went well for me was the lighting in these images and the way that I have composed these images. I liked the way that i photographed them in an interesting way by making them close up
Final Touches
These are my first ex experiments so far on fantastic and strange. I used photoshop for these images to blend them together and make them creative and different. I like these images but I need to work more on improving the composition. To improve these i need to make sure just the water is in the frame not the tank.
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Second Experiment.
WWW: I think these images worked well for me because they are very unusual photographs and I enjoyed taking them and using the different materials such as a glass cup and a jug over the lens of a digital camera.
3rd Experiment
WWW: What went well for me in these images was that I went out and chose a different way of taking pictures which is the way that i composed the pictures using the mirror within the images to add an extra background which made me go back to using the glass for my final piece.
Editing my final piece.
1st final piece.
Final Evaluation
I enjoyed doing the theme Fantastic and Strange because it stood out more then what any other theme did. The images that I looked at were very strange, and I liked working on this because the experiments are fun and very interesting to learn from. I liked working on double exposure it was very interesting how the pictures come out, doing double exposure made me make my final decision on picking Fantastic and Strange.
The first photographer that I researched was Mari Mahr, I looked at a variety of pictures she created and I picked six that I liked and out of the six I chose I evaluated one that stood out for me which was an image of just a head placed in the middle of a forest, I liked this image because the contrast and the sharpness of it and the fact that it was unusual. I then started looking at a double exposure photographer Anotonio Mora and evaluated one of his photos that i liked the most. I then started making my own experiments on double exposure using a film camera, i went out taking pictures and then I blended them together I really enjoyed doing this experiment and thought it was fun. However, I did not want to pick this as a final piece because I liked Mari Mahr's ideas a lot better and they appealed to me more. I took a number of pictures around the school and in the studio of people and I used photoshop to improve them and sharpen them up as I showed in some of my pictures.
My first experiment that i did was in the dark room doing double exposure as a class. I liked the idea of doing double exposure that's why I used it as an experiment, I went out and took my own photo's on a film camera and then uploaded them to my laptop by scanning them. For my second experiment I used a digital camera and took pictures of a tank filled up with water and placed the tank near a window where the light was on it and made the water look like it was glowing. I then uploaded the pictures and moved on to taking pictures in the studio of people because I wanted to do an experiment on photoshop where I blended the pictures together of the people and the water and sharpened them on photoshop. I improved these images by editing them. Overall I really enjoyed taking these images and thought it was really fun on working with different things and trying out new things and learning how to work photoshop. I also decided to do another experiment which I decided to use as my final piece on a student and a glass cup, using the glass cup as an extra layer. I enjoyed using these materials and also selecting and refining them.
I am overall satisfied with the progress i have made on working with fantastic and strange. If i was to do this again I would take more time on developing my experiments and improving them even more.
The first photographer that I researched was Mari Mahr, I looked at a variety of pictures she created and I picked six that I liked and out of the six I chose I evaluated one that stood out for me which was an image of just a head placed in the middle of a forest, I liked this image because the contrast and the sharpness of it and the fact that it was unusual. I then started looking at a double exposure photographer Anotonio Mora and evaluated one of his photos that i liked the most. I then started making my own experiments on double exposure using a film camera, i went out taking pictures and then I blended them together I really enjoyed doing this experiment and thought it was fun. However, I did not want to pick this as a final piece because I liked Mari Mahr's ideas a lot better and they appealed to me more. I took a number of pictures around the school and in the studio of people and I used photoshop to improve them and sharpen them up as I showed in some of my pictures.
My first experiment that i did was in the dark room doing double exposure as a class. I liked the idea of doing double exposure that's why I used it as an experiment, I went out and took my own photo's on a film camera and then uploaded them to my laptop by scanning them. For my second experiment I used a digital camera and took pictures of a tank filled up with water and placed the tank near a window where the light was on it and made the water look like it was glowing. I then uploaded the pictures and moved on to taking pictures in the studio of people because I wanted to do an experiment on photoshop where I blended the pictures together of the people and the water and sharpened them on photoshop. I improved these images by editing them. Overall I really enjoyed taking these images and thought it was really fun on working with different things and trying out new things and learning how to work photoshop. I also decided to do another experiment which I decided to use as my final piece on a student and a glass cup, using the glass cup as an extra layer. I enjoyed using these materials and also selecting and refining them.
I am overall satisfied with the progress i have made on working with fantastic and strange. If i was to do this again I would take more time on developing my experiments and improving them even more.