Unit 57 - Photography - Fine Art Photography

Fine Art Photography

The Task

This task was set in order to research about what fine art photography was and how it is used. The meaning of this task was to help us learn about more types of photography than just one, therefore we have more knowledge within the art of photography. 

What is Fine Art Photography? 

Fine art photography is also known as photographic art. Fine art photography is photography created in accordance with the vision of the artist as a photographer. Find art doesn’t really have a universally agreed definition or meaning, many photographer may have their own response and their own judgment of the definition of fine art. However fine art photography stands in the same place as representational photography such as photojournalism, this is photography provides a documentary response as this documents a visual event or specific subjects.

The difference between normal photography   is that fine art isn’t just about capturing a realistic image of something, fine art is more about capturing a more personal and emotional response within a picture.

An example of an image which represents fine art:

   

 

How Will this help me in the future of this course? 

This task will help me gain an understanding about different types of photography therefore I have gained the knowledge about fine art photography .When I get assignments I will be able to get my knowledge from what i have already researched about.

Unit 57 - Photography - Portraits/ Portraiture

Portraits

A long shot - Whole of the person.

A medium shot - Waist up.

A close up - Just head and neck.

Think about this when taking a portrait. 

What is the lighting like?
What is the background like?
Where is the model looking?
What pose should the model have?
Where should he model be looking?

Task 

Take more than 3 shots. Try a range of shots and the pick the best later on. 

- Take your time.
- Talk to your model
- Get the eyes in focus
- Try and get off the automatic setting

We are going to take your portraits and use a range of techniques on them 

- We wil look at black and white effects.
- We will look at partial colour effects.
- We will look at basic adjustments.
- We will look at comic book photos.

Aperture

This is how much light is left into the camera through the lens.



aperture - f2.8

Unit 57 Photography - Contact Sheet

The Task

Within this photography we were asked to take 20 images f the same thing by using the rules within photography, such as the rule of thirds and leading lines, this would in able us to take our pictures in a good professional way. This task also was made in order to research about both of the photographic rules.

This is my contact sheet for my 20 images I took. 

Although all my images are of the same thing, I can spot the different  focuses and lighting changes within these pictures. It is good to take a record all of your images in order to find out the best photos, this gives you the chose to choose from many images.



Rule of Thirds


The rule of thirds helps photographer to capture the best image possible, the photo is taken by applied aligning guide lines, this helps to gain the right focus for the person looking at the image. The rule of thirds helps to break down image by using lines the lines are both horizontal and vertical. When the image is broken down by the lines there are 9 squares within one picture.


Leading Lines


This is the most useful elements within photography, this method can help to create the most interesting and imaginative images. The leading lines method helps to draw the person into the pictures and helps to capture attention. The leading likes method is used in rider to capture images which are leading away from the picture for example this is used when taking pictures of long roads, doorways and rivers.

How will this help me in the future of this task?

As this course is about photography it is very important to take images and to understand the key words and skill within the art of photography. This will help me within my course as i now know about the key skills and rules and therefore I can use these skills in my work in the future in order to do well, now that I have experience with taking pictures I can make my images better in the future.

Unit 51 - Magazines

Magazine Research

My choice of magazine I wish to create a double page spread for a lifestyle magazine. I have three ideas of the genre and themes which I would like my articles to be about. I have done a lot of research into lifestyle magazines, I have looked mainly at the 'Cosmopolitan' magazine, this was really good as this is the perfect example of the magazine I want article to feature in. Mainly in a lifestyle magazine there is mainly around 650 - 700 words per double page spread. A lifestyle magazine has many different articles, they are usually informative pages (health and fashion information pages), feature pages (celebrity article pages and stories about people) and interview articles (celebrity interviews). 

Idea 1

This is going to be an informative page about health and exercise, this will include healthy eating plans and diets in order to keep in shape, this page will include several recipes and exciting exotic healthy meals to make. This article will also include workout plans to do in order to get into shape. There will be exercise routines and timetable available on this page.

Idea 2 

My second idea is a feature page, this will include information about a chosen celebrity, this will be information about them and their lives, this page will be like a story about someone, not even a celebrity. This story will be made as a real life situation.

Idea 3

This article will be an interview with a celebrity and singer. Within this article, I  will be asking the celebrities several questions, this will be about their life, their music, what they enjoy and personal things about them.


Plan:

Within my interview with a celebrity I will be basing the sorry on Rhianna, I will be asking the celebrity 10 whitest ion in which they will answer. This celebrity is a pop star I will be asking questions about their own albums and their lifestyle.

Unit 57 - Photography - David Bailey

David Bailey

This Task

The objective for this task is to do artist research about the photographer David Bailey, I am going to find out a lot of information about himself and his photographic career. This information will give me knowledge and will enable me to do well within this unit of work. It is very important to find out a general background of an artist in order to continue and this helps and gives you a head start when progress will the photographic study and learning. Within this blog task I am aiming to get a distinction.

Research...

David Bailey, was born on the 2nd of January 1938 (age 78), in Leytonstone, East London. He is famous most for his photography in fashion and portraiture. He had known about the logic of photography and knew what he wanted to do since the game of sixteen, but however started taking his photos in 1959 and is still continuing to produce his famous images. He had grown up and had a love for natural history, this encourages him into learning and taking up an interest with photography. He had suffered from undiagnosed dyslexia, which led to problems in school with him learning, as well as having dyslexia he also has dyspraxia. He wasn't a lover of school, he only had attending rarely, due to this he had left school at the young age of fifteen. He had then worked as a copy boy for the 'Yorkshire Post'. In 1959 he was called up to serve in the National Service. After that in 1957 he served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) in Singapore. This helped him to look at the creative side of the sights which he was seeing. As well as many photographers he had, had some previous war experience, this usually inspires may photographers. Around this time he had bought a 'Rolleiflex Camera', this helped to inspire him to take images. 

In then stepped down from the role in the national service and was able to pursue his career in photography, at this point he had purchased his first 'Canon Camera'. As he had no qualifications he was unable to join the 'London College of Printing', however he became a second assistant to 'David Ollins', with this job he had only earnt £3.50 a week.

He was later contracted as a fashion photographer by the British Vogue magazine in 1960, this was the start of his fashion photography career. In the 60's he had helped to create the 'Swinging London', this had showed both the fashion and the celebrities within the 60s. 'David Bailey', had taken portraites and also fashion body shots of famous, well-known people, for example, his most famous picture of the 'Kray Twins'. This helped him when he was gaining his fame within the photography industry. 

'David Bailey', began his career in the fashion field in the late 1950's after working with and alongside many fashion photographers, in 1962 after all of his learning and experiences he was officially appointed and put onto the job of fashion photography with 'Vogue". During his time as a photographer he had won many awards for his skills and photography. He ha many positives and negatives within his career and the way of life he had, he had a hard time in the army and didn't complete school in order to go to the colleges in which he wanted, this then experimented with his work, which helped to get him where is is today, after his promotion with famous fashion magazine, he became a very successful career in photography. He is now a professional which takes pictures of famous people all around the world. 

When 'David Bailey', photographs, he uses many different techniques and equipment in order to create such great images, in mostly all of his portraits, he used a plain white background in order to make the faces stand out and to draw the attention to only their faces, he turns all of his pictures into black and white to create a dramatic affect within all of him pictures, this represents his style of photography very well. He uses the technique of using a tight crop, black and white film, white or grey background, this is what he uses to create the affect. His technique when taking pictures of a person if to sit and talk to them for a long time and get to known them and to understand their personality, when he takes his pictures he makes sure that the personality of the person come through, he wants people to look at the picture and instantly understand their personality within one picture.

This technique is shown in this image below, it shows the black and white film, the white background the focus on the face, this image shows off the personality of 'Jack Nicholson', it shows his personality of being fun, and very amusing 'David Bailey', has really thought about the techniques in which he used. His photos are taken in the location of a studio, which has all the equipment which is needed, like his camera and the backgrounds (plain white or grey).

How will this help me in the future of the course?

Researching about one photographer is very beneficial as you are able to study one persons techniques and the way in which they capture different images, this will help as I could possibly try and use his techniques within my own work. After researching into David Bailey I have gained knowledge about a portraiture and fashion photographer like him. Now I will be able to provide a reference back to David Baileys work. 

Unit 51 - Magazine Conventions / Written Analysis / Audience Profile

This is my Magazine Convention 

The Task

Our task was to pick a double page spread from a magazine, with that spread we were to analyse it, we then were told to label our page and include all of the magazines conventions onto the outside of the page. I added all of the key words I knew and related it to the double page in which I was focusing on. This helped me to understand all the aspects put into a page in a magazine, all of these factors help to gain attention from the audience and the readers of the magazine. This task was very useful and is very good way to learn and evaluate the structures of different magazines, this will help me immensely when completing this unit of work, this was a very good task, I personally understand a lot about magazines and a set up of a double page spread.


What Did You Learn? 

When completing this task, I learnt about the set up and conventions of a magazine. This will help me to create my own magazine. When looking at real magazines, this enables me to understand to concept and set up of the layout and all of the elements which go into a double page spread.

How Will It Help Me In The Future? 

In the future I will be creating my own double page spread, this research and task will help me to make a good magazine article and page, within out this task and further research I wouldn't be able to create a correct magazine double page spread. This was a very good to undertake as this has given me the correct knowledge in order to create and make my own piece of work. 

This is my magazine convention analysis: From the 'Cosmopolitan Magazine'

Audience Profile, for the 'Cosmopolitan Magazine'. 

Gender : Female

Age: 18 - 35

Social Class: Middle Class

Status of Women Readers: Single Women/ People attending University - College

Interest: Mostly the women who are interested with, gossip, celebrities, fashion and makeup will usually be more interested with this magazine than others and the 'Cosmopolitan' includes all of these themes within their magazine. 

Who Reads This: Women will want to read this magazine in order to find out about other women like themselves, the reality of celebrities, and also the lifestyle in which people live, this can be to find out about advice. 

Facts

According to some research in which I had done about the 'Cosmopolitan', I have found information, the magazine is the most voted read magazine by students which attend university and college, this is also the case for those who are employed, this is also the most read by those who are women, working with children. This proves that the magazine shows real life situations, women may read this in order for advice and help. 

Unit 57 - Photography - Photojournalism

Photojournalism 

The Task 

The objective for this task is to record information from a documentary about a photojournalist, we are to pick out important information about the facts and ideas about photojournalism in itself, we are to record the positives and negatives about the concept of photojournalism, this will help me to learn the concepts about the skill in itself, through the course of the photography unit, this information and this learning will help me immensely in order to be successful when completing my work. 

What is Photojournalism? 

Photojournalism is a form of journalism through images, editing and presenting pictures, the images are mainly used in order to tell a story, for example to present and show information within the news. Photojournalism can be used also to document and event which has happened, photos can show the emotions and also to show stages within an event. Photojournalism records specific moments in order to share to the world, this is something which can be used to record scenes which no one else will ever see in their lifetime. It is a very interesting way to look at the news, this can be better for people to learn about the world news through a creative concept. 

Pro's About Photojournalsim

- Photographers can work from anywhere in order to collect newsworthy images about what is happening in the world. 

- The career is very imaginative and creative. 

- People can visualise what is happening in the news, this is straight to the point. 

- By seeing picture hows that the facts are true. 

- As a photographer you can chose what to do in a free way, you can capture things that make you interested. 

Con's About Photojournalism

- There may be a decline with photojournalism as the newspaper industry is slowly declining in popularity. This is due to a fast growing electronic market.

- To become a successful photojournalist, you need experience within the media field and have previous knowledge about photography and the media. 

My Personal Relationship with Photography

I use photography a lot, in many ways and when I do every day things. I take photography A-Level as one of my chosen subjects, I have always been very passionate about photography i am constantly snapping away when I come across something interesting. Not only do I use photography in an academic way, I use it everyday with fun things. For example I will take selfies with me and my friends to record good memories in which we can look back on in the future. I also just take pictures in order to capture the good and accurate scenes in which I come across. I personally love photography as it is something which I enjoy as it is so interesting yet a creative hobby and thing to do. 

My Personal Response with Photojournalism

Photojournalism is a very interesting way to view the news and the stories happening around the world. When I look in the newspapers I look at the images news to the articles, they show the information in a clearer way as you can visualise what is going on, the images are good to back up the stories within the newspapers. Photos are easier to understand and they are straight to the point in some ways is shows that the information is true, as you are seeing it first hand within the image. I think photojournalism is a very good way to document a story, I have made photo journals before to document my memories, I find this a very good way to present my images in a meaningful way, most of my images have a story behind them.

How will this help me in the future of this course?

As we are studying photography, photojournalism will be a great part in order to successfully pass and complete this course. It is very good to research into this as it will give me a heads up with this task, I would have already  gained the knowledge in order to complete the tasks I am given. As I find photojournalism and photography as a whole very interesting, I feel I will do better as I enjoy the subject in order to do well in it.

Unit 57 - Photography - History

The History of Photography 

Task 

The objective for this task was to find information about photography and the history behind the different elevations of photography, it is very interesting to find out pieces of information which have impacted in the photographic world. In order to do well with a photography project, finding out about the history behind different elements will give me the knowledge to do better within my work, detailed facts will inspire me to write about different information regarding the art of photography. It is also important to include my personal statements and responses to photography as this shows a personal response about myself and my attitude towards photography.

The History...

The first photograph was taken in 1826-1827. It is known as the 'surviving photograph', this photograph was taken by Joseph Nicéphore, this picture shows the view from an upstairs window at Niepce's estate, which was called Le Gras in the region of France. This had started off the industry of photography.

 

This is a image of the first photograph.


In 1877 the first photographic photo in colour was printed on paper by Louis Ducos du H. This was a very big event in the world of photography as this made everyone see the real captured picture within the image as it was shown in colour. Since 1877 onwards pictures were shown and presented in colour, this was good for artists photography and the world of art.





The first polaroid camera was introduced February 21st 1947. Polaroids were camera which instantly printed the picture in which you had captured, these camera were very good as people could access their images quickly instead of going into a photography developing shop. Polaroids later on were made in different shapes and styles, this made the camera more modern.  Today Polaroids are coming back into fashion and are being used more and more



Steven Sasson as an engineer at Eastman Kodak invented and built the first electronical camera using a charged- couple device image sensor in 1975. This was a very big invention in the photography industry as photographers were able to carry and camera around will them everywhere, they could then review their images after they had taken them, unlike the old fashion undeveloped camera in the previous years. Today there are many different makes of electronic cameras and different sizes and shapes, they are very popular in this day and age.



My Relationship with Photography

I personally have a big interest with photography, I am taking photography A-Level and am enjoying it I love the fact that I can present my work and show off my photographs in which I have taken, I use many different ways to capture and different ways to present my images. Photography is very special as I can record my own personal experiences and record them on one camera or even on my phone. My phone is very easy to access and therefore makes it easier to quickly record moments in which I see.

My pictures mean a lot to me as I can record memories of my family and I, and review them in later years. I can share my images to other people on social media and then receive comments about them. Photography online is very powerful as you can see what other people are doing and can review everything you have taken yourself.

Selfies

Many people these days take many "Selfies", I personally taken many selfies. A "Selfie" is a picture taken from your front face camera on a phone, it is a picture of yourself and the moment happening around you, this is a fun way to record moments, this can be used as evidence of you being present in area where you recorded a moment. A "Selfie" can record moment of yourself with a group of people in order to share with others, Thai type of photography is a bit of fun and people will use this for their emjoyment.

How will this help you in the vulture of this course? 

After researching in more depth about the history of photography, I have gained a greater understanding about how photography has changed from years ago and compared to now. In order to make good reference to previous times, it is good that I know about how images were produced. By researching into this really does give me the extra knowledge into doing well within this course