Thursday, 29 March 2012
David Hockney Tate Britain November 2009
This is a small video showing some of David's work in the Tate gallery in November 2009. Its shows some of his work that we have been looking at in photography and trying to come up with some of our own work.
At the start, you see a piece of his work that is made up of smaller pieces and this is the sort of work we were looking at in lesson. Most pieces he has done are paintings and he has only recently started to make some of his work using video cameras and cameras.
I found it hard trying to do the 6 smaller images to make a bigger one as even though they didn't have to be perfectly lined up, i found most of the images i took were really out of place and sometimes the larger images wasn't that clear.
Hockney Wolds 9 Cameras
David used nine video camera's in this video rather than camera's that took still images so we could see the build up of the image through these nine different videos. However they didn't vary to much, each video was of the same place in a different season.
Each video was a few seconds out from the others but the lining up of them all was really good and gave us a clear image of the bigger picture.
Photography evaluation
Through the course, we have been asked to do practical work and written work. I have enjoyed the practical work through out the course , learning new things. The written work is were we had to speak about what we did during the practical lessons, explaining what we used and what we did.
We had to explain in great detail about our times in the studio or outside of college. Like what was used in the lessons such as a tripod , both in and outside of the studio, using a canon 5d/500d to take the images. We learned how to make images better by learning which locations were better. Depending on the time of day, the natural source of light outside could be used well.
In the studio we learned the right amount of light we had could be adjusted by using certain lights. I enjoyed being in the studio even though i think i could have joined in the activities a bit more like when we were in the studio using coloured torches to draw pictures in the air. I didn't really join in that much during this lesson but i did have a go at taking some of the images during that lesson.
At first, i wasn't sure how to explain some of the lessons when we had to write on the blog. But over time i learned that we had to explain as much about what we did both in and out of the studio to show that we had an understanding of what we were doing.
I went back and made some of the written work i did, better and more detailed than before like explaining what we used more and how we used them.
The images we took outside, we were either in pairs which i enjoyed or a small group or the whole group would be taking photos of each other, depending what task was given, we would take pictures of things or places, learning which places would make for better images. Like if the place was crowded or if it was empty. Or which places were better for the sources of natural light or places we would need our own source of light.
I found the lesson we did outside near the church a a group a little hard as i didn't have much understanding of the equipment at the time or how to know how much light you needed or how to get the right amount. But during further lessons, i learned this.
I have enjoyed all the work done in photography and learning new things. There was a lot of skills i learned. I prefer photography than animation even though i do like animation but photography is something that i find captures something meaningful as well as pretty.
There is nothing outstanding that i thought i could have done better. Everything seemed to have gone well and i think i managed to keep track of the work and keep up to date with most of my work.
We had to explain in great detail about our times in the studio or outside of college. Like what was used in the lessons such as a tripod , both in and outside of the studio, using a canon 5d/500d to take the images. We learned how to make images better by learning which locations were better. Depending on the time of day, the natural source of light outside could be used well.
In the studio we learned the right amount of light we had could be adjusted by using certain lights. I enjoyed being in the studio even though i think i could have joined in the activities a bit more like when we were in the studio using coloured torches to draw pictures in the air. I didn't really join in that much during this lesson but i did have a go at taking some of the images during that lesson.
At first, i wasn't sure how to explain some of the lessons when we had to write on the blog. But over time i learned that we had to explain as much about what we did both in and out of the studio to show that we had an understanding of what we were doing.
I went back and made some of the written work i did, better and more detailed than before like explaining what we used more and how we used them.
The images we took outside, we were either in pairs which i enjoyed or a small group or the whole group would be taking photos of each other, depending what task was given, we would take pictures of things or places, learning which places would make for better images. Like if the place was crowded or if it was empty. Or which places were better for the sources of natural light or places we would need our own source of light.
I found the lesson we did outside near the church a a group a little hard as i didn't have much understanding of the equipment at the time or how to know how much light you needed or how to get the right amount. But during further lessons, i learned this.
I have enjoyed all the work done in photography and learning new things. There was a lot of skills i learned. I prefer photography than animation even though i do like animation but photography is something that i find captures something meaningful as well as pretty.
There is nothing outstanding that i thought i could have done better. Everything seemed to have gone well and i think i managed to keep track of the work and keep up to date with most of my work.
Thursday, 22 March 2012
Adde Adesokan
This is an image of what we were trying to do with some of the photos we took in the studio. It an image built up of someones head, middle and feet. But the idea of this one was that not all of them are the same distance. Some are close ups are what are being taken and some are further away.
This is what we tried to do in the studio to mix it all up a little.
In most of the images we took, the middle photo always had something going on. Like we would have our hands in our coat pockets or in front of us, even behind our backs. Where as the other two images were just of our face and out feet.
This one is slightly different as this person is on a bike and the photographer has taken a picture of his feet with the man on his bike.
David Hockney work
We have done something similar to this in class but rather than using lots of images, we used only 6 images that built up an image. I find the lining up the photos hard but the whole idea was to make sure that they only lined up a little. As you see in the image above , they all don't line up and you can see that there slightly out of place.
But even though they are, you can see the bigger image. This is what the whole idea was so it didn't matter if it was slightly out of place.
Thursday, 8 March 2012
Bus Stop
This is 6 images of a bus stop that we took. The 6 images would join up to make up a bigger image. The pictures didn't have to match, the whole idea was for them to not match up. Just as long as they were in the same area as the other images.
Me and Jordan took it in turns to do images like these, 6 shots of something in front of us. Then we would take them to photo shop to join them together like we have done in the image above. We found places with things that stood still like trees and houses were the best places to take photo's. In this image, the red bus showed movement and probably the most eye catching part of the image.
They gave you an idea of how each photo measured up so they weren't to different from each other. We didn't want them to out of place.
Places like parks were the easiest but at times , there was nothing going on in the park and this made the image boring to look at. It wouldn't show that each photo was different if it was of a field so it had to have something in it, even if it was just something small.
Thursday, 1 March 2012
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