Some of them looked like planets.įor my next experiment I needed some sun because I wanted to make normal shadows look abstract.
This is because they made irregular patterns. I decided to use the 'Lighten' tool rather than change the opacity. After I made these I decided to merge some of them over each-other in Photoshop. Some look like tyres, this one looks like a button. I felt that this way worked better because this way you could see a better detail of the batteries condition also the batteries were more abstract at this angle because some of them don't look like batteries. So I decided to rephotograph them but this time I got photos of the top of the battery. However I felt that these photos didn't really show a pattern between the batteries. At first I just got a normal shot of the side of the battery. I wanted to show if there was any patterns of colours, shape or even condition of the battery. LO2: Experimenting & Refiningįor my 1st photo-shoot I decided to make a typology of batteries. However as you would expect that never materialised. Sir even said that maybe I should make contact with a former Tallis student who had a pilots license. So he asked me to look at Coburn's pictures which were taken in the air and to make comparisons between the 2. When I was make the abstract photograms, sir said to me they look like ariel photographs. The final photographer I looked at is Alvin Langdon Coburn. I never got around to getting photos like this because I really didn't know how I could effectively make images similar to this. I was fascinated how he managed to turn this image which was packed with subjects into an image of a quiet and empty river. I really liked his manipulated Rhein II image. Another photographer that I looked at is Andreas Gurksy. However I've never been that confident with getting photos of people, even though the images aren't staged. I really liked his work where he wanted to show a pattern between the clothes that people wear, whether their Rolling Stones fans, carrying a shopping bag or if their wearing a yellow jacket. I did plan to do a photo-shoot like this around Canary Wharf and focus on subjects like people wearing a certain colour tie or wearing a certain colour suit. Firstly I looked at the work of Hans Eijkelboom who is another typologist photographer. There was some photographers that I researched which never lead to any photo-shoots. Blossfeldts work inspired me to get close up photos of natural forms which was later on lead to the majority of my responses. For around half of the images I said to myself is that real, that has got to be a sculpture. Karl Blossfeldt took extreme close up macro shots of natural forms which often made me question the existence of the subject. At first I looked at Blossfeldt because I was very aware of Cunningham already from both AS and GCSE photography.
However when I mentioned natural forms I was pointed in the direction of Imogen Cunningham and Karl Blossfeldt. I must say that not much work came from the Courti research because to be able to get the shots like he did I would need a proper macro lens or even a telescope to be able to get up close and personal with a leaf. After I looked at Courti I was struggling to think of other photographers to look at. The next photographer that I looked at was Benoit Courti who took super close up images of live natural forms like leaves.
For example this image that Strand took, he has got the abstract shadows which are being shone onto the table because the sun has gone through a fence. Strand tended to get photos where the subject was created by gaps in buildings and fences and other man made structures. Next I looked at Paul Strand with his abstract shadows. They would go around and photograph buildings that weren't being used anymore. The first photographer I looked at is Bernd and Hilla Becher, I really liked there typologies of the decaying German industrial industry. When I received the exam paper I decided to go with the theme of Patterns.