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Creative ideas with your mobile
Creative ideas with your mobile
Whilst you are not in school we are going to still push on with developing your creativity in your images. The only camera that you need is a mobile phone camera but if you have a DSLR then that would be fine also.
The purpose of this project is for you to develop your creativity and knowledge and understanding of how light can work to your advantage. Below are a few You Tube videos to help you with your creativity and ideas but dont be afraid to come up with your own ideas. The more creative the better.
There is a google slide in your classroom titled LOCKDOWN PROJECTS. This is where this work will go.
One project should have the following in it so that it can cover all 4 assessment outcomes (AOs)
You must introduce the project, what you are going to do and importantly why you are going to do it. (Don't say '....because we have to...' or ' its part of the coursework....'. Think like a photographer.
Take images of the equipment you have used and how you have set it up
Take a small collection of images (min 12) of what you are trying to achieve.
Use the Photoshop app on your phone (it can be downloaded for free) See image on the right.
Screen shot each time your make a change on your image....This will be your print screens
Put your final image onto a separate slide.
Evaluate your final image using the support materials available from this website. Give us much detail as you possibly can so as this will be the only annotation you will do....MAKE IT COUNT!
Once you have done one project then try another idea with your phone. The more projects you do the more marks you will get for developing your ideas (AO1) and collecting images (AO3).
Project 1 - Reflections (To be completed by the end of the lesson)
Project 1 - Reflections (To be completed by the end of the lesson)
Project 2- Jan Von Holleben - Dreams of Flying
Project 2- Jan Von Holleben - Dreams of Flying
“I once ruled the worlds. Not just one, but many. I ruled them with mirrors and lenses. I ruled them with light and shadow and time. Sometimes I ruled with a trick of the eye. Through my camera, an entire cosmos took shape, and each world within it seemed to operate by a certain unfamiliar logic, like a sort of magical clockwork.”
Born in 1977 and brought up in the southern German countryside, Jan von Holleben lived most of his youth in an alternative commune and identifies a strong connection between the development of his photographic work and the influence of his parents, a cinematographer and child therapist. At the age of 13, he followed his father’s photographic career by picking up a camera and experimenting with all sorts of „magical tricks“, developing his photographic imagination and skills with friends and family and later honing his technique in commercial settings. After pursuing studies in teaching children with disabilities at the Pädagogische Hochschule in Freiburg, he moved to London, earned a degree in the Theory and History of Photography at Surrey Institute of Art and Design, and became submerged within the London photographic scene, where he worked as picture editor, art director and photographic director. He quickly set up two photographic collectives, Young Photographers United and photodebut, followed more recently by the Photographer’s Office. His body of photographic work focusing on the ‘homo ludens’ – the man who learns through play, is itself built from a playful integration of pedagogical theory with his own personal experiences of play and memories of childhood.
Jan von Holleben’s work has been exhibited internationally and published widely throughout the world.
His favourite collaborators are: his friends and any pirates, fairies, dragons, monsters and punks that are about.
Otherwise he greatly fancies loads of cups of fresh herbal tea, Bircher Müsli, colourful socks, his bike, long swims and walking in the mountains, Yo yo yo!
Task - To create a similar image with items from within your house.
Task - To create a similar image with items from within your house.
Top tip: Always have your phone DIRECT above the image you want to take NOT at an angle.
Top tip: Always have your phone DIRECT above the image you want to take NOT at an angle.
Have your background plane but choose different back grounds to create different scenes.
Have your background plane but choose different back grounds to create different scenes.
BE CREATIVE!!!
BE CREATIVE!!!
Project 3 - TOY Photography
Project 3 - TOY Photography
Toy photography is taking photos with toys. In other words, the goal isn’t to take product shots of toys, but rather to use toys to create images that tell a larger story. Toys become the medium for the art.
The specific toys used by toy photographers are wide and varied. There are some toy photographers that use Pop! Funko figures with their exaggerated head sizes, dollar store army men and figures designed for railroad model sets. Some toy photographers even make their own figures. However, by far the most common types of toys that are used are LEGO Minifigures and 6” action figures. Sometimes both at the same time.
The type of toy models used affects the general mood of the images. LEGO Minifigures are designed to be lighthearted. Even Minifigures based on evil characters like Darth Vader end up having a lighthearted childlike feel to them. As a result, the images produced with LEGO also tend to be more innocent and lighthearted.
However, it is possible to make more realistic images with LEGO. Personally, I find that to be one of the most interesting aspects of toy photography — pushing the toys beyond their original style into new areas.
The trade off between LEGO and action figures is that of realism. While LEGO minifigs all look very similar to each other, action figures are designed to be more realistic. This means it is easier to create realistic scenes with action figures than LEGO.
Shooting toys offers a lot of unique opportunities for the photographer, both new and experienced. The most important one being the ability to create Hollywood style photos on a shoestring budget. LEGO Minifigures can be obtained in collectors series packs for $4 USD, or second hand from sites like Brink Link for $5-10 (though the more rare figures can go for upward of $100) Action figures from the Star Wars Universe, Marvel Cinematic Universe, the DC Extended Universe and most other titles, are cheap and readily available. They range from $10-$500, with most in the $15-$25 range. Both of my action figure lines of choice, Star Wars Black Series and the Marvel Legends collection, offer quality 6” figures with a lot of detail and articulation, for less than $20 for most figures.
These action figures can be used to create very realistic scenes, like this one with the Black Series Darth Vader, some fake snow and the addition of a lightsaber glow in Photoshop.
Along with the cheap price of models, the equipment is cheap too. Almost any camera will suffice, from the fanciest DSLR to the average cellphone camera will work. In fact, sometimes a cellphone camera works best as it can get into angles that larger cameras can’t. For close-ups of LEGO Minifigures a macro lens does help, but the much cheaper option of extension tubes or macro lens filters often do the job just as well.
Lighting requirements are also cheap. Many scenes can easily be lit by any flashlight or desk lamps. For example, the scene below was shot with a 55mm lens with an extension tube and one $5 tactical LED flashlight
ACTIVITY
1.Watch these videos. They can be found on the GCSE Photography website or here.
Create 2 slides
Slide 1 - Showcase a collection of Toy Photography images
Slide 2- With a couple of images on the slide explain what the idea is behind toy photography and say what you are going to do in your project.
2.Using ANY toys that you have create a collection of science that look real.
TOP TIPS
You will need to get very low down to make the images look real and authentic otherwise you are just taking images on the floor.
Project 4 Jan Groover
Project 4 Jan Groover
In the early 1970s, after years spent painting, artist Jan Groover turned to photography. "With photography I didn’t have to make things up,” she said, explaining the change of medium. “Everything was already there.”1
But Groover’s experience as a painter remains present: her photographs reference the histories of painting and photography. Some of her earliest photographic works are diptychs and triptychs, forms made popular in medieval and Renaissance art, though her street scene subjects are unquestionably more modern (moving cars passing by in a blur, suburban houses, and windows of empty storefronts). Groover’s primary focus—one that she returned to throughout her career—was the still life, a subject long practiced by painters. Her still lives evoke the work of Paul Cézanne and Giorgio Morandi, but her roots in minimalism are apparent, too. The carefully arranged tableaux of bottles, utensils, and various fruits and vegetables showcase Groover’s dedication to formal composition. The shadows, reflections, and the sumptuous colors of the staged objects and their surroundings create dramatic, mysterious scenes that leave us wondering whether the recognizable objects are actually figments of our imagination.
It is also significant that Groover often made the choice to shoot color film. Early color photography pioneers of the 1970s were still trying to legitimize their place in the art world, and in the art market, which had traditionally valued black-and-white photographs over color. Many people at that time associated color work with commercial photography or with snapshots taken by amateurs, but Groover helped it to be recognized as art. On the occasion of Groover’s solo exhibition at MoMA in 1987, critic Andy Grundberg wrote in the New York Times, “In 1978 an exhibition of her dramatic still-life photographs of objects in her kitchen sink caused a sensation. When one appeared on the cover of Artforum magazine, it was a signal that photography had arrived in the art world—complete with a marketplace to support it.”2
In the late 1970s, Groover turned to the photographic method of platinum-palladium, a time-consuming black-and-white process that was popular a hundred years earlier, in the 1870s. This process had been made all but obsolete by faster, cheaper darkroom processes in the the wake of World War I. Groover’s return to this slower process added to her thoughtful arrangement of still life scenes, many of which she shot with large-format view cameras, which had also fallen into disuse with the innovation of more compact, lightweight cameras. In Groover’s photographs, every element is seemingly carefully controlled and constructed, including composition, lighting, and scale. Her deliberate constructions harken back to her painterly sensibilities, but her devotion to the medium of photography is equally apparent.
Project 5 - Abstract colorful images
Project 5 - Abstract colorful images
Activity
Activity
Slide 1 - Talk about the images you are going to copy
Slide 2- What is your opinion on the images and what will you take from these ideas and put into your own
Slide 3- What equipment are you going to use and how are you going to do this project.
Using a camera phone, tablet or even a TV if you can put a see through object (Glass, Ashtray, Bowl) onto the tablet / phone.
You must make sure that the room is dark so that there are no other subjects or light in the shot.
You need to go onto the internet to find some creative and very colorful images. Below is a link for the page full of images you could use.
Place the see -through object onto the phone/tablet. Using another phone take the image. then edit the images using any editing tool you want, to make the colours come alive and pop out.
You can be creative with the final images by adding an image and flipping it to create a new and interesting abstract image.
Example of work
Example of work
Project 6- Repetition Photography
Project 6- Repetition Photography
Activity
Activity
Slide 1 - Talk about the images you are going to copy
Slide 2- What is your opinion on the images and what will you take from these ideas and put into your own
Slide 3- What equipment are you going to use and how are you going to do this project.
Photograph images from around your kitchen that shows repetition.
This could be food, or kitchen utensils....its up to you but be as creative as possible
TOP TIP: Make sure you fill the frame with the image....NOTHING AROUND THE OUTSIDE. SEE EXAMPLE IMAGES!
TOP TIP: Make sure you fill the frame with the image....NOTHING AROUND THE OUTSIDE. SEE EXAMPLE IMAGES!
My Example from this morning
My Example from this morning
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