Lens Media: March 2015

Tuesday, 31 March 2015

Experimenting

I noticed the shadows on the wall as I walked into the plaza. I was in awe. I just love how light and shadow work together.

What's working? I have taken pictures of the shadows from different view points.

What's not working? I still have to work on my angles a bit more.

What's next? Take photographs of other kinds of shadows. Think of other techniques I could use to take and out in the photograph.

I see windows, frame, shadow, plant, walkway, fire extinguisher, handle bar.

Surface Research

Uta Barths photography is not about what is seen in the photograph, it's about the act of seeing. By eliminating the subject matter from the photograph that is. By allowing the photograph to be set in a setting that is both unknown and aware of. She uses techniques such as blur, shadow and are filled with emptiness which show no subject to the photograph. Barth takes the subject out of the photograph, turning the viewer into the subject because the photograph is no longer about what is in the photograph it is about the act of looking at the photograph.

I feel like Uta Barth is an artist that has inspired me to become a photographer. The techniques and ideas that show through her work is something I like and can relate to. I like to take photographs of objects that don't really mean anything but the way it is shown and reflected is amazing. When a light, shadow or a reflection is on a object. It's unique to me and I feel like it's more than just an object,which has meaning and purpose.

Resource: http://www.utata.org/sundaysalon/uta-barth/

Uta Barth

Experimentation

I have decided to take pictures of light switches at home as it relates to my subject, light & shadow. Light switches provide light by electricity.

In-Depth Research

"In building wiring, a light switch is a switch, most commonly used to operate electric lights, permanently connected equipment, or electrical outlets. Portable lamps such as table lamps will have a light switch mounted on the socket, base, or in-line with the cord. Manually operated on/off switches may be substituted by remote control switches, or light dimmers that allow controlling the brightness of lamps as well as turning them on or off. Light switches are also found in flashlights and automobiles and other vehicles."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_switch

What is working? The first picture of the light switch is portrait so I decided to face the camera portrait, so that when I take the picture it, too, will be portrait. I did the same process to the second light switch, where I faced the camera landscape as the light switch is landscape. I wanted to do this (facing the camera portrait and landscape) because it seemed like a good idea and it seems easier to view the picture as well. It flows, I guess. The wallpaper is working with the object too, I think.

What's not working? The amount of space from the edge of the photo to the object is uneven, which annoys me. The way the light switch and background looks is annoying too, it's dirty.

What's next? Keep experimenting with other things related to light and shadow. Take a lot of pictures. Make sure that when I take a photograph I am ready to take it, where to position my camera, where the object will be, if I'm happy with how the object is positioned, how it looks, how the object will look when the photo is taken. Work on the other learning outcomes too.

Monday, 30 March 2015

Experimentation

I have started to take pictures of light and shadow. I have tried to relate it to Uta Barths work, shown below, with the couch and the shadow of the window.

What is working? The light and shadow showed up nicely and made its form.

What's not working? I think the way the photograph is taken is not working. I'm standing in the wrong position. I just roughly took the picture with no idea of how I was going to take it. I also think the colour is not working.

What's next? Take different kinds of shadow forms from different vantage points. Plan out where I will be standing and know what to add and not to add into the photograph.

Uta Barth

Camera Task: Texture

Sunday, 29 March 2015

Camera Task: Lines

Class Task: Repetition & Pattern

Class Task: Repetition, out of place

Monday, 23 March 2015

Surface Research

Journal of Contemporary Art. An interview with Sheryl Conkelton and Uta Barth.

http://www.jca-online.com/barth.html

Surface Research

https://lifesimages.wordpress.com/author/crash8088/

http://galleryhip.com/light-and-shadow.html

Photographs that show light and shadow in colour.

I see colour, windows, shadows, squares, shapes, repetition.

Camera Activities

Cropped Image

Original Un-cropped Image

Rule of Thirds

Rule of Thirds with the grid

Sunday, 22 March 2015

Surface Research

Artist: Semmick Photo
Description: Light and shadow in an abandoned building
Uploaded: April 28th, 2012

Artist: Andre Kertesz
Description: Fork
Date: 1928 in Paris

I really love light and shadow photographs. I like how you can capture an image that shows so much composition like light and shadow as well as repetition, depth of field, form etc.

Evaluation: I see light, shadow, repetition, black and white, windows, solid ground, space, plate, fork

Week 4

Photoshop Masking Task

Original Picture

Photoshop Picture

Quick selection tool
Colour squares: Top: Black Bottom: White
Red=Masking

Select
Save Selection
Copy and paste

Monday, 16 March 2015

Inspired work by Uta Barth

Photographs take by Uta Barth, above.

I really like how Uta Barth takes her photographs. I like the techniques that she uses like angles, lighting, repetition etc. I like how she captures light, shadow and reflection into her photographs as I, too, am interested in photographic process and characteristics like that. The photographs I have taken, shown below, are similar to the way she takes her photographs as I am inspired by her work.

Photographs taken by me, below.

Paper Plane Experiment

We got given 4 pieces of A4 paper, with these pieces of paper we had to make paper planes. While making the first plane we had to find what was working and what wasn't working so that we were able to make a second paper plane more improved than our first paper plane. By experimenting the different planes that were made we will be able to find out what's working and what isn't working so that we are able to fix and improve our finalised model and move on to the next step.

What worked?
The form of the plane was right but nothing really worked well for it.

What didn't work?
Each plane I did seemed to get worse. Each plane that was thrown didn't go as far as 2 steps. I think what wasn't working was way the plane was made. It wasn't strong enough and the edges were blunt.

What's next?
Keep experimenting and experimenting until it is 'fit to fly', I guess.

Bridge

I learnt more about Bridge today. Bridge is a File Management System. It has the same options, links and features as other systems like Photoshop and Adobe InDesign. I will be able to use Bridge in the future to access my folders and files. I also have learnt how to connect to a device on the computer that I have connected to through the computer.

Sunday, 15 March 2015

Surface Research

Uta Barth

Uta Barth

Uta Barth (born 1958 in Berlin, Germany) is a contemporary photographer who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Education and Teaching
Barth received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of California, Davis and a master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles. From 1990 to 2008, she was a professor of art emeritus. After receiving the MacArthur Fellowship in October 2012, she noted that she still plans to teach on a part-time basis because teaching forces her to "put language to" what she is thinking.

In-Depth Research

The University of California, Davis (also referred to as UCD, UC Davis, or Davis), is a public research university located in Davis, California, just west of Sacramento.
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public research university located in the Westwood neighbourhood of Los Angeles, California, United States
The MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Fellowship, or "Genius Grant" is a prize awarded every year by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. It is awarded to 20-40 individuals who are working in any field, who "show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work" and are citizens or residents of the United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uta_Barth

Uta Barth

Bumper Sticker

Everything we do has a purpose whether it is good or bad. Speak truthfully so that when you are evaluating, people will be able to change what needs to be fixed and not be offended by it.