During the multiple images research I discovered a photographer named Seung Hoon Park. His original technique of cutting two images into strips and then weaving them together was the main inspiration for my final image of multiple images. However, unlike Park I used faces not buildings. My idea was to have the same face but two different emotions in each photograph, then when I wove the two together the emotions would overlap into one. This, along with inspiring my multiple images final image, inspired all my future ideas about photography. For example I don’t normally use one image for one piece of work, I try and use photos that compliment each other with: colours, textures or shapes. This way I don’t have to rely on one image to express how I feel; more pictures allow more room to work. Another artist I researched was Keld Helmer-Petersen. His work was focused on the mundane elements of everyday life, making them exciting and unusual. This is also something I try and do whenever I take photographs, especially when working with abstraction, because it makes me look at everything in a new and creative way. Petersen has had a significant influence on my work because of the way he captures certain feelings and thoughts from anything he sees, which made me realise that I don’t have to find interesting things to have interesting photographs and I can make normal things interesting with my gradually developing skills.
For me, texture and colour are the most successful themes I have explored because I have enjoyed experimenting with lots of different techniques in order to refine my understanding of photography. For example, my final images for the Abstraction project were inspired by Lewis Baltz’s work, but I wanted to use colour more (he only really uses black and white).
During unit one I have used many different techniques, processes and materials. For example, when making cyanotypes and photograms I used the darkroom and experimented with different amounts of time and objects. Also in multiple images, drawing with light and camera obscura, I learnt about how to use the camera itself to change the image in different ways. For example, when we were studying drawing with light we learnt how to make the exposure longer when taking a photo which meant we could capture movement over a long period of time. And when we were studying multiple images we used Photoshop to combine images together, using tutorials to develop our skills. Another example comes from moving images when we embedded gifs and stop motions on our sites, as well as making our own. On top of all of this, we further refined our skills with all the available equipment like: studio lighting, tripods, iPads, iPhones (for apps like Hipstamatic) etc.
For me, texture and colour are the most successful themes I have explored because I have enjoyed experimenting with lots of different techniques in order to refine my understanding of photography. For example, my final images for the Abstraction project were inspired by Lewis Baltz’s work, but I wanted to use colour more (he only really uses black and white).
During unit one I have used many different techniques, processes and materials. For example, when making cyanotypes and photograms I used the darkroom and experimented with different amounts of time and objects. Also in multiple images, drawing with light and camera obscura, I learnt about how to use the camera itself to change the image in different ways. For example, when we were studying drawing with light we learnt how to make the exposure longer when taking a photo which meant we could capture movement over a long period of time. And when we were studying multiple images we used Photoshop to combine images together, using tutorials to develop our skills. Another example comes from moving images when we embedded gifs and stop motions on our sites, as well as making our own. On top of all of this, we further refined our skills with all the available equipment like: studio lighting, tripods, iPads, iPhones (for apps like Hipstamatic) etc.