Visual Process Diary – CAVA 224
Class Exercise: Camera Review
Image 1
Image 2
Image 3
Image 4
Image 5
Class Exercise 2
Contact Sheet
Through making a contact sheet I was able to decide which images I was going to use to make a Hockney Joiner.
Editing Photos Review
To edit this image I did a basic edit in adobe camera raw within photoshop. To edit this image I start with a basic edit of the exposure to bring back the highlights due to the slight over-exposure. I also made an adjustment to the hue of the blues and greens to my creative style.
Proof Sheet
Hockney Joiner
Visual Research
David Hockney
David Hockney, born 9 July 1937 is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century.
In the images above (Hockney Joiners) you can see the multiple angles, focal lengths, and framing taken within each photograph had been collaged and overlapped to make a new image and meaning to the work. This aspect of the photo is quite intriguing to me as it provides the idea of seeing a certain scene from a different perspective and allows the audience to stroll with their eyes over the entire work as they are broken down into specific images.
Paola Franqui
Puerto Rican-born street photographer living outside of New York City specializing in visual storytelling. She has her BA in Criminal Justice from Rutgers University and has over 5 years of experience working with brands. What started as a hobby grew to become Paola’s passion, and it has changed her life in ways she never could have imagined.
This combined with her chosen digital editing and colouring of her photos is a very notable aspect of her work, and will inspire my own editing techniques.
Jan Dibbets
Dutch artist who works mainly with photography. Born in Weert. Trained as an art teacher at the Tilburg Academy 1959-63 and studied painting with Jan Gregor in Eindhoven 1961-3.
On return to Holland, settled in Amsterdam and began to make ‘Plough Projects’, ‘Beach Projects’ etc., followed by his first ‘Perspective Corrections’. Started in 1967 to use photography to create a dialogue between nature and cool geometrical design by rotating the camera on its axis, taking a series of photographs systematically increasing the shutter speed, etc.
In the above works, the changing of the horizon is quite a common and very noticeable aspect and has inspired me to take my own twist on this effect within my own work.
This combined with chosen digital editing and colouring of her photos is a very notable aspect of her work and will inspire my own editing techniques.
Location Scouting
Contact Sheet
By creating a contact sheet after my location shoot I’m able to look at all the images and decide on which images are the correct exposure and highlight the ones that need to be adjusted in post-editing for my images to look similar and not look out of place in my series.
Editing Images
To edit my chosen images, I would first organize my photos in lightroom in the order of the contact sheet. Secondly, I would adjust all of the images that I have identified on the contact sheet to the correct exposures, Thirdly I applied a preset that I have already made previously. Lastly, I adjusted any images that look slightly off and export them all into a separate folder.
InDesign
Firstly I would start by creating a grid layout for the number of images I was going to include in my series (24 images). Secondly, I would use the rectangle tool to draw out where my images will go and turn off the stroke width and shape colour. Thirdly I placed the images within the squares I drew and change the fitting to (Fill Content Proportionally) and adjusted slightly for the look I was trying to achieve. Finally, I exported the A3 document to a high-resolution image (12) with 300 PPI
Final Work
Sublime View
Class Exercise – College Exercise
Photoshop Skills – Photo Montage
Major Project Plan
What is your aim or the issue(s) you wish to engage with for the project? What is important to you? What is the concept? For example issues of identity, immigration, and climate change (to name but a few).
- Natural Beauty
- Ocean Landscapes (Connection to the beach),
- Traditional Landscapes/Grand Vistas
- Natural Beauty
- Ocean Landscapes (Connection to the beach),
- Nature
- Portraits
- Showing Time
- Colour Differences
- Identity
What photographic form will you employ? Refer to the lecture series. For example, will it be a photo assemblage, montage, collage or series in printed format?
- Photo assemblage
Final project form. What form do you envisage the final submission taking? How many images? How might this be presented for exhibition/ submission? A2 or A3?
- Two A2 pages printed in landscape form and pined side by side.
References (minimum of 3 artists). What photographers/artists are informing your approach, both in photographic form and issues/content.
- HIROSHI SUGIMOTO (his abstract work of the ocean)
- Ansel Adams
- Jan Dibbets
Outline your shooting plan:
– Where/location(s)
– When (what weeks of class)
– How (photographic approach, resources needed, production issues)
Where: Wollongong/Sydney
When: Week 10, Week 12, Week 13
How: I will use my own equipment, which will consist of my Sony A73, 24-70mm F4 lens and a 55mm 1.8 lens and a tripod as I will be doing long exposures.
Research
Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams was born in February 1902 in San Francisco and is famously known for his landscape photography and known to be an environmentalist who used his art to capture on film rare sights. His fame continually grew through his works of Yosemite National Park and his black and white photos of landscapes, He was also a co-founder of developing the Zone System, a tool to figure out the exact exposure and contrast of the image. The clarity produced by his photos played a pivotal role in the field of the fine arts world and his work is still relevant even today even though his work came to a finish with his death in 1984.
Ansel’s precision and meticulous attention to his composition and use of light and contrast in his photography is one characteristic that I am particularly inspired to implement into my own major work on this subject. Another aspect of his work that I would love to add to my major work would be his practice of pin-sharp focus throughout the entire image as well as using black and white as a colour option for my work. I have also always been into traditional landscape photography and have practised it throughout my years of learning photography. I also see potential to combine modern photo editing techniques and my own style to build upon his works.
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
Born in 1948 and raised in Tokyo, Hiroshi Sugimoto is a photographer originally from Japan. He studies sociology and politics at Rikkyō University in the same city he grew up in. In 1974, he acquired Bachelor in Fine Arts degree from Los Angeles at the Art Center College of Design. Later on, he shifted to New York.
Sugimoto’s works are made up of several series with each one being distinctive in its theme. The photographer himself described his work as an expression of exposed time or images that act as capsules of time of a series of occurrences. Moreover, his work focuses on the variance between existence and passing away.
Sugimoto’s work’s especially the ones above have a very surreal aspect to them, as well as giving me a sense of calm in them is one characteristic of this work that particularly interested to bring over to my own work. Another aspect of his work that I would love to add to my major work would be his practice of long exposure to seascapes is really interesting to me as well as using black and white as a colour option for my work.
Jan Dibbets
Dutch artist who works mainly with photography. Born in Weert. Trained as an art teacher at the Tilburg Academy 1959-63 and studied painting with Jan Gregor in Eindhoven 1961-3.
On return to Holland, settled in Amsterdam and began to make ‘Plough Projects’, ‘Beach Projects’ etc., followed by his first ‘Perspective Corrections’. Started in 1967 to use photography to create a dialogue between nature and cool geometrical design by rotating the camera on its axis, taking a series of photographs systematically increasing the shutter speed, etc.
In the above works, the changing of the horizon is quite a common and very noticeable aspect and has inspired me to take my own twist on this effect within my own work.
This combined with chosen digital editing and colouring of her photos is a very notable aspect of her work and will inspire my own editing techniques.
David Tatnall
David Tatnall is an Australian fine art photographer renowned for his luminous images of the Australian Wilderness. He is an authority on large and medium format film photography, as well as pinhole film photography.
“‘The ‘mysterious beauty of the pinhole photographs lies in long exposure times, indefinite depth of field and a softness that creates a unique and special view of the coast.”
“Nothing more than a wooden box has created these beautiful almost ethereal images. A film holder at one end and a minuscule hole at the other, no viewfinder, batteries, click or buzz, no upgrades or updates, and no megapixels. Exposure times are calculated using a cardboard dial.”
Paola Franqui
Puerto Rican-born street photographer living outside of New York City specializing in visual storytelling. She has her BA in Criminal Justice from Rutgers University and has over 5 years of experience working with brands. What started as a hobby grew to become Paola’s passion, and it has changed her life in ways she never could have imagined.
This combined with her chosen digital editing and colouring of her photos is a very notable aspect of her work and will inspire my own editing techniques.
Location Scouting
Week 10 – Images
Concept Dot Points
Seascapes/Wollongong Harbour
- The sublime
- The sublime beauty of nature
- The sea and the air are the building block of life
- Personal attraction/connection to the sea (grown-up surfing)
- Erosion
- Cleansing the soul
- Nostalgia
SeaScapes
Reflection
- Need to clean my camera’s sensor (dirty specs on image)
- Had to do some basic image clean up to get the spots off the image
- Also had to remove the boats I’m the original photo
- Have to reshoot that exact spot on another day/different times
- Play around with high contrast black and white edits
Week 11 – Edit
Reflection
- Need better images to choose from
- Attempted to use photoshop, but Indesign was better
Week 12 – Images
Contact Sheet – Colour
Contact Sheet – Black and White
Editing Images
To edit my chosen images, I would first organize my photos in lightroom in the order of the contact sheet. Secondly, I would adjust all of the images that I have identified on the contact sheet to the correct exposures, Thirdly I applied a preset that I have already made previously. Lastly, I adjusted any images that look slightly off and export them all into a separate folder.
- Touch up
- Used the spot healing brush to clean up the dirty sensor
InDesign
Firstly I would make two boxes within my chosen format (A2) and would adjust them to the certain angle I wanted the composition to look at, secondly, I would add the images I chose out of my contact sheet. Thirdly I would adjust the horizon to join up with the other image.
Composition Layout – Colour
Composition Layout – Black and White
- I prefer the black and white versions of my work and I think it suits the idea better.
Final Work
The Sublime
Sean Pickering 