Assignment - Solitude

First Draft

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Call Sheet

- Title of shoot:

Solitude

- Name of student:

Jade Bartlett

- Date of shoot:

30/11/10

- Time of shoot:

12.45pm

- Location details/directions

I am going to be shooting the project around broadfield mostly, in buchan park, broadfield woods, a park and inside my house.

- Props:

N/A

- Talent:

Laura Merry

- Description of location: (Please explain what the picture is about)

My project will be about a young girl who feels alone and secluded from the rest of the world.

- Lighting, Daylight or Artificial light

My lighting will mostly be from the sunlight and moonlight. I will need a lamp when I am indoors so she is the main attraction of the picture.

- Additional information about how the photo will be shot: Filters, Tripod, Fast slow shutter speed etc

I will be using a tripod for most of the pictures, only a few will be taken without.

- Equipment needed

Camera

Tripod

Lamp

Treatment

Treatment Photography

1. Type of production and brief details on Subject/Concept:
      My idea is Solitude, I want to capture alone in the world. She will be in different locations facing away from the camera or looking away.

2. Facilities: What facilities do you need for this project list all including software and hardware for the whole project
I will need a camera, a tripod, someone to help me with the skills to go into the photo shop.

3. Finance: If you produced this project outside of the college you need to show how much would it cost to hire the equipment that you intend to use.

Camera - £1,098,99p
Tripod - £69.99p
Photo shop - £643.90p

In total thats £1,942.96

4. Contributors: Who do you need to help this for you project? This includes talent and crew.

I need my best friend to help do this project, as I need only one person.

5. Codes of practice and regulation: What regulations to you need to be aware of. Think about college policy as well as regulatory bodies that you looked at in assignment 2, Worksheet 1.6 Regulation and Safety notes

I would need permission from the council to take pictures in the public and also if I was taking any picture of people under the age of 16 I would need written permission from parents.

6. Presentation: How will you present the pictures? Will you include a soundtrack, think about copy write issues etc.

I will put the pictures onto a DVD and choose a few songs to go with the pictures to match there mood. I would have to buy the songs from I-tunes to avoid any copyright laws.

My Ideas For Solitude

The word I chose for this project is solitude. I chose this because it shows a sense of lonliness, how you can be lonley in a crowded space. But it also shoes independance and sophistication to a person.

sol·i·tude 

–noun

1.

the state of being or living alone; seclusion: to enjoy one's solitude.

2.

remoteness from habitations, as of a place; absence of human activity: the solitude of the mountains.

3.

a lonely, unfrequented place: a solitude in the mountains.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Task 1.6

• What is Royalty-free license by Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royalty-free
• What is Rights Managed license by Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_Managed
• About Copyright by Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
• About Moral rights by Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights
• Introduction to Rights & Licensing by Pro-Imaging
http://www.pro-imaging.org/content/view/164/161/
• Organiser’s Guide to the Bill of Rights by Pro-Imaging
http://www.pro-imaging.org/content/view/135/155/

Macro Photos

Art Photography

Application

The word art makes me feel as if anyone can express themselves. If its through drawing, painting, dancing or even photography, you can escape into your own world and express the way your feeling in that moment. You can also express the side of you that no one else sees. You can be a as creative as you want.


Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian photographer and artist who has achieved international recognition for his large-format photographs of industrial landscapes. Burtynsky's most famous photographs are sweeping views of landscapes altered by industry: mine tailings, quarries, scrap piles. The grand, awe-inspiring beauty of his images is often in tension with the compromised environments they depict.
[Information found on Wikipedia]

Sarah Pickering is a London based, British photographer who graduated from the Royal College of Art with a MA in Photography in 2005. She has been the recipient of several awards including the Photographers Gallery Graduate Award and a Jerwood Award in 2005.  Sarah has exhibited internationally and in the UK where her work was part of How We Are: Photographing Britain, at Tate Britain.
[Information found on locusplus.org.uk]



Michael Wolf is a German contemporary artist and photographer born in 1954. In a diverse array of photographic projects Michael Wolf explores the complex cultural identities of China and Hong Kong, where he has lived since 1995. Wolf delves into subjects such as the formal and improvisational aesthetics of Hong Kong's architectural forms, the often-overlooked human presence at the heart of international industry, and the idiosyncratic ways city-dwellers shape their surroundings in an "organic metropolis."
[Information found on kochgallery.com]

 



 - Santy Ago


  - Alejandro Chaskielberg

Conceptual photography

Conceptual photography  often involves use of computer editing, to achieve the desired effects, but a lot of artists are working without the computer, they "put in place" the things and the beings will be the subject of the final photograph, and the placement of those things and beings "build" the concept, the idea, and the final outcome.


The photographers we had seen in the galleries all had different concepts on there pictures. I didn't understand why they took there picture or what they were trying to portray through them. Yet they were very beautiful pieces of work, all showing different meanings and moods.

Context

Art photography contains many different contexts, such as style, texture, quality and many other things. The background of the picture can vary aswell, different people can feel different emotions/feelings from each picture.

Techniques

In art photography the photographer mainly use computer effects to make something seem more surreal then it already is. They manipulate the pictures to create mind games within the picture, make people confused by just looking at it. They can also make the colours on the picture seem more intense or like a painting.

Fashion Photography

Application

Fashion photography has been popular for over 100 years, one of the first fashion photographers were Adolf de Meyer. He was the very fashion photographer for the American magazine Vogue, he famed for his perfectly elegant picture of women, showng there softness but also caught a glimpse of power within women. He also was famed for his work which dipicted celebrities such as Mary Pickford, Rita Lydig, Luisa Casati, Billie Burke, Irene Castle, John Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Ruth St. Denis, King George V of the United Kingdom, and Queen Mary. 

Ruth Harriet Louise was the first american women to become a professional photographer, from 1925 to 1930 she ran the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's portrait studio. When Louise was hired by M.G.M. as chief portrait photographer in the summer of 1925, she was twenty-two years old, and the only woman working as a portrait photographer for the Hollywood studios. In a career that lasted only five years, Louise photographed all the stars, contract players, and many of the hopefuls who passed through the studio's front gates, including Greta Garbo, Lon Chaney, John Gilbert, Joan Crawford, Marion Davies, and Norma Shearer.
 Her photographic work also shows the elegance and beauty of women, she shows many emotions with her pictures like anger, happy and also dreamy.

Edward Steichen was an American photographer painter, and art gallery and museum curator.
He was the most frequently featured photographer in Alfred Stieglitz' groundbreaking magazine Camera Work during its run from 1903 to 1917. Steichen also contributed the logo design and a custom typeface to the magazine. In partnership with Steiglitz, Steichen opened the "Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession", which was eventually known as 291, after its address. Steichen work shows the more "dark" side of reality, in his pictures he has made the models portray a "depressed" or "grumpy" emotion. Even when he has photographed a unanimate object like flowers, they are wiltering and look sad.

Helmut Newton, was a German-Australian photographer. He was a prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications. In 1946, Newton set up a studio in fashionable Flinders Lane and worked primarily on fashion photography in the affluent post-war years. The exhibition of 'New Visions in Photography' was held at the Federal Hotel in Collins Street and was probably the first glimpse of 'New Objectivity' photography in Australia.Newton's pictures are a traditional black yet very provocative and erotic. The models are either completely naked or wearing hardly anything.

 




Tehcniques

Photography techniques vary with every photographer every one has a different approach to their pictures, expecially in fashion photography. Each picture has a different technique behind it. Although a lot of the time the picture are manipulatized to make the woman/man more beautiful, which gives the question what is reall beauty. An editor can change anything on the picture, from making someone alot thinner to the colour of the picture e.g. sepia.  

context

Fashion photography is publisised mainly in fashion magazines e.g. Vogue and Marie Clare. although they are also shown on billboards and newspapers, but the biggest place they are published is on the internet. Fashion photography has a big impact on young girls, they either despise the models that are in the pictures, who want to be just like them. Yet the young girls looking at these pictures don't know that these pictures have been played around with so much that the beauty portrayed in these pictures are fake.

Portraiture

Application

Portraiture was originally a beautiful painting of someone who is rich or who is very powerful who hired a very skilled painter to capture their power within the painting, which meant that the one who was posing owned that portrait. Yet as portraiture has evolved the possession has over turned, the man or woman who stands behind the camers own that portrait, they decide what they want to portray through the picture. 

Diane Arbus was a very unique photographer, she didnt like who she was, she wasn't happy with the life that she lived. She used photography to "try on" other peoples personalities, to act like someone else so she could escape from her mind. In her photography she brought out the inner personality of ordinary people, she captured the true emotion that they felt but no one else saw.

This picture of Marcella Matthaei was taken in 1969, she was just approaching adolescence, starting to feel angry, sad confused with all the emotions she was feeling. With this picture Diane Arbus captured all those emotions before Marcella knew it herself.

Diane liked to capture the unknown, she photographed dwarfs, giants, transvestites, nudists and circus performers. Arbus was known as the photographer of freaks. She photographed what was known as the other world, the world that people are "afraid" to explore.

  

 Larry Clark is a story teller with his work, he boldly portrayed his own lifestyle through his pictures. He let the world know what he done within his social group, such as drugs, sex and guns.

 





Context

Portraiture is all around us in our everyday lives, although we don't always notice it. Many companies use portraiture to advertise products, they usually use portraites of celebrities to make the product more popular. They usually advertise with portraits on billboards, leaflets, magazines and newspapers. One of the biggest places you will find portraits is on the internet, as many companies and celebrities have their own sites, which people of the public can check out. Portrait is alot more popular than landscapes in magazines and newspapers because they take up less space in them.

Techniques

The Leica camera was invented in Germany 1925, it was compact and quiet which meant it was easy to carry around and take picture in the right place at the right time.


Texture is a big part of photography, it makes the picture almost "pop" out of the page. Although you have to make sure you match the background texture to the foreground of the picture, otherwise it will not look "right". 
Years ago portraiture was mainly used for Kings and Queens of the era, to show how rich they are, and shows the texture of their clothes and jewellry. The person that was in the painting got to choose what they wanted to wear and how they wanted to portray themselves.

Photo Journalism

Application, Context and Techniques

Application

Photo journalism was started by a french photographer named Henri Cartier-Bresson, he was one of the first photographers to use the Leica camera. The Leica camera was invented in Germany 1925, it was compact and quiet which meant it was easy to carry around and take picture in the right place at the right time. Cartier-Bresson was a surrealist, which meant where ever he went he saw a super reality behind reality, he could see possibilities of theatrical oppurtunities where ever he went. The pictures that Cartier-Bresson took were known as The Decisive Moment, he always knew at what moment to take the perfect picture; his most famous picture was taken in Paris 1933, of a man jumping into a puddle. The Decisive Moment is the slpit second you take a picture changes the whole meaning of the scenario in front of you, a second before or after the picture could mean nothing but if you catch it at the right moment the picture could escalate to a historical piece. 

Robert Capa worked for Life magazine and was sent to World War 2 as a photo journalist to take life changing pictures of the war. He approached the photography industry with a motto of get close and then get closer. He took one of the ultimate decisive moments in The Spanish Civil War 1936 of a soldier just been shot to death. He had taken some amazing pictures of the war, yet unfortunaltey his pictures were accidently destroyed whilst they were developing. Only a few had survived.

People were amazed by the risks that Robert Capa took for is passion of photography, which meant his work was highly respected, unlike the work of Tony Vaccaro.

Tony Vaccaro was not a a proffessional photo journalist but a U.S. army G.I. who had a love for photograph. During WW2 Tony Vaccaro always had a camera hanging around his neck, so in the middle of action he could quickly grab the camera and snap a picture in that moment. Unfortunatley Tony wasn't wealthy enough to afford the Leica camera so instead he used the Arga C3, as he was a G.I. he didnt have a proffessional photo developing studio, but he made do with soldiers helmets and the chemicals he found from a blown up camera shop. Although Tony worked hard to get his pictures ready for America, the U.S. army did not publish them as they didn't want a negative view fo the war, as the citizens of America would of realised that war is a horrible and disastrous act.
 


 
1933 - Henri Cartier-Bresson

Tony Vaccaro

  

Robert Capa

Context

Photo Journalism was created to show the reality of the war, to show how horrible and brutal the war turned out to be. Robert Capa was an official photo journalist and out himself in danger to get the photos he needed, his photos were published in the American magazine Life. Tony Vaccaro was also a photo journalist, yet publishers thought that his work was to graphic for the general public to see, and would give a negative view on the war.

Techniques

Techniques are rarely used in photo journalism, it is just the matter of being in the right place and the right time and capturing the Decisive Moment. It also takes having a good imagination, being able to walk into a room and picture a photograph in your mind, but also being able to take the picture in the way that they imagined it.

Intro To Photography

In photogrpaphy I would like to learn the techniques in art and fashion photography. I am always taking pictures whether I am with friends or family, out around Crawley, Brighton or London. I would like to learn the different techniques of art and fashion photography.