week 2

last week we continued to edit our photos and i managed to do a lot more of my research report. I thought that i managed to do some really good edits on some of my more abstract images. I think that some of my edits look less gimmicky and more professional now i have played around with photoshop a little bit more. I thought i should try more unusual effects like i started to at the end of last lesson. One picture i edited i added a filter effect which gave it a redish glow which made it seem much more sinister. I think this type of editing is a lot more efective and interesting than just plain colour correction, or contrast and brightness. I think that next lesson i shall start to use more complex techniques instead of just the basics...

Week 1

last weeks lesson we were given our brief, and we started to think about ideas for it. Our brief was to create a piece of art which incorporated sculpture, but photography was the main medium. The subject had to be about control. At first i thought that this would be an easy subject because it was so broad. But as i began to brainstorm i started to realize how hard it is to find the right balance of subtlety in the pictures. I found it hard to think of more abstract ideas of things to do with control, such as less physical things like teachers (controlling the classroom). But when i actually started taking photos i found it was easier when you started to think what you could do in the real thing. I thought that i should try and take pictures of things that other people woudn't think of so that it was more original. One idea I thought of was to take a picture of a rusty fence showing that the rust has control over the once strong metal. as well as these subtle ideas i also shot some more obvious ones such as a picture of josh enclosed by the school walls and gate. After we had done this we started to edit them, i wanted to make them interesting edits not just changing the contrast and brightness. So i added an effect whichh made the edges blurry which made it dream like, like a nightmare. This gave the effect of control being a bad thing in that particular image. I thought that the day went reasonably well because i had managed to think of some new ideas for when i come to do my real pictures.