sayings
This term you are going to create 6 different photography designs that link to old fashion sayings. You are going to create visual designs that represent that saying. How you interpret it is up to you but you must use some of the skills gained in the workshops.
SKETCHBOOK GUIDE
Gob smacked
'Bees knees'
'Full of beans'
'Apple of my eye'
'Cream crackered'
'Sight for sore eyes'
'Put a sock in it'
Lesson 1
LO:
Create a mind map of sayings use images to make this visual
research maggie Taylor
Plan you first shoot and link it to a saying.
Research sayings/metaphors/similies
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Think of the different sayings you use and what they mean
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Write as many as you can think of on one mind map
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Research some online and add interesting and visual ones to your mind map
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Add images that link to your sayings
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Pick your 6 favourite sayings that could be made into visual designs.
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This is the first page of your sketchbook so make it visual and beautiful- use photoshop and images- draw something if you wish.
Maggie Taylor
Do a research page on Maggie Taylor, analyse her work and discuss how you think she gets the effects she does on photoshop. What kind of tones does she use? What does it remind you of? what kind of filters does she use? What is her work about?
Shadow Photography
LO- Use the spot light in the studio to cast shadows over your models face.
Use different materials to create different shadows
Change the aperture and ISO to get the best effect in the studio
Use the orange spotlight in the studio (do not move this light when it is on!)or use your phone torches in the cupboard to cast shadows on to your partners face. You will need to change the settings of the camera as you don't need to use the studio flash. Change the ISO 3200-6400
to allow the camera to respond to the light. Put your four best images together in photoshop and present them in an appropriate manner here are some ideas to help you
edit the levels and turn them black and white if necessary.
My example
Extension Task:
Print out one of your face paint images from last lesson and cast a shadow over the picture. This is combining two experiments and is called development
Developing designs!
After every workshop you need to develop your work by adding your saying onto the image. This can be done in anyway you choose but most be creative don't just write it small underneath. Choose one of the designs from the Pinterest board and copy them for your own work.
Double Exposure
LO- Use your extended learning work or a landscape images to creat double exposure portraits in photoshop. Think carefully how the two images relate to each other
Could you try triple or quadruple exposure?
Use the blending options in the layer pallet to double expose your images together. Put before of the images in hotshots with the textiles on top of the portrait and then select 'overlay' in the layers box where it says 'normal'. To creat something that looks like this-
Extension- Use the selection tools to select only the face, refine the edge and put this on to a white background , then put the textile on top and overlay it to get something like this- What else could you do to make it more like the image?
Option 1
Extension
Projection
L0: Use the projector to projector images onto your model
Experiment with the best settings on the camera for projection.
Get digital images and put them on a memory stick that links to the saying. Project these on your model and get your model to change poses.
Things to consider and my suggestions (not set in stone, you can always bend the rules)
ISO – you don’t really want to go to far over 640 ISO otherwise you would have too much grain/noise. Unless this is the look your client wants.
SHUTTER SPEED – Shooting below a 1/60 without a tripod is risky business, you will certainly get camera shake. I felt I could get away with shooting 1/50 and I did as my final images were sharp. Of course some were too soft, which was probably down to the model moving too much but as long as I took extra images I was covered.
F-STOP – Yea I would have liked F.8 but my client really wanted to used just the projector so something had to be compensated here. I had to open up the aperture to allow more light to exposure the image correctly, F.4 it was!
WHITE BALANCE – A projector throws out a different light temperature to that of your studio lights, its tricky and because of the LED projector I used my images had a blue/green tinge to them therefore I had to fix this up in post, usually I do this as a batch process.
Silhouettes
L0:Use the soft box to create a silhouette off your face or an object.
1.Position your model between the light and the camera.
2. Set the camera to M with your aperture high F29, iso 100 and A faster shutter than normal 1/250.
To develop the silhouette overlay patterns on top.
Masks
LO- Create a mask of your face out of various materials
-Make a mask for your alter ego
Use materials to disguised your faces.
Frederique Daubai/ Arjan Benning -Take a picture of your face or someone elses and slice it up- place this on top of your face and take a picture of it.
Hector Sos/Yasutomo Ebisu- Use different materials to disguise your face such as post-it notes, flowers or shredded paper.
Put some acetate on someone face and trace there faces then photograph them with the acetate on their faces.
Lets get physical!
LO- How to manipulate and alter an image by hand.
LO- How to transform a portrait to reveal a persons inner personality.
Print off your portraits and manipulate them by hand- Paint on top of them, cut them up or draw on top with a sharpie. Use these artists for inspiration.
Digital Geometric
LO- Create your own digital portrait,
LO- Manipulate a portrait using digital pattern
Use geometee to create a pattern and screen grab it or google black and white patterns and pick one. Drag the pattern on top of your portrait and use the magic selection tool to select either the black or white area of the pattern. Select the layer with the portrait on and copy and paste the areas. This will give you a new layer which has your face in the pattern area. Move the image around and adjust the colour/tone/brightness and levels etc.
Free Choice.
LO- Use pinterest to chose and artist to research and then recreate your own versions of the artist work.
Free Choice- go on Pinterest and pick TWO/THREE artists from the 'transform board'. Do your own reactions to the arftist work and put these in your sketchbook alongside research.
