This exhibition was a collection of the private photos of Elton John. Many of the images were in a Modernist style and are early cases of photography. Their was a variety of portrait photos, architecture and macro shots of a variety of objects and subjects. I found some of the original cuttings from the contact sheets some of the most interesting.
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Wolfgang Tilmans’s new show at Tate Modern is as much a large-scale installation as it is a traditional museum exhibition. The many photographs on the walls of the event’s 14 rooms are curated by the artist himself, shunning conventions of chronology and theme in favour of configurations that constitute Tilmans’s “personal response to the present moment”.
He displays images that show clearly his own personal point of view regarding politics and social culture. Both the content of his work and their installation show his opinion on certain cultural subjects. This serves effectively to point to the inherently subjective nature of all photography, subverting the documentary qualities many associate it with. |
Myoung Ho Lee separates subjects from their original circumstances to derange the difference between subject and image. His work reveals nature by twists and turns, a little fabrication and optical illusion.
I obviously could not take picture on the same scale as Myoung Ho Lee but i attempt to recreate something similar using small plants. Unfortunately i had the white balance off and had to correct it in photoshop. |
Simon Phipps is a fine art photographer operating in the UK and has captured a wide variety of subjects. His work is often referenced to as a good example of brutalist photography. In this unit, I responded to his Brutalist, Black and white, prints. His work is often referenced to as a good example of brutalist photography.
My choice of response was to go to some of the brutalist buildings in London, i went to National theatre and the Barbican. I used the Black and White pre-set on my camera, my shutter speed was a 1/200 and my aperture fs5.5. |
Graham Owen has established himself as an artist and natural photographer. The detail of Graham's "artificial insects" has won him International acclaim and award. His artistic insects are incorporated into leading lighting designs, private and institutional art collections, as well as high advertisements & film.
For my own response, i will use the macro setting on my camera to take close up of flowers. |
I initially started wide aperture (3.2f) for the photos of the whole flower but when I decided to take closer photo I used a small aperture (11f) to increase the depth of field. I used the LED ring to evenly light the flower and have no dark spots. If the petals looked slightly overexposed, I would lower lower the exposure by 2 thirds of a stop. I also had my camera set to take photos after a 2 second timer, i did this to prevent camera shake. For the very close up photos, i used a macro lens. I took the photos in front of a black or white board to draw the eye of the viewer away from the background and towards the flower's centre.
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1: Load your brutalist image into photoshop.
2: Use the select tool to select half of the photo. 3: Press CMD + C and CMD + V to create a new layer with the selected section. 4: Use the cursor tool to move the new layer to the opposite side of the photo. 5: Go into the edit drop down menu and then the Transform menu, and select the flip horizontal option. |
A Croatian photography, Vladimir Zivkovic, has been active for 16 years as a photographer. His "motherboard 100" series is the set of photos is what I'm planning to reply to. His motherboard photos are taken with a mono-chrome filter, this puts greater emphasise on the structure of the BUS connections on the circuit board
To do this i will use the macro setting on my camera and will set it to take mono-chrome images to try and replicate the effect Zivkovic's photos have. |
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1: Load the image into photoshop.
2: Crop away some of the mess and distracting features. 3: Use the black and white option in the image drop down menu. |
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1: Load the image into photoshop.
2: Select the black and white option in the image drop down. 3: Crush the greens and bring the the yellows up to full. 4: save the image. |
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1: Load the photo into photoshop
2: use the select tool to select half of the image. 3: use CMD + C and CMD + V (or CTRL + C and CTRL + V for pc) to create a new layer of the selected region 4: move it across to the other side of the image. 5: use the flip horizontal to to flip it over and begin to line it up so that it is symmetrical with the other side. 6: Crop away the excess stuff and merge the layers. Tips: If the original image doesn't look as symmetrical as it could, experiment with flipping the other half or flip the bottom half vertical. |
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1) load image into photoshop
2) use the brightness and contrast option to lower the contrast. 3)use the invert tool to invert it |
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1: Load the image into photoshop
2: Make 2 identical layers 3: Use the select tool to select everything on the top layer. 4: Use the paintbrush tool at 25% opacity 5: make 8 copies of each layer. 6: use the make frames from layers option in the animation window. 7: use the save for web and devices to turn it from a .psd to a .gif. |
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1: Start by loading the image into photoshop.
2: Use the gradient tool on this layer, at 25% opacity. 3: Make 25 identical layers. 4: Begin to start changing the layers from -100 saturation in the hue and saturation menu. 5: Keep doing this until you get to the layer that is a 50 in saturation. 6: Start going up in 5 points of saturation each time. 7: Save it for web and devices. Tips -I suggest naming them the level of saturation on each layer (From -100 to 100). -When you save it, the file will be massive, you'll have to cut it down to at least a 1/5th of its original size. |
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1: Start by loading the image into photoshop.
2: Use the gradient tool on this layer, at 25% opacity. 3: Make 25 identical layers. 4: Begin to start changing the layers from -100 saturation in the hue and saturation menu and -180 hue. 5: Keep doing this until you get to the layer that is a 50 in saturation and going down in 15 points of hue each time. 6: Start going up in 5 points of saturation each time. 7: Save it for web and devices. Tips -I suggest naming them the level of saturation and hue on each layer (From -100 to 100 and -180 to 180). -When you save it, the file will be massive, you'll have to cut it down to at least a 1/5th of its original size. |
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