Mans imprint in the world we live in:
The main concept behind my project is to explore the ways in which we, as the human race, have structured everything in our lives to fit our needs in one way or another; be it through the roads we place in our cities or the machines we construct to help make our food. It is apparent that we have terra-formed the world to be how we need it to be. I plan to explore this theme through our physical environment and the interactions in-between mediated through our technology.
Strand 1: Nature vs Man
Mathew Saville:
Mathew Saville captures landscapes in a way that preserves the small, and not usually noticeable features. Such as the textures and patterns of close by surfaces. This adds breadth to a sometimes dreary style of photography. Savilles uses a style of photography which results in a wide photo, in post production Saville increases saturation and contrast to make a detailed and structured affect on the textures throughout.
1st Response:
Capturing landscapes i aimed to use inspiration from Mathew Savilles style of increasing contrast and saturation. I traveled to Trent Park in Enfield north london. Here i was able to capture landscapes in a way i would not have been able to do in more central london. Capturing these photos i aimed to give the photos a sense of depth and size. Whilst keeping the textures and patterns visible so that when i increase contrast it will be distinct.
WWW: Taking these photos i travelled to a spot in the outskirts of London, in a place called Trent Park. From here i captured some photos in which the atmosphere feels natural in the sense that it does not feel man-made. Given the location one would not expect that as London is an extremely built up area. Also the sense of depth given by the photos taken in the forest engross the viewer due to the aperture used at the time combined with the increased contrast and saturation.
EBI: I would have liked to go back to Trent Park again to take more photos, this is because when i went the first time there was a marathon on at the time meaning a large portion of the park was sectioned off. Apart from this i would have also taken more time to frame some of the images i had taken as i had to fix mistakes i made in post-processing.
EBI: I would have liked to go back to Trent Park again to take more photos, this is because when i went the first time there was a marathon on at the time meaning a large portion of the park was sectioned off. Apart from this i would have also taken more time to frame some of the images i had taken as i had to fix mistakes i made in post-processing.
2nd Response:
Un-natural
Naoya Hatekeyama
Hatakeyama captures landscape photographs of man made structures. His use of light in combination with the context and physical surroundings makes the photos atmosphere have a sense of grandness. This deliberate use of photographic technique through landscape photography is not limited to light however. Naoya uses perspective to a similar affect, he uses the angle of the photo to give the viewer a sense of increasing size, making a static image instantly more dynamic.
WWW: The structures and outlines of many distinct features in the environment translated well into the photo. This allowed the photo to take the role of a truly unnatural one. My aim.
EBI: However, it would have been better if i excluded all non natural items, for me this includes the people in the photos themselves, if i were to re-do it i would have waited till a day where no one would be there. This would full-fill the requirements of this set of photos to the fullest extent.
EBI: However, it would have been better if i excluded all non natural items, for me this includes the people in the photos themselves, if i were to re-do it i would have waited till a day where no one would be there. This would full-fill the requirements of this set of photos to the fullest extent.
3rd Response:
Man & Nature
The environmental structures of the natural and un-natural often are seen in unison, as is the nature of the world we live in. In these series of photos i aim to capture moments in which these two parts of the environment collide and show a sharp juxtaposition. This concludes the series of photographs capturing nature and man made environments in their own respects.
WWW: I believe i effectively captured moments of interaction between man-made items and nature, a key point of my initial strand.
EBI: It would have been better if i had captured a more distinct and contrasting interaction, such as, this would have made the photo more effective at portraying the goal image.
EBI: It would have been better if i had captured a more distinct and contrasting interaction, such as, this would have made the photo more effective at portraying the goal image.
Strand 2: Nature vs Man in patterns
Martin Klimek:
Martin Klimek, the photographer aims to capture the distinct difference between mans impact on the wold and the natural world we live in. Martins use of direct contrast with the two ideas allows the viewer to identify points of difference within the two worlds that they may have not been able to notice without such inspection. This idea is a point of inspiration throughout the following development; split into two. Martin also uses a technique of making the photos frame, only the item itself. This isolates the item he wants to present as the focus, further allowing the viewer to avoid the sight of extraneous objects.
1st Response.
Patterns in the un-natural:
The world we live in is compromised of many things. One thing that stands out in human-environment interactions is our ability to recognise patterns in everything we see. Throughout the world patterns are prevalent in our day to day lives, trees, clouds, the concrete we walk on all develop into these things we perceive as a texture. I aimed to capture a few of these patterns in a way we don't usually see, very up close and separated from all other surrounding objects. These patterns in particular are ones from an un-natural formation, meaning that they are there due to mans doing, not out of natural causes. This will be contrasted with the patterns that appear naturally in the world.
WWW: When taking photos of the patterns in the world of man made items i was able to capture a very close up and specific style of photo. This combined with a large aperture resulted in a series of photos in which fine details were emphasised, this is due to a combination of contrast and macro settings, inspiration was drawn from Martin Klimek's close up contrasting photos.
EBI: In my opinion it would have been better if i travelled a greater distance capturing a larger group of different patterns within the man-made spectrum. On top of this the photos would have turned out better if i went during a sunny day, i went during a gloomy day meaning the amount of light reflecting off the objects was limited. The images would have been more detailed and more details would have been exposed.
EBI: In my opinion it would have been better if i travelled a greater distance capturing a larger group of different patterns within the man-made spectrum. On top of this the photos would have turned out better if i went during a sunny day, i went during a gloomy day meaning the amount of light reflecting off the objects was limited. The images would have been more detailed and more details would have been exposed.
2nd Response.
Patterns in the natural.
Comparative to the patterns in the un-natural, the patterns in the natural appear to be equally abstract, however in a different, less uniform fashion. After the photos had been taken, taking them into photoshop i decided increasing the contrast was the correct way to emphasise the textures and patterns that i aim to present in this series of photos.
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EBI:
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3rd Response.
Patterns in skin.
Developing from the distinction between patterns in the natural and un-natural realms, beginning to focus on the patterns within nature due to their mysterious nature. In this particular strand i decide to focus on how when we focus on smaller and less obvious parts of the human anatomy, patterns not visible prior to attention become clear.
Strand 3: Composition of the Face
1st Response.
Facial Patterns.
Here i aim to demonstrate the intricate patterns within human faces and how some seemingly random distortion of facial muscles represents an "emotion" or a "feeling". To display how this would happen in a real life scenario i asked 3 separate people the same exact questions. to Look happy, look angry and to look sad. Weirdly without having to be told what to do with their faces all three participants faces skewed in the exact same way. This effect is what i am documenting in the following pictures and developments.
2nd Response.
Composite Faces.
The idea behind this development was to continue telling the story the previous response began to tell. Continuing from there in this development i used photoshop to "cut" parts of one persons face, and stitching it to another persons face. This was my way of further demonstrating my point of facial composition and its complexity, however continuing with the theme of patterns within the face.
3rd Response.
The affect of distortion&change in portraits.
4th Response.
Facial re-arrangement.
Strand 4: Abtraction in Portraiture.
1st Response.
Dark-Room Portraits.
2nd Response.
Physically Distorted Portraits
3rd Response.
Reduced Facial Structure
4th Response.
Binary Bitmap Conversion
5th Response.
Binary and Original Combination
6th Response.
Composite Images with non-simplified portraits.
7th Response.
Composite faces with card.
8th Response.
Peoples faces morphing:
Method:
To create the gifs i created a program which detects the main features of a face in an image. It saves these points and lines the photo up so the points are on top of each other. This lines the faces of each of the photos up almost perfectly. From here the programme distorts parts of the image to fit into the shape of the other face whilst simultaneously decreasing one photos alpha level (how opaque it is), and increasing the others. Making it seem to "morph" into the other person. These images are saved systematically and combined into a gif.
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Final Piece
These images are a composition of many faces. This has been done on Photoshop by adding all faces to a single image as layers, from here i centre and scale all the faces to be in line with the layer behind itself, once all images are aligned and scaled correctly all layers are selected and opacity is reduce to 41%. This effectively takes the average of all pixels lying on top of one another giving the impression that the faces themselves are averaged when viewed. This creates a "mashup" and could represent the combination of all people within the photo.