Lost in Blue

The title for my final piece is 'Lost in Blue' this depicts the photos and how the human race is lost in the beauty of the planet and how we are destroying the world without even knowing it.

Final Idea.

I have finally finalised an idea for the photos, using colour and the idea of wander I have incorporated many blues and also the human characters are in black and white to influence how the world is so beautiful and how humans are perhaps destroying it or effecting its existence. The disposition difference to the colourless humans to the striking blue of nature and such around them adds such and effect of beautiful and wonder into hoe complicated the earth is. i am really happy with my final product and how the final 8 photos came out.

Photographers - Steve Mccurry

Steve McCurry (born April 23, 1950) is an American photographer who has worked in photojournalism and editorial. He is best known for his 1984 photograph "Afghan Girl", which originally appeared in National Geographic magazine. 

He uses a range of bright colours which has a relation to my final project, yet he uses it in a realistic style compared
to my concept where I look at unnatural colour and changing perspective. 

McCurry took his most recognised portrait, "Afghan Girl", in December 1984 of an approximately 12-year-old Pashtun orphan in the Nasir Bagh refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan.The image itself was named as "the most recognised photograph" in the history of the National Geographic magazine, and her face became famous as the cover photograph on the June 1985 issue.

Photographers - Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and conceived of photography as capturing a decisive moment. 

In 1952, Cartier-Bresson published his book Images à la sauvette, whose English-language edition was titled The Decisive Moment. It included a portfolio of 126 of his photos from the East and the West. 

He said "To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organisation of forms which give that event its proper expression'. 

Photographers - Anders Peterson

Petersen is noted for his intimate and personal documentary-style black-and-white photographs. He studied photography under Christer Strömholm in Sweden, 1966-1967. For three years beginning in 1967 he photographed the late-night regulars (prostitutes, transvestites, drunks, lovers and drug addicts) in Café Lehmitz, a bar in Hamburg, Germany.

Some quotes by him; 

• "To me, it's encounters that matter, pictures are much less important."
• "I can't describe reality; at the most, I can try to capture things that seem to be valid, the way I see them."

Peterson has a very similar style as Diana Arbus due to the colour scheme and visuals. 

Photographers - Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus (March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer and writer noted for photographs of marginalised people like dwarfs, giants, 
transgender people, nudists, circus performer and others whose normality was perceived by the general populace as ugly or surreal.

Arbus experienced "depressive episodes" during her life, and committed suicide in 1972 at age 48. Arthur Lubow said, "If she was doing the kind of work she was doing and photography wasn’t enough to keep her alive, what hope did we have?”. 

Wedding style photos

Fair photos

Idea number 2 (fail)

Once I began to see that it was too suggestive and would not create an amazing narrative. Thus I adventured into my imagination again and thought of what I could achieve. 

I thought how I had a connection to an antiques fair ground that I would be allowed to take photos at, therefore in the easter holidays I visited the fair and took many photos yet without human model no real idea came from the shoot yet maybe through editing I would be able to create something. 

Secondly, I went with myself and three friends to a beautiful park and animal reserve and just started taking photos of their mannerisms and what they would react to the plant's, river etc. Due to two of my friends being a couple I was able to get some really great romantic shots, that would be great for a wedding situation (this even heightened my dreams of perhaps being involved in wedding photography in the future). Yet these photos had no real narrative in them and did not have many connections to the tasks.  

Week 8; New Idea

As I was coming up with ideas for my final piece I came across these photos of "flowers in ice cream cones" and they looked so beautiful and pretty so instantly in my head I began to think of things relating to ice cream and something I could do that wasn't a direct copy of the flower idea. I thought about how ice cream normally connotes children, happiness and summer all bright things. Thus I choose to dive a bit deeper and thought of how when a child drops their ice cream it's like the end of the world for them and there's crying and a total distraught feeling. Therefore I thought about how I could correlate this to adults and have something else fall to the floor, such as time, money, love something that means so much to them that would leave them distraught if it became lost of broken. Hence I want to recreate the ice cream drop but with cones that incorporate an adult ideal or need that become lost.

 

Week 8; Idea change

I have been sitting and contemplating what to do for my final project, ive been going over and over on how to present mental illness in a such a way to not represent it badly and on very little budget and no real unattainability to use models or a set. Thus I have been doing some research and been brain-storming ideas that I believe are more reachable to my goal and still represent something that creates an impact. 

Week 6; Town Scape

This week I ventured out on my own to take photos of street view, and interesting buildings and find that arose in Brighton town, I was only able to spend a short time taking photos but was able to find some viable shots. This was quite a fun and simple task that just required looking at things in a different light.

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Week 5: Elevator Pitch

This week the whole class did our elevator pitches, talking about our final ideas and what we want to achieve in the final piece. All of the class showed their ides and what photographers wee found that had an influential impact on their ideas and also how they may incorporate them into the project.

This is my plan and hopeful final idea, Im not sure if any of this will change but it may, I will see how I progress and if i become influenced by anything else.

Week 4: Jumpology

Also this week we were asked to focus on a thing called jumpology; the act of movement. We had to take photos with really quick shutter-speed but to make sure that there was enough light coming in to give the right exposure. I was the main model for this cause I was most open to jumping the highest, this was a fun activity and something different to do. Some examples;

Week 4; More Portraits

This week we focused on portraits again just to really understand what we wanted to achieve from them. Thus we went into the woods to do a shoot and see what we could achieve with different settings, these are a few of my favourite.

Week 3; Shutter speed

This week we played around with lots of different ways to take photos. Firstly I played around with shutter speed to create a blurred and uneasy effect to the photographs. The slow the shutter speed the less in focus and blurred effect it makes, that can bring life to a photo and real depth and a difference to the picture.

Week 3; Tests

The shutter-speed is one of my favourite things the play with in the camera because it makes a different aspect every picture you take, not one photo will be the same due to the different facial movements and overall body change. Here are some more tests from the shoot that day.

Week 2; Favourite

This photo is my favourite from the shoot, it really deletes everything about how the model is as a person, it takes all sense of life and facial construct from them. I believe this photo really gives the audience the act of wonder and can influence any train of thought.

Week 2; Shutterspeed portraits (inventive)

As me and Elliot walked further round Sussex Campus we found a weird sort of bridge spot where it was a bricked area but that was quite dark and had a lost feeling to it. I decided to change the shutter-speed to see what would occur. The outcome was great! with his blurred face created this dark empathetic effect that felt like everything about his personality became lost; thus connotes the area we took the photo. The addition from the light side of his face also adds to this.

I also took a change in shutter-speed when back in class with the plain blue background, this was extremely moved and he almost does not look human anymore. This gave me a real sense in what i might want to capture in my final project. 

Week 2; Portraits 2

Another photo of Elliot I liked was of him against the wooden panels, it was quite plain and not much occurring but it has a good thinking space within the photo. Yet this is not my favourite from testing I like how I can work from it.

Week 2; Portraits

This week we used the cameras to do portraits and work with a new look and using the camera a different way. Me and my partner went out to sussex campus and found blank and interesting backgrounds to place each model in-front to create a different feel and atmosphere. Me and Elliot found a white van that was very clean and created a very bright space and with Elliot's expression created the juxtaposition.

White Background

Week 1; Going to Sussex

After learning about the camera we ventured out onto Sussex Campus for the first time with the cameras to play-around with the different settings and see how to create the right feel and also to get the exposure right on the camera. I really liked the first pictures I took and was happy with the outcome. My favourite being the one of the NO CYCLING cause of the focus and also the dreariness it presents.

Week 1; Bad Photos

Week 1; Good Photos

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