The class was spilt up into three groups and took separately to the light studio through out the morning, we where told about what equipment we’d be using and the health and safety so none of the equipment would be damaged.

The flash is made to go off when taking the image, as you see the flash is hitting the right side of my face from the viewers perspective. Due to the amount of time we had me and my partner just did simple portraits.

 

   We ask the teacher Toby to step in as the model because me and Jake (my partner) where both feeling camera shy at the time. Using a reflector we was able to reduce the amount of shadow from the left side of his face.

lighting diagram 

 

A large group of famous photographers which is a co-operative owned and ran by the members, to become a member have to undergo a rigorous process of self-selection. Every year on the last weekend of June the photographers will have a meeting in either New York, Paris or London where affairs for the company are discussed.

Martine franck magnum photographer

She was born in Antwerp raised in America, began her career as a photographer as an assistant of Eliot Elisofon and Gjon Mili for life magazine. Studied at art history at the university of Madrid, then at the Ecole du Louvre.

In 2001 and 2002 Franck did a series of photographs on troy island, Ireland and another on Tibetan Buddhist children in India and Nepal.

We had a brief on our new project “The revolution will not be televised” that revolves around rising awareness about different issues and topics existing in the world by doing a 10-20 page article in a small group. This is a journalism task that can be positive or negative research which interest me and the people in my group then combine it all together into one book. On the writing side of the essay interviews or surveys on people prior to the subject is the best way for first hand information and whilst at the same thinking about how to create positive change in the social or cultural dilemmas. Working together the group will collaborate and produce a magazine, at least contribute one article each where images and writing is covered before being printed. The suggested printers are: bretonside print – PCA (tavistock place) – Brulb.com. Proofreading the text is vital before finishing the work and printing to avoid any grammar or spelling mistakes. Primary and secondary research, evidence to your ideas, experiments, discoveries, comparisons and problem-solving techniques also a 250 word evaluation of the project after its done.

When doing this project i’ll discuss with partners and reflect on my own thought process, making and learning, whilst also catching out different areas i would like to improve on or do differently. Trying new materials and talking with newer people.       

my group has decided to use Bretonside print out of the many different options available to print for our zine

 

 

I wanted to find a new photographer who I hadn’t seen before that would interest my eye for the Articulation assignment. One which related to street photography but in a sort of different outlook on how they’ed use there work and the purpose behind it. I feel that W. Eugene Smith has done such a huge part for American photojournalism almost the same way how Henri Cartier Bresson is known as the pioneer to the genre street photography they both use humanist characteristics in majority of their workings. My great grandad’s photography pieces are very similar to the style of the these two famous photographers. Eugene is described as the single most important American photographer in the development of the editorial photo essay.

Eugene Smith  (December 30, 1918 – October 15, 1978). He was born in Wichita Kanas. He moved to New York City and started work for Newsweek in 1938 and then Life magazine in 1939. He did photography during WW2 and risked his life to capture extraordinary images which to me is extreme journalism at its fullest. During this time he photographed Japanese prisoners of war from Saipan, Guam, Iwo Jima and Okimawa. In the battle of Okimawa Eugene was wounded by mortar fire.

     

Eugene’s work included a massive range of topics whether the media took him. Necessarily his pictures wouldn’t always have a downward tone in them, just a year after being injured in 1946 smith captured an image of his two children walking through his home garden and titled it The Walk to Paradise Garden. It is said that this image was meant to show the contrast between a vision of peace and that a world of war.

Between 1957 and 1965 he continued to expand his work by taking photographs and also made recordings of jazz musicians playing in a manhattan loft. Naming it The Jazz Loft Project, smith went on to take nearly 40,000 photos and 4,000 hours of recordings of the music and what had interested him most whilst spending time at the wholesales flower district which was where the loft was based. the recording included street noises in flower district, late night radio talk shows, telephone calls, television and radio news programmes, and random dialogues among musicians, artist, and friends and associates of smith’s.

               

Charles Reynell Mohun’s (my great grandad) images from France and Japan. I find his work relates to Eugene smith because some of the locations are the same both traveling photographers and both have humanist tone in a lot of there shoots.

     

William Eugene Smith became seriously ill in 1977 after a massive stroke. Although he partially recovered he suffered from another stroke which resulted in his death in 1978 15th October after a second stroke and his ashes were placed in Hyde Park, New York.

Image 1

This is my favourite picture that I found from Smith’s large collection, took in Africa 1954 and named it monkey & kitten. The contrast between the black fur from the little monkey and white fur of the tiny kitten is amazing because it is black & white, I also like the use of space (the long corridor that goes be hide the small animals) this draws the eye to the position of them. lines to the back of where the monkey is sat (wooden floor) goes upwards till it gets hazy from depth of felid and the worm angle he had chosen is good because they are small animals.

Image 2

This image of Thelonious monk a jazz musician came from a project of smiths called “let truth be the prejudice” which was based around impact of conflict and documents from some selected work by him. I feel this is one of the best tactic of shadowing i’ve seen, the way right hand bottom corner is completely dark and then the light shines downwards onto his face making his features and certain objects cleaner like the fact he has a beard, a cigarette, and has got a hat on also the mixture of the light and shadow crates mirroring patten of symmetry which is the first time i had notice this affect. Background that has the rest of the light is a strong depth of felid, to where the man’s face on the other hand is the most clearest part of the image.

image 2

A Japanese freighter in Truk Atoll this was took by smith as a U.S airforces plane dropped a torpedo on it. In my view this is a fanatics image of a decisive moment being captured, the fact it must have been caught seconds after the explosion happened also showing the danger, destruction and torment of war that he experienced when deciding too go to the pacific. Use and amount of dark negative space from the ocean gets slightly greyer as you move further up the photo also makes the white in the image stand out more. The reflection of the explosion can be seen under the ship.

Summary

The reason why I chose this photographer out of the many other famous photographers is because I wanted to find someone I hadn’t seen before and the fact he was a photo journalist. This would mean he travelled to many different countries capturing diverse cultures and capturing decisive moments better like my great grandad did whilst getting shots that he was interested in at the same time.

We did a scavenger hunt to find 16 different objects of odd stuff like Jabba Binks and normal things which was given to us on paper. I enjoyed this task the most from the week because it made us work together and think more creatively.   

In this picture I wanted the security camera to be the focal point. The security camera seems to be aiming towards the only colour in the image, where the rest in contrast is grey.

 

Everyone from my course was split into different groups in four different classrooms, with other people from the other courses in the college and was given a project called four worlds one world for each classroom. The world that my room was given is Urbanisation which means anything that would be uncommon in culture too a ground country such as England for an example. Then we had too include either a dystopia [an environment which is massively controlled by the hierarchy eg. government]  or utopia [where people live in unity and complete harmony and peace] theme too our world that we are inventing. The group decided to use poller-staring to represent buildings, everyone else in the group wanted the theme of their building in a dystopia style so I thought what I would do to mine was to create my building in a utopia style to balance the world out with a bit of brighter side involved.

The building I designed was the one with the tree and nature blossoming growing up and through the building. The purpose of this was because my building would be the main supply of oxygen to the city. I believe that this also brings the peace and harmony  to the rest of the city.

The separate buildings and the road joining into the centre represents a sense of unity but also diversity involving both themes which were set by the teachers [dystopia and utopia mixed into one].

It is a main priority to become confidante when doing shoots in RAW throughout photography because you can develop pictures in highest quality uncompressed and get the best tactics for editing in Photoshop are available. There are even more ways of adjusting edits in Camera RAW Plugin which Photoshop does not provide, by using plugin or light room you leave the quietly of an image unaffected after editing . Basically, using RAW for editing on a computer is as if your developing in a digital dark room due to fact they both very similar in lighting control so it doesn’t become overexposed and ruin the image but RAW setting edits on the computer are way more advanced because of the many other changes you can do digitally.

I find that the hoe was the best place to go to get a local scene because there is so much history and has always seemed to have a friendly vibe in the area. I started shooting when getting too the beginning of the barbican street side, I wanted too include the old structure of the buildings and the cobbled streets so I thought the Plymouth gin distillery and the Dolphin Inn which is Plymouths most oldest pub so I reckon it would be to included after hearing its history. When walking back I came across a man stood outside a shop called Gipsy Acora the guy instituted that I take his photograph and had a nice chat about how nice the day was looking and the course I’m undertaking, later on in the day I did some research on the gipsy store and found out through the website it is where a romany fortune teller clairvoyant dose accurate predictions and foresight.

 

 

The first thing that catches the eye is range of colour also how it’s spread across the screen, sort of mixed but at the same time having separating boundaries with different members of the family which are also all dressed in black which makes them stand out more because of the surrounding. The positioning of the Kardashian is every flamboyance, show off I assume because it’s a greetings card and there infamous. Where the different members are gives a sense of symbolism too what role they play in the family, for example the step father is placed in a glass tube with graffiti on top of the tank which I suppose relates to the character role he plays in the family trapped and pushed around. This photo defines the snobbery of the wealthy family due to all the scattered magazines on the floor and how they are oblivious to them even though it is how they have made there American dream come true.