Photographics

In this weeks rotation we looked at the four elements of design; relational, conceptual, practical and visual (shape, size, colour and texture). We started to look at photos in a different ways, focusing on what things seem like and feel like. To start the project we were tasked with going out and capturing a minimum of 10 digital photos, thinking about the shape, size and texture of the image. Unfortunately I had to use my phone camera which does not have great quality and I feel that greatly affective my process as the photos are not to the standard I want. I also think I took a lot of inspiration from colour, however as I will be editing them in black and white I am not sure this really helped.

I decided to make 3 compositions so I had choices for my final piece. Rather than putting too much though into it I decided to just chuck images together an experiment to find what I liked best. I think all three pieces ended up very different and I think that is down to the photos I chose to create with. The pieces created out of imagery of graffiti and posters gave a more chaotic feel where as the more structural images create more abstract imagery.

I have chosen the first image to submit. My initial concept was to keep it simple and really focus on the structure of my chosen images. I started with the image of the stairs as I liked the perspective and although being in black and white, the original picture was really colorful and I think this made the tones of the image quite exciting. Enjoying how the use of colour played out, the next image I used was of an arrangement of colourful blocks. I used a vector mask to remove he back ground and used a difference blending mode as I liked the bright contrast it gave to the darker parts of the stairs. Finally I vector masked an image of a mirror with some pipes, which ended up creating a character like figure. I duplicated one of the pipes to create a second sort of arm and liked the abstract shape I had created. The mirror had some stickers on and I enjoyed the texture it gave, thus kept the normal blending mode to show this effect. Overall I am happy with the piece; I think it shows perspective, shape and size in an abstract way. I also like how as a viewer, you’re not entirely sure what your looking at, so it makes you think less about the subject matter and more about the shapes you are seeing.