Composition

These pictures are just some experiments of composition.

This is only the beginning of my experiments however I decided to layer another image that I got from google images and try make a link between my picture and that one.

I also took another portrait I had and decided to put it into photoshop to edit it. 

I began by getting a potrait of me and then copying it

so it was oppsite and looking at my original one.

                         I then added another copy of the portrait and rotated them  a tiny bit to make

them come together.

I added a final copy to make a kind of sequence.

I then changed the darkness on the images to make go from

complete black to grey.

Final Piece.



This is another piece that I did before.



Golden Ratio

Golden Ratio

In mathematics and the arts, two quantities are in the golden ratio if the ratio of the sum of the quantities to the larger quantity is equal to the ratio of the larger quantity to the smaller one. The golden ratio is an irrational mathematical constant, approximately 1.61803398874989. Other names frequently used for the golden ratio are the golden section (Latin: sectio aurea) and golden mean. Other terms encountered include extreme and mean ratio, medial section, divine proportion, divine section (Latin: sectio divina), golden proportion, golden cut, golden number, and mean of Phidias. In this article the golden ratio is denoted by the Greek lowercase letter phi (φ), while its reciprocal, 1 / φ or φ ^{− 1}, is denoted by the uppercase variant Phi(Φ).
The Golden ratio can also be used in photography.  Many say that some people’s faces have the golden ratio, mainly because its nice to the eye, nice to look at.                           

Idris Khan

Idris Khan

Idris Khan was born in 1978, Birmingham, England.  He is an artist based in London.
His work comprises digital photographs that superimpose iconic text or image sets into a single frame (for instance, every page of the Qur'an, every Beethoven sonata, every William Turner postcard from Tate Britain), or every Bernd and Hilla Becher spherical gasholder.
Khan received a First in his BA from the University of Derby in 2000 and his MA with Distinction from the Royal College of Art in 2004. He has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including those at the Taidehalli in Helsinki, Musée de l'Élysée in Switzerland, Victoria Miro Gallery in London and the Saatchi Gallery in London. He also created the cover art for Editors album An End Has A Start which utilises techniques he used in his Becher on Becher series of industrial buildings, in this case a gas-works.
He is represented by Galerie Thomas Schulte (Berlin), Victoria Miro Gallery (London), Yvon Lambert Gallery (Paris) and Fraenkel Gallery (San Francisco).

Alexander Rodchenko

Alexander Rodchenko-:

Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko was born 5 December 1891 was a Russian artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design; he was married to the artist Varvara Stepanova.
Rodchenko was one of the most versatile Constructivist and Productivist artists to emerge after the Russian Revolution. He worked as a painter and graphic designer before turning to photo-montage and photography. His photography was socially engaged, formally innovative, and opposed to a painterly aesthetic. Concerned with the need for analytical-documentary photo series, he often shot his subjects from odd angles—usually high above or below—to shock the viewer and to postpone recognition. He wrote: "One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again."

Stephen Gill Experiments

For my Stephen Gill experiments I decided to take inspiration with his back of billboards photo's and I thought about instead of having billboards I thought about having the back of televisions and what there is behind them that we don't see like the wiring for example.

I decided to take pictures of the wiring behind the Television as no one really looks behind there or cares what there is behind.  Many people diminish the importance of these wires and don't exactly care about them, however I believe they have much more meaning.  For a start these wires contain the electricity to work the television, without them the circuit would not be complete.  Also the wires all have there own small groups of different colours and lengths which divides them all into little communities as if they were some sort of family or friends, they tangle each other just as people do when they hug or maybe fight.  I find this also links well with Stephens Gills work because of the thought and imagination how there is more to these wires than just copper and plastic.

I took another picture off the back of another Television thinking about what else I could do and how I could improve just the fact of having the back as a picture.

I then decided to have a picture with someone in (in this case me) where it was as if they were looking at the back of this television as if they were actually watching it normally which I found a very qwerky idea and one which I think that works very well.  I took more with me situated in different places.

In my opinion although these pictures are not the best quality and are quite dark I still find the use off inanimate objects such as the Television which can be used to watch programs, is used differently or a story is just added to it which no one really could have thought about.  I find this links in very well with Stephen Gill's work as there is a lot of imagination in these ideas.

Stephen Gill

Gill began photography at a young age. In 1985, while still at school, Gill began work with a Bristol-based photography company, copying and restoring old photographs. Two years later, he began working full-time in a one-hour photo lab. In 1992 he enrolled in a Photography Foundation course at Filton College in Bristol and, a year later, began work at Magnum Photos in London. In 1997 he become freelance photographer
Gill currently lives in Hackney, London, England. 
Gill’s photographs are held in private and public collections and have also been exhibited at London’s National Portrait Gallery, The Victoria & Albert Museum, Decima Gallery, Agnes B, the Victoria Miro Gallery, Galerie Zur Stockeregg, the Gun Gallery, The Photographers' Gallery, Palais des Beaux Arts, Leighton House Museum, and Haus der Kunst.
Gill's photographs have appeared in international magazines including The Guardian Weekend, Le Monde 2, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, Tank, The Telegraph Magazine, I-D magazine, The Observer, Blind Spot and Colors.



I find his work very clever because he makes things that we would never think about looking at, let alone taking a picture, and giving it a life and adding a story behind it which we would never have thought of.

Sophie Calle Experiments

I found the Sophie Calle project 'The Address Book' very interesting so I thought I would begin by experimenting with a phone book my mum had stored around the house.

I decided to take the pictures in black and white to give like an old looking feel and effect.  What I really like about what I had is the actual photocopied page because my printer isn't that good it gave it a nice smudge effect to it which adds a really nice qwerkyness about it.

These are the other experiments I did.  Some pictures were a bit blurry but I reckon this gave them a nice effect of  rapidness which gives the effect of not wanting anyone to know that you're taking pictures of someones address book.

Depth Of Field

Depth Of Field- depth of field (DOF) is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image. 
Although a lens can precisely focus at only one distance at a time, the decrease in sharpness is gradual on each side of the focused distance, so that within the DOF, the unsharpness is imperceptible under normal viewing conditions.  In some cases, it may be desirable to have the entire image sharp, and a large DOF is appropriate. In other cases, a small DOF may be more effective, emphasizing the subject while de-emphasizing the foreground and background.

This image is a great example of DOF.

Sophie Calle Project

- The Blind: Sophie Calle did a project where she asked people who have been blind since birth to describe what they thought beauty was, she then took that idea and went out and photographed a response to that idea, she did a multiple of examples of this and created a project around this. 

This image is just one of the many pictures she took and put together.  There was many different responses from the blind people which were very interesting, such as one lady said that she heard that green is a nice colour so that must mean grass was very beautiful. 

I find this project very interesting and different because I always wonder what it would be like being blind and how horrible it would be not being able to see anything and having to use what you hear and imagination to work out what things look like.

Shutter Speed and Aperture Testing

To begin my testing I had to make sure I had the correct settings.  The settings I had were f2.8, "3.2, 0.0 brightness, no flash and ISO 400.  I found that these settings gave me a picture that I liked, so I carried on testing out what more things I could do. 

I began to try writing numbers from one to three by changing the exposure time from "3.2 to "5.0 which meant the camera would be exposed to the light for a longer time which made it easier to draw more.

I found it quite hard to do because I had to turn the numbers around, however my dad found it much easier (which shows in the picture above) and we then thought about even longer words that we could write.

I tried writing Real madrid but I changed the camera exposure to "15 so more light got into the image which made me start to appear.

I Finally decided to take the exposure time down to "13 and got my dad to try write Real Madrid, which unfortunately he wasn't quick enough to write it, but now i know that by having the exposure level at around "13, I will be able to get relatively good quality images.

Exploration & Discovery

Sophie Calle - (Female) Born 1953, a French writer, Photography, installation artist and Conceptual artist.  Since 2005 she has worked as a professor of film and photography at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.  After completing her schooling she travelled for seven years.  When she returned to Paris in 1979 she began a series of projects to acquaint herself again both with the city and people of Paris and with herself. 
          In Suite Venitienne (1979), Calle followed a man she met at a party in Paris to Venice, where she disguised herself and followed him around the city, photographing him. Calle’s surveillance of the man, who she identifies only as Henri B, includes black and white photographs accompanied by text.



Portrait of Sophie calle



Sophie Calle's following strangers project

I find Sophie Calle's work intruiging and in a sense quite creepy in the way she follows people without them realising and captures their every move.