Spot the Difference.

For this task we have been asked to create a photograph in the style of a photographer of our choice, this photographer does not have to be famous, they can be a less spoken about photographer.

Must also include your work in progress so evaluating as you go along and also explaining how you edited.
Our research should come first and must be in depth before we take out final image.

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Annie Leibovitz.
Annie Leibovitz is an American portrait photographer who is known for her intimate portraits of celebrities. She began her career as staff photographer on the just launched Rolling stone magazine. She studied at the San Francisco Art Institute where she was inspired by photographers such as Robert Frank and Henri Cartier-Bresson. I like the below photographs because they are very personal and you can see a side of the model that wouldn't normally be seen in a public setting.

She hasn't only photographed celebrities but other people to, but due to her working with The Rolling Stones magazine her work is based mostly on the celebrities.

My image.

Here is my version of the black and white image that is just above this one. I think it would be a better image if the back ground of the original image was black to begin with but i had to work with what i had  at the time. So i created a black background in photoshop and then cut my model out of the original image and stuck him onto the black background. I think that if the model (my brother) was looking at the camera it would look a lot more like the image i wanted to copy. 

1st Guest lecture 28/09/2011

Today we were given a talk by Morris McGuire an artist, Andy McKeown new media artist and software writer (wrote the slipstream software) and Peter Walker a sculpture. They spoke to us about the slipstream software that Andy himself created.

They also spoke about a project that they were working on in near by Snibston called 'Transform insideOUT' where they are working on collections of images taken within Snibston and then projecting them up on to buildings. This project is funded by Arts Council England, the images produced during this project are taken by volunteers and local groups. the project is helping to peal back layers of history that is associated with the historic site. A series of commissioned events and artistic interpretations have been set up to help enrich the experience of visitors to Snibston.

Below is the link to the website where you can download the softwear for free.
www.thesnibstonpalimpsest.com 

Wednesday the 21st and 28th task Fantasy Landscapes.

For this task we have been asked to create a fantasy landscape within Burton, we could make it as obvious as we wished and our photoshop skills are essential. We are able to use whatever photographs we have taken. Below is my image for this task.

Research.

John Goto is a British artist who is best known for his photo-digital artworks, where he loads his images on to a computer and using a programme like photoshop to cut different elements from his images and merging them into another image, to create something completely different.

Pasturelands, 2000-2001.

These images, are examples of the images he has produced during his career.  They are all apart of the same collection called 'High Summer'.  This series of images portray the style of 18th century English gardens and 17th century french landscape paintings (Poussin and Lorrain).  He then incorporates modern day difficulties/problems for example the first image has images that portray the foot-and-mouth, problem that the British farms had problems with a few years ago.

My image is something similar to this in the way that i have taken elements from some of the photographs that i took when i was on holiday down south and edited them into a landscape image from within Burton. There are many differences between my work and John Gotos images for example my images is black and white and the majority of his work is done in colour. The work Goto creates usually focuses mainly on some of the issues that have gone on in society at the time of the image being created, my image is currently just an experiment, i like how you can take a group of images that are completely unrelated and mix them up to create something completely different and interesting.

What i did in the summer holiday.

For two weeks during the summer holiday i went on holiday to Eype in Devon, where i spent the majority of the time exploring the cliff tops and walking along the paths, and around the pebble beaches. I took loads of landscape images of the surrounding areas including some lovely images across the sea and the country side.