JUCO - Fashion photography

JUCO is made from duo photographers, Julia Galdo and Cody Cloud. They use highly saturated colours, patterns and textures in their fashion photography.

i selected 3 images that are interesting to me. I was drawn to the display of bright colours expecially those that used opposite colours, for example the use of the bright orange back ground and the blue jacket, because they are opposites on the colour wheel it really brings out each. 

Or the use of opposite colours in this image, the dark red background and the some what turquoise hair. I enjoy these images as they just jump out of the page. I feel they are fun and exciting

This last one i chose as i was drawn to it for its warm colour composition along with the use of shadow. it just intrigued me.

I NEED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY  :O

Ken Drake - Zoo Studio Photography

Ken Drake is a pet photographer and the director at Zoo Studio with help from Beck Drake, Johnny English and Jackie Mosionek. He has won several national and international awards and has been published in different countries all over the world. He focuses on capturing the animals personality and spirit within his photographs.


I enjoy his work as he captures movement flawlessly for instance see the two photographs below.
I love his use of light with the black background which really brings forward the colours on the birds and the water splashing off of the fur of the dog.

i want to explore pet photography more in depths for this unit.

Romanticism

Looking at Art History in college with Romanticism, and looking over the characteristics of which I learned that the movement didn't fully take off until the end of the 18th Centaury and was mostly popular in Germany. Romanticism was a response to "The Rationalism of the Enlightenment" which was a revolution in society, science, politics and philosophy that spread trough the 1700's. The Rationalism of the Enlightenment was also philosophical term for reason, science, humanism, equality, etc. The general idea that humans are smart, have value and have the train of thought to find things out. The movement was about the artists individual and imagination.

One of the artists we looked at was John Constable, I liked the samples of work we were shown as you can really tell the Romanticism part as the paintings are both very fantasy like.

" The Haywain, 1821"

"Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, 1831"

I liked that they look so simple yet so detailed, What I mean by that is that the subject matter seems like a simple normal day captured on a canvas, but so life like its beautiful. However it's not a painting I'd buy hang on my kitchen wall. as beautiful as it is. The second image I like because it looks like something from a Disney movie with the rainbow over the church. Overall as amazing as this work is I found it really funny because of how unrealistically beautiful the paintings are.

Caspar David Friedrich was another artist we looked at which I completely loved! his paintings are so calm and I can relate to some very easily.

"Two men contemplating the moon, 1819" is by far my favourite piece by him. I'm not sure if it was on the powerpoint we were shown but I remember seeing it somewhere at college and instantly falling in love. I relate to the piece because I have a love for just sitting on hills looking at the sky or at the moon and the stars. 

"Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818"

I like how peaceful this painting is, yet as the man is standing on the edge of a cliff it holds some danger. The fog brings a sense of unknowing which kind of adds to both the peaceful and danger mark.

Ted Nasmith - Painting to a theme

I found Ted Nasmith while searching for some cool gouache artists and I was immediately amazed at his work. He illustrates for books like Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit ( as you can see below) and also Game of Thrones, and some other stuff. But he works with Gouache, which is my preferred media of all time, its like watercolour but opaque and chalk based.

but yeah heres some of his work which is absolutely flabbergasting.

Media Handling Evaluation

So we were asked to create work on the theme "Environment" for a unit called Exploratory Media Handling. I really enjoy doing little gouache illustrations of my first rabbits, Vincent and Edgar in space, I just think its a fun, light hearted way to think of them as they were let out of their hutch by someone who broke into our garden during the night, Vincent never came back and my neighbour found Edgar and he died during the following night. Sad times. Err. anyway, I was inspired by Beatrix Potter, and I learned that she too, was inspired by her rabbits, Benjamin and Peter, who inspired the Peter Rabbit books, I decided to make a little story about Edgar going to find Vincent as he never came home, and deciding that Vincent is on the moon so he goes to buy himself a rocket ship and away he goes, while wandering the moon he bumps into a friendly green alien and is invited back for tea, and then out of the blue Vince knocks on the aliens door and they are re-united... yeah..
I feel it is related to the theme environment because first of all I built Vince and eddies home haha, and also it uses the idea of imagination and creates this world where rabbits can fly a rocket ship and go to space I guess haha.

I feel in some boards I could probably have done a better job on some of the story boards as I feel a couple of them were rushed, I've not included all 15 pictured in this evaluation however.

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I also, sketchbook wise, had more drawings and paintings of my rabbits that I didn't include but I should have stuck them in there and or done more. I'l know that for next time though.

yeah..

Photography - UPDATED WITH ORIGINALS

As I posted earlier in my "photography experiments" thing.. we were given a brief on the topic of "My point of view"

In total I've taken about 300 photographs and out of that 300 I've selected 10, live I was asked and then selected a final two out of that 10.. so here it is.. my 10..
the "My point of view" way I went was nature and landscape, I took a load of my photographs in the north of Scotland, which I think really helped me... I struggled a lot trying to find a topic for my photography so I find my trip to have been beneficial.

***I need to get the original of this off my memory stick, as ive been an arse and deleted it off my phone and my laptop is screenless****

This photograph was taken through a decayed doorway or maybe window of Ardvreck Castle near.. I want to say Elphin and Ledmore which are tiny little villages which are, really, the closest place to it haha... umm.. but I decided to choose it because I genuinely just like its composition...

This was an old, broken down ruined stone wall I found in the middle of a field, I liked it because it feels to me, a sense of old Scottish ruins and history, essentially my heritage... I love finding old Scottish ruins and I love reading the history behind it and I love to imagine what it looked like when it was first built and lived in/around. 

I just enhanced the photograph with settings on my phone and played with the contrast so its all bright and shiny. 

Original

****Also need the original off my memory stick for this one****

I chose this photo simply because I love the way the rocks are formed, where we were was a very volcanic rocky area where literally the majority of the North West of Scotland was built on a type rock called Lewisian Gneiss, which is the oldest rock in Britain aged at 3000 million years old.

impressive...

again I just brightened up the photograph on my phone and played with the contrast.. yeah..

I took this photo in the middle of a squelchy field on a hill, on my way to try and find the Old Man O' Stoer... I didn't find it because it was getting too dark and we didn't want to have to attempt to get back to the car through this mud and cow poo mine field in the dark because that would have been a disaster!! However I did meet some very friendly baby cows! I love cows!!!! 

I love this photo because you see the side of the building where the cows live but also, in the distance, you see mountains!!! I love the contrast between the bright foreground and the misty cloudy mountains in the distance!

again with this I just played with my brightness and contrast.

Original

I almost died taking this photo (Just a little exaggeration)... Was SO icy! 

The only thing I done to this photo was crop it a little and put I think it was the Lark or the Reyes Instagram filter over it?? I like this photo because of its composition. ya..

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This is a photo of my precious giant rabbit, Winston, it was taken because while feeding him and the others, he was looking out the garden room (Basically a rabbit room now.. oops) doors and I thought it would make a really cool/cute photo.. the way it turned out was as if he was a silhouette and I have a couple more photos in the topic of silhouettes on my Instagram of my boyfriend hanging up Christmas tree decorations.

I brightened up the photo using the auto adjust setting on my phone and then I just cropped this photo and put the filter Lark over it?? I'm not sure on what one but it was something...

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I took this photo the first day the snow came and I was waiting on my bus to get me into Peebles, but of course out crappy little bus didn't show up.. but anyway I loved the way the street light was illuminating the street opposite and the snow was basically untouched as it was like 7.15 in the morning.. I cropped the photo and put a very slight blue filter over it because I think it made it look cooler and I think that was called Clarendon?? but there we goo...

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AHHH I think this is my favourite photo ever! Compositionally its great, got the sheep over there and the sun over here and the hills and mountains in the back.. 

I took this in Stoer, the sheep were super friendly and let you get right up to them.. was great. 

I think this is classed as a rule of thirds??? not quite sure 

I had to auto adjust this one on my phone because I couldn't manually get it correct.. after I did that though I played with the contrast and saturation and I personally think it turned out pretty cool...

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FINALLY MY FINAL TWO

I just cropped this photo and put a light filter on top. it was sunset and really really misty.

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This was the inside of the cow house thing in Stoer. I really like this photo because you get the slight silhouette of the cow and the sun takes everything else away and all you're left with is the reflection in the muddy puddles and no colour other than the sky.. I think it's super interesting... meh

don't think I did anything to this since the original seems to be the same?

original

In total the majority of the time I had no idea for my end game.. I wasn't quite sure what it was I was trying to achieve? but I quite like the photos I did get and I understand a lot more about settings on cameras and my phone... I think I'm going to take some of these photos to use in my Painting to a Theme unit because I think I'm going to have a change and do some landscape... 

Yeah... 

Photography experiments...

We were given a brief for a Photography unit with the theme "My point of view" 

However we were first given activities around playing with a camera.

These were my attempts of playing with shutter speed

Was kinda fun and I got some really interesting photos from it!

Theres some more which are on my memory card.

Ive lost my other experimental photos, might be on the Mac in the classroom??? 

We also experimented with different types of photography like, Street photography, lighting, reflection and a thing where, for a week you take a picture of whatever you're doing at that time at the same times every day, for example a picture every day at 12.00pm then one at 3pm and another one at say 8pm... I tried my best at this but forgot most days.. 

Those photos you can find on my Instagram because I was stupid and deleted them off my phone after I uploaded them since I needed the space - @mitten_face_

Moving on... We got to play around with photoshop!!! In truth.. photoshop is hard!!!!! 

I played around with merging photos, playing with effects and colour.. and LIQUIFY!! then selecting parts of the image and putting that in colour/b&w

heres soon photos I edited with great difficulty at home!

I merged 3 photos together and then selected around the people and played with the contrast.

And this was just two photos merged together, I wanted it to look like the window/doorway was leading onto the road but I just couldn't get my head around PS...