Creative Production: Photography

Corinne Day This kind of warmness is what I would like to incorporate in my final project.

Inspirational Photographer: Bill Cunningham The way he thinks about fashion and street photography is exactly what I think about. "I think fashion is as vital and as interesting today as ever. I know what people with a more formal attitude mean when they say they’re horrified by what they see on the street. But fashion is doing its job. It’s mirroring exactly our times. " "The main thing I love about street photography is that you find the answers you don’t see at the fashion shows. You find information for readers so they can visualize themselves. This was something I realized early on: If you just cover the designers in the shows, that’s only one facet. You also need the street and the evening hours. If you cover the three things, you have the full picture of what people are wearing." "I go out every day. When I get depressed at the office, I go out, and as soon as I’m on the street and see people, I feel better. But I never go out with a pre...

Workshop: Using Flashlight I noticed that flashlight photography is not my style. I do not like the artificial light; I am more into natural light. However, when I see Nan Goldin's photography, the famous image of herself fascinates me. So, I believe it is better if I experiment with it.

About Nan Goldin Background Born in Washington, D.C., in 1953  Her sister took her own life when Goldin was 12  Goldin left home at 14 to live in foster homes and communes. She was introduced to photography at the age of 15  It was during this period that she enrolled at Satya Community School in Boston, an institution that believed the school should fit the child, as opposed to the other way around. It was there she was given her first camera by a teacher and began taking Polaroids of herself and those around her. From the start, she was an instinctive observational photographer. She moved to a suburb of Boston with her family at the age of 25  Here, Goldin was introduced to the drag subculture in Boston, and a particular club called “the Other Side” An excessive use of drugs and alcohol mixed with abusive relationship were her usual life Where she made friends with drag queens and began photographing the drag queens be...

Notes on The Spectacle of the Other (Chapter 4) The image both shows an event (denotation) and carries a ‘message’ or meaning (connotation) - Barthes would call it a ‘meta-message’ or myth about ‘race’, colour and ‘otherness’.  We can’t help reading images of this kind as ‘saying something’, not just about the people or the occasion, but about their ‘otherness’, their ‘difference’. ‘Difference’ has been marked. How it is then interpreted is a constant and recurring preoccupation in the representation of people who are racially and ethnically different from the majority population. Difference signifies. It ‘speaks’ (229, 230). Images do not carry meaning or ‘signify’ on their own. They accumulate meanings, or play off their meanings against one another, across a variety of broader level of how ‘difference’ and ‘otherness’ is being represented in a particular culture at an one moment, we can see similar representational practices and figures being repeated, with vari...

Group 1 Presentation: Vernacular photography August Sander devoted to an old-fashioned large-format camera known for his "people of the 20th century" project "The portrait is your mirror. It's you" It is about how you control that person Robert Frank has broken the rules of photography and filmmaking Martin Parr known for serious photographs disguised as entertainment documents social class of human This work brings the absurdness (tourists, damaging effects) His style employing saturated colour the use of flash, which brings 3D Ways of Seeing by John Berger introduces the term image "An image is a sight that has been recreated or reproduced"

Week 3: Workshop @ Attenborough Cafe Before: After: Before; After: Changing Exposure and Brightness

Chapter 1: In the book Ways of Seeing written by Berger, Berger talks about what is involved in seeing, and how "[t]he way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe" (8).  He points out how modern technology in the forms of reproductions, for example photos and videos, have changed the way people see and experience it.  He insists that this change of reproduction has obscured the real meaning of many images.  In fact, with today's reproductions, many reproductions can now been seen in many places at once, by different people, even the other people that the painter originally intended his/her art work to be viewed under. However, it used to be only one piece of art; there was no such things as original.  Although today's reproduction allows the access to art to anybody, Berger argues that this reproduction creates a distinct value between the original and the reproduction. This is because "[w]e never look at just one thing; we are a...

Composition The Golden Section This can be used as a method for placing the subject in an image or of dividing a composition into pleasing proportions. It is based on the "Golden Number", which is a mathematical sequence of numbers discovered by Leonardo Pisano (Leonardo of Pisa). Examples of Golden Ratio Photography from google photos: The Rule of Thirds This is a way that divide the frame into thirds from top to bottom and from left to right. The focus of interest must be placed at the intersection of these lines. It is a commonly used composition method among photographers. Examples of Rule of Thirds Photography from google photos: Dynamic Symmetry This is an another way of creating the focus of an image. Although it is based on the Golden Ratio, it uses diagonal lines rather than a grid to establish the most pleasing place for the point of interest. Example of Dynamic Symmetry Photography from google photos:

Discussing the Inspiring Portrait Photography https://padlet.com/ev203/zzkd45lt9ygn Tom Hunter I like how the colours are simple yet are in a good combination; It uses basic colours, such as blue, red, and green.  The lighting is good. Add caption I like the atmosphere created in this photo I like how the image brings the whiteness in the centre, allowing the girl to stand out by the white dress she is wearing; she seems to be the centre figure The fence is dividing the image into the nature and the human I really like the use of colours in this photo, especially the use of colour in two children's; skin tone, the light blue clothes, and the whiteness they have on their mouths; also the red car stands out and combines well with the light blue since they are contrast colours In addition, the composition is good Although the man does not really stand out that much due to his dark clothes, I like how the image creates excitement ...