Final Evaluation

From doing this course, I have researched many of different artist. Their work has inspired me to think outside of the box and expose myself to different emotions within photography. It has allowed me to know how to present my work with the meanings in the picture anther than in text. Photographers such as Bill Brandt gave me  further interest into looking into body form and shape. He gave me the aspiration to delve further into complex photographs.

I have developed in my technical skills via the camera itself. I have gotten used to holding the camera in different positions and learning the different shutter speeds in order to get movement. Also I have learnt to use different aperatures e.g. A small aperture number will allow more light in.
Furthermore, I have develop new skills in photoshop like learning how to use levels, liquify and filter gallery. On top of this, I have learnt how to manipulate images such as selective colour and 4th plinth.

From the first photograph I have taken you can see a major difference. This is seen in the ways of my actual subject e.g. from just basic flowers with no meaning, to photos of light refections and\or culture representations. The ways in which I have developed come from my mind being opened to more than just a photograph but rather to capturing pure things. I found an interest in photography more as the further I did the course. I think I have also developed as before I stayed in an automatic setting, where as now I use manual settlings.

Dual Tone

Computer and physical experiments are a good way to demonstrate my abilities to experiment. In my computer experiments I see things such as dual tone, Black and White, Repetition.

Black and White

Repetition 

I also used experiments with physical experiments. I used things such as glitter, fake blood, ripping paper. Doing these allowed me to change the meanings of pictures of even highlight them. I think they show a different side of photography. 

Going further into the future, I think my work is heading in the direction of still life photography. However, In my unit 2, it is heading in the direction of Cultural and conceptual. I think I would like to combine the two together to make conceptual still life photographs.

I think I became more successful towards the end of my photography course. In the beginning the formal elements such as shape and line were not that good, however, I think I became more confident towards the end with things like depth and portraiture. I also think that I succeeded more in my Photoshop skills more than things like studio set up skills. 

Overall, If I could redo my unit 1 again, I would. However, I think that it is not bad for a first attempt.

Connecting Essay Five

This is a photo taken by Jeffrey Koons. Koons is an American artist known for working with popular culture subjects. I like the way that the photo is creative and fun, whilst showing something that si very common; dogs and balloons. I thik that his work really influenced me to try out some cultural things, but a more serious culture. However I still wanted to be creative.

Here is a photo i took:

I knew that I had a pink light up Buddha. Knowing this is decided to photograph it in the dark to be able to bring culture in and also have to bright creativeness of the pink glow.

I would have liked to get the photo from a little higher up, however, I really like this one.

Connecting Essay Four

This is a photo of Marilyn Monroe taken by a very famous photographer; Richard Avedon. Avedon was an American fashion and portrait photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century" 

I really like the way his photos are so effortlessly beautiful. The women looks fresh and fun.

Here is a photo of mine in that style:

I wanted to have a photo that is similar to Avedons, yet, I wanted to differentiate it. Here, I had my model stand up so I could get more of her body in. We are good friends, meaning that I was able to make her laugh and whilst doing so I subtly took the photo. I edited it with a white to grey gradient so that the photo looked more pure and innocent with her smiling.

Connecting Essay Three

This is a photo taken by Rut Blees Luxemburg. Luxemburg is a German photographer. Her technique is to take photographs at night, mostly exploring the urban landscape.She is a Tutor at the Royal College of Art. I really like the way her photos show nothing, yyet so much. Her photos show more of the grimey side of under paths and night life. The way they are edited with a lot of warmth gives it an edgier and dirtier look.

Here is a photo I took in her style:

I took this photo at the back of an abandoned children center. The subject is in the same style as Blees, however, the editing is not. I think I could make it more similar if I were to edit the picture to e warmer and darker. However, I could only take the photo during the day.

Connecting Essay Two

This is a photo taken by Irving Penn. He was an American Photographer who was known for his fashion, portrait and still ice photography. I like the way the man looks deadpanned yet has a shocked facial expression and his attire is not perfect, e.g. he has a loose strand of hair in his face.

Using inspirtation form Irving Penn, here is a photo i took:

I liked the way the photo was deadpanned, and so I asked the girl I was photographing to be dead panned. AS you can see, she is. However, she is slightly pouting. I think this makes the photo look very posed, not as much like Irvings. I also wanted to keep this photo in colour so that you can see her eyes more as they were very piercing.

Connecting Essay One

This is a photo taken by a photographer named Vivian Maier. Maier was a very big feminist and movie critic. She could see detail and knew what people liked and how to entice individuals. 

I really like this photo as I feel like it shows her being in someone else life, even if she isn't welcomed, but she is still standing there strong. I like the way that message is given out, that you will not always be important to the people you are surrounded by, but doesn't mean you should let your feet cave in.

I used this photo as inspiration, Here is my photo:

I like the way this photo turned out, I think it can give the same message. The way the main focus is me, as it should be; everyone's top priority should be themselves, even if it sounds selfish. And those people in the background, walking along, ignoring my presence. That shouldn't effect me. 

However, my image isn't as clear as I did not have the facilities to have a clear mirror outside.

Physical Experiments

Img20160507 16214378 from kaya dalton

The reason I put glitter on the headphones lead was to show that Music and reading can be someones escape. Glitter is commonly associated with fantasy like themes and parties, in which I used this association to show that music and books are a type of fantasy, whether it is yours or not.

Img20160507 16224223 from kaya dalton

I used scissors on this photo to scrape of some of the ink. The reason I did this was so that the scratches emphasises the broken road. IT highlights each crack even more, but also gimicks it. IT allows the photo to be less dark and quite quirky.

Img20160507 16193985 from kaya dalton

I used glitter according to the colours that you could see through the lenses, blue and black. The reason I did this was to show that summer is a time where everyone is happier, things shine and glow a little bit more.

Img20160507 16183773 from kaya dalton

This photo I highlighted the background in red glitter to make the perdon stand out more, I also tuk gems around the sides but the glitter hides that.

Img20160507 16204991 from kaya dalton

Lastly, I decided to put a gem flower on this photo to show the summer and friendly atmosphere. I also drew a swirl and a heart to make it gimmick looking.

Electronic Portfolio

Electronic Portfolio from kaya dalton

Visit Report

Trip from kaya dalton

Information on Artists and their work was taken from sites I searched on google:

http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&ALID=2K7O3RHUZKLU

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/niagara-alec-soth/1100279161#productInfoTabs

https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Broken_Manual.html?id=SDA6YgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y&hl=en

http://www.mackbooks.co.uk/books/1073-Songbook-First-edition-Second-printing-.html

Composite Image Bank

This image is clever because of the way that  the shadow  of a boy is there but only his shoes are actually there. This represents the possibility of a death and someone hanging onto whats not real.

This photo shows the power of the batters swing. It is so powerful that smoke is coming out of the top. I like the way the sky is dark grey making the atmosphere of the photograph become tense.

I like the way this represents the caring nature of a mother to a new level. It shows the way a mother ail care and do whatever they can for their child. It fights stereotypes of women being weaker.

I really like this photo because of the way the face on the persons hand is like a new identity. It fits very well and does not look out of proportion. The fact that it is in black and white makes the photo seem tenser and more serious.

Landscapes Image Bank

I like this image because of the way you can see the moon and the horizon. I think it gives off a calming aura and the blue glow further represents tranquility. 

This photo is good as it captures a large landscape with the trees being reflected from the light. The blue tinge suggests the winter along with the crispness of the snow.

I like this photo because of the natural serenity. I especially like the sheep being captured in its natural form. I think this photo gives off a happy aura as the sun is out and the colours are bright.

This photo is a very peaceful one as it seems like the type of photo that would be taken abroad on holiday. I like the way that you can see out into the sea and all of the colour coordinate. 

This photo seems lonely yet nice. This is because of the lone tees on the middle of the lake, However, the colours seem happier and the background brings everything together. 

Composite Work Diary

In this lesson we were assigned to cary out the task of creating false images. Being able to put two images together to create one hat looks real. I found this quite hard as my computer skills are not that great. I did produce some however, they are no the best.

I used an old photograph of the London bombings in WW2,  I then found an image of an old stopwatch and placed it in the corner of the photo. The idea here was the ticking, waiting for the bomb to drop from the plane onto the city. I like the way the themes fir together and the way that the stopwatch bring some colour into it even though it is faded.


Progression



I did not like this photo that much as I feel the idea did not work. I tried to put an evil eye on the darker side of the peace symbol and an earth eye on the whiter side. However, I could not find the right images to put there and couldn't get it to be just a circled photograph.

I would like to try using my own photos and try to gather more ideas if I were to redo this task.

Mindmap

Richard Avedon Rsearch

Richard Avedon was an American fashion and portrait photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century"vedon became the first staff photographer for The New Yorker in 1992, where his post-apocalyptic, wild fashion fable “In Memory of the Late Mr. and Mrs. Comfort,” featuring model Nadja Auermann and a skeleton, was published in 1995. Other pictures for the magazine, ranging from the first publication, in 1994, of previously unpublished photos of Marilyn Monroe to a resonant rendering of Christopher Reeve in his wheelchair and nude photographs of Charlize Theron in 2004, were topics of wide discussion.

David LaChpelle Research

David LaChapelle is an American commercial photographer, fine-art photographer, music video director, film director, and artist. He is best known for his photography, which often references art history and sometimes conveys social messages.

Jeff Koons Research

Jeffrey "Jeff" Koons is an American artist known for working with popular culture subjects and his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces.
Koons developed a color-by-numbers system, so that each of his assistants could execute his canvases and sculptures as if they had been done "by a single hand".^[ "I think art takes you outside yourself, takes you past yourself. I believe that my journey has really been to remove my own anxiety. 

David Hockney Research

David Hockney, is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. He lives in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, and Kensington, London. Hockney made prints, portraits of friends, and stage designs for the Royal Court Theatre, Glyndebourne, La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Born with synesthesia, he sees synesthetic colours in response to musical stimuli. This does not show up in his painting or photography artwork, but is a common underlying principle in his designs for stage sets for ballet and opera—where he bases background colours and lighting on the colours he sees while listening to the piece's music.

Cedric Delsaux Research

Cédric Delsaux lives and works in Paris, France. After studying cinematography and journalism, he worked as a bookseller and in advertising. He has devoted himself to photography full-time since 2003. He received the Kodak prize for landscapes and architecture with his Star Wars on Earth series in 2005. Best-selling author Bill McKibben has written several hundred pieces for The New Yorker. His writings on nature have also appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and other national publications. He and his wife live in the Adirondack Mountains of New York.

Documentary Definition

Using pictures or interviews with people involved in real events to provide a factual report on a particular subject.

A way of recording past, present of future happenings.

Landscape Definition post

All the visible features of an area of land, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.


Everything on or i the area of land. 

Depth Definition

Focus range or effective focus range, is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image.

The object in focus whilst the surroundings are blurred.

Landscape Straight Images

Hannah Hoch Research

Hannah Höch was born Anna Therese Johanne Höch in Gotha, Germany. In 1912 she began classes at the School of Applied Arts in Berlin under the guidance of glass designer Harold Bergen.She chose the curriculum glass design and graphic arts, rather than fine arts, to please her father.^[ In 1914, at the start of World War I, she left the school and returned home to Gotha to work with the Red Cross.^[4] In 1915 she returned to school, entering the graphics class of Emil Orlik at the National Institute of the Museum of Arts and Crafts. Also in 1915, Höch began an influential friendship with Raoul Hausmann, a member of the Berlin Dada movement. Höch's involvement with the Berlin Dadaists began in earnest in 1917. After her schooling, she worked in the handicrafts department for Ullstein Verlag (The Ullstein Press), designing dress and embroidery patterns for Die Dame (The Lady) and Die Praktische Berlinerin (The Practical Berlin Woman). The influence of this early work and training can be seen in her later work involving references to dress patterns and textiles. From 1926 to 1929 she lived and worked in the Netherlands. Höch made many influential friendships over the years, with Kurt Schwitters and Piet Mondrian among others. Höch, along with Hausmann, was one of the first pioneers of the art form that would come to be known as photomontage.

4th Plinth Work Diary

Today we were given the task to take a photo of any given object, and place it in another photo of our own. Sometimes it  may not belong there, or it will look odd. That is the while loin tot the 4th plinth.

In order to create a 4th plinth image, I decided to photograph an image of my shoe. This specific shoe was big and hefty giving it a better robust look. MY other image is a photograph I took of back alley on an abandoned building. The two do not fit in with each other because most people would question why a random shoe was there, however, it also goes because you would expect to see someone wearing shoes, especially in that environment.

I used a quick selection tool to cut the background out of the boot. I needed to do this otherwise the beige background will be on the image of the alley. I found it rather difficult as I had lots of curves and little ins and outs, I had to mask it and paint in reed on the section I did not want, I also had to use the magic wand to get into grooves and corners. I also added new layers 

This is my final image. I think it looks okay. I defiantly think it could have gone better. Next time I would like to try and create it reversed. To put the landscape into the shoe instead. Overall I am happy with my result as a first time try.