Phobias

Claustrophobia is an anxiety disorder in which the sufferer has an irrational fear of having no escape or being closed-in. It frequently results in a panic attack and can be triggered by certain stimuli or situations, such as being in a crowded elevator, a small room without any windows, or being in an airplane.

Brainstorm Of Ideas

With this photo-shoot I wanted to use an in animate object as a representation of a human person.

I went with a mannequin as they are made to fit body types of various different people and this links directly to the idea that anyone can have claustrophobia and it can affect anyone at any point.

The main idea behind it is to target the idea of the emotional trauma and influence it has on the sufferer at the given time.

The emotions I want to get across are:

Anger
Scared
Drained
Urgency

These emotions are the few chosen that become effective in art and photography based works.

With the mannequin I wanted to edit it with pure colour and make it very dark but allow the colour to be completely saturated.

I used the contrast tool to adjust the different shadows and intensify the hues of yellow in the material and make the shadows a dark brown so that there is some highlights and darkened areas

I then adjusted the hue into a orange but then did not colourise the whole image as it will be too yellow or too brown so that allowed me to openly adjust using the levels and contour tool.

I used the blemish tool to remove the many bleach marks and the writing on the mannequin.

With this hand I wanted to experiment with intensity and bring the more flesh and human element out of the whole overall image.

I used the contour tool and made the creases more intense and darkened the bottom of the hand to allow pushed feeling to the screen so that the people who look at the image in its final positioning would be feeling the urgency and intensity of the situation and gives an insight to the mind of the person who has claustrophobia.

I made sure there was still a connection in colour schemes with the mannequin and the hands.

Here I wanted to get the emotions and urgency of the claustrophobic box over to the audience as it allows the people to understand the mindset the people have when the claustrophobia kicks in. The image was initially all photography based but as I became close to completion the image in its final form seemed to be more collage based and more mixed media. The main thing that I liked about this outcome was how well the context came across and the colour schemes all being in a brown tone.

With the image of the corridor I wanted it to be closed and very confined. The intention is to make a closed space seem like the further you move the closer it gets to closing so I wanted a dark hall and then decided to edit it quickly into black and white to contrast the mannequin so the mannequin stands out in the final image.

The image I want to create is the mode standing in the foreground of the image of the corridor then the second outcome for experimental ideas is to have the model be half way in the image so you can see the corridor in the image ad then get the whole closed concept into the minds of the viewer.

With this mannequin I edited it in a way that got the intensity out of the colour and then made sure it contrasted well against the background of the corridor and the black and white monochrome tones.

The tools used were:

Magic wand
Levels
Contrast
Hue and Saturation

These tools were all used to clean the image out and make the colours more intense.

With regards to the hues of yellow I also added more brown/orange to the edges of the mannequin for shadowing effect.

Here is the first intentional piece that was created using the corridor and the mannequin images. I wanted to get across afraid and a state of quick escape using just tones and colours as thats a way that is least explored in art forms so I want to bring that essence out more. Using black and white monochrome tones as a background I wanted the foreground to be the mannequin but upon closer examination I decided the images background is too dark to show the location so I wanted to get another piece done but showing the more decisive route of where the mannequin should be placed and the changing of the backgrounds tones as they are really dark.

With this image I wanted to do the same ideas as the top image yet clean up the editing a bit so that the image and its intentions were still clear and not being hidden. The image above was positioned with the mannequin to close to the front of the image and so I moved it back so it looks more closed and more confined and then lightened the background so it now looks like a corridor for the mannequin to stand in.

Megalophobia Photoshoot

Megalophobia is the morbid and irrational fear of large objects. Now, this is a pretty general definition, so here is a further explanation: the fear of “big things” could refer to a variety of objects, such as modes of transportation, animals, buildings, etc.

Experimentation

Photographers/photography of Megalophobia

Amy Carson

Amy Carson is a photographer who is based in and around the UK. She is a regularly commissioned photographer for an agency that creates remembered weddings and various celebrations.

She became the topic of talk on many news outlets as she collapsed at an event of her own after a plane had flown over head. She became aware of the phobia of large objects since this accident had happened.

The photography she does on her own is her and strictly about her personal fear of large things.

I feel her personal connection to this phobia allowed her to explore with no boundaries as we see here in the bottom image of her looking into the computer seeing the plane.

With her work she seems to make sure emotions were key and her reactions were also linking to the surroundings.

I think I will make this known in my work too as it is very effective in a way that gets the audience engaged with the image.

I also like that this is about her because most photographers never really use themselves because it defeats the idea of a photographer taking images of other people.

Planning

With this photo-shoot we have been set the task to choose our own particular phobias and then use photography as our outlet for the representation of the phobia. I decided to go with Megalophobia which is the fear of large things. I want to go for the both a unique approach maybe exploring emotions on the person scared and then also seeing if I can do a typical 'tall structure' fear where I go out and take various pictures of large buildings and towers.

I really want to do an approach on emotion where we use a face rather than someone tall because emotions seem to get across well with an audience and allows people to get the connection between people.

I also feel that with the emotion idea I would need a normal background and a model that is preferred to be quite small so that I can set a tripod up in its highest possible height and take the photograph from looking down on the small person where the model will be posed in a scared and almost terror state.

The camera will be set on aperture priority as I could then allow it to adjust to the various locations I could in which take these images. I want to also try maybe using a doll that can be portrayed as small and then experiment with various set ups that give different depth in the image.

Productions and Final Outcomes

Subjects // Buildings

Subjects // People

Here I decided to go on location to Waterloo/Southbank. Here I wanted to experiment with depth of field and the focus on the camera so I chose to use this location specifically for buildings and height but then taking the images from a low down space so it allowed the buildings to almost tower over me and then portraying me being the smaller person.

The camera settings here were set on Auto ISO, 1/250 shutter speed. The setting used was aperture priority which then adapted to the various shows that came through on these sets of images.

I had a little bit of difficulty because of the road works going on near to the crane as I wanted to get closer but there was no pathway to stand on nearer to the crane to allow a directly below look to the image but I decided to stand on an island in the middle of road to allow myself safety and also being as close as possible to be underneath the crane.

With regards to the editing of the image I decided to use Adobe Photoshop and then use the blur tool to blur the cranes and buildings then used the sharpen tool to get the crane in the middle to stand out.

I used the contrast tool to get darker effect and almost daunting effect.

Final Outcomes of edits

Here I decided to go close to The Shard and experimented with new coloured lenses for my camera and used a red hue lens over the top of my original lens.

Using the gradient of the additional lens I wanted to get the feeling of danger and urgency within the frame and to do so I wanted to connote the red to be a danger colour and a frantic atmosphere.

I used the normal settings of Auto ISO and have the camera on aperture priority so it can auto adjust to the location as the location at the time was ver very dim with light yet oddly diffused due to the cloudiness of the city at the time.

I feel the fog that covered half of the shard was a brilliant touch as it then gets the height idea into it and gives off that very strong tall and fearful effect.

The lens I wanted to additionally add to was the orange hue one as it would get a more ombre effect in the image.

With the images editing I had decided to just adjust it slightly with the red hue to be more intense and then also changing the mid tones in the contrast tool as I felt a little darker adjustment will give it the kind of eery effect especially relating to the person who has Megalophobia.

Here in the image I decided to use one of the biggest avoided landmarks in London for the people who have Megalophobia and I feel the fogginess of the day allowed it to be more dense and shadowed.

I decided to edit this a little by darkening the wheel so it came through and did not completely disappear into the fog.

I used the contrast tool and the sharpen tool to allow the darker wheel effect but did select and edit sections individually.

With this image I wanted to explore the emotions of a person who has Megalophobia and take the image from above as though the person who was really tall was looking down from above. The image also depicts my model to be scared and looking up and this image only had minor editing of vague contrasting and adjusting to the hue and saturation of the whole orange tone from the lights in the room.

With this final outcome I find that the image gets across the feelings and symptoms of the chosen phobia: Megalophobia.

A major symptom of Megalophobia is dizziness when near a building or something that makes the person seem small or towers over the person. The idea here was to create that effect using layers on photoshop. I duplicated the main layer 3 times then sent the other two layers to the front and then adjusted the opacity and moved each layer over slightly from side to side to find an ideal suit to the dizziness effect.

Another thing that I saw was a major symptom was the idea that some peoples vision becomes impaired and light seems to be withdrawn causing them to sometimes blackout. With this information I went and adjusted the contrast and then adjusted the levels to give the bottom of the image a more dark effect and allowing it to link to the people personally to show vision.

The idea of the crane came to me as one of the most common ideas of something that towers over people so I took this idea and adjusted it to show the dizziness.

The camera settings were adjusted to Auto ISO and using my Canon EOS 600D I used the stabiliser button on the lens to allow me to hold it upwards and not make completely blurry images. I had the shutter speed up to about 1/250 and this allowed the various photographs I took to look similar and easy to play around withe specially each one having even the tiniest bit of difference to allow for a more trial and error feel.

With this image I used the camera setting wisely to allow a very dark rimmed effect on the frame and then also allowed the aperture priority setting to adjust accordingly to the surrounding lights which at this time was the lights from the dimming sunset.

The very harsh light allowed the image to be shadowed and very dark which then allowed me full access to the idea of someones vision being impaired to the overall tall buildings and then causing a black out effect similar to the symptoms of the a person who has the phobia.

I then adjusted the image on photoshop using the selection tool and allowing the light to come from the middle and then darkening the sides of the buildings to allow a contrasting effect.

The settings for the camera were; shutter speed 1/250 with the camera leaning on a wall and then the aperture open wide enough to allow all light possible inside and then the ISO was set onto Auto to allow it to auto adjust.

This image was effective with the ideas and concept behind it and the way the image was edited in layers keeps a great consistency of work and shows my skills in the editing and production stages of my style of working.

With this image I wanted to make sure the consistency of ideas were flowing and not creating vast differences. So here I was using the same settings as the other images above and this time I focused more on editing and more on the ideas of landscape and concepts.

The tools I used were selection tool for editing the bush section below to allow it to be significantly darker. I also used the sharpen tool on all three layers and then adjusted the opacity on each one to allow a more seeing through effect that I feel creates more of an effect with the audience that views this image.

Overall this photoshoot was very effective as the images all came across to me as a strong idea and strong concept on both ideas of emotions and physical representations of the images and the phobia: Megalophobia. The only thing I would change is the darkness of each image as sometimes I feel my editing is a bit too strong on the audience.

Megalophobia Pinterest Pages

Here I found various images on Pinterest as listed in Megalophobia and in Getting Over Megalophobia. With this research I could only find one photographer who specifies in my phobia so I decided to go have a look at how other people get images that they dont realise to be triggers for people who have Megalophobia.

I found various images such as statues on mountains and castles that are super high exceeding visual height and then I also saw boats that were sunken and the large boats that were washed up but were corroded and almost look horror like.

This allowed me to think more towards structural photography like architecture and things that are really tall that are often used instead of directly going into emotions similar to my first experimentation shoot.

Edward Honaker

Edward Honaker is a 21 year old photographer who expresses his ideas and brings visual representations of his emotions during the course of him suffering from depression and anxiety disorder.

He uses a mix between visually appealing and visually disrupted imagery to express his emotions and thoughts. He was diagnosed with these mental health issues in 2013 and ever since has found various ways to manipulate and distort his own images.

His main muse/model is himself and his photography often explores both editing ways to manipulate and both physical ways to manipulate.

Personally I find his work really interesting as it attracts the eye in a more optical illusion sort of way but at the same time without a visual to his face it repels me as its not seen to be human to look the way he distorts his face in these images.

With this image we see a man who is dressed in formal wear and is made to be black and white with a floral patterned wallpaper.

The idea of the monochrome colouring is to extract any visual way of connecting with the images surroundings so we can concentrate more on the representation on the distortion in the face of the model.

I feel the photographer was trying to get the way his brain reacts and stimulates to the things through the face and the merged of all facial features. This is effective as all we can try to connect with is the image of the body as we can see he was in some sort of tuxedo and was not giving us facial features to decode.

From the article from Daily Mail he was interviewed and asked his ideas and what he feels art does for him and his response was 'It's kind of hard to feel any kind of emotion when you're depressed, and I think good art can definitely move people.'

Here we see a more detailed and in depth approach to manipulation as we have an image of a guy wearing a suit and he has got a woven face that has been cut into shreds and bonded together in a net like format.

I like this idea as it links well into the ideas and the flowing thoughts of someone who has mental health issues. This also can show how each individual strand is a thought and how complex it is to bring the thought out in wording and actions.

The idea of a woven image is unique as it is photography transformed and then photographed again.

A common theme is black and white and the monochrome tones in every image.

Here on the Ignant website we see he is talking about how this image relates to his thoughts and feelings 'When I was in the worst parts of depression, the most helpful thing anyone could have done was to just listen to me – not judging, not trying to find a solution, just listen.'

The image to the left is really strong in camera skill and setting up a camera to long exposures. The shutter speed here would have to have been set really slow so it could get the fast effect on his face.

The idea of using a set that contrasts the time in which the image was taken is effective as it brings modern technology to a older time design of images.

The idea here personally seems like it is confusion or an 'Inhuman' feeling towards society and even himself. This is often the feelings people with depression have towards others and when they think more about themselves. This is quite a strange image but it attracts me because of how relatable this is to me personally.

On Beyondthebody.org Edward says this about his image"Your mind is who you are, and when it doesn't work properly, it's scary".

This final image does seem to connote really well with the idea that he is drowning in his own thoughts and ideas.

The significance of the pond is a visual or his mind flowing free with ideas like water or it could also mean that his mental illness causes him to be well over his head.

The balloon feels like it brings a childhood approach as people often see mental illness as a cause that started from childhood and trauma from that point in a time. I feel it is also the idea that people with mental issues have been known to be treated as though they have a mind of a child.

Overall his work is a mix between great editing and great knowledge in adapting camera skills.

I feel for a inspired shoot I would need to be knowledgable in camera settings and editing software capabilities.

Honaker Inspired Photo shoot

Planning

With this piece of work I want to explore the various emotions and physical ideas behind mental illness and wellbeing.

I want to use people as models and also use myself as a model just like Edward Honaker with the work he produces, I will be using the various design ideas and elements such as black and white editing and blurs of the face and distortion. This particular piece of work will require a good knowledge on photoshop skills and camera settings skills.

I will be using a Canon EOS 600D as the dial set on Manual and then use the settings to alter the shutter speed so that it can allow more movement to the image and then use the model to create large amounts of movement that allows a face to be moving or blurred in an image.

The ideal setting would be 2 seconds of Exposure Time and ISO of 100 to allow good quality framed movement in the image I want.

Productions and Final Outcomes

Edit 1

Edit 2

Edit 3

Images That Did Not Make The Cut

With this particular image I wanted to explore the more difficult to make outcomes inspired by Honaker.

I wanted to create a blurred effect on the model and to do this needed to make sure the camera was set up with ISO of 100 and then 2 seconds of movement where the model was shaking their head so that the movement flows in the image and this was inspired movement from the image originally done by Honaker where he is set on a chair then shaking his head to distort the face.

I feel the composition was set up to allow a more facial feel and rather concentrated on expression.

With the editing the idea was to make the colours in black and white tones then adjust them easily to allow stronger highlights and darker shadows.

The image was selected in the lasso tool then using the levels tool I adjusted the lights on the face to allow a more featureless face.

The intention of having a similar look to the image Honaker had created was very successful but I feel I needed more of my personal touch which I feel did not come through or show itself in the image.

I feel the successfulness of the image was due to a lot of the editing and stylisation of the model. The idea of having no facial features creates a more dramatic effect towards the audience and shows more into the emotions of the people who are mentally ill.

This image of the models complete face distorted was inspired by the same photograph by Honaker where he was sat in the chair with his head shaken.

The image that was first taken was set up with ISO of 200 then 2 seconds of exposure and then the layout of a white wall.

The images were off centre but during the editing process I will crop the images down to allow a more bland colourisation.

The first image I got was too quick so I decided to up the seconds to 3 seconds just to allow an extra second of movement to the image to allow a more blurred effect.

The first image came out very bad but the second was stronger and looks very blurred.

After some editing in photoshop the image became very crisp and edited in black and white to allow the more contrast to the background.

This edit was very strong in context as the contrasts were really strong and show the ideas/thoughts that each person who suffers from mental health issues faces day by day.

This image had come out really strong with regards to the camera skills. The inspiration was the morphed face that Honaker had done in his series of photographs. The idea here was to get a blurred face still but for a shorter time taken so that there is still some definition in the face to allow a mix of tones when morphing.

The camera was on ISO of 200 and Shutter speed set to 1 second to allow minimal movement and still get the facial features and the tones in the face.

The background was kept white to keep some consistency.

The editing came off really strong with photography and photoshop. The main tools used were levels/contrast tools to get the many various grey monochrome tones. Also using the blur tool to move about the various tones in the face to create a faceless portrait.

I then adjusted the tones in the image on the shirt because the image once changed into the monochrome tones had made the shirt and the background white so it was just a head so I then selected the shirt and added a more darker hue to the shirt then made the wall behind more brighter using the levels and adjusting the highlights to lighten the image.

The images here did not make it to editing and finalisation stages on photoshop. The top two were successful in their own states but the face still had a lot of definition which I did not need in any of my intentions. The camera also was shaking in a few of them which was a set up error where the camera was in a corridor and people would walk past.

The bottom two images were my selected worst because they were not successful as the bottom left one had someone else's hand in the frame and it caused a dark blur so it did come out too dark and messy where as the bottom right was too bright so to allow a darker feel I had decided to adjust the ISO to allow the camera to adjsut to darker tones and more definition in the images overall.

Abstract Thinking Photo Shoot

James Welling

With his chemical work I really like the free flow look of it and how natural the forms are in the chemical.

I feel his work was not planned but rather randomly done and in the spur of the moment because here it seems to be very mix matched and the work looks vastly done so I reckon he put ink into a bowl then snapped a picture of it as it expanded and formed shapes.

The technique I feel was to do a sharp fast shot of the inks expanding and then continuously take more as the ink moves and spreads over the water.

On aestheticamagazine.com they call Wellings' work 'repetitive motifs to remove photography from its insistence on the referent in order to arrive at something approximating the ‘essence of perception’.

Here is a sample of his tin foil work where he scrunched and manipulated foil to form various textures and using a LED light he manipulates the light source for the tones of greys and monochrome look.

I feel the set up for this was literally just tin foil and an LED light that is set up and moved in every shot to create various tones on a monochrome scale.

The texture of the image comes from how many times or the amount of pressure applied to the foil so maybe I should keep that in mind with making my abstract pieces.

MK Gallery state 'Welling tested the mechanical and technical parameters of photography, from making his own camera out of a shoe box to using a wide range of film and papers or even making photographs without using cameras at all.'

Overall I feel like James Welling has a unique look at abstraction and taking away a visual element.

His work inspires me to try using various different mediums and objects in my work and then exploit them to get the best angle and shape in the work.

I feel will my work I will need to focus on the tones and shapes in the piece of medium I will potentially use.

I will definitely use tin foil as I feel it can bring out great tones and shapes and also think of using some other unusual mediums so that I can get a feel of difference in each piece I do create.

James Welling is an artists and photographer, his work leads from one end of an artistic spectrum to another.

He does a lot of portrait and painting based work then decides to do especially recently where he has been doing a lot of chemical based photographs.

His past work also includes the idea of using unconventional materials to create abstract pattern and design. The tools used were oil based dyes and water where the oil paint rises to to the top to allow a pattern to the surface of the water then the photograph was taken from birds eye view to allow the background colour come through.

Planning

With this photoshoot I want to explore the various emotions and feelings behind imagery and colour. With regards to this I feel I should pin point some emotions I want to start developing ideas from.

Anger.

Calm.

Balanced.

These particular emotions and feelings are very contextual and are not really explored in photography intentionally, so I feel it will be a great way to start doing abstraction in my work. The mediums I want to use are chemical based inks and water and tin foil. These materials are inspired by the works produced by my chosen artist James Welling. The idea behind the tin foil is to scrunch it and then open it back up to show a change in dimensions and allow right to reflect off in various different tones. For the tin foil work I will be needing LED lights and my camera to be on ISO of 1600 as I will be eliminating light sources in my chosen location.

For the chemical work I will be using natural light by a window but have my work propped against a white background to allow a contrast whilst I edit the images. The editing for a majority of images will be monochrome or edited on the black and white tool to allow a variety of different tones in my work.

Productions and Final Outcomes

With this image of a close up on my crystal I decided I wanted to edit the lighting and also alter the little specs and dirt markings on the crystal so do that I went into curves and lightened it using the mid tones option and then went into the blemish tool and selected the various little blemishes on the crystals surface.

I found this image to be easy to edit as the lighting in the image gives dimension with regards to the LED light I used with a really quick shutter speed of about 1/250.

The lens used was a normal 18-55mm lens as it was the only lens that could focus on the crystal properly.

Here I used tin foil and scrunched it and turned off all lights in my location to allow a more controlled scenario rather than have interference with the outside or indoor lights.

I edited this with the mind set of making it look similar to Welling's tin foil work. I went ahead and decided to use curves to adjust the darkness of the whole image and then lightened the highlights on levels to get the highlights and good of a contrast as possible.

I feel it was successful as it is very abstract as I have shown the work to people and they thought it looked like water.

I ended up using a LED light and my camera on ISO of 3200.

The editing for this image was very similar to the editing done for the image beforehand. The camera was set in the same settings for the whole shoot with tin foil as it was just a manipulation of light on the tin foil material.

With the tools during the editing process I used the curves tool to adjust the mid tones using the middle of my curve and moved it up and then moved the end of my curve to the bottom so that there is a strong metallic contrast in the images final state.

The image was successfully done with my camera settings on ISO 3200 and shutter speed of 1/250, using an LED light.

Images that did not make the cut

Overall I feel the photoshoot went really well as the material and the set up worked really well to grasp abstract photography. I used tin foil as my man medium to work with and used my LED light as my only light source to get different tones across the whole shoot. The material worked really well as every time I manipulated the foil I got various different textures and this worked well for me as various textures creates many different dimensions, and this is what I feel creates amazing graphic abstract pieces.

The whole tin foil shoot was created by the camera settings rather than the light as some of the images (below) did not come out well and this was due to camera settings either being set up wrong or the positioning. The settings were shutter speed 1/200, ISO Auto and my camera was set up on Aperture Priority Mode.

One thing I feel I would change with my work is the material or try using various different materials. I only used 3 different ways to show abstract photography so maybe experiment with various different materials and mediums.

The location worked really well for me as I was able to manipulate my surroundings.

Abstract Thinking Photo Shoot Two

Curtis Moffat

This photograph I feel is very effective in a way that it is shadow based. The image was created by putting a locust on top of the film whilst it develops so I feel that the similar idea can be created by using paper then cutting out shapes then shining the light through the design and it will create a shadow photography.

The designs I want to use will probably link to animals or designs that naturally form within animals such as wings, bodies and animal silhouette.

The main things that would be needed to create a more modern version of these are LED lights and paper and then the camera that is set up on a tripod away from the wall.

With this image the layering is the key to creating the different dimensions and shapes here.

The way he went about doing this was by the layering on top of film so that the longer time you keep something there the lighter or darker it gets hence the various different tones and shapes.

The way we could do this would be creating a collage in front of an LED light and then layer onto more places in the collage and then the areas become darker where if you put one layer on one section it will be really light and almost white.

The best kind of paper to use would be sugar paper then normal paper to get the various different tones in the paper when the LED light shows through.

Remotegoat.com says a lot about Moffat's work by saying 'dynamic abstract photographs, innovative colour still lives and some of the most glamorous society portraits of the early 20th century. He was also a pivotal figure in Modernist interior design.'

V&A Museum states a lot into Moffat's past 'Not only did Curtis Moffat run an avant-garde picture gallery, but he was also a talented painter himself, and he filled the nobly appointed rooms of a huge house, 4 Fitzroy Square, with his collections of Chinese objects and African sculpture.'

Curtis Moffat is a old style photographer from the late 1800's to early 1900's.

He creates various different forms and shapes in his work to show ways to manually abstract work. His work reminds me shadows and shadow puppets.

His work is all done by manipulating light during the film processing, and he creates shapes with paper then over lays them on top of the developing film and it creates whiter areas and the light gets used to darken the surrounding area other than the covered sections.

This form of photography is out dated now so I need to explore various different ways to get the same effect and maybe using film as my photography source.

Planning

With this work I wanted to create abstraction using a shadowed effect in the style of Curtis Moffat my chosen photographer. The way I will go about doing my shadow work is using different light densities of and LED light and shine the light through various different opaque items. With regards to the editing of my photographs I will try to keep them as natural as possible as then the idea that it is home made keeps to the style and workings of Curtis Moffat. The camera I will use will be a Canon EOS 600D as I feel very comfortable with the settings of the camera and the different equipment needed to create the final outcomes. The other thing that I feel will need to be adjusted and manipulated is the location. The home idea will need to be done at home as I have various white walls for the shoot to be projected onto. The items that I want to use will be very domestic items such as bottles,wires and even fabrics with large areas open to create various patterns on the projection stage. The settings will be set up as AUTO ISO and Shutter Speed on 1/200. I will be using a variety of lenses such as prime lenses, telephoto lenses and a kit lens.

Productions And Final Outcomes

Images that did not make the cut

With this particular photograph I wanted to experiment with the various different materials and collage them together on photoshop to make something similar in design to my chosen photographer.

The idea behind this image here was to stretch woven fabric over the LED light whilst the camera is set up on a timer on the tripod. The camera lens is then made to be a kit lens as it made very good for getting large areas when I did not have a wide angled lens to hand.

The image was effective as it gave a dark tone to bring to the overall collage.

With this image I used bubble wrap around the house and added to the top of a brightly lit LED light and then stretched the plastic under layer to create a more contrasting tone to the areas that are more covered.

The main idea here was to get more texture in the overall collage once it is edited as then this allows the image to have different densities of LED light to adjust to and then this can make really cool patterns.

The image was created with the same settings as the first woven material to keep the effect constant.

This image was pretty basic and the way I edited it was pretty subtle as I decided to make sure that the contrast was strong yet it gave off a feel that it is effectively creating work like Moffat's.

The item used was the handle of scissors as this allowed a more random effect yet in person it was thought out deeply.

The main idea to go for here was to show that the collage still had relevance and a deep connection physically with the home feel that I was initially going for but it still kept the essence that it was abstract and then not giving away the whole item.

This one image I did not find to be effective in the overall selection but did end up working well in the collage as it had a essence of human to it that creates confusion just like some abstract pieces do in the way that it does not make people feel comfortable in them selves or surroundings.

This came off as effective as it has the whole dense feel about it and the way that people will look and think 'How did the photographer get the hair?' which is the kin d of thoughts I was going for.

Overall the photoshoot went successful but this did open my eyes to the ideas that some people have to perceive and see things differently about abstract work and the way it is created. the main idea behind the shoot was to give the thoughts and feelings of someone a visual representation. The phobias aspect comes into this by allowing the overall person with the phobia or issues to allow and image to represent the ideas and thought so the person suffering. The items used such as the domestic collage and the glasses below are very effective in the way that they portray an abstract feel and they do not seem to be the way they are actually made. the overall shoots worked well and they get my ideas across.

The main thing that came across as un successful was the lighting as the lighting was always changing as the LED light got more dense and more strong then towards the shoot the light decided to die out and break so it had become less and less bright so this was the only thing that would be changed if I could re do the shoot. I found the location and the equipment easy to use and worked well other than the LED light.

Figurative Final Shoot

Planning

Productions And Final Outcomes

Images that did not make the cut

With this project I wanted to create something very distorting but still visually appealing to an audience. I decided I would go for the idea of a complex geometric glass ball that created a kaleidoscope effect of the surrounding area and the location for the light to enter it as a prism.

With the inspiration for the shoot I did not find any particular piece of work or photographer that inspired me to get to this conclusion I wanted to keep this work personal and rather taking my own ideas and exploring these and not taking inspiration from another photographers work.

The equipment I feel I will need will be the glass ball/prism and then the camera which in this case will be my Canon EOS 600D as I have over the past term gotten used to the settings and the required knowledge to use the newer and older models of the D series.

The main idea here is to get crisp images and then make the other side of the ball to have a good clear vision and distort or re pattern the surrounding area in the vision of the camera lens. The editing will be minimal and so this will allow the overall state to stand out and keep a natural eye visual. I want to keep the camera in both lanscape and portraits as it depends on the moving glass ball.

With the chosen image to the left I wanted to crop and adjust the level of light hitting the chosen muse in the far back behind the glass ball.

To do this I decided to first crop the shape of the frame of the image and then make it more square instead or long and in portrait. After doing that I decided to make the contrast and the images colour slightly more concentrated so to do this I went into the curves option and decided to move the lowest point up the second square and then the top point down by one square to allow the colour to become more contrasted and stand out. I then went into the levels tool and moved the mid point down a bit to get the darker working option.

The editing process came out really strong and the overall look came out really precise to how I wanted it.

Overall with this photoshoot I wanted to capture a more easy essence of pure imagination and creativity from myself and explore it in the way that makes the work interesting and intriguing to the eye. The use of the glass ball was a really good touch to explore with as it allowed me to explore the various different patterns and the kaleidoscope effect that came with the use of the glass ball.

The initial idea had come out to work really well even with no changes and the locations I ended up going to being Stratford, Camden and Waterloo were extremely ideal for the shoot as they gave me various different colours and surroundings to work with in the shoot.

The main thing that I feel I would have changed if I was to do it again would be to experiment more with the camera angles instead of keeping to the small area in glass ball and then also try the more contrasting surroundings and locations.