Stina Perrsons

This is an experiment inspired by Stina Perrsons. I took a photo of my best friend, then dragged it into Photoshop, then made a new layer and painted in different shades of purple depending on how dark or light the shadows were. I then went to liquify, and gave it this runny dripping look.

 

Research

This piece of art doesn't sink well with me, because of the message that I see from it, I can see that the girl may not like the boy she's with and who looks like he's going to kiss her, the colours also express sicklyness, the blue on the other hand is known for it's temperature mood, and the blue gives a chilly cold feel to it. Although in this case it may not be the temerpature meaning but the harsh 'I'm going behind your back' feel, so in fact this girl could be leading him on, for money, drugs, to be popular etc. The dripping also seems to give that sense that these two as a couple aren't going to last much longer, the image will keep on dripping until there is nothing left that we'll be able to identify as the same piece. The reason this piece doesn't sink well with me is that I dislike love fakers and users.

This piece of Stina's sinks better with me than the one above, because there's no private body parts, those are suppost to stay private, unless it's to your lover. The colour purple can represent many moods, for example:
Love, Romance, Heat, Passion, Euphoric, Sensual, Blissful, Joyful, Relaxed, Dreamer, Keen, Perception, Intrigued, Mystical, Impulsive, Mischievous/Sly, Irked, Moody.
I don't like that you can't see the details of the eyes, but then of course thats another thing that can help with identifing what mood the model or the painting is in, the mouth can also help as well.

Frankenstein/Hybrid Man

Levertations

This is a printscreen of how to make it look like your flying or hovering in mid-air. The way to read this is right to left, the 'set foreground colour' step come after the 'paint bucket tool' step.

We were told to go outside with a tripod, and camera, and take two photos, one with the model on something and then take the model and the appartus away and shoot again. We did three of these, although we found out later that one wouldn't be useable, but the two we could were great when we took out the apperatus and made a shadow, me and Sophie edited the first one, which is this one, then I did the other at home.

Health and Safety

To keep safe whilst doing this shoot, we had to make sure that the trolly wouldn't move and would stay stationary.

Red Skull Transformation Photoshoot

 

This was a photoshoot where we had to used body painting, face painting, strobe light effect or making a stop start animation. We chose the face painting although we didn't have any face paints, so we used white board pens instead, it didn't give us the thinkness of the colour we wanted but it did the job.

 

the shoot went well, although we didn't have the correct lighting thoughout. but it's difficult to get Dan to stay still, plus the first three shoots were well lit, but it was disrupting another shoot, who were right next to us, so we had to turn the brightness down, the light intesity also depended on how wide Dan's legs were, as it was positioned beneath him, we used a hard light. I was the one who coloured in Dan's face, and Sophie photographed, whilst Dan of course was the model.

 

Health and Safety

We had to make sure that the pens that we used wouldn't harm the models face by reading the ingredients, we also had to make sure that it would come off.

There was also a danger of tripping on the lighting wires, so we kept those out of tripping range.

The final point was to keep the light from shining in the models eyes, because this can cause blindness if the eyes are exposed to the light for too long.

Clown Mask Photoshoots

These are photos I took in my photography lecture, we borrowed a clown costume, and I made the mask in a different lesson, but it was meant for this lesson.  

These particular photos we took in our college's dark room, because of the red lights is the main reason. although I think we should have just used red gels, because the darkness of the room was making it a lot harder for my camera to focus, I should have used P/S/A, then I would have been able to get more focused photos because the more light available, the more quicker the camera can focus. It could also have been a team member as the model moving too fast, I could have improved by instructing him more often and clearly. 

 These photos were the first from using the black background in the actual studio. we had red tinted light provided by a red gel laid over the light, we used hard light because we found it gave a more scary effect to it. The camera still didn't focus as quickly as we wished, but we know for next time we do a photo shoot like this we should have the lighting a little brighter, or set the ISO a little higher.

This was our last photo shoot with the clown costume. It didn't go as well as the one above, but it looks scary enough, although we have to keep in mind that the theme isn't horror, it's supernatural. our model was moving too fast in this shoot, hence why the pictures are blurry, but then vampires move really fast and trail a blur behind them, so this could provide the supernatural look it needs.

 

Evaluation

The photo shoot went well over all, although some of the group could have participated more.   

 

Health and Safety

With each of these shoots we had to be careful with the scissors.

With the first shoot, we had to be carefull of the chemicals because we were in the dark-room.

We had all the red lights on so we could see the room and our surroundings clearly.

As the model couldn't see out of the mask, we had to practise his route a few times, all of them were successfull, he had to take about 6-8 steps. With all three of these shoots, we had to take breaks, to make sure Dan didn't suffocate in the mask.

Photograms

 I created these photograms in college, and had loads of fun, although one of the images gave a hard time getting a good quality one. Photograms are enjoyable and satifing to make, the art we can use them for is beauitful, and i'm told that Photogram means light drawing in latin.

I also photographed these images like this because I thought it made them look more effective.

 

This lesson went well, although I could have asked for Chris's help earlier, because the Photogram with the £10 note took 3 tries to actually produce it, because the aperture wasn't at F11, after Chris came to the rescue, it worked. i really enjoyed this lesson because it was different and also lots of fun.

Tate Britain Gallery

I took these on a college trip to London.