Landscape
Artist Analasys
Guy Tal
Thomas Struth
School Environment
The images below are taken of the environment in school. I took pictures of e mould growing on the walls, leaves and plants as well as trees etc. I also took photos of the old swimming pool that hasn't been managed for years. The images that I took are interesting as they set an atmosphere of abandonment as they are of dirty old equipment with mould growing everywhere.
Second Response
Framing the environment
Artist Research : John Divola
John Divola was born in Los Angeles in 1949. He is a contemporary visual artist and he currently lives and works in riverside. Divola works in photography, describing himself as exploring the landscape by looking for the edge between abstract and the specifics. He mostly takes pictures of the environment from inside. He uses windows to frame the environment ouside.
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Framed Environment: First Response
The images below are taken in school. I took images of the view from windows adding the actual windows in the photo. This creates different frames for the environment outside of the window which makes it look interesting and neat.
Framed Environment: Second Response
I took these pictures from the windows of my house. I used the same technique as before in order to frame the environment and capture interesting photos.
Panographies
Technique:
- The first stage is to go out into the environment and take a series of photographs from one location at several different angles.For this, the Auto or P mode should be selected on the DSLR. The camera should be zoomed out so a full frame is captured.
- The second stage is to use Photoshop to create the photographic panography. This has been achieved following these steps: File > Automate > Photo merge > Select collage mode
Panographies: First Response
Panographies: Second Response
The Formal Elements
The formal elements consist of layers, perspective, contrast, texture, scale, focus and pattern. A good composition often has one or more of these aspects. Below are images of examples of all the formal elements.
Perspective
Below are a series of images that show perspective. Perspective is the art of representing an image in a way that gives the right impression of it's depth, width, height and position in relation to other objects.
Texture
The images below show texture. Texture could mean anything like bricks, windows and hair. |I took these images in school of unusual looking windows, walls and grass.
Texture: Second Response
Taken in Hampstead Heath
I took the images below in Hampstead heath. I tried to take pictures of more interesting textures that are colourful and unusual to make my work more unique.
My London
Below are contact sheets and final pieces of texture and focus. I took some of these images in London and some abroad to vary my responses . For my focus images I focused the camera on one specific thing to show a strong focus. For my texture images I again tried to take pictures of more unusual looking objects to make my work more interesting.
Focus
The images below are of photos I took using manual focus. The photos are of close up objects that are clearly made the focal point of the image with a blurry background to make that even more obvious.
Texture
Below are images I took of texture. I took these photos in many different places as interesting texture can be found anywhere. There are photos of animal fur, windows, walls and tree barks as they create a really unique pattern/texture.
Evaluation
Refined Images
The image below are edited versions of images I took on holiday. I used photoshop to overlay them and create the double exposure images. I think this makes them look more interesting as I chose images that don't normally go together to make them unique and unusual.
Final Piece
For my final piece I decided to create some more Panographies as I thought they looked very interesting and showed a different perspective of the places I took the images in. Below are some screenshots I took that show how you create panographies using photoshop. Once you've opened photoshop you click file>automate>photomerge. That then allows you to load the images onto photoshop. After you've found your photos click either Auto if you wan rounded images or collage if you want straight edge images. Then unclick the button at the bottom which says "blend images together" as this make all the pictures into just one blended image. Below the instructions of how to create one is a contact sheet of images I took in euston of houses and buildings that I used to make the final pieces.