Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson is a french photographer who loves the modern look of photo journalism. His photos were always focussing on street photography and life reportage. Very natural photos which i think people can relate too. Cartier-Bresson matured artistically in this stormy cultural and political environment. He was aware of the concepts and theories mentioned, but could not find a way of expressing this imaginatively in his paintings.is a

I really like this photo by Bresson, it's such a different styled photo as there is so much compoisition going on. The way he's looking down the stairs creates a lonely, old effect. The shutter would of been around 1 second, a very quick shutter. I love the black and white effect with the different contrasts of black and white as it seems quite dynamic.

I am going to improve my shoots by using this artist as inspiration such as taking a photo during school looking down the stair case, as I really like the speed of movement and using stairs will make it look busy with the different types of feet and people moving.


His images I feel tell a story as there very documentry like such as with this picture the lines which are shadows could be a sense of prisionment or being trapped - poverty. The culture of the people in this photo, eating bread it looks like quite a poor area. The photo would of been taken on a tripod to capture the shadows and would have been taken possibly 3/4pm (afternoon). I like the way this photo has been taken as it's very natural but it has hidden meanings.

Experiments into movement

 

 

I didn't know what type of movement I was interested in when beginning the exam. I looked at many photos on Instagram and the internet for help and inspiration. This shoot was purely a experiment into movement and the different types of shutter, colour - what I could develop from. It could develop into Titarenkos style of ghostly features, people etc. But I think this style is more fine art from the type of mood it comes across. My first and second images are more fine art and ghostly as the disappearance of a head or foot which I really liked.

 

Improving from this I wouldn't have to go into the fine art, pretty based area I can see from these images I like the movement of body features which are ghostly type.

Alexey Titarenko Modern...

 

This was a shoot I done with using the inspiration from Alexey Titarenko. As before I looked at black and white and old buildings which were desserted and left lonely, I went the complete opposite end of doing a shoot in Cabot Circus Bristol where it is modern buildings and shops and also loads of people. It wasn't exactly a planned perfect shoot but it was some good experimentation to go the complete opposite end and try out different shutter speeds. I really liked the lighting used from the shop windows and the peoplem, how fast their movement is.

I think my angle is a really good one too as it was high up to catch people. The same sort of style as Mark Tull.

 

 

 

This was a play around with photoshop layering a clock over the image. I think it has good intentions as the clock shows passing of time and the movement from the people show this as it is such a busy picture.

Alexey Titarenko 1

Over exposed sunlight 

Over exposed sunlight 

Over exposed sunlight

Under exposed

Photoshop edit of the over exposed image

 

Dodge and burn...

 

 

The shoot went okay, I think it could improve with going back when it's a different day as the weather really affects the mood of these pictures. It was a extremely bright/bleak day that the sky was very boring. I can create the sky by using Photoshop and layering but again it would have to be on a day where the sky was interesting.

 

Positives I can take out of this shoot was even though the sky was boring and miserable it added the effect I was inspired by as it made it seem dark and dull. It also has quite a good effect on the people/movement.

 

My ISO was on 100 as it was a bright day as when i went to 800 it went dark and not very clear. My shutter speed ranges from a 60th of a second, 2 seconds, 4 seconds. I found the longer I left the shutter the people eventually became invisible so around one second was great. If I wanted people still I would of used a 60th/80th of a second.

Paranormal Activity

Paranormal Activity is a horror film which reminded me Alexey Titarenko pictures.

The film is about ghosts and spirits and sometimes some of the photos can look like it as they use such a long shutter speed it makes the person used invisible or half there especially where they are wearing white.



These are some of the photos from the film which show this off. Especially the second/last image of the white line through the image.

My Emulsion

 

These are my emulsions which I scanned into the computer to put as a blog post. This mixed media approach I feel had positives and negatives.

The positives of my emulstion transfers were that it's such a easy task, all you have to do is paint, stick on then rub it off but I felt that you had to rub a lot off to get the picture to come through and stay but sometimes that meant parts of the picture would rub off as you can see in my first image and second. If your pictures are bright, vintage style I think if the elmusion is done correct it's really lovely as it does bring out some nice colours such as my two bottom images in the second photo with the yellows, browns and light blues. But if you trial it with dark images such as the top two in the second image it doesn't work out very well which was dissapointing.

I did enjoy making this transfer, it wasn't my favourite but I think I will trial it again for my exam piece as a experimentation and a further development to see if I can improve the transfer and see how well it works with different images. I will use brighter images and maybe use more mixture so it is really thick so when rubbing off the paper to reveal the picture it won't take off all the picture and leave marks or bits missing.

(My hard copies of my emulsion transfers are in a plastic wallet)

 

Emulsion Transfer

Emulstion Transfer is a new mixed media I learnt during my lesson and I really liked it.

The process of it is here:

Firstly make a photocopy of your Lomograph. (This is really important, the transfer won’t work as well with just an image that has been printed out.)

Next, using a paintbrush cover the entire image in a thin layer of white emulsion paint (This can be bought at any DIY or hardware store)

Press the copy on to your receiving surface (canvas, book pages, wood, ceramic) and leave to dry for at least 4 hours, or overnight.

When the paper is completely dry, dampen the back of the paper with a wet sponge and carefully rub away the paper until your image is revealed.

Here are some examples -