Film Noir

I've found a theme where I can look at movement in a really different perspective.

I really liked the thought of horror and conveying movement through that as I had searched pictures on Instagram of movement. The pictures were capturing a girl in mid air falling onto a bed, the movement of a girls face/hair all in black and white very dynamic. By having the theme horror is too open and could easily get off track. So I found Noir and loved the thought of capturing movement through smoke, shadows. It really will challenge my ways and photograph techniques as lighting is KEY in these pictures.

I will start off with capturing smoke from a kettle or a cigarette, looking at light through windows, shadows, building up my experimentation for my final piece.

Film Noir

Comparission of artists

Henri Cartier Bresson looks at the decisive moment. He captures all types of emotion and documentation within people, joy, sadness, laughter etc. His images have a sort of comedy feel to them but I feel he looks at natural day to day life movement which is really interesting to look at because it conveys so many meanings. The black and white effect also makes the photo seem very basic, not much editing, it reinforces his theme of "the moment"

Whereas Alexey Titarenko has a completely different feel with his images. They come across as lost, sadness, confusion, deprived and this is because of the use of his shutter speed within movement. It makes the people look like ghosts as he uses a longer shutter and the colouring of the photo is extremely dull as his photos are black and white but browns also. The photos I believe were taken with film so they have a grainy blurry effect to them where as Bresson photos are sharp and clear, they tell a story. These images I don't know what story they tell, maybe the loneliness of a person, the loss of a place.

Teabag transfer

 

The transfer of this is to cut the tea bag, throw away the tea and print out a photo and cut it so it fits the tea bag. Put wax over the top of the picture through the tea bag. Put the tea bag between a newspaper and iron over it, the wax will melt the image into the tea bag.

 

If using enough wax and heat it will work really well. Preferably the photos work when brighter as more sharp and clear. Personally it's not for me as they are quite small and you can't see into much detail especially with my type of photography it wouldn't show it to the best of my advantage.

More emulsions

Some of these images worked better than others. This time I looked at using bigger images and brighter images. It did work particularly on the first image and second as they are brighter than the others. I really like how it came out but at the same time I tried to get rid of most of the emulsion so it came out really clear but I ended up taking off some of the paper which made it unsuccesful.

But I realised I did prefer using this transfer again when using bigger images and brighter images as they do come out more successfully.

Crackle glaze

 

I really enjoyed this trasnfer, I got some great textures. I did wonder if I had put too much of one colour on but I just let it dry and see  how well it worked. I used some different textures such as second and third image to see if it would come out any different in my images. The blue paint came out lovely it was really sharp and eye catching which I knew when layering into Photoshop with my photos would work really well. The texture of it would also be a bonus as it creates a bumpy effect which I love.

 

Some of my crackle glazes I didn't blend in very well such as my last image (brown and yellow) but I think I preffered it as it came out more effective because I know when I edit my photos it will create a really contrasting effect.

 

These are my images and edits I have done using crackle glaze:

 

 

I'm really happy with how this went, I was quite optimistic but I love how brilliant it came out! Some images work better than other such as choice of colour, choice of picture, style, layout etc. But I believe my favourite images are the blue ones with the different  texture. I am really glad I did this as the texture and colour really came from. It makes a great effect espeically with my last image, it makes the photo seem even more mysterious and anonymous. The colour and texture really compliments the black background and person as it makes it seem even more scary.

 

I also really like the image of the sky, I could probably make this even better by just using the crackle glaze on the sky and not over the whole picture as it does make some parts of the image quite dark e.g. houses, trees. It makes the sky look really effective and I didn't change the opacity that much as I wanted it too be quite strong so you could see a different but not see what it is. The texture makes lovely ripple effects like clouds or rain and gives the weather a different style, as it looks more like a piece of art with the paint than a photograph.

Crackle glaze

Designed to produce consistent cracking of emulsion paint. This acrylic medium creates dramatic two colour aged effects. The crackle glaze is applied over an emulsion base coat which will be the colour of the cracks. An emulsion top coat in the chosen colour is then applied over the glaze. The top coat cracks to reveal the base coat.

When it's dried it then is scanned into the computer and is now able to be used as a background layer in Photoshop. You can use these transfers to put on top of another image (a layer) then change the opacitiy so it makes a background. E.g can be used a background for a sky, a house, a studio background, a person etc.

Some images I found on the internet of what it can be like: