The purpose for this assignment was to
allow our editing skills to flourish and to also recreate a mundane item into an entirely different
entity. This is by enhancing base colours such as Beige and Black to show
a shadowed effect onto the product as well as changing the consistency of the
brightness and the background.
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Pop art came about near the 1950's and flourished into it's own in the 1960's with the wave of new revolutionary artists and photography, such as Andy Warhol and Tom Wesslemenn. the main purpose was to break the mold and have low value art become accessible to the higher classes by making it more palitable to the higher social standards as well as having the high value art be a lot more interesting to the lower classes.The images that inspired me was Anthony’s Warhol
image of the president of china altered to disgrace him, he made it when President Nixon left to speak with President
Mao during the cultural revolution. He did this to oppose the Communist
Propaganda Machine. For the features of Pop art it is full of bright colours
that stands out, it is also full of energy. Another artist I’d
spent time researching was Idelle
Weber, who was famous for the Pop art around silhouettes and she used
different colours to outline the silhouettes. This enforced the idea that if I
would add few blotches of black onto the product as an outline to other colours
that it will stand out twice as much. Finally I've researched both Joe Tilson and Tom Wesslemenn, they both use a heavy approach when it comes to Pop art with them using a select few colours and having the saturation of the colours to a really high standard. They did this because they'd always had the colours overlapping and creates a nice looking image. Thanks to all of this research I'd gotten a rough idea on how I wanted to present my final design, I wanted it to be instantly recognizable as well as something that fresh and have never been seen before. To do this I would have to plan out my time effectively by creating a proposal that would state what is needed and how i would go about collecting each of the pieces. I had to also plan around other people since we only had a limited number of cameras so we would have to be quick another problem is that there is also a total of three red heads so we didn't get enough light to produce a quality image and the natural lighting wasn't enough to get rid of the shadows. My idea did match up with my proposal since I've been successful in matching up my idea to my final design since the product is a Pip-boy, which is a recognizable item within the gaming world and I've added a fresh new spin to it by having it highlight other features of the product by shading it in. I did a high ISO since we were taking images of a singular product that's stationary so there will be no need to to rush, so i decided to put the ISO on the lowest it could get 80. This allowed to get as much detail into the shot as possible, so this also means I would put the camera on a wide aperture and a slow shutter speed. The location is within the class room and so the natural lighting would take away some shadows while we can remove the rest with the red head light.
For the editing techniques I used was replacing the white background with with a pattern of black and yellow since they contrast with each other nicely, another technique was using the paint bucket to have the patches of the Pip-boy covered in black. I've also altered the base image into a yellowy orange, as well as adjusting the the exposure with the curve tool.
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Photography
analysis - Photo analysis as an
argument from the photographer’s perspective.
The image I've have created can be improved since there seems to be a cut off point where the product wasn't in frame also the exposure wasn't over bearing to the point where it wouldn't be see it, in all I'm extremely happy that it ended the way it did.
Did your photography effectively meet the requirements of your
proposal and the brief? Are they fit for purpose? Yes my photography fit the requirement since all of it was done by myself and I didn't have any external help from the teachers or the internet. However I would frame the shot more since it seem off on the paper also i would have more variety within my final design to get rid of stagnant ideas.
