Starting to take photos

I've started to take photographs of random things that I thought looked interesting to me. I like the idea of taking candid photographs, reflection, or photos based on Otara.

Research. Exploring Ideas.

Smoking Kids by Frieke Janssens

I love the trouble and controversy of these photographs. 

It's amazing. 

For this project I want to take photographs that seem out of it and wrong. 

I like how posh these photographs are, they way they are dressed and hold their smoke. The clothes they wear, the items they hold work so well together. From the way their hair is done to the pose they do. 

Things to look up. Exploring Ideas.

• Street photography
• Graffiti photography
• Urban
• Gangs
• Black and white photographs
• Group of people photographs
• Jail photographs 

Research. Exploring Ideas.

Gangs by Robert Yager

Black and white photographs stand out to me. They make the photograph tell more into the 'story'. I want to apply this into my works as skills and applications. 

South Auckland. Otara. Would be a set of photographs I would want to do. Making photographs hood and keeping it real. 

Taking photographs of street art, graffiti, groups of people, candid photos of people.

Maybe ask the 'rebel' school boys to pose. poke fingers, gang signs etc. 

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Ideas for final. Research: Olivia Bee

https://www.flickr.com/photos/-oliviabee-/albums


So I will be taking photographs. And as an idea I could manipulate them in some way. Whether like the different way Olivia Bee has. She has manipulated her photographs in many different ways. The amount of different effects and manipulation she has used such as, the two at the bottom.....and many more...i don't know what they're called. Double exposure? that's just one. She's also developed photographs, so darkroom. That's two. 

I love the two large photographs above, which are manipulated. They work well manipulated but then I guess if they weren't manipulated, I wouldn't know if it would go being manipulated or not. but It just goes well manipulated anyways. Like it's a memory. A not 'captured memory' kind of thing but like dream, mind, kind of memory. Deja vu almost. 

I really love the different kinds of photos she captures/takes. It's strong. They're strong. Her photographs are strong. From her self portraits to her really intimate ones

Although her photos are a mixed of different scenes/scenarios you are able to see a similarity between all her photographs. They're intimate, close, grunge, strong, deep in some way. I don't know how to explain it exactly but yea, it has that feel. Kind of like you're invading their space but in a way that isn't. (I don't know what I'm saying now but yea) 

(Evaluating this photo, just because.)

Having a shallow DOF in this photograph gives her the attention than it would if it was all in focus.

It suits being in black and white. I think if it was in colour she wouldn't be like, given that much attention. Like my eyes would be looking everywhere, i'd probs look at the background before I get to her. 

Just a few more of her other photographs. (I would literally end up uploading all her photos.)

The props she has as well is amazing. I think that is what amazes me the most from her photographs (without realising it). Such as the photograph on the right ('Scream' kind of thing) 

Her photographs are literally self portraits and her friends.

I just searched her up,  Kurt Soller explains her work better.

Kurt Soller of New York described her work as "dreamy, seventies-inspired photographs of maybe-wasted, increasingly famous young people who just want to have fun, injected with ombré washes of color (often pink)" 

(Exactly that)

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OLIVIA BEE

• Bee's interest in photography began at the age of 11 when she first took a photography class.
• She's 22. Like right now. Liiike. April 5, 1994. She started at a young age and was 14 when her work was featuring in advertising campaigns for Converse, as well as Adidas, Fiat and others.
• She grew up in Portland, Oregon and moved to Brooklyn, New York when she was 18.

Ok, I just discovered her website

http://oliviabee.com/

Artist Research & street photography tips: Matt Stuart

http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2010/03/26/21-street-photography-tips-from-the-professionals/

STREET PHOTOGRAPHY TIP FROM MATT STUART

In this article (Link) :

1. Planning a street photography route.
2. When NOT to take photos on the street.
3. Street photography and the law.
4. What to do when confronted.
5. Do I need permission to photograph people on the street.
6. How to avoid being spotted when shooting street scenes.

Evaluation on this article:

• Be quick.
• It's important to know if the image is worth the wait. So you not wasting time.
• Looking at something else but the person if you don't want them to confront you.
• Smile at them to make it less stalkery.
• Don't need to ask them for permission, because I won't be selling them.
• Wear dark clothing.
• Keep elbows in when shooting.
• Have the camera set. Be ready to shoot and go.
• Take the camera everywhere.

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MATT STUART

is a street photographer born in London. He has been shooting on the streets from twenty years.

Camera he uses: Leica MP with a 35mm f2 Leica Summicron lens

He uses at least 3 rolls of film a day. He never leaves the house without a camera.

He uses digital for commercial work.

The photos below are photographs that aren't manipulated in any way. He spends a lot of time walking the street capturing moments.

His photographic influences are Garry Winogrand, Joel Meyerowitz, Lee Friedlander, Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Leonard Freed and Tony Ray-Jones.

He didn't learn photography at collage. He was an assistant for Marcus Lyon, for 3 years.

4 of his coloured photographs.

So when I go out and take photographs in Otara I could take photos of people doing their own thing.

Keep in mind:

What to have and not have in the frame.

Where you position the people

ANGLES

Composition

Light

and the works.

http://www.mattstuart.com/photography/

Alexander Coggin

   


"...show a supberb eye for odd moment." -http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/alexander-coggins-1

Not really a big fan of Alexander Coggin street photographs.

I guess the idea of what he captures is amazing. I think it's just how he captures it that doesn't interest me as much.

His street photographs remind me of Matt Stuart though. How he too captures odd moments, in a way.

Research Ideas. Exploring Ideas

http://www.deweysaunders.com/index.php/design/ch-18/

Instagram Page

Main words: (I could use in a way)

• Photographs
• Collage
• Colour or black and white
• Design
• Edits
• Cut out from magazine

I was looking at online shopping websites when I found this. I thought it was a cool idea and would be something I would be interested in. 

AN INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST DEWEY SAUNDERS by NEONPAJAMAS

In the 2 photos above you can see the difference of how it came together. The photograph itself and the design that is added onto the photograph. 

What now: (And ideas that I could do for this project)

• Research how you add designs.
• Take some photos. Maybe candids, people smoking, handshakes, chilling, hanging. Make photographs look urban or something. 
• Angles. Get different angles. Angles. Angles. Get different Angles. 
• Formation. How the humans are formed in the photo. standing, sitting. If looking at camera or not. Make their angles look chilled and straight. 
• Think of what pictures I could add onto the actual photograph. How it all relates and works or just for fun.
• Take photograph of someone holding a 'drink' like drink, alcohol drink. Just because. Angles. 
• Now you need to forward and give me all the work work work work work work.

• YOU SHOULD HAVE LIKE HEAPS OF PHOTOS BY NEXT WEEK FRI. FIND IDEA somewhere in those shots (Shots that I will take) cause I call the shot shot shots like brap brap brap.

ADD IDEAS YOU HAD ON PHONE (notes) ON NEW POST (on blogger)

DSLR. Class notes

DSLR: Digital Single Lens Reflex

A camera is a light tight box with a hole in it.

The thing in the world that makes that photographs is the light.

2 main things you balance with light on your camera: Aperture and shutter speed

So altogether it will be 3 main things: Light, aperture and shutter speed.

ISO

ISO: The way the camera measures light. how sensitive your camera is going to be

Lower ISO-less sensitive, so low ISO like 100

Higher ISO-It's sensitive a lot, so high ISO like 400

Smaller the hole, less light, blurry the photo, Deep DOF (everything in focus)

Bigger the hole, more light, moving image photo, Shallow DOF (Focus on one thing)

100-200 ISO if outside

400- ISO if inside

higher the ISO, gets grainy, gets noisy but smooth.

LIGHT LIGHT LIGHT is telling us what we need for an ISO

Day time-low ISO

Night time- High ISO

APERTURE:

if photos are dark need more light, so aperture goes high.

WHITE BALANCE:

A camera sees colour. It sees less than a human eye.

All light is colour.

Tungsten: Yellow

florescent:Green

daylight: Blue

Opposite colours

Red-Cyan

Green-Magenta

Yellow-Blue

So if there is to much red you have to take out the opposite colour, cyan. (something like that)

Keep In Mind

Plan a head of what I am going to do for this project.

So research similar artists on whatever you're doing.

(so like how Pas is doing t shirts so look up those who do t shirts etc etc. so he will look up POPO hardware in research.)

Ideas I could do for this project

Go explore the environment so I am able to know how to display/portray my work.

One word on research

• Information
• Google

1. Reflection: That could be shots of mirrors, windows. (Anywhere you see a reflection)

2. Studio photographs: How would do show this? Still life? Models? What kind of studio photography.

3. Street Photography: 

• I could go around taking photographs of empty spaces. 
• Add people in the photographs doing their own thing. candids.
• Do it only in one area. For e.g, South Auckland or Otara? 

3a. Shots I could take for Street Photography:

• Those waiting at their bus stop. People in the bus.
• People doing their own thing.
• Student walking to and from school. Like a before and after kind of shot thing? What they look like when they get to school and what they look like after? Any changes? Because how after school a number of students are in mufti. 
• People playing at the park. The basketball court across the road?
• People against blank walls. like blank white wall? or black? If black the 'model' could be in bright coloured clothing or something. They could be against a grafitti wall?

4. Nature: 

• Everything and anything nature. Sky, clouds, flowers, plants etc.

5. Buildings:

• Everything and anything of buildings. People can be in the frame. A whole group of people? a crowd of people? like in general, not related to buildings. 

Vision Board

Vision Board. 

Go out and take photographs. 

Make a tumblr website or instagram.