as photography exam final covert and obscure
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AS photography exam following the theme of Covert and ObscureTRANSCRIPT
Covert and Obscure
Emily Hyde
Pintrest.com I decided to use pintrest to find my 10 ar=sts to relate back to my covert and obscure project. www.pintrest.com/emilyhydexox
Idea 1
For idea one I wanted to take a set of photographs in a place that was strange and that no one knows about, I wanted it to see as if this place was out of the ordinary. A place that no one knew that really existed. With this set of photographs I wanted to obscure them by overlaying them with acetate and paint so it was harder to make out what the photograph was to create a more surreal feeling of covert and obscure. For this set of photographs I visited a place that was full of old antiques and had lots of old fashioned décor.
Keith ArnaC Keith ArnaC is a photographer and ar=st. I decided to focus on ArnaC as he explores recent abandoned objects and food. This set of photographs is called the ‘A rubbish =p’. These photographs show recently abandoned items such as food and toys. I like these photographs as they have strong depths of field and they show really strong colours, I like the use of dark brown midtone colours and then the small sense of strong colours such as greens and reds. These photos in a way have a strange childhood feel to them but in a sinister type of way. I feel as if ArnaC tried to show this emo=on towards the viewer. I feel as if some photos are stronger than others.
Idea 2 Blurred Movement For my second set I wanted to create a set of blurred movement photos using the bulb setting on my camera. I wanted to take these photos in a dark room/studio to create a ghostly effect. With these photos I wanted to develop them by projecting them onto material and covering them in copydex to take away the quality of the photos and lastly collage the photos by hand and on Photoshop, I may also use a photoshop special effect called QuickSilver to give the photographs an aged look.
Lauren SimonuQ When researching about blurred movement photography I came across an interes=ng photographer named Lauren SimonuQ. She creates interes=ng but sinister photographs. They intrigued me to research Lauren more, I came across a lot more photography and I found a new set of photographs that were fairly recent they were very strange and looked distressed. In 2006 SimonuQ was diagnosed with a rapid cycle of bipolar and a schizoaffec=ve disorder. She felt she was going mad and spent her last years almost in isola=on. She turned the camera on herself and the space she was living in. She has leV us with an impressive, honest and strong body of work. With her photographs she gave a voice to those that suffer in isola=on. I like Lauren’s photography because I know the story behind her photography and the issues she went through, which makes me appreciate SimonuQ work a lot more. SimounQ’s photography, is different to other photographers with similar photographs as her photography is personal and she shows just a taster of what she feels in her head so that viewers can grasp an idea of what went on inside her head, which I find makes her a beCer photographer.
Exam For my exam I looked at projection. I liked the idea of taking photos of places and objects and projecting them on to a persons body through a projector and through using Photoshop. I wanted to take pictures of people in a dark room wearing white and project these images on to their clothes and skin. I want the photos that are projected to look difficult, to work out out what they actually are. I looked at an artist called David Ayer who projects this photography in the same I wish to complete my exam work. I feel that this type of photography is very strong as it takes a lot of time and dedication to make these photographs and to take them in dark room grasping the right focus, exposure, aperture and lighting.
Davis Ayer Davis Ayer is a famous photographer who I came across who made a project called “<Time Travel>”. In this set of photographs he projects landscapes onto women’s bodies that are naked. I liked this idea for my exam project because It obscures the body. Davis created these photographs by using a projector and focusing it only on the model in a dark studio or in a pitch black room. This made the model only stand out away from the dark room. I like the effect this created, as the eye isn’t drawn away from anything else and you only focus on the body.
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Exam Final Outcomes
Covert and Obscure Projec=ons
Exam Final Outcomes Evalua=on My exam brief was to create a set of photographs under the theme of “Covert and Obscure”. My plan was to create a set of photographs in the style of photographer Davis Ayer. When in the exam at first I felt it was hard to edit the photographs but aVer edi=ng a few photos, I got into a rou=ne of knowing how to edit them. Days before the exam I took photographs to project onto the body and I also looked at some of my old photographs of mine such as from past holidays and decided to the project them onto my body and dress. When taking the photographs for the Photoshop edits I decided to use some from my previous exam prep work, I decided to use them as I felt the exam prep and exam would fit beCer together, I also used some of my first set exam prep pictures of the abandoned objects as well as I thought they would work well on the body when projected. During the exam I was the model for the projec=on due to difficul=es with the model and I used someone else to help take the photographs when trying to take the photographs I realised that it was hard to set the focus right as you cannot see the model clearly in a black studio with no light. So taking the photographs involved using a light to get the right camera focus and switching off the light quickly before the model moved to capture the picture perfectly. My first set for my exam prep involved going to London and taking photos of objects in an old curious shop with many of the same objects and my second set involved blurred movement photography all 3 sets of photographs juxtaposed each other as they did not have much in common with all of them. In the exam I want to give both a view on both how I wanted to portray Ayer’s photographs in the concept of edi=ng them in his views, and edit and create them in the same way. Then I wanted to show the photographs in my own way but inspired by Ayer and show the skills that I knew I could do well and give a good effect to the pictures and that they could give in a way a projec=on look towards them. Overall in the exam I managed to edit 8 photographs this is due to a lose of some photographs but I also edi=ng my photographs that needed to be projected onto the body so overall I edited 13 photographs.