rphc4001 object and body unit. adam eastons

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RPHC4001 Object & Body Unit

Adam Easton


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My Body and Object idea

My idea is to make a series of work on how non tradition meats are being wasted.

My idea came about when I heard in the news, where In London the worlds first everlab grown burger was cooked and eaten. This got my attention and raised the questionwhy dont people go for non-tradition meats anymore, are they being wasted? Wellneither my question or answer I was looking for was right. I looked at more in to thestory on bbc news. Pallab ghosh answered the question to why a lab burger wasgrown.

As the worlds population is increasing there is a greater proportion want to eat. Tomeet that demand farmers will need to use more energy, water and land andconsequent increase in greenhouse gas emission will be substantial.

I was not able to produce lab grown meat, as I dont have the time or the money todo. So I went to the next best thing a pig. it was allot smaller than a cow but I was notinterested as such into lab produced meat, the question was still in my head why arepeople wasting non tradition meats? So what are non tradition meats?


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1. The Body


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So What is a portrait?

A portrait is a photograph or photography of an appearance or likeness of a person. It

can be in the studio, out in a working environment or even just out and about in your

local area. The idea of a portrait is to show the likeness, the personality or even the

mood of your subject. The main focus in photography is the face although it can be

the entire body or even the environment they are in. A portrait is normally not a quick

photograph. It is a composed and controlled image of a person in a still position andnormally looking directly into the camera.


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1. Location


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Butcher

The best place to start was to go to the butchers and find out a little bit moreabout meat. As we know a butcher is a person that slaughters animals and sellstheir meat. Butchers may prepare standard cuts of meat to sell in retail or may beemployed but a large supermarket chains or even employed by small grocerystores, but most butchers are family own. Butchers cut pieces of meat from thecarcass leaving the trimmings to be used in sausages or even cut further.

The cost of food has gone up in recent years and most people can not afford to goto the butches to buy fresh cut meat instead we are forced into buying meats inpackaging.

I got in touch with the local butcher, and photographed him in the environmentyou would find a butcher in. This helped me a lot learning a lot from very wellwith my work, it gave me an idea on how much food we can eat on animals suchas pigs.


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Toby Glanville (Research)

http://www.tobyglanville.comToby Glanville internet site
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Toby Glanville (Actual Life)

I looked at the work of Toby Glanville and his series actual life. Toby's work in his series

is well used in defining quality. His series looks at a range of peoples life's in Kent.

In Toby's Glanville work there is a great stillness and seem never to arrest the

attention of his subjects with out interrupting it. This is what makes his photographs

so striking. His portrait's show great organization. His photographs make us wonder fora moment.


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Test shots and contact sheets


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Final Image


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2. Studio


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Chef (Studio)

I wanted to link up the three photographers together to make a short series of

photographers to match my idea, and no better way to get in contact with a chef. I

went online and looked up hog roast chefs to link it up with my research on

Subrennerkirmes. I got in touch with a chef that hog roast pigs in the local Medway

area and asked him to come to the studio.


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Subrennerkirmes

People celebrate the killing of pigs in other countrysbut in the region of the

Rhineland (Germany) a small town called Wittlich celebrates the killing of the pigs. On

the third weekend in August the festival is called the Subrennerkirmes. It is one of

Rhineland- biggest folk festivals and was begun in 1951 based on the mediaeval

Subrennerkirmes which means Sow Burner Fair. Legend has it that all the swine in

the town at this time were accordingly punished with burning. They celebrate this tothis day by killing hundred's of pigs during the weekend and hog roasting them.
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Rembrandt Lighting (Technique I used)

In my final portrait studio image I looked into the portrait technique Rembrandt

lighting.

Rembrandt lighting is a technique that is used in the studio mostly in portraitPhotography. It is achieved by using one light and a reflector. It can also be achievedby using two lights and is very popular because when producing the image the lightappears very natural and compelling but with out using allot of photographyequipment. The lighting appears to form a triangle under the eye of the subject but

less on one side of the face.

The word Rembrandt is named after the Dutch painter Rembrandt who used this typeof lighting in his painting.

The key light is placed high up on one side and the reflector is placed half height the

other, but using a white mdf board it makes it allot easier for the light to reflect. Thekey in this lighting technique is to create the triangle shape underneath the eye. Oneside of the face should be well lit from the light source while the other side shouldhave no interaction and should show the shadows from the light.


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Test Shots and Contact sheets.


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Final Image


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Critical Appraisal

Through out my portrait assignment I found it difficult because of not being organized. When I firststarted out I didnt have clear idea on what I wanted to do neither have a clear idea on what I wanted to

do. Instead of planning a photo shoot for my object I left it until the very last minute. The otherproblem I had was people letting me down. I arranged people to come into the studio but due to workand other reasons they could not make it so next time I arrange someone to come into the studio I willleave plenty of time.

I fell like the Technique I used was not very successful in my final photograph. I tried to use thetechnique in my photographs but I could not get the lighting set up as good as we learnt in theworkshops, but otherwise I am happy with the result.

I went to the local butchers on a busy day, which was a challenge and photographed the butcher. It wasvery hard as the light meter was reading f1 at 1.1sec due to the light being very dark so what I done ischanged the shutter speed to 40secs and opened the aperture to f4. It was very hard but I was able to

get good exposure whilst the lighting area was poor I also over exposed the film which helped me.

On the day I photographed the chef in the studio I had a operation in the morning so had such a shorttime frame in which to photograph, I dont want to do again, it left me running for time and felt veryrushed but overall I am happy with my images overall and make a good series of work with my object.


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Following on from the idea of the

Body we come to the Object.


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My Work (Object)

In my work (object) I photographed a pigs head with a empty plate.the plate represents the waste of food humans are leaving. The pigshead symbolises non tradition meats and how we dont go meats suchas brawn, the snout and the pig ears (often eaten as a side dish).

Most people discard these meats and go for more produce meat suchas bacon or the leg of a pig known as ham. Not many people in the UKwould go to the butchers and get a pigs head to cook. Most peoplewould be forced into buying meats such as bacon.

I looked at the work of Graeme Batchelor. Graeme Batchelor painted aoil painting in 1966. I was not able to find any information on thispainter. I looked at other painters that painted dead animals.


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Frans Snyders

Frans Snyder was born 1579 in Antwerp Belgium. In Frans younger life he studied with

Pieter Brueghel the elder.

Frans Snyder was the finest animal painter, of his time, Snyder was know for his well

balanced compositions as well as his still life having a hint of action. Having the hint of

action in Snyders painting allowed him to display his skills in organizing a rich variety

of textures, shapes and colours. Frans Snyders worked along side Peter Paul Rubenson a number of still life paintings often in the animal sections of Rubens work.


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Research (Graeme Batchelor)

I looked at the work of Graeme Batchelor. Graeme Batchelor painted a oil painting in

1966. I was not able to find any information on this painter or this painting below so it

was a challenge.

This is the painting I was on about. This is what I

wanted to create in a photographic form but, Having

nothing to know about this image it was very hard to

find information. In my final image I wanted to keep

this image looking like this but with a modern twist.

When I was photographing I become stuck. I brought

some vegetables from the supermarket but never

ended up using them


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Equipment

2x Bron colorpac

1x Bron head

Large soft box

Wireless trigger remote

1x Fill in flash light Wooden block

1x tripod screw thread

Light meter

Sync cord

Large Format camera 6x

80mm lens


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Test Shots

From the last slide here are a few test shots, as I said frominspiration I wanted to keep the traditional feel with the modern

twist in my final image. I took a few shots on my iphone to get theright composition.


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Final Image


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Critical Appraisal

I found it very hard at first not only because I didnt plan my shoot but the lack of props I brought in. Ifocused too much on my image rather than creating the set in the studio which took up a lot of time. Ifound it hard at first but once everything came together I got my head straight and created the image Iwanted.

My research was not put together very well during the object; there was hardly any photographers thathave taken photographs of pigs head so I had to look at paintings but even that was hard to come find inbooks or even on the web.

Due to lack of money I found it very hard to pay for film when photographing the object, I was luckyenough to get 2 shots so I had to make it count. The process of making sure everything was in shape thetablecloth lines were straight everything had to be perfect.

My final image and the painting I found are completely different in there own ways. They both have apigs head but one has more of a meaning then the other one, even though I could not find anyinformation on the painter or the image, it become very hard at the time. I didnt want to create aimage that looked the same as the painting I wanted to create a modern image.

If I could improve on this it would be time management, and not having a operation a week beforedeadline day. It became very hard and lack of sleep and stress was building up.

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