This document provides an evaluation of the photographer's work. It discusses the visual style, audience, influences, intentions, technical process, and skills gained. The work features color, repetitive patterns, and watery textures. It is influenced by photographers Michael Wolf and Rob Sheridan and their use of color and tone. The intended audience is younger generations interested in technology and urban living. The photographer aims to show how technology can discover beauty in everyday scenes but faced some technical challenges around blurriness when zooming.
2. Visual LanguageMy work features colour repetitive patterns, geometric shape, and some watery textures.
In this photo I have used colour and repetitive shape
to show how technology can enable us to discover
beauty and excitement amongst boring everyday
scenes. Over the majority of the picture the colours I
have featured are grays and browns, though in one
small section of the image where I have glitched it the
colours are bright and varied. Rectangle shapes are
featured repeatedly across this image to make the
building seem more dull and endless. The way I made
sure that the image looked repetative and endless also
was by cropping one segment of an image of a
building and repeating it over and over, rather than
using one solid image.
I have tried to make this image look as if it is of a reflection in water. To do
this I have used colours and textures. I decreased the vibrancy of the
colours in this image and I distorted around the lamppost to create the
look of ripples. I wanted to create the look of rippling water in this image
to represent how editing photographs using technology such as photoshop
is only a distorted reflection of reality. All the contents of my images
feature everyday scenes for people who live in urban areas of England,
further showing how technology can effect how we view everyday scenes.
3. AudienceAs the theme to my work has been strongly technology based, my audience would be a
younger generation. People into computer programming or IT may be interested in my art also
for the technical side of things. The contents of my photographs are of built up areas, meaning
I may attract people more into urban living. The main audience I am attracting though will
people into modern art, photography and people who enjoy attending art galleries. Typically
people into modern art and photography are a mixture of young men and women aged
between 17-27, and I think many people of this age range attend art galleries, and so would
have access to viewing my work.
4. ContextAll of my work has been influenced by modern photographers. The two key photographers that
have influenced me are Michael Wolf and Rob Sheridan. Wolf photographed content that I
wanted to photograph also, such as people from far away and densely packed buildings.
Sheridan glitched his images, though I used a different technique to do so his work inspired me.
They both used colours and tone in their images that influenced my work, Wolf using natural, if
slightly dull lighting, and Sheridan using a vibrant range of colours. An example of how I have
used this combination of natural and vibrant lightis shown below, where the outer images are
slightly dull, and the very inner image is vibrant with lots of random different colour.
Here is an example of the
work of Michael Wolf that
has inspired my work.
This is an example of one of Rob
Sheridan’s pieces that also
inspired my work.
5. Realization of intentionsI slightly changed the content of my images. I was going to focus much more on people than on
architecture, though I only ended up with 1 final image of a person, and many of buildings. This
was due to the areas I was photographing in, they were both completely deserted buildings
where people didn’t goveryoften. However I stuck to everything I intented to do for the post
production process such as glitching, distorting and pixilation of my images. While taking my
photographs I originally intended to slightly distort the images by using zoom an excessive
amount to get a more pixilated image, however this was not the case as when I zoomed in on
things I wanted to photograph it only made it blurry, this was partly due to zooming in and not
lowering the shutter speed. Another thing I had to change was the original method I intended to
use to glitch my images. Originally I wanted to edit the HTML code of the image, though I had to
change my method as editing the images code was a lot more difficult than I had anticipated.
6. Fitness for PurposeI intended my images for art galleries or books. My work is fitting for this purpose as the images
serve no purpose but to express an emotion or to put a point across. They would be useless in
many other contexts as the images are too distorted and glitched, they do not give a true
reflection of the content I was photographing. I can see a few of my pieces making it into a
gallery as glitch art is becoming more and more popular and respected. I also think that some of
my pieces are thought provoking and interesting to look at.
7. Technical QualitiesI had some technical difficulty with my images, as I had left the shutter speed quite slow when I
zoomed in on things many of my images came out blurry. I kept the f number fairly high, as I was
sometimes taking photographs from a distance I did not want anything closer to the camera
obstructing its view. The majority of effort I put into these photographs went into the postproduction. One of the main technical aspects to my post-production process was glitching my
images. I did this by converting them into a photoshop raw file format and lowering the pixel
width and height. Though this method was not what I originally intended, it was very easy and
efficient.
9. Skills and Knowledge GainedI have learned how to create glitch art a simple way through photoshop. I have learned about
camera settings such as DOF, shutter speed and white balance which has enabled me to tailor
my images to how I want them rather than taking photos on intelligent auto. I have learned
about more of the tools available on photoshop. One tool I experimented with and learned
about was the wave tool.
This photo here is an example of what I created
with the wave tool. I altered the wave length
and frequency dramatically to create this
beautiful pattern. The original image has now
completely been distorted leaving me with
beautiful waves of different shapes and colours.
Though the image below differs from the top
one in so many ways, I also created it using
the wave tool. I altered the same things, though
In a different way to the one above. One thing I
changed however was the shape of the wave,
instead of using a classic wave shape I used a
square shape.
10. The Production ProcessSince starting the module I have learned more about how important the composition of the
content of the photograph is to the over all look even if you plan to edit the photograph a lot. I
have learned more about what content and camera angles make a good photograph and what
does not. On this particular project I managed my time very well, despite not having all my
photos taken on time. Initially I had all of my written work finished and up on my blog on time,
then I managed to catch up very quickly on photo editing. Because I had all of my work finished
prior to taking my photographs I had the freedom to focus on my photographs and post
production of the photographs allowing me to put the time I needed into idea generation.
