2. Photography Exam Unit For my exam unit I will be looking at the theme ‘Ways of Seeing’. This is because I am very interested in the perception of reality and the way we look at everyday things. By just altering the settings on a camera, the image can vastly change into something different, like a foreground blending with a background. Using these settings, you can adjust anything that you want.
3. Photography Exam Unit Camera Settings By using the camera settings to my advantage, I plan on recreating some of Rachael Sudlow’s ‘Cowscapes’ and some of Bill Brandt’s close up work. They both make it seem like there is a landscape in front of you using the settings of the camera to trick the eye. This is because all of the image is in focus, by using a high numbered aperture. This means that shutter speed will be longer, but will make the foreground and background in focus. When using a low numbered aperture the foreground is primarily in focus and the background is out of focus. F number – 3.2 F number – 9
4. Photography Exam Unit Rachael Sudlow I plan on looking at the photographer Rachael Sudlow. She has portrayed a landscape image using the back of an animal, usually a cow. This set of images were aptly named Cowscapes. These are two images from the Cowscapes set. The aperture (f-number) is very high in both, to make the whole thing in focus. I will attempt to make my own versions of these but using buildings to make the landscape. These images are very interesting as they portray a landscape using objects that aren't associated. The textures and composition make the image into an optical illusion as it is unclear what you are looking at.
6. Photography Exam Unit Bill Brandt I also plan on looking at Bill Brandt, who did a similar project to Sudlow. But instead of looking at animals, he used the human body to blend in with the surroundings. He also used a high f-number to make the whole thing in focus. These are two images from his close up set. The image on the left is of an ear, but could easily be mistaken for a pebble or a stone on the beach. In an image with a low f-number, the cliffs in the background would be out of focus. The image on the right is of crossed legs or arms, but could be a rock formation or mountains. The de-saturation of these images gives them a better effect then if they were in colour. This is so they fit in with the surroundings, whereas if they were in colour, the body parts would stand out.
8. Photography Exam Unit My Plans – Ray Metzker I will create a final piece to do with my chosen theme Ways of Seeing. This will be created after doing research on various other photographers, to see their techniques. My work will question perception and confuse the mind. I will try to recreate the work of Ray Metzker and make a pattern by using the silhouette of a building in a grid like formation. By recreating these images using my own, I will confuse the perception of the human eye. I will making a set of images small enough to blend together to make one giant pattern. This will be difficult but achievable. These are very interesting images as they question the mind and trick it into seeing something else. At first glance it looks like a unique pattern, but if you look closely, you can see a number of images arranged in a certain way.
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10. Photography Exam Unit This is a mock up of what I plan on doing. These are images taken from the internet that have been cropped, rotated and placed in a grid formation. The idea is to have between twenty – thirty images aligned in the same way, so that one image is not recognisable.
