Multiple exposures

Taking out a film camera we tried to capture movement in multiple exposure images.

These are a few I enlarged, i think they turned out well and capture movement in them well

Capturing the decisive moment

Using a film camera I went around Chesterfield trying to capture the decisive moment.

These are a couple of the images that I have enlarged, i think they worked out quite well overall however the image of the man and the train came out quite light in the negatives so came out quite grainy when printed larger.

Multiple Exposure in the studio

We used 5x4 monorail Cameras to capture movement in multiple exposures in the studio. 

We had to plan everything beforehand of focusing and getting all the movement and settings right before taking the images.

This was my piece. I think the concept worked well but the image is a little blurry and I'm not sure whether this was an error during the taking or the image or the printing

Long Exposure Photography

Here are some example of long exposure photographs taken both in and out of college. There are some shorter exposure images too, but all of them capture movement and motion.

At the start of our project we looked into the exposure triangle and these were some experimentation that came out of this. Overall I think they worked quite well.

Life Drawing

During the first stage of the the Foundation course we did Life drawing for three hours a week. Before tis I had never done life drawing before so it was completely new to me. Below are some images of the drawings when I started and then 8 3hour sessions later.

I'm really happy with how far the drawings have progressed. It would have been great to see how much another 8 weeks could have developed my drawings further. I think during the short time the drawings have progressed a lot from the face and hair to the tone being used in the drawings, not to mention the proportions have got a lot more accurate.

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Us and Them- Final Piece

For the final piece for y project I created a badge that showed my partners identity and personality. The badge looked like a cupcake (because she likes baking) and had many other things incorporated to match her interests and answers to the interviews conducted at the start of the week.

The cupcake was pinks for her favorite colour. The bow because she wears bows and likes bows and the floral design as it is her favourite pattern. Also i used roses (her favourite flowers) to make the cherry (her favourite smell).

Overall i think the piece worked quite well to show personality and identity. Also i think the composition worked well as a badge. However if i were to do this again i would have tried to make it 3-D or tried a larger scale piece, but with the limited time frame i think it worked well.

Us and Them

What is a portrait?

The definition of a portrait is: A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant, with the intent to display the likeness of the person. Not necessarily a direct likeness, but it could be their personality or through things they like, something that shows that person. 

To begin our new project which was titled Us and Them we first selected a partner and interviewd them to gain greater knowledge about them. After this we took some images, one a normal portrait and the next to try and capture their personality. 

Then later in the day after drawing a few initial line drawings we created a wire drawing of our partner. I think mine worked quite well. I didn't want to make my drawing too detailed so I just emphasised the hair in my piece.

On the second day we made images out of collage to show our partners personality and emphasise certain details. Then in the afternoon we created long paintings collages of different things we noticed about the person. We also created 3-D sculptures of our partner. I created a mask, putting in a bow as she likes bows and doing cat eyes and whiskers to show features of a lion, which was the animal she picked that she would most like to be.