played for a bit
model: Alison Murphy
by : reece Handley
Hasselblad
right had play on photoshop and this is what came up with??
still don't know how to add noise
raw file.
Thursday, 27 December 2012
the first of many(hopefully)
model: Alison Murphy
by: me Reece Handley
yer i was going for a daugherotypeeskness but needs a lot of noise
anyone know how to add noise to a photo post taking of said photo, and or when taking the photo
may have to ahve a play around on photoshop
"there ya go, ya dirty heathen fucker"@The Crimson Fucker
sorry i just had to get that in somwhere, and i may have miss quoted, ohh well
it is 5:30 in morning after all iv only been up 48 hours, ill be fine honestly
richard avedon
attitude, is the mean thing i pick up from this photo. the subject oozes attitude, its in his eyes its in his pose, the look he would give you wouldn't be anything but dirty. and then we come to chose of clothes i mean you need a certain manner, attitude, to pull of that look.
he's looks as though he knows you, and really dosnt like you, and he's not afraid to show it to your face
basicly he looks a bit of dick, but I'm not about to tell him to his face.
i actualy like the use of a square format camera boarder, surprise, i feel as though i has its place and this is most definitely it.
http://coffeecigarettesmagazines.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/david-bailey-photographer.html
david bailey
anyone who claims not to be a critic is a lier..
i wrote all lot about this and had to delete it because i would probable have been physically abused and beaten if i published a post saying some of the things i think about david bailey and his work...
this is very nice example of how not to take a portrait photo, by which i mean it falls completely out of that category, i know that there are no category in photography, but there are rules. this is to model orientated to be anything more than a fashion photo, its overstated and showy..
thats about as nicely as can put the fact that i dont particularly like david bailey or his work, sorry just not a fan..
http://trendland.com/david-bailey-photography/
david bailey
some consider his work to be contemporary ( i secretly don't ) and they also believe that he is a pioneer ( i don't think/believe this, and anyone who does needs to look up the word pioneer ) though he has taken some pretty good photo of some very famous people, i for one don't like much of his work..
this is one his better ones as it puts me in mind of Jack Nicholson best role's, basically acting like a crazy person is very hard to do convincingly but Jack dose it very very well, and this can only be a good thing. its the smile you see it a sort of fix manic grin that only the insane and crazy know how to do. (this post started life as a complement, but i think it may just get lost in translation). making this a good photo simple by default.
i really don't like the boarder, a long with many other things that spring to mind...
Commitment issues ...doing the last few update has been an actual struggle, and not just because of the time of the year, but because if the time of day. started at a little after 1am with a few minor tweaks (adding some much needed LABELS, still more labels to come) and worked though some post, which i felt needed more substance, may have inadvertently added to much substance to others, and now at half three in the morning, unsatisfied with whats there research wise for this project. I'm a start adding more post... errm maybe adding more post maybe sleeping ...
Thursday, 13 December 2012
Francis Bacons studio
http://www.askyfilledwithshootingstars.com/wordpress/?p=971
is this messy? or is every thing in its place? is this genius? or laziness? these are questions i think of whenever i see a photo of this space, other questions spring to mind, like purpose arranged? or accident waiting to happen? did he know that this would even be considered art? because that is what i would consider this as the space an artist works in to be art, no matter how mundane or in the case of francis bacon unorganised, which is a massive understatement and would fall short of the mark in describing this in any language, text or speech...
Irving Penn
http://designyoutrust.com/2012/11/black-and-white-portraits-by-irving-penn/
every time i look at his, picture i notice something new about them. like im looking at them for the first time. like i am the first person to look at them and feel what i feel about them. i carnt describe it in words, but there are very few photographers that are able to achieve it, but its the fact that he dosent just do this, he dose it in his own style and his own unique way.. somthing i can aspire too..
theres an easy confidence to the subject that can be pick up clearly, even if you didn't know that this one his greatest traits, and not only can it be seen in his face but in his hands and the way he is sat. his suit also shouts sophistication. all these things and more are emphasised by Penn in this masterful photo
huge influence on me and Penn's work makes photography exciting for me
Irving Penn
http://thefilmschoolstudent.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/favorite-photographers-irving-penn/
he's capture the mystery of this character.. i mean its unmistakable who this is a portrait of, and he's managed to capture the side of him that everyone gets to see and given it his own twist. mainly with use of the simple. a shadow can change the whole image, for the better if placed in the right place, or for worse if in the wrong place, but irving knows just the way its done, and how to manipulate a photo with use of the simple. he adds so much by adding little..
Irving penn
http://dodho.com/irving-pennthe-first-great-portraitist/
i really enjoy looking at this guys work, i mean iv seen a lot of portraits on the internet, in books, in magazines and exhibition, iv been to the edinburgh portrait gallery and seen some really good portraits as well as some really poor portraits as in magazines and on the internet there just seems to be a contrast and it is a harsh contrast between the really captivating portraits that make you feel like you are the one taking the photo like you have just had the conversation with the model that this guy has clearly had and produced that image yourself, and the not so good portraits that make you feel nothing that there was nothing said before the photo was taken its just a snap shot taken of someone who just happens to of come to the studio. this guy capture the emotion that he wants and clearly put into his photo it may help that he has taken photo's of the more extravagantly famous people, like presidents of the USA, though i do not believe that this had anything to do with it, i believe that he has defined this as a genre.
i thinks it the quality his photo's have, but im not sure really..
tutor told us not to do this theres to much shadow around her head, which means the eye cannot separate her hair from the background. but i like this photo because of this, it means you get to see her face in a lot more detail than you would if you could see her hair
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
august sander
http://ciubuxabinaphoto.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/anton-und-marta-by-august-sander/
the man, who looks to be on the cusp of violence, in this image is whereing a suit which implies that he is of an upperclass background and has power, more important than the woman who is wereing casual clothing and looking away from the taker, also the way the man is holding her is quite agressive and adds to the feeling of ownership..
the woman needs empowerment as she has a strong figure..if not a fine figure,. leaves me speechless, and thinking would it be aloud in today society, i very much doubt it
daguerre
http://www.filmsnotdead.com/2012/01/09/joyeux-anniversaire-daguerreotype/
i find this image more assteticly pleasing than most, i like the cracklyness that it has.
common expressionless about the image's of this time period.. there is is no crispness to this its very soft and there is a lot of noise in it, very unclean somehow, there. not sure about the subject, are those ribbons in her hair or feathers, is that jewellery or a neck tie, there are somthings that don't need answers the un-answered questions adding to the image, but this one left me wanting.. there is a distinctness to it though, which as iv said is very pleasing.. I'm on the fence. dont know off i love it thinking it masterful or awful wanting to destroy it.. maybe a bit of both
sir john herschel
julia margaret cameron
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/L.1997.84.6
quite like this as the subject john herschel has a quere look on his face, like he's contemplating his life. he's also staring directly into the camera.
this makes up for its lack of quality by the quality of the subject. he's clearly getting on a bit.. maybe he's lived a hard life burning the candle at both ends by the bags under his eyes..but his eyes are quite milky like someone who's suffering with cataracts..the mouth is also quite down turned giving quite a somber appears to an otherwise good looking chap.. and there is somthing fuzzy about it like the cameras been nocked ever so slightly, if it was a moderner photo id take a guess at it being caused by the mirror slamming when the shutter is fired, as its not a very modern photo i don't know and wouldnt like to guess what the cause could be
Tuesday, 11 December 2012
Julia margaret Cameron
http://artblart.com/category/cindy-sherman/
this actually looks ancient,.
and very washed out, but you can tell a lot about this person by her atier, even its not clear at all, we as people judge others based on clothing and brands, but how do you really know what that person is like unless you talk to them, you will never know if they are whereing those cloves because fashion or because they cannot afford anything else, you may not even find this out after speaking with them. so i find its always best to asking before judging someone.. which i probable dont do often enough.
Carl Durheim
http://www.studyblue.com/notes/note/n/lecture-2/deck/697274
carl durheim's lithograph of swiss traveler
one of the earlyist portrait photos i'v seen so far and theres a very distinct feel to it
the womans probale put on her best clothing to sit there and have her photo taken but they look dirty and her face looks dirty as well like she had a ruff life or she's come from the ruff part of a town, also the image is very contrasty.i very much like the fact that it looks like its a photo in an album or something with the edges cropped out or in case not there to begin with,..
Judith Ross
http://www.utata.org/sundaysalon/judith-joy-ross/
erm, hair is the first thing i noticed about this, i think theres a picture of my mam somwhere with hair like this.. its kind of funny cos the clothes that they are whereing have come back into fashion, but i dont think that the hair will ever come back into fashion.
also they are clearly twins, but ones smileing and tothers not and doesnt look very happy at all, im not quite sure where they are/ where its been taken, kind of looks like a music hall or somthing
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
photo by Anna Hardy
this a bit weird because this looks like someone i used to know.
but this is the kind of look your get from most kids if you ask them to show an angry expression
like the hat though, though you could say that there is to much light on the face of the subject the use of natural light working to a disadvantage, i find that this draws something away from the overall image and at the same time adds to it a certain quality that i find more disable, though i know some people would disagree with me
http://www.annahardy.co.uk/portrait.php
photo by Jordi Ruiz Cirera
winner of the Taylor Wessing Photographic portrait award 2012
you can kind of tell that the subject was a bit anxious about having this taken and not sure about the surroundings said it was in Bolivia, and there's what like a babies high chair in the background..
http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2012/11/06/taylor-wessing-photographic-portrait-prize-2012-winner-announced/
Monday, 19 November 2012
Jim Morrison by Joel Brodsky
this what i would consider a quintessential portrait photo as it shows jim as what he was a sex symbol and music icon.
i do really like jim and the doors and as such this is probable my fav photo of jim just because.
also he's a legend in my eyes and a lot of other peoples, but most of all i love it because of his nonchalant expression. you can just see from his expression that he just dont give a f*@k..
http://brainz.org/10-most-iconic-photo-portraits-20th-century/
Thursday, 15 November 2012
reflection/evaluation
Reflection …
Starting a blog
One of the first things I did was start a
blog. Which entailed having to open a blogger account using my g-mail domain,
which I had set up previously, as without a g-mail account I couldn’t set up a
blogger account, as Google owns blogger. After I had opened a blogger account I
added people from the course, to my Google+ circles, so that they could see
what I was looking at and what I was thinking about the images I posted on my
blog. There was very few issues with this as Google+ and blogger are very user
friendly and any problems I did encounter aren’t really note worthy as they basically
solved themselves with just having taken the time to have a play around with
them each in turn.
Going and taking pictures
I then went out and took some photo’s in
the street photography style, with a borrowed camera at first, then when my
loan came through I bought my own camera so I could take photo’s when I wanted
too, without having the trouble of checking weather there was 35mm camera
available and then having to borrow one out of the store. Mostly walking around
and shooting but I did sit on bench and take some shoots as well. Taking photo’s
of things I found interesting and or visually appealing, posting the contact
sheets and prints from the shoots onto my blog. At first I didn’t have much
idea about what I really wanted to produce as my final 5 prints, but as I took
more and more photo’s I realized that the photo’s I actually liked where the
ones with angles and circular shapes. The circular shape of the puddles and
angular nature of curbs and square seaty things contrasted really well. I found
it easer to achieve the circular shapes (from puddles) in rainy weather.
Developing and printing
After I had taken the photo’s I developed
them and made some prints, I had a few issues at first with my film being under
fixed, so I went back and re-fixed that film, I also I had a note worthy experience
with one of the winding reels with my film not going on it properly, and ended
up have to get rid of the film as the reel actually damaged it. Other than that
I had no other difficulties developing. Whilst printing I had a little
difficulty with one the enlargers being dodgy, the focusing light kept
flickering on and off whilst I was trying to find the correct focus for the
image which led to me having to find a different enlarger one that wouldn’t
have this problem. The only other problem I had whilst printing was the simple
fact that I couldn’t find the correct focus by eye so I had to keep borrow a
focus finder from the store, which wasn’t really to big an issue until they ran
out which meant I had to weight, im not the most patient person and weighting
isn’t my strong suit and as such I found this to be quite a big issue.
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Pictures on a Page
Harold Evans with Edwin Taylor
Heineman:London
Page 175
the now famous image of the monk Thich Quang Duc's self immolation in protest of the Vietnamese war, featured on the cover of rage against the machine's self tittled album. JFK said that "no news picture in history has generated so much emotion around the world as this one has". my feelings about these pictures are a bit mixed, first i kind of like the fact that the were taken and the effect they had was obviously for the better, but as a way of protest it is very extreme..
Harold Evans with Edwin Taylor
Heineman:London
Page 141
had to have this in my blog somewhere, the comic factor of this is very apparent. with the police all crowding around the streaker and the guy in the background rushing up to conceal his inappropriate manliness, and it allmost looks like he's about to burst out into laughter. the eye is almost imeadetely drawn to the policemans hat and what its covering..
Pictures on a Page
Harold Evans with Edwin Taylor
Heineman:London
Page 95
it looks like a screen shot from a film, in actuality its photo of a Hungarian rebel on a rampage. i like the fact that theres an element of concealment to the photo, as the photographer is in a building, thinking himself safe when he's probable not safe at all.. also it left me wondering what he was yelling, though i could probably guess, and wouldnt really be appropriate for the blog..
Pictures on a Page
Harold Evans with Edwin Taylor
Heineman:London
page 20
this is shot of policeman first on the scene of car accident, this is charged with emotion. the woman appears to be praying, the policeman almost has a smile on his face, im sure he is trying to reassure her that help is on its way, and trying to make her as comfortable as possible before the emergence services get there.. a real change from some of the other pictures iv posted on the blog recently..
Pictures on a Page
Harold Evans with Edwin Taylor
Heineman:London
Page 3
picture of a stowaway falling to his death, the photographer who took this didn't realise he court the stowaway until he made a print of it, as he was only trying to photograph the plane, but photograph went from being an average photo of a plane to an extraordinary photo..
Monday, 5 November 2012
Guide to Photojournalism
second edition
New York
Associated Press
page 93
this is like the only whole page from a book that iv really put on the blog, it being a whole page of street photography i thought it was an easier option than just scanning each on in one by one, they are all of like homeless people in new york city..
Thursday, 1 November 2012
markus hartelWednesday, 24 October 2012
autmn/winter aprill 2011/12
Pavel maria smejkal
fatescapes 1968 saigon
page 8-9
i really liked the grainyness to picture, it was on at teo page spread and the image realy looked gritty and raw, wich guess reflects what life must of been like in Saigon in 1968. also i found the desolation interesting because it made me wonder why the streets were so empty of life, the only thing in the photo being the truck and that kind of seem out of place in such an enviroment.
july 2012 volume159 isue no 7802
page 57
zed nelson A Tail of Two cities
this one i find hard to explane why i like so much
i think its the way all the bins are lined up against the wall, all of them have been graffitied on, with the stadium in background wich kind of looks like its crowning this area.. i noticed it says "ask jazzy" on the wall, wich left me wondering who's jazzy..
july 2012 volume159 isue no 7802
page 54-55
zed nelson A Tail of Two cities
this court my eye as soon as i turned to this page, it a second to relise that the tree had been broken off somhow, and theres another tree growing quite happily on other side of the wall it makes you wonder about the social divied.
july 2012 volume159 isue no 7802
page 48-49
zed nelson untitled 2012
this is a real well thought out photo with the people in the boat in the middle of the picture, the wall and the bank on ether side draw the eye into it, and plus the river or whatever it is that they are on looks mingin i just want to push them into it and laugh..
July 2012 volume159 isue no 7802.
page 43
stephen gill image from billbourds
looks to be taken in russia or somewhere like that but actualy taken in london
i like the idea that the book that this was published in (hackney wick) is accompanied by a body of work, and not a body of work with a book to accompany it. its quite an unusual way of working
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