ORDER AND DISORDER
SUMMER WORK
For this task, I took two images everyday of the summer holidays. These two images had to represent order and disorder which could be interpreted however I wanted. I asked my friend Mae to come over to pose for some of my images as shown directly below. For a lot of my images, I had to use things around my house to improvise and experiment with. I wanted to show my interests with in these photographs and also show a fun and innocent side to the project. All of my images have been cropped and tinted colours i saw appropriate for the images using Photoshop.
ATRIST ANALYSIS - BILL ARMSTRONG
Bill Armstrong is a New York based fine art photographer who is known for his blurred colour photographs.
This series of photographs demonstrate both order and disorder within each picture. In all three images, he uses people standing up right dressed in only one colour which represents the order within the images. In the images, however, are random colours clashing with one another representing the disorder in the photographs. Another disorder element is that the images are completely blurred making every prop, colour and person blend into one with confuses the eye.
PORTRAIT DISORDER
CONCEPT
Photographers usually tend to create a sharp and crisp image with a realistic likeness to the featured person. But this isn't always the case. The task we have taken on shown below shows a series of disordered portrait (GIFs)
Photographers usually tend to create a sharp and crisp image with a realistic likeness to the featured person. But this isn't always the case. The task we have taken on shown below shows a series of disordered portrait (GIFs)
INITIAL RESPONSE
SECOND RESPONSE
ARTIST ANALYSIS - ROMAIN LAURENT
Romain Laurent is a photographer and director. He is French, born in the Alps, and currently live in New York City. He studied product design at the National School of Applied Arts in Paris and then discovered photography is a much better way for him to show people his strange ideas.
In this GIF, there is a representation of subtle portrait disorder. The GIF is a head shot of a woman in black with a vibrant pink hat staring off, blowing a pastel pink bubble from her bubblegum and that seems to be the only movement coming from her. The background is a pastel blue sky and this is successful because it's simple and doesn't distract the viewer from the gum. Because the woman is dressing in nothing other than black with a plain blue background, her magenta hat draws the eye to it, making the focus, as well as the gum, the pink of the hat which works well with the pink of the bubblegum. The simplicity and fragility of these three colours brings a strong sense of fun and innocence to the GIF. It is a simple and effective give which stands out to me because of it's representation of childhood.
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In the GIF above, there is a woman in the centre of the image holding a fish bowl in front of her face. The bowl is filled with water which causes one of her eyes to be magnified through the glass. Everything in this GIF is still apart from her eye which is moving from side to side. The background of this image is half a window looking down onto a city which could go hand in hand with the magnifying of her eye as being so high up, looking over a city, you can see things a lot clearer as you can when using a magnifying glass. This GIF is effective as everything in the composition is simple and out of focus resulting in your eye being drawn to the slightest of movement from her eye.
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This GIF is a lot different from the other two prior to this. In this, there is a man chest-up, holding a cup of tea dressed in a plain blue t-shirt. The man is looking up with an open book balanced on his face with its pages being blown and flicked through. This GIF could represent mornings as the background is simply a white wall which one could interpret as the emptiness and how decluttered your mind is when you wake up. This impression of it being set in the morning also comes from the fact that he's holding tea/coffee (usually drunk in the mornings) and the book on his head is what one would normally read at the breakfast table. This is a nice contrast to the previous two GIFs as the movement is far more obvious and bold.
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REFINING MY WORK
To improve my images, I wanted to create a sense of naturalism and truth. I didn't want anything staged and unreal. I showed this by going out into Covent Garden and capturing people going to and from work at rush hour. I prefer these GIFs because they're more honest and capture a real sense of the hustle and bustle in London at that time of night.
SYMMETRICAL ORDER
CONCEPT
Often when looking a modern city buildings there is a distinct sense of symmetry involved in the constructions. In this task the idea was to take a series of photographs that displayed architectural symmetry . Therefore the key concept was for each photograph to demonstrate a strong sense of order by exposing the clean and precise corners, edges and lines and the repetitism within modern construction.
Often when looking a modern city buildings there is a distinct sense of symmetry involved in the constructions. In this task the idea was to take a series of photographs that displayed architectural symmetry . Therefore the key concept was for each photograph to demonstrate a strong sense of order by exposing the clean and precise corners, edges and lines and the repetitism within modern construction.
SECOND RESPONSE
TYPOLOGY
CONCEPT
For this task, I took a series of photographs which analysed the different clothes using a classification according to a general type. I looked at people's clothes and the colours they were wearing to determine which group or category to class them into.
For this task, I took a series of photographs which analysed the different clothes using a classification according to a general type. I looked at people's clothes and the colours they were wearing to determine which group or category to class them into.
ARTIST ANALYSIS - ARI VERSLUIS & ELLIE UYTTENBROEK
Photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek have worked together since October 1994. Inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, they have systematically documented numerous identities over the last 21 years. Rotterdam’s heterogeneous, multicultural street scene remains a major source of inspiration for Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek, although since 1998 they have also worked in many cities abroad.
INITIAL RESPONSE
SECOND RESPONSE - DANCERS
TYPOLOGY CONTINUED
My Bag
Stevie's Bag
Caprice's Bag
3 STRANDS
-First Strand: Disorder of a Society
In this strand I decided to do some research on how the ideal body image for women has changed and repeated over time. I noticed a strong difference in the stand-out body preference types and decided to create a photoshopped montage representing the way womens' bodies "should have been".
-Second Strand: Portrait Disorder
For this strand I will be using a double exposure method to portray portrait disorder. To do this I will be combining both photographs of the natural world I see and photographs of people in their most natural state. Completely neutral.
-Third Strand: Mental Disorder
In this strand I will be depicting the true emotions and feelings behind someone's face by creating GIFs showing a prominent face in neutral in the centre of the piece and over the top of this, I will be pasting the shots of the person freaking out, taken with a fast shutter speed, over the top and making them opaque to represent the unpredictability of the mind.
In this strand I decided to do some research on how the ideal body image for women has changed and repeated over time. I noticed a strong difference in the stand-out body preference types and decided to create a photoshopped montage representing the way womens' bodies "should have been".
-Second Strand: Portrait Disorder
For this strand I will be using a double exposure method to portray portrait disorder. To do this I will be combining both photographs of the natural world I see and photographs of people in their most natural state. Completely neutral.
-Third Strand: Mental Disorder
In this strand I will be depicting the true emotions and feelings behind someone's face by creating GIFs showing a prominent face in neutral in the centre of the piece and over the top of this, I will be pasting the shots of the person freaking out, taken with a fast shutter speed, over the top and making them opaque to represent the unpredictability of the mind.
FIRST STRAND
For my second strand I was inspired by the work of Barbara Kruger. I liked her use of collage and contrast within the image by using both a black and white image and a coloured one over the top. I also wanted to get a message across in my images and I feel like Barbara Kruger captures a specific emotion in each of her own.
The Chunk of The 1920's
The Curves of The 1950's
The Tom-Boys of The 1960's
PRECESS
1. Open your selected background image
2. Go to "Layers" and click on 'Layer', 'New'.
3. Open up your second image and crop to your liking.
4. Copy and paste that cropped image onto your selected background and alter to your taste. (Continue this process for however images you are collaging)
SECOND STRAND
For my final strand, I have taken inspiration from Matt Wisniewski.
PROCESS
EXPERIMENTING
THIRD STRAND
I was inspired by the artist Romain Laurent.
THIRD STRAND DEVELOPMENT
PROCESS
FINAL DEVELOPMENT
PROCESS
1. Click 'File' then click 'Scripts' and 'Load files into stacks'.
2. Select the images you want to use for your GIFF.
3. Once files are loaded, click 'Window' and then click 'Animation'.
4. Hold down the Shift button and highlight all images in the GIFF.
5. When your files are highlighted, go to 'Files' and click on 'Open' and select the image you want over the top of the GIFF.
6. Once image is opened, adjust the opacity to your taste.
2. Select the images you want to use for your GIFF.
3. Once files are loaded, click 'Window' and then click 'Animation'.
4. Hold down the Shift button and highlight all images in the GIFF.
5. When your files are highlighted, go to 'Files' and click on 'Open' and select the image you want over the top of the GIFF.
6. Once image is opened, adjust the opacity to your taste.