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One of Louise Bourgeois's most famous sculptures outside
the Guggenheim in Bilbao

Today I wrote about two fine art artists, one who does sculptures and one does fine art photography. For the sculpture artist I choose Louise Bourgeois because I had seen one of her sculptures in Bilbao. I found out that she had made a series of giant cast iron spiders the tallest being over 9 metres tall. I also found out that her sculptures were inspired by her childhood.

For my photography artist I choose Rankin. I found out that he had done a lot of  celebrity and famous people portraits. He also had helped with music videos by artists such as Kelis, and had also done a lot of advertising with big brands such as Coca Cola.

After lunch we went outside of Parkside to take some photos that, again represented control. I took quite a few photos of road marking because the control where and what cars do. I took most of these from a low angle and used the lines as leading lines into the centre of the picture. I think quite a lot of these photos could of been improved having someone or some object to have the lines leading into because at the moment your eyes follow the lines towards the centre of the photo but there is nothing in the centre of the photo to focus on.

I then took some photos of a traffic light because this again controls where the cars go and what they do. Most of the photos where close ups of the three lights at different angles. I also took some with the sun just coming through to one side of the traffic light.

Quite a few police cars and vans went by which I took a few photos of, but they weren't very good because I didn't have much time to set up a good photo. I took photos of them because they try to keep areas under control.


These are the raw unedited photos I took 



 I also took photos of road signs, warning signs, cables going other train tracks bollards and chains.  The techniques I used were the rule of thirds, leading lines, depth and having the fore ground in focus and the background not and different angles and heights.

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Today I started by carrying on editing the photos I shot last week.  These were the two main ones I took 

I then put them on to a office document and wrote about why I took them and how they represent control. I also wrote how I edited them on photoshop and the techniques. 

After I had finished editing the photo I shot last week I went out again to to take some more photos. This time we took more photos of body control as a posed to controlling someone. We took photos of people doing a handstand, and playing football. When we were taking photos of the football we tried to do skills so it was like we were controlling the ball as instead of smacking it out of control. I as so did a flip so Harry could take a picture of me controlling my body. I also took some photos of the fence to represent control in the way I did last week. 

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Today was my first day back after summer. We are starting a new project which is more arty than previous ones. We have to make a 3D sculpture or object using fine art photography. For this project we will be using drawing books instead of folders.

I find this image has a strong emotional impact

on me and is quite scary. When I see it I think 

of someone being tortured and tied up. I think it 

being in black and white exaggerates this 

emotional impact.    

Our first task was to find the definition of fine art photography, summarise it in our own words and then write it on a document along with some examples of fine art. The pictures which came up on google images when you wrote it in were pictures of mainly humans often naked and looking disturbed, upset or trying to hide themselves. They also tended to be in black and white. I think this is to emphasise the emotional impact you have when you look at them.  We then did some research into a specific artist of the topic. I researched Anthony Gormley, the designer of the Angel of the North.  

The Angel of the North

After lunch we did some photography. Our task was to photograph things, around the school grounds that we thought of when we heard the word control, so fences, locks, teachers, walls etc.. 

We got to use the new cameras. They were really good. The only problem I had was sometimes I found it hard to focus on objects too close. I probably Should of changed the setting to macro mode or something. I got quite a few good shots though. My best ones were probably one showing the shadow of a person and the shadows lots of window frames. I thought it was good because it wasn't a normal view that a 'tourist' might take and it isn't quite clear what it is at first glance. It also repesents the theme of control because its a large structure which could be used to hold people back. 

Another photo I liked, that I took, was on where the camera is looking through a fence. I like this one because the fence being in focus and the background not looks very professional and also it represents the theme because fences stop people going places.  

When we got back we edited them on photoshop. There was lots of different tools you could do adjust and improve your photos. The main ones I used were crop, contrast, grayscale and exposure. 

I also used an effect on a couple of my photos called Poster effect or something which makes your photo a lot simpler by making it just made out of a few layers of colour. This effect makes it look cartoony and a pit like old fashioned posters.