Blog 5

Today I started off by carrying on from last week by brainstorming and thinking about my ideas
from last week and working out how best to do them. I thought of a new idea because my other ideas weren't really about control. My idea was to take photos of people doing things that show them controlling their bodies.

My ideas for this were someone...

• Doing a handstand
• Doing a somersault
• juggling 
• doing parkour or jumping 
• balancing 
• playing the drums
• dancing 
• playing football or basketball

I wasn't sure how to present these images in a 3d sculpture but I was told to leave that till next week and get on with taking the photos this week.

I wasn't very pleased with this photo

So I went out with my camera. I had to wait for Harry because some of the photos were going to be of me and I couldn't take photos of myself. First I asked Harry to take some photos of me doing a front flip because  

it showed me controlling my body. I wasn't very pleased with the outcome of these photos though. Most of them looked funny and it wasn't clear what the photo was of. They were also quite blurry and on some, the exposure was wrong. Also because I couldn't take the photos myself, they weren't very artistically taken.

I then went found place where you lock up your bicycle. I thought I could ask someone to take a picture of me jumping of it, in front of the white wall. This represents control because you have to balance on the metal and then control your movement so you land safely.

I was very pleased with the result after I had edited them. My favourite is probably the one on the right. I like it because it shows a lot of movement and control. I also like how my hood is up so I like more menacing.  I think it is a good picture because I am roughly on the third line both horizontally and vertically. To edit this photo first I upped the brightness to make the background more white. I then changed the contrast to make the colours more vibrant. I then cropped it a bit to remove unnecessary objects and make me on the third lines. Finally I made the whole background black and white apart from me in the photo. I think the effect of this is quite subtle because the background was greyish colours anyway but I think it does draw attention to the person in the photo an make he look like he is jumping from the ground instead of the metal bicycle stand. This makes
the photo look  a bit unreal and a bit like a computer game. I don't think this is bad though since a lot of fine art photography is heavily edited and does' quite make sense.

This is another photo similar to the one above. I don't like it as much because the background and action is less interesting. Editing this photo was similar to the first one apart from I use the brush tool to get rid of the shadow behind me and made the brightness so high it look like there is no wall behind me.  I like how the photo is quite long and thin. It makes it different and unique.

The Steps I went through to edit this photo

1) Original image                                  2) Changing brightness and contrast

3) Cropping                                                                 4) Adding effects such as black and white.

This one (left) is another photo I edited. It is the shadow against a white wall, of someone holding two drumsticks. It represents contorl because you need to conrol your hands well to play the drums well. I like it because having it a shadow is more interesting than just taking a photo of someone plainly. To edit it a changed the curves and made it brighter and more contrasting  

 This is another image I edited.