UAL Photography L3 (MattR)

For me in order to do my Order & Chaos photography project, i had to do some pre-collected research so then i could get on & do my project, & create my own inspired interpretation of the photography concept/genre. For my research, i studied work done by photographers, via online & by using books, who's work is part on the order & chaos genre. For my research, i researched photographers such as Guido Mocafico, Andreas Gursky & Sebastiao Salgado. Unfortunately, even though i found the research to help me in some way, that being the photographers work, i was not inspired by the work, so from that i decided to do the subject of Order & Chaos in general, but i do find the artists' work interesting. (below you can find said research) Guido Mocafico Guido Mocafico is a contemporary master of still life photographer, born in Switzerland, who's images have been published in numerous magazines over the years, including, for example, Men's Vog...

You are going to look at another person's work 1.Firstly use 5 words to describe that work monochromatic cool filtered clean soft   2. Now comment on the images form This means looking at the formal elements of an artwork. What is the medium of the work? The medium is a digital print What kind of shapes or forms can you find? the shapes in the photo are soft Which  techniques have they used? good use of rule of thirds, good use of the angle its taken from,  you What kinds of textures can you see? Matte & delicate textures 3. Finally consider the mood and meaning of the work Mood means looking at how the artist has created a certain atmosphere or feeling. How does the work make you feel? it makes me feel a sense of relaxation with a slight tint of sadness Why do you think you feel like this? i think it makes me feel like this i would say, because, of the the setting of the photo & because of the mood that...

For this lesson, i got the chance to create a panoramic image, fortunately i had done this before, but that was with using my phone, so this was my first time create one using a proper dslr. To do this i had to collect a collection of photos to then be put together in a row, unfortunately dslr's do not have a simple panoramic shooting ability so that is why we had to do a collection of photos, preferably in sets of 4 to 6. Then after we have collected the images, we had to then open them all up in camera raw, because we had to shoot in Raw files, not jpg. & then convert them all to jpg but for some reason mine was already converted to jpg even tho i shot them all in raw. Then we had to open them all in photoshop in a stack then create the panoramic shot from there. unfortunately for some reason my photos would not convert into a panoramic picture even though i shot them in the right format & the right way, so i do not have the image for it. ...

On mondays lesson, with Steve we went to the library, the purpose of this was to do more research for our current learning subject of Order & Chaos photography. As we had already done research using computers & created mood boards of sorts, but this time it was to mostly collect pictures & research a different way, well collect research that is accurate as the internet can be decieving but it was mostly to get ideas for what we want to do for our own attempt at order & Chaos (we do not have to both we can do either one).

For todays lesson we had to analyse another students work. We did this for feedback reasons. To do this we had to get a photo we had taken up onto our computers then put it full screen then swap with someone else to analyse their work. some of the the analyse questions included describing, commenting on on the photos formal elements such as what techniques used, what is the medium of the work & what kind of textures are used & also consider the mood & meaning.

For todays lesson with Steve, we basically got another introduction to photoshop but it was more mostly how to process & edit raw files, using the pre-loadout/raw file editor which is just outside of photoshop. It is accessed via opening multiple files at the same time. I had to get some raw files off of sSteve as i didnt have my own ones to test this. Even though it wasn't photoshop exactly we was using, even though we had to pre-load photoshop to get the editor up, it gave us, especially me, in using photoshop to edit photos as i do not have much if not any experience in using photoshop. These screenshots show the process in what to do to get the raw file editor up. You will also find screenshots of the original photos before i test edited them & after i had test edited. Also once i had edited them, to save them to my USB, i had to change the file save from .Raw to .tif; the reason being for this is to save the quality of the photo meaning so that once its printed it come...