Further Research

http://www.fubiz.net

I found this website whilst looking for inspiration for some further development ideas for my project. There is a wide variety of work but some is really interesting.

I really like the image above,.. it made me think maybe I should try some night photography to add variation to my series,... though I'm not sure if this would work with the rest of the images.

Web design. I wanted to do some web design as part of this project,.. possibly as a final piece, since I think it's a useful skill and one I have been wanting to develop since the Web design project. I wanted to create a very simple design to display my images at their best. The design is simple so as not to distract from the images but I wanted it to be easy to navigate so I used a hover thumbnail menu as well as "last" and "next" arrows. I also created an Info page for any text I want to accompany the images.

So far its I've got the site functioning with 10 image pages, an info, and a thumbnails page. I need to add more info and play around with my choice and order of images for the series.

I used J-Edit for the HTML and CSS edit for the CSS.

Pentax k1000. Boots Colour film ISO 200. Processed Jessops.

Familiar objects/ memories etc.

I want to create some variation in the series by including objects/ memories in some of the images. In some of these images I have both the objects and the subject in the frame but I also want to do some of just objects to add variation.

Pentax k1000. Boots Colour film ISO 200. Processed Jessops.

I noted from my research that the colour images which worked best tended to be those where colours or patterns recurred, such as clothes matching the colour of the wall behind etc. I wanted to experiment with this using a red dress against the red of the arm chair. I also wanted to try some different view points and angles since the angles I'd used to this point had all been rather similar and I wanted to add variation to make any series more dynamic. I think the red of the dress and the sofa has worked quite well and contrasts with the white walls so the take on a blue tint which offsets the red nicely. They don't quite have the simplicity which I liked in the previous shots but I will need some variation in composition otherwise the set of images will seem repetitive and dull.

Pentax k1000. Boots Colour film ISO 200. Processed Jessops

Again I like the simplicity of the colour. I wanted to mix up the composition and include more foreground or background items to give the images depth and variation. I love the simplicity of the composition of the top image. Although the lamp partially obscures her face the subjects face is still very much the focus of the image and there is no distracting background imagery.

Bathroom series. Pentax k1000. 200 ISO Film - Boots own. Colour. Processed by Jessops onto CD.

Focus on views through doors/ past walls etc and using colour well. Nice depth of field. I think my attempts to make strong use of colour has worked, using limited colour and natural light on the white walls means there is a united feeling of colour and its not too distracting. The top image is my favourite I think. I like the way her face is partially obscured.

Pentax k1000 Colour film. Kodak ISO 400.

Some of my favourite images fro this film. Was trying to acheive some nice portrait shots using natural lighting and soft colour. I like the effect of the light through the blinds etc. I also really like the shots which are partially through doors/ past walls etc. Reminds me of the work on http://www.dayswithmyfather.com/ which I looked at before. Would like to do more work like this. Need to try out some more interesting compositions and vary the subject. Could maybe make some kind of book out of the images if I had time? or just present a set of nice final prints.

http://www.sophiejodoin.com/

Oil / conte paintings. Lots of mood/ raw emotion. Would it be possible to create something more like this with photography? in the dark room?? liquid light??

I like the interaction in the top photos and the sense of alone/ individuality in the bottom one... reminds me a bit of Arbus's work.. very "alienation" in my mind.

http://www.tamaralichtenstein.com/page/1

Holga?? Double exposures and some light leaks in some of her work. I like the lighting and different angles on face/ body etc.

http://www.snarecreative.com/?p=51

Beautiful colour and mood,.. some double exposures etc.. Holga??

Terrible initial experiments with HDR. Downloaded some trial software and just having a play,.. though it puts grids and watermarks on everything which is annoying. Using multiple different exposures to deal with light and dark areas. I've seen a lot of interesting examples,.. though portraits tend to look very plasticy and odd.

http://www.stuckincustoms.com/hdr-tutorial/

http://www.hdrsoft.com/download/mac.html

http://www.imagenomic.com/download_nwpg.aspx

Quote from Susan Sontag - On photography:

"Like a pair of binoculars with no right or wrong end, the camera makes exotic things near, intimate; familiar things small, abstract, strange, much further away. It offers, in one habit forming activity, both participation and alienation in our own lives and those of others- allowing us to participate, whilst confirming alienation."

http://2009.atcamberwell.com/courses/bahons-photography

Want to check out more work from this and other graduate photography sites.

Eleanor Odell: