W9 - Shoot 2

This week I shot my friend Martha.

Outfit - 
brown cord jacket
white turtle neck
oversized baggy fit blue denim trousers
black boots


Below are some of the contact sheets of the different shoots I did.

W8 - Portable Lighting

Portable Lighting 

This week we learnt about portable lighting.
We took out some lights and set them up in the common space and one of the classrooms and tried to achieve the best possible picture.





The photos below were taken in a room with quite a lot of light already. Using a portable light to exaggerate the lighting.

The photos below were in a small room, with one portable light.
It was initially really hard to take pictures as the room had very little space. We chose to get a wider lens and attempt to shoot with that. Below are the est photos we managed to get.

W8 - Ingrid Pollard Talk

There was a talk by photographer Ingrid Pollard at the Attenborough centre at uni.


Basic info -
British artist and photographer. 
Uses portraiture alongside traditional landscape photography to explore social constructs.  Looking at Britishness or racial difference. 
Associated with Autograph: The association of black photographers. 



Although I found her really interesting and loved her photographs, I didn't think there were any similarities to my theme and project idea. 
Also felt it difficult to follow the talk, as the spoke as if we knew what they were talking about and very familair with her work and at times I didnt. 

W7 - Studio

This week we were taken to the studio, where we were taught the setup of the studio and how the lights work.

Taught how the lights can move around the studio, and how to measure the amount of light and synch them up to the camera. Allowing us, the photographer to move around the room. 

I found the process fascinating and hope to use it at some point.

I won't be using the studio for my project, as I plan to shoot outdoors in the streets however it was good to learn how to use the setup. As now that I have this knowledge, I will be able to use it in the future.

W7 - Fashion

 https://www.thetrendspotter.net/80s-fashion-men/

https://panachesayhi.wordpress.com/history/

W6 - Test shoot Photos

Above are my favourite 6 from the test shoot I did this week.



Below are some of the contact sheets.

W6 - Critical Presentations

Presentation - 
Denotation & connotation / studium and punctum

Denotative - the literal meaning and significance of any element in the image.


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S1 - Aside from denotative, there is a 2nd meaning in a photograph which is connatative. These are the elements of the scene that create meaning in the photograph -  every detail being significant. Such as the the gestures, expressions which are a series of visual languages/codes, in reflection to an underlying process of signification within a particular culture/society.

S2 - famous image of  Migrant Mother - by Dorothea Lange. One of a series of images she made of that group.
As a viewer, the connotations of this image brings across the sorrow, tiredness and worry of the mother. The mothers stare sends across messages of worry and discomfort.Their clothing and ruggedness sends across messages that they are of a poor background. The child avoiding the camera, can connote an element of shyness and unawareness of the photographers presence, probably due to sadness and discomfort.

S3 -This photo could bring up connotative elements of freedom, youth and fun. Could bring the viewer memories of their own experience skateboarding.

Ethics in photography
Shot in the dark - documentary on netflix based on night crawler

Photographic ethics - moral principles that people work with.
Media is a powerful tool for manipulating and influencing people - photographs have been manipulated from the beginning











is it right to photo manipulate? Should manipulated photos be published? 
Current discussions - manipulating the females body on magazine covers

alteredimagesbdc.org














Representation in photography

William Klein - New York street photographer. Capturing strong facial expressions



The other
= difference
ideas/concepts different from the majority or 'ordinary'
binary form of representation - 

Nan Goldin 
work featured transgender people at a time where they were not accepted in society even more than now. 

Sarah Maple
challenges notions of identity
breaking down/making a point of stereotypes


The Gaze
National geographic magazine - 7 kinds of gaze that can be found

Laura Mulvey - focuses on patriarchal society.
position of spectator belongs to the male

John Bergher - Ways of seeing
contemporary gender ideologies
how women appear before others

ep 1 - seeing comes before words. seeing establishes our place in the surrounding world.
Relation between what we see and what we know can never be settled. People have different ways of seeing, as it's affected by what we know etc.

all images (paintings/photos) are manmade and depict a way of seeing.

ep 2 & 3 - 
female and male gaze.
depiction of women as subjects of male idealisation 

Male Gaze
term created by Laura Mulvey
3 perspectives:

1. person behind camera
2. characters within the representation
3. spectator 

Female Gaze
feminist film theoretical term - the gaze of a female viewer
used to refer to the perspective of a female filmmaker - would be different from a male gaze
3 viewpoints:

1. individual filming
2. characters within
3. the spectator 

The New Aesthetic 
Term by James Bridle 
used to refer to the increasing appearance of the visual language of digital technology and the Internet in the physical world, and the blending of virtual and physical.

Post Photography 
digital - new ways of seeing