Week 11: Web Gallery

This is my final work with web gallery.

Week 10 : Creative Project Research- Alan Schaller

    Alan Schaller which is a London based photographer. He is good at using  black and white to take photo. He like to use high contrast and realities to do the subject of his photo’s topic. He also worked for The Guardian, The Financial Times, Time Out and The Independent.  His work also published in the inter a few times. He also become a brand ambassador for Leica Cameras.

        I have chosen three people to read about the meaning behind the photo and read this photo by using particle way and thinking how can I talk the same photo in my place. And the colour tone of those photo is grate and I would like to edit my photo on this style

 

Week 9 Photography Reading : Culture of Connectivity (2011).

        In this week, we are doing the reading of  Culture of Connectivity (2011).As we all know, social media has been deeply affected our life. People are now connected with the social media apps such as Facebook, Youtube, Twitter , Flickr . Those of the apps can share your lives with other.Those become our daily habits of communication and creative production.In this chapter , they have talk about the rise of social media in the first decade of the twenty-first century, analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of a rapidly changing of connective media. The writer of this book ” Dijck “, He has used the data of Flickr to explaining the uses and statistics. Also  talk about his motto ‘Share your photos. Watch the world’. Firstly, ‘

Collective Memories/Cultural Heritage

Which means an object or and idea can give a scene to a group of people or bring all thee people together.

        Use a superhero character to being a example,Such as “BATMAN”. This character is long history and we must heard of it form last generation people like our parents.When People heard something about batman, they will have some of the memory about their childhood and its become collective memories.

 

Week 8 Photography Reading : ANALOG TO DIGITAL: THE INDEXICAL FUNCTION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES”.

     During this week, we are looking the reading of ANALOG TO DIGITAL: “THE INDEXICAL FUNCTION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES”. I have develop to four groups of it. It includes Analog Photography, Digital Photography, Indexical and Newspaper.

Analog Photography:

• Physical and chemical process
• Record image through projected light

Digital Photography:

• Can be edit by softwear
• Transform objects to data
• Can be do changing form reality to  idea.

Indexical:

• Signs
• Words
• Features

Online newspaper

• Messages are not clear
• Reproduced
• No fixed physical medium
• Power or meanings of images changed

Week 7 Photography Reading : “The Work of Representation” By Stuart Hall, Ch.1.

           During  this week  reading, we have go thought the Chapter one of “The Work of Representation” written by Stuart Hall. Representation means language to culture. It means using language to say something meaningful or to represent the meaningful world to others. In representation, there are include three of the theories. It includes : the reflective, the intentional and the constructionist approaches. It also developed two representation systems, Language and Metal representation.

Three theories of Representation

Reflective

• Thought to lie in the object and language mirrors/reflects its meaning
• “Language works by simply reflecting or imitating the truth that is already there”.

Intentional

• The speaker attaches some meaning to the object such as emotion or though in it
• Words can be mean by what the author wants them to mean
• Language is a shared, public construction. The meaning never be entirely constructed by the author
• It depends on the share code

Constructionist

• Objects doesn’t mean anything until we create a meaning for them.
• Things exist but don’t have a meaning until they enter our system of representation.

Two Representation systems

Language

• Language is a physical way to represent things
• It’s made up of signs (Image, sound, code, words, symbols).

Mental Representation

• All the things are connected to our believes and cultures.
• People share their views of the world by communicating with others.

 

As we know that the left one is toilet for girl and the right one is for boy.

 

Sources

Three theories of Representation

http://vcc302.blogspot.co.uk/2007/04/stuart-hall-work-of-representation.html

 

 

Week 6 : First shoot of My Fianl Project

    During This week, I am starting to explore my project and go on to the street to find out where can I shot some of the loneliness people.I have worked on serval place once the street such as Beach, Road side.At the First time, I am tying to walk though once the beach and road to see what may I catch later . When I have finished the walk once, I am start to take photo form someone , such as : Baby , Girl  and they are just pas through me and I feel that they are loneliness at all. There are also a one of the photo show that I try the motion blur in my photo .Here , I will show some of my test shot in below.

 

 

 

 

Week 5 :Creative Project Proposal

     During this week, I am starting to explore the idea of my  project. Afterward, I just think about what I want to show on my photo. When I doing the search on the intent and I have think out the idea of using black and white to present about”Loneliness”. The reason of me to chose this topic is because I think everyone got a loneliness moment and we can being happy all the time. People can experience loneliness for many reasons. Therefore I like to take some of the photos of them and show out that different types of loneliness.

        The style on my set of photo will my street-style and let’s try to catch their back or face emotion to back the people who watch my photo can feel the loneliness of them. And those of the photo I got inspired .

 

 

 

 

 

Week 4 : How can we select a photo and introduce Nikon SB-800 Flashgun

 .      When we are  being a photographer, we always want to take much photo as we can. But when we back to home to do the select and  edit of the photo, we may think about some of the points.

• Exposure
• Focus
• Resolution required or desired
• Required aspect ratios and final display method
• Blurring
• Composition and rule(s) of thirds
• Tonal spectrum/histogram
• Colour

Series criteria

– Consistency

– Pattern

– Story

– Repetition

SB-800

       When we are doing some of the photo shooting, the environment are not enough light to do the shooting so we may think of using a flash light to make sure the shooting environment can have enough light for doing the shoot .

This is the wrong example of using the flashlight because it is not light enough of the object

This one is susseful of usong the flash light because as we can see the logo is bright and the background is dark.

Week 4 Photography Reading : The Spectacle of the Other – Stuart Hall

      During this week, we are having some of thee reading of Stuart Hall” The Spectacle of the other”. When I have finished this week of reading, I have find out some of the point quite interesting  and  useful.

• He start the book by using a question”How can we can we represent a group of people who are different from us?”
• Even we look at the same picture but it can be completely different  with the meaning between people
• Except the concept of difference in race, there are still an element of sexuality and gender.
• “Difference” can be something positive or something negative.
• The example of magazine  cover for the Sunday Times from 1988 depicting track runners called “Heroes and Villains”
• there are much example of race in advertising and photography through the  history.And Hall is more focusing on race and gender

      In the reading, I realized that how the idea of “Others” can be work out. It may depends on what is your concept of that things and what are you asking for.It can also inspire me when I looking other peoples work and think deeply.

Week 3 : Indoor Photo Shoot

       During this weak, we still got a chance to use D7000 to do some of the test shot between our classmate and we are having fun of it. and i would like to show some of the test shot below ands choose two of it to doing some of the description of those two.

Selected of the lesson :

         In this photo, we can imagine what kind of things of the girl are shooting with and I like to make the background darker because  it can make different layers of light in the photo. We can find out form the left hand side is darker and the right hand side is brighter. Which make the photo become more directionality.

 

 

   In this photo , we can see the girl are sitting on the chair and holding a camera on the her hands. Which make me feel she is finish her photo shoot of the lesson and want to have a set to take a rest. The reason I chose this photo because she was just looking outside and day dreaming and the the colour tone was toned by Adobe Lightroom and hope that feel more “Japanese Style”.