Home – Final Images

Noah

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The idea I had for my final photos was to photograph everything over the course of a week back at my parents house to show what being back in Nottingham made it home to me. But out of all the photos I took none of them kind of felt like home. My house, the local area, they weren’t really home to me anymore. But then I followed my brother around the garden and realised that what made it home was spending time with him. The fact that I’d come back and the first thing he’d want to do is show me something or play something or just sit and hang out.

The images show a form of innocence in a way but also a feel of wanting acceptance. ‘Look at me on the monkey bars, I bet I can get across them’  ‘I’ve never climbed that tree on my own but I can do it’. This is my favourite set of images I’ve taken in this module just because of how happy it makes me seeing my brother enjoy his childhood and be completely care free and in his own little world of enjoyment and play.

Portraiture – Final Images



A person I know:  The lighting on Joe's face makes his features stand out and makes the image very crisp.
A person I know:
The lighting on Joe’s face makes his features stand out and makes the image very crisp. This is my favourite of the 3 images.

 

Someone I don't know: It's not the most incredible image but I really like the guy in the photo, he's got crazy hair, odd looking eyes and multi coloured braces. I wish I'd photographed him against a more interesting background though.
Someone I don’t know:
It’s not the most incredible image but I really like the guy in the photo, he’s got crazy hair, odd looking eyes and multi coloured braces. I wish I’d photographed him against a more interesting background though.

 

Self portrait:  The head on lighting really enhances my facial features and makes my teeth stand out. I wanted to do something a bit different for my self portrait which I think I've achieved.
Self portrait:
The head on lighting really enhances my facial features and makes my teeth stand out. I wanted to do something a bit different for my self portrait which I think I’ve achieved.

Still Life – Final Images

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 Like I said in my research, I wanted to create a set of 3 images in the style of some of Stephanie Gonot’s work with the use of contrasting items and background colours.

I shot against coloured card with the only light being a high powered LED panel with a pink gel filter. Aimed head on at the items to make sure the they were clearly defined and stood out. In terms of post-editing I did very little as my original images looked how I wanted them to. I fiddled about with the vibrance slightly but that was it.

Kit used:

Canon 600D

Canon 18mm – 55mm lens

Neewer CN-160 LED panel + pink gel filter

Manfrotto MKC3-H01 tripod

 

Appropriation – Final Images

For my first two images I wanted to imitate Peejet’s appropriation images by photoshopping myself and others into well known images. I really liked the humour he portrayed in his images so I wanted mimic that. The first one, a still from Stormzy’s music video ‘Shut Up’, has mine and two friend’s faces in the background. This image could have been done better if I had taken photo’s of mine and my friend’s faces instead of cutting them from pre-existing photos.

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The second image is a still from a famous scene in Pulp Fiction. I like this image a lot more than my first as it looks a lot more realistic and the image of me that I photoshopped in is better quality as I took it for the purpose of the appropriated image.

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My third image is it the style of Salvador Dali. I really liked how he’d take random items, put them together and give them some sort of new meaning. I wanted to photograph a piece like his Lobster Telephone but to have some form of meaning to it. I came up with this idea whilst hungover and though ‘what if I put a load of drugs on a plate and photograph it?’* and it came out looking pretty cool. I set it out like a gourmet meal with the intention of it meaning that, to a drug addict, their fix is more important than food.

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*only the small amount of weed is actually real, I don’t sniff coke or take smack