15 Week Challenge - Hockney Joiner

15 Week Challenge - Hockney Joiner

This weeks challenge was to create our own "Hockney Joiner", By taking multiple photographs of the same subject, and then to join them to create the original image.

Artist's Photographs

This is my first photograph which has been produced by the artist - David Hockney.
I was draw to this first image as i really loved how all the buildings featured were slightly wonky, which added to the depth of the final image which he produced. I also found it interesting how all the colours had a high contrast, which meant the image didn't have many multi-tonal colours.

With this image i found it more complex than the others which i had featured in this post.
This image clearly shows the amount of individual images which had been used which you are able to see due to the sky.
Hockney has also created a type of story within the image with all of the "stop" signs, which makes the viewer want to discover the reasoning behind this

My final artist image is slightly different, due to it featuring an actual person instead of a landscape image. Once again i liked how everything didn't quite fit where it was supposed to which also helps to create an interesting feel to the final image.

My Own Photographs

This is my final piece which i created for this task, i used the first two images as my inspiration as i felt that i would be able to add more dimension than if i was to use a person as my subject. I used photoshop to create the layers effect of the joiner, and all the images were taken individually to create this piece.


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15 Week Challenge - Shoot Like Cartier Bresson

15 Week Challenge - Shoot Like Cartier Bresson

For this weeks task we were asked to shoot like a amour photographer (Cartier Bresson). He is an artist who captures pictures of strangers, on the streets and develops them in black and white.


Artists Photographs

This image which Cartier took, shows an elderly man with a tea cup and his camera.  It could be interpreted as his two passions, and what he enjoys. This artists photographs are constantly taken in black and white, which helps bring more detail to his photographs.

This image which has been produced by the artist has a different appearance due to the subjects faces in the image. It makes the viewer debate what they are talking about, and gives an added interest to the image.

And finally one of the artists most famous photos which he has taken, This image strays from his  regular work...It shows a motion image which is slightly blurred, which allows the artist to show off the motion in the image.


My Own Photographs 

This image taken on the streets of Reykjavik Iceland, i have tried to follow the artists well known style of photographing unknown people. I loved how he was able to capture different personalities and cultures, through the eye of the camera lens. I have also made sure that my images are monochrome to add detail. 

My second image is of a tourist, who is photographing the well designed graffiti art which had been sprayed upon a local pub. With this image i tried to capture a different perspective of the surroundings which the man is in! With the man also taking a photograph, i feel it makes the viewer consider what it is he is photographing, meaning they look into the image with more detail.

My final artist image issuance again taken in Reykjavik, shows a local sitting outside a coffee shop having a drink,  With this image i liked how the image was so calm with it being taken in the city centre.  

15 Week Challenge - Repetition

15 Week Challenge - Repetition

For this weeks task of repetition i have decided to look at artists in the art industry as well as those in photography for my inspiration.

Artists Photographs

Andy Warhol was one of the major artists who inspired me for this project. I liked the way he used the exact same image and repeated it multiple times to add more interest to his images, it also allows him to display them as large works of art as well as small.

This piece is probable one of his most famous, due to the fact it features Marilyn Monroe as the subject of the print. But with this image containing multiple colours i felt that it was perhaps aimed at a different audience to the last.

This image has been photographed by a greek artist, the repetition in this image is shown in two places. The first are the shadows of the beam poles which are spaced in the exact same proportions, due to them all being parallel. And the second way repetition is shown is by the actual beams themselves, the way they are positioned and the way the image has been captured, has meant that the image looks longer than i actually is, it also creates an aspect of false space.



My Own Photographs

The line of gun cartridges shows clear repetition in this photograph, I loved how the matte brown leather brought out the shine of the metal, to enhance the colour.

This image is of hexagonal rock faces, which are repeated along a 500 meter stretch in Iceland, This photo opportunity appealed to me because of how unusual it was compared to things in the UK.

This image once again shows one set of repetition with the houses (restaurant and bar). I liked how the colours came up against the dramatic background, as i felt that this helped draw the eye to these areas.

15 Week Challenge - Shoes

15 Week Challenge - Shoes 

Week two of the 15 week challenge was shoes, for this task I decided that a composition of objects with shoes being the centre piece, would be a nice way to portray the photographs in which i had taken.

Artists Photographs

This is the image which inspired me to experiment with the image of my Vans in a tree, i felt that t created an abstract feel to the image, as it is not the normal place where you would picture a pair of trainers,(or in this case heels).

This image was taken by an amateur polish artist, who was photographing a toddlers first shoes. This artist has also created depth to his photo by making the foreground standout, by not being blurred.

For my final artist image i chose a close up of some boot laces, to show different ways in which you can experiment with your photographs, and that all the different element of images can be interesting.

My own Photographs

This first photograph features a pair of worn Dubary shooting boots, The boots are situated amongst a tweed jacket and a handful of gun cartridges, by using these props it helps create a story line for the pair of shoes, and what they may be used for in day to day life.
The boots show minor scuffs and scratches which i feel also adds some depth to the shoes, and not to mention it also brings a whole lot more character to the still life composition.

This was a photograph which was inspired to me by an african tradition of hanging shoes on trees for good luck, I felt that i would like to take my own perspective of this tradition when it came to the task of "shoes".

This photograph is slightly different to the one above, instead of the camera being focused on the shoes, it is focusing on the branches of the tree which they are hung in. I love the way that just the outline of the shoe is shown, this is done by editing the aperture setting on the camera. 

This image also involves the same composition as the above photograph, minus the boots. By swapping the type of shoe, i creates a completely different image, but it also helps to link the two with their similarities. 

15 Week Challenge - Self Portrait

15 Week Challenge - Self Portrait 

For the 15 week challenge, The first week happened to be self portrait. For this task I felt that thinking outside the box would be the way forward, so thats exactly what I have tried to do.

Artist Photographs

This is my first artist photograph which inspired me for the above images,  I loved how the reflection of the kettle created a more curved image than normal, i also thought that the almost blurred look created a more interesting look to the image.

This image is similar to the one shown above, the difference which i liked more in this though, was how the whole background was a reflective material.

I also like how this image created more than one repetition of  Misty, who is the artist featured in the image.  The way the image was taken (A mirror, behind a mirror) showed many different angles of her which i thought was an unusual way to go about things.

My own Photographs

This was the fist image which I took which other items so it stood out more, (like the helmet and bike in the background. I felt that by adding these things it makes the reflection stand out more to the photos which i had previously taken.

This was my final image, and the one which i was happiest with. I feel that being more zoomed in it allows the eye to focus on the reflection more without the background corruption.